Sentences with phrase «inwood fired teacher»

The Supreme Court may soon decide whether a fired teacher is a religious employer — and the ramifications could be significant:

Analysis shows that coercion in the punishment of a child, in firing a teacher, or in government enforcement of socially adopted laws consists in withholding rewards or applying penalties.

Later that year, at the PGA at Valhalla, Norman and Harmon got into a dispute over Harmon's clothing contract, and Norman fired his teacher in the middle of a practice round.

Our economy is not in the best shape of all right now while California and now Texas are firing teachers due to budget shortfall, so JO's timing is a bit off.

But the school still fired both teachers who were in the room at the time.

Mr. CANADA: Well, you know, it's sort of interesting, because I have some of my Republican friends who love to tout the fact that I am about results, and I want to use data, and I'm prepared to fire teachers or principals or anyone who can't really deliver for children, right?

I don't want the endorsement of a mayor shutting down schools and firing teachers.

Right now, it is very difficult to fire teachers.

The proposed cuts have engendered the usual howls of outrage that it will lead to fired teachers, overcrowded classrooms, and sick people dying in the street.

They should consider provisions under which the state makes school districts whole for their legal costs related to firing teachers.

United Federation of Teachers president Mike Mulgrew issued a statement saying he opposed giving the chancellor the authority to «unilaterally» fire a teacher and ignore an arbitrator's decision to the contrary.

The measures linked teacher evaluation performance to tenure and made it easier to fire teachers deemed to be performing poorly, despite having tenure.

But many of his proposals — such as toughening up evaluation systems teachers barely agreed to in the first place, firing teachers with bad ratings, tying tenure to evaluations, and increasing the cap on charter schools — are sure to be met with ire from politically powerful state and city teachers union.

Mayor Bloomberg proposed a state law that would make it easier to fire teachers charged or found guilty of sexual misconduct.

Since he made those comments during an interview with the Daily News editorial board, Cuomo has reiterated his intentions to battle unions over education reforms, most recently with a letter he sent to state education officials outlining what appeared to be his second - term schools agenda, including questions about firing teachers, extending the probationary period before tenure and boosting the charter school sector.

The principal of P.S. 18 in Inwood fired teacher Madeline Luciano after she let a student write on a chalkboard the reasons why eighth - grade students didn't like a particular classmate.

Klein also said he had streamlined legal procedures to make it easier to fire teachers and end the «dance of the lemons,» the shuffling of bad teachers from school to school.

«The tax refunds that Paulson and Singer would stand to receive through the refusal to extend the millionaires tax would be pocket change to them, but they could provide the New York City school district with the money to rehire dozens of recently - fired teachers aides.

A recent budget agreement between Governor Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers could make it easier to fire teachers who receive two poor evaluations in a row.

Bloomberg also defended a controversial proposal to change the rules for firing teachers.

What is needed is a competitive certification process that establishes key criteria for entry into the teaching profession; gives public schools greater freedom to hire and fire teachers; and treats teachers like professionals and their schools like professional institutions by allowing them to tailor professional development to meet the needs of teachers.

During World War I, the superintendent of the Cleveland public schools suggested firing those teachers sympathetic to Germany, and anti-war teachers did lose their jobs in New York City.

«Are rules about firing teachers the kinds of issues that courts should decide, while questions about funding schools are ones that should be left to the legislature — or is it the other way around?»

The right to fire a teacher is limited by teachers» «retention rights» and a complex and lengthy set of due process procedures.

This causes «no shortage of teacher frustration,» he says, adding that he once overheard a technology coordinator threaten to fire any teacher who dared to bring Web 2.0 applications into the classroom.

Following the work on teacher absence, Muralidharan realized that low accountability — only one out of 3,000 schools reported firing a teacher for repeated absence — and the complete lack of differentiation between teachers on the basis of performance, were part of a systematic problem.

In interviews she continued to press her contention that principals needed the power to hire and fire teachers to accomplish their mission.

The NCTQ authors write, «State law dictates how often teachers must be evaluated, when teachers can earn tenure, the benefits they'll receive, and even the rules for firing a teacher.»

I would change the way that many school systems currently make decisions - for example, by hiring and firing teachers in ways that do not ensure that all children get the best teachers available.

True, the school system often functions as a jobs program for adults, but jobs and money aren't the reason the mother of a second grader who has a derelict teacher regards someone pledging to fire the teacher as a demon.

In the latest turn, the Houston public schools fired a teacher and reprimanded two principals this month after the state education agency raised concerns about possible test - tampering in the district — the state's largest — and 10 other districts.

Because in New York State, it's damn near impossible to actually fire a teacher.

The business schools also seemed to have a top - down approach or managerial structure, and advocated for firing teachers who may not be performing at level.

Central Falls, R.I., where an entire high school teaching staff was recently fired, is the latest example of a growing trend: no - nonsense superintendents attempting to improve their schools by firing teachers perceived to be incompetent to secure a bigger share of federal education dollars.

But then the Georgia State Board of Education balked, unwilling to back Leeper's school governance experiment, in which the teachers would be organized like attorneys in a law office's partnership, and have the power to hire and fire teachers as well as the principal.

School leaders who are not given the right to hire and fire teachers, reward and sanction personnel, or allocate resources can not be held fully responsible for the results.

Hart and her fellow principals can hire and fire teachers, but if student scores start slipping, Ronan and his corporate staff will replace the principal and keep the school.

From teacher evaluation systems to value - added modeling to the recent Vergara decision in California, reformers have increasingly focused on selecting, measuring, developing, evaluating, and firing teachers as the key to educational improvement.

She writes, «We must focus less on how to rank and fire teachers and more on how to make day - to - day teaching an attractive, challenging job that intelligent, creative and ambitious people will gravitate towards.»

Failure to pay is the only instance when the union will allow a school district to summarily fire a teacher.

Susan Schaeffler, the founder and head of the successful KIPP schools in D.C. (all of them start - ups), once told me she thought she could fix one of the worst regular schools in the city if she had the power — which she has at KIPP — to hire and fire teachers at will.

NYSUT is already livid that Cuomo and the Legislature this week enacted a tougher evaluation plan tied to student testing that will make it easier to fire teachers — even those with tenure

It's interesting that so much of the reform movement is focusing on firing teachers at will.

Because few charter schools are unionized, they hire and fire teachers and administrative staff without regard to the collectively bargained seniority and tenure provisions that constrain such decisions in many public schools.

The stars of the film are Geoffrey Canada, the CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, which provides a broad variety of social services to families and children and runs two charter schools; Michelle Rhee, chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public school system, who closed schools, fired teachers and principals, and gained a national reputation for her tough policies; David Levin and Michael Feinberg, who have built a network of nearly one hundred high - performing KIPP charter schools over the past sixteen years; and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, who is cast in the role of chief villain.

But when the IMPACT plan was rolled out, some teachers, and the local teachers» union, saw it as overly punitive — more focused on firing teachers than helping them improve.

Fortunately, American public schools do not struggle with the rampant teacher absenteeism common throughout public schools in the developing world, though they often share the inability to fire teachers who are low - performing or even dangerous.

School officials testifying in the case said that as a practical matter, they have to decide by March of a teacher's second year whether to fire the teacher or approve tenure.

I smell a big, fat lawsuit coming from the fired teachers and rightly so.

Not one supporter of value added analysis would accept stop trying to teach students that have failed with an effective teacher while the logic indicates this follows from the idea of firing teachers based upon value added analysis.