The bill is one of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s priorities but could run into trouble in the House.
Tenure has been called the “holy grail” of the teaching profession — at least, that’s how Time Magazine put it.
Its establishment in the U.S. is often drawn back to the 1940s and a proclamation issued by a consortium of colleges and professors called the Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure. That document made the case that a sufficient degree of economic certainty was essential to make the profession attractive to the best and the brightest.
Since then, tenure has become a staple in colleges and universities nationwide; though tenure doesn’t guarantee lifetime employment, it does make firing professors a difficult and costly process. And in the Texas Legislature, this issue has become politicized as lawmakers in the Senate weigh a bill that would end the practice for the next generation of faculty in Texas higher education.
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