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Teacher tenure in New Jersey

The Record of Bergen County, New Jersey is running a series of articles on pay scales for public employees.  Today’s installment: a hair-raising look at tenure. 

Daryl DeNitto is one of those teachers.

The kind who coaches the debate team and chaperones the prom. The kind who stays after school when he doesn’t have to. The kind students in his history class buy ties for.

He was voted the best teacher at North Bergen High School this year.

Deborah Noone has taught in the same district three times as long as DeNitto. Four years ago, the state determined that she "failed to adequately monitor and supervise" her special-education classroom when two boys and a girl engaged in sexual acts. The district tried, and failed, to get her fired.

DeNitto makes $47,550. Noone makes $86,350.

That’s just one example from a lengthy article.  Go read the whole thing.  (Hat tip to Mike Antonucci, who is en route to the AFT’s annual shindig, this year in Beantown.)