Sentences with phrase «if teacher layoffs»

If teacher layoffs happened tomorrow, teachers would be laid off in order of reverse seniority — the most recently hired would be the first to go.

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Asked if an override was possible about his thoughts on the bill, Silver responded, «I'm not going to be responsbile for losing a billion dollars in teacher layoffs or police and firefighter layoffs.»

«If Albany moves forward with the school aid cuts proposed by the Governor, New York City may have to lay off 6,400 teachers — the first teacher layoffs in New York City since the 1970s,» the letter reads.

Reynolds said three teachers were excessed from the school in February and he expects they will lose two more if there are layoffs.

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But now AFL - CIO President Denis Hughes is suggesting that the administration might actually cross that bridge if it supports a bill proposed by Sen. John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican, that would do away with the «last in, first out» rule of public school teacher layoffs.

If enacted, the move would be the first significant teacher layoffs in the city in decades.

For instance, if a district does not need the money to prevent teacher layoffs, it might use this windfall to hire new staff.

The authors find that if the RIF - notified teachers made the average salary in their district, it would only be necessary to lay off 1,349 teachers in order to attain the same budgetary savings, or roughly 20 percent less than the actual number of teachers who received layoff notices.

In a new study, researchers find that seniority - based layoff policies — the norm in public schools — lead to higher numbers of teacher layoffs than would be necessary if administrators were allowed to make effectiveness the determining factor in issuing layoff notices, rather than length of service.

If districts instead adopted effectiveness - based layoff policies, they would be likely to lay off fewer teachers, achieve the same budgetary savings, and have a higher quality teacher workforce.

Even if Rhee was objectively justified in removing over two hundred teachers, her actions reinforced the fears of many teachers that linking teacher evaluations to student performance will result in wholesale layoffs that are based on scant data viewed by many as suspect.

The authors next look at what would happen if the existing seniority - driven system of layoffs were replaced by an effectiveness - based layoff policy, in which teachers are ranked according to their value - added scores and districts lay off their least effective teachers.

«If districts instead adopted effectiveness - based layoff policies, they would be likely to lay off fewer teachers, achieve the same budgetary savings, and have a higher quality teacher workforce,» Goldhaber and Theobald concluded.

As noted earlier, one of the prevailing critiques of seniority - based layoffs is that it is necessary to lay off more teachers in order to attain a specified budget objective than it would be if districts used alternative criteria.

In Milwaukee, 482 teachers have received layoff notices, but the school board says nearly all of those jobs could be saved if the teachers union would agree to switch to a less expensive health care plan.

We get that Chicago Teachers Union members would walk out if layoffs devastate the system.

Mr. Roberts said the governor plans to increase education funding if re-elected, while also seeking to end last - in, first - out teacher - layoff policies.

The teachers union has every right to scream about funding cuts and potential layoffs (even if we won't have real numbers for several weeks at least).

He wanted to talk about political influence and big - money funders through the lens of two reform - oriented school systems — New Orleans (suggesting that teacher layoffs could be blamed on TFA and not Hurricane Katrina) and Chicago (pointing to school closings and mayoral control, as if either of those two policies had anything to do with TFA).

«If this is our one shot at reform, this is a terrible disappointment,» Cerf told a panel of lawmakers before the bill passed, lamenting that nothing would be done to address seniority rights that guard the longest - serving teachers from layoffs.

If there is another round of layoffs, many of our children will lose more than their teachers.

There has been ongoing litigation about the disproportionate impact of teacher layoffs on the state's most impoverished schools, some of which face losing most of their teachers if layoffs are based on seniority rather than performance.

Even if they're rescinded months later, layoff notices create uncertainty and disruption among teachers and students.

Claypool has said the CTU could avert teacher layoffs this school year if it accepts his contract terms.

Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool said in December that CPS can get through the year without teacher layoffs if the union buys into a district contract proposal.

Acting Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf said he is glad the bill, if enacted into law, would end tenure as lifetime job security, and require that teacher ratings play a significant role in determining who would be let go during layoffs.

Force teachers deemed fully or partially ineffective to face layoffs, even if they have seniority, a key element demanded by education reform advocates.

LIFO, or «last - in, first - out,» rules refer to the process of newer teachers facing layoffs first — even if they are more effective in the classroom than their colleagues with greater seniority.

Finally, if, as in many districts, novice teachers are concentrated in schools serving low - achieving students and students in poverty, then a seniority - based layoff approach will disproportionately affect the students in those schools.

These «performance ratings» at issue are to be used for increased consequential purposes (e.g., teacher terminations / layoffs, even if solely for economic reasons).

What if a veteran teacher, he asks, is targeted for layoffs to meet a principal's bottom line?