Sentences with phrase «teacher dismissal bill»

LA Unified Superintendent John Deasy applauded Governor Jerry Brown's decision today to veto AB 375, a controversial teacher dismissal bill which had widespread teacher union support.

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Indeed, there are a few things we still don't know about the candidates» education positions, including where they stand on the controversial No Child Left Behind «waiver» that LAUSD is trying to get from Washington, whether they support SB 441, the teacher dismissal bill going through the state legislature, and — perhaps most important — which candidate they support for the District 6 School Board runoff.

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She pointed out that the California Teachers Association has racked up three wins since spring, with the appellate court's unanimous ruling to overturn Vergara, the Supreme Court's decision this week to decline to review the case and the thwarting of her own bill that would have made changes to teacher tenure and dismissal procedures.

AB 375, a new bill meant to streamline teacher dismissals, could be headed for quick passage after clearing the State Assembly's Education Committee with a 7 — 0 vote Thursday.

Under the Legislature's bill, schools would still be forbidden from factoring test data into discipline or dismissal of teachers.

The amended version of AB 934 allows local districts and teachers unions to negotiate an alternative dismissal system, eliminating the bill's previous language whereby an ineffective teacher could be dismissed with due process after two negative evaluations and a robust professional development program.

She pointed out that her amended bill would still extend the probationary period before teachers receive tenure from two to three years and would at least give districts the ability to negotiate a streamlined dismissal process through collective bargaining with local teachers unions.

Also taken out of the bill was a provision to balance teacher performance with seniority when making layoff decisions, and a new streamlined dismissal process for ineffective teachers.

Then earlier this year, the teachers unions got behind AB 375, a watered - down, poorly written dismissal bill that, though it would have made some things even worse, was nevertheless passed by both houses of the California legislature.

Last month, my organization, Students Matter, issued its support of California's AB 934 — a state bill that, though imperfect, honestly attempted to address the grave defaults in the state's teacher tenure, dismissal and layoff laws challenged by the student plaintiffs in Vergara v. California.

That bill would end tenure as a lifetime job guarantee and force teachers to show they are proficient in their jobs or face possible dismissal or added risk for being laid off.

It would still allow a panel of teachers and a judge to resolve dismissal disputes instead of giving districts the power to make a final decision, a provision in last year's bill that teachers unions opposed.

Union officials objected in particular to granting school boards wider dismissal powers, saying at the time that the bill would «open teachers to dismissal at the whim of local administrators, who have shown themselves woefully ill - equipped to protect students or teachers.»

Her bill no longer included provisions to create a new teacher evaluation system, to require teachers with poor performance reviews to be laid off before those with less seniority, and to remove many of the dismissal rules that administrators found frustrating.

In fact, at least four states have had tenure reform bills introduced this spring that would bring teacher quality into the tenure / dismissal decision:

More specifically, the bill is to «provide a procedure for observing and evaluating teachers» to help make «significant differentiation [s] in pay, retention, promotion, dismissals, and other staffing decisions, including transfers, placements, and preferences in the event of reductions in force, [as] primarily [based] on evaluation results.»