The agreement reads that "Past discrimination by the District disproportionately impacted the hiring of underrepresented teachers in the District, as compared to the relevant labor market and the community, and resulted in a lack of diversity of teachers," reports Chalkboard Review.
Typically in education, teachers are protected based on seniority, not skin color. This, the Star Tribune reports, is the first "seniority disrupting language" of this kind in the United States. Hiring and firing based on race is not constitutional, per the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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The contract section on "Exemption from Layoff for Designated Programs/Staff" states: "Teachers working in the following programs may be exempted from district-wide layoff outside of seniority order to remedy the continuing effects of past discrimination, ensure continuity of instruction to students at these sites based on the difficulty in filling vacancies at these sites with staff who are appropriately licenses, certified and bi-literate in the appropriate language."
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It goes on to clarify further that teachers at schools "with the greatest concentrations of poverty" will further be exempted from layoffs should the need arise."
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Furthermore, "Teachers who are members of populations underrepresented among licenses teachers in the District" and teachers who graduated from historically black colleges, tribal colleges, and schools that are part of a Hispanic network of colleges are likewise exempted.
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The deal was struck after the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers, and Minneapolis Public Schools came to terms following the 14-day teachers' strike. Alpha News reports that one of the provisions in that contract is that there would be "educators of color protections." This means that if a "non-white teacher is subject to excess, MPS have to excess a white teacher with the 'next least' seniority."
"Excessing," per the UFT, means "reducing staff in a particular school when there is a reduction in the number of available positions in a title or license area in that school."
Furthermore, "teachers at 15 'racially isolated schools…with the greatest concentration of poverty will also be protected from layoffs," Chalkboard Review reports.
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This plan will start with the Spring 2023 Tie-Out Cycle, and states that "if excessing a teacher who is a member of a population underrepresented among licensed teachers in the site, the District shall excess the next least senior teacher, who is not a member of an underrepresented population."
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Not only will white teachers be the first to be let go in the event of layoffs or downsizing, but they will be reinstated last in rehiring. The language used is that "underrepresented populations" will be prioritized over white teachers.
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