Sentences with phrase «doing tenure reform»

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Asked by Elizabeth Kaledin about the biggest «difference in style» between Cuomo and former Gov. Eliot Spitzer that might make the push for reform by the former more successful than what the latter tried to do during his truncated tenure in Albany, Lopez replied:

«While there's still more to do this session on charters and the education investment tax credit, and more to ensure every child has access to great schools, Governor Cuomo fought hard to make meaningful reforms to tenure, arbitration policies and teacher evaluation criteria and his vision and hard work paid off.»

The leaders of the state's teachers unions aren't happy with how Gov.Dannel P. Malloydescribed the current tenure system in his State of the State address Wednesday — «the only thing you have to do is show up for four years» — but they say they are willing to work with him on his proposed reform.

Digital learning is more than the latest addition to education reformers» to - do lists, filed along with teacher evaluations, charter schools, tenure reform, academic standards, and all the rest.

«This was a very cynical statement that she doesn't believe teachers and schools can make a difference in high - poverty areas,» says Colorado State Senator Mike Johnston, a former teacher and principal whose sweeping tenure - reform law is a national model.

Does this mean that efforts to reform tenure laws are a waste of time?

According to the last set of federal and state campaign finance reports, Governor Malloy, the champion of the corporate education reform industry and the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers working in the poorest schools has received well over a quarter of a million dollars from leaders and political action committees associated with the national education reform and privatization effort.

And, she said, Florida just last year launched a sweeping education reform that among other things did away with teacher tenure.

The reality is that for all the talk from the NEA and AFT about how they represent teachers, the reality is that their defense of seniority - and degree - based pay scales, reverse - seniority layoff policies, and near - lifetime employment privileges through tenure do little for the younger, more reform - minded teachers who realize the damage these policies do to their profession and, ultimately, to the children in their care.

By TIMOTHY KNOWLES Colorado did right by its kids recently when Gov. Bill Ritter signed into law groundbreaking education reform to overhaul teacher tenure and evaluation.

But do you really want to know why teachers are angry about reforming evaluation and tenure?

Colorado did right by its kids recently when Gov. Bill Ritter signed into law groundbreaking education reform to overhaul teacher tenure and evaluation.

Not only do four ratings provide a more accurate picture of teacher achievement, but they allow room for improvement because the proposed tenure reform gives teachers time to improve their evaluation before being denied tenure.

Christie spokesman Michael Drewniak said that «while the (tenure) reform was terrific and made advancements not seen in 100 years» there is plenty left to do.

Although Malloy is the only Democratic Governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers in «turnaround» schools, the announcement that Stefan Pryor will be leaving his position at the end of this year was seen by some as a signal that Malloy was going to shift away from his corporate education reform industry and privatization policies and would use a second term to provide more support for Connecticut's real public education system.

It's been a big topic, especially in the K12 level, so I figured I'd ask you, do you think that tenure at the university level, for university faculty professors, will ever be reformed like it's being reformed now on the K12 level in states across the United States?

The corporate education reform industry, riding high off a successful anti-teacher tenure lawsuit in California, is targeting the single most important element of academic freedom and working conditions for public school teachers and now the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure is saying that his abusive language about teachers «Wasn't about them.

The Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER) has been lobbying, from the beginning, to do away with tenure altogether.

According to Pratt, the reforms do not target the most cumbersome aspects of the teacher discipline process, amounting instead to changing the tenure system into one in which teachers are considered «guilty until proven innocent.»

In his «historic» call for «education reform», an end to teacher tenure and a disproportionate transfer of public dollars to charter schools the Governor failed to point out that (1) Connecticut already has one of the longest probationary periods for teachers in the country — four years — which gives school administrators more opportunity to judge a teacher's capability than do those in most other states and that (2) in 2010 the Legislature adopted major revisions to the teacher evaluation process that already gives Malloy's Department of Education the power to revamp how teachers are evaluated and require school administrators to actually conduct appropriate evaluations.

No amount of political spin coming from Malloy or his education reform industry allies will disguise the fact that by introducing a bill to do away with teacher tenure and repeal collective bargaining rights for teachers in «turnaround schools,» Malloy became the most anti-teacher, anti-public education Democratic governor in the nation.

The Corporate Education Reform Industry claims that the Common Core, more standardized testing, doing away with teacher tenure and privatizing public education by shifting to privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools will solve the biggest problems and challenges facing public education in the United States.

Reformer Michelle Rhee has noted that while there should be protections in place so that teachers can't be fired for arbitrary reasons, she doesn't think we need to reform tenure; she doesn't see any need for it at all.

As teachers across Connecticut know, Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy did, in fact, propose doing away with tenure for all public school teachers as part of his 2012 corporate education reform industry initiative.

We witnessed the damage when summary firings were the reform du jour of charter advocates, and teachers lost union protections in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, in Washington, D.C. under Michelle Rhee's stint as chancellor, and in Newark, NJ, during Cami Anderson's beleaguered tenure as the city's school chief.