Sign if you are a licensed teacher who did not get timely notice to participate in the important attempt to change the terms of teaching employment!

The Minnesota PELSB (Professional Educator Licensing & Standards Board) is attempting to change the terms of annual and triennial employment reviews and evaluations for teachers.  PELSB says their attempted changes would not need to be disclosed to you until they have the force of law and your opportunity to review and potentially give input would be argued to have been forfeited. 

The proposed PELSB changes also make it much simpler for districts to replace qualified teachers with teachers that have zero subject-matter qualification, called "out-of-field" replacement permission.

Please sign the petition if you are a licensed Minnesota teacher and if you were not made aware of the PELSB activities in time to have participated in the earlier debate this summer.  PELSB has refused to acknowledge receipt of any comments voiced or submitted since June of 2022.  

If you have employment interest as a licensed teaching in Minnesota and were not timely made aware of the limited window of opportunity to review the proposed changes and meaningful voice your opinion, concerns, or whatever conclusions you may have needed to draw, please sign.  It is important to make a record of this that bureaucrats never abuse these mechanisms in this way, again, as well as to help ensure all other due corrections or exemptions are made for you or others.

Signing simply demonstrates, for the record, examples of teachers who the law says were supposed to be, but were not, timely notified to have been afforded the opportunity of meaningful participation.

PELSB is a primary record-keeper of contact information or addresses for all teachers but chose, impermissibly, to give notice, instead, to "a random sample of 100 teachers."

Visit www.mnstandards.org/PELSB for more information about PELSB and www.mnstandards.org/teachers for more information about this petition.