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Boston parents urge changes to teacher hiring process

By Travis Andersen

 |  Globe Staff  

  June 15, 2012

Parents and teachers in the Boston public schools called for changes on Thursday to the teacher hiring and retention process, arguing that seniority protections too often allow poorly performing instructors to stay on the job. The parents and educators spoke at a City Council hearing on the matter, the second of two hearings convened by the panel’s Committee on Education focusing on the contract dispute between the Boston Teachers Union and the school department.

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