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Cory Booker: “If you're willing to give up these archaic tenure rules, that say once you're two years into the system, you can never…”

On the recordApril 27, 2010
If you're willing to give up these archaic tenure rules, that say once you're two years into the system, you can never be fired really unless it takes -- an act of God.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

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Booker discusses the need for reforming tenure rules to improve teacher accountability.

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