Sentences with phrase «teachers union contracts do»

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Yet for decades, New York State laws, regulations and union contracts did nothing to promote teacher quality.

Members of the new majority elected to the Buffalo School Board Tuesday do not appear to be looking for a major reset regarding Superintendent Kriner Cash and the agenda he has laid out for the schools, but there are some major issues on which they will likely take a different approach — especially when it comes to the teachers union contract.

Unions including the Kingston Teachers Federation are still working under the terms of their prior contracts, and Padalino said last week that doesn't look like it's going to change anytime soon.

And he said he can do it under a turn - around provision in the exisiting contract with the teachers» union.

As one former school - board member from a large urban district noted, «Too often school boards and superintendents complain that they can not do something because of the teachers union contract.

A federal district judge has ruled that the Maryland legislature had a right to reform the public employees» retirement system, despite allegations by the Maryland State Teachers» Association and other unions that in doing so the state violated a contract agreement.

If schools were under private management, the union contract might call for an equity stake in the corporation, as does the agreement in Miami - Dade County for teachers working in Edison Schools.

Negotiations between the district's school board and the East St. Louis Federation of Teachers broke down last month after union leaders rejected a contract offer that did not include...

Class Warfare takes a wider view but one clearly influenced by the experience of the irrationality and inefficiency imposed by lengthy union contracts, which dictate in detail what can and can not be done in disciplining or, indeed, leading and guiding teachers.

According to Andrew Malone, principal of Success's Harlem Central middle school, «There are things that everyone can do, even within the [teachers union] contract and the shorter school day... the quality of the literature, the way that we work with teachers, the curricula themselves.»

But de Blasio also has an Absent Teacher Reserve pool to deal with, another Bloomberg - Klein legacy: they got the union to back down on forcing principals to hire teachers they didn't want, «one of the only good things to come out of the last contract negotiations,» says Joe Williams.

The superintendent's HR office does most of the vetting and placing, but it is shackled by the contract, by state licensure practices (which may be set by an «independent» — and probably union and ed - school dominated — professional - standards board), by seniority rules that are probably enshrined in both contract and state law, and by uniform salary schedules that mean the new teacher (assuming similar «credentials») will be paid the same fixed amount whether the subject most needed at Lincoln is math or music.

Yet for decades, New York State laws, regulations and union contracts did nothing to promote teacher quality.

Students with the greatest challenges at home need the most effective teachers to help them rise above their circumstances, yet the outmoded laws, regulations and union contracts governing New York's schools do nothing to put a premium on teacher quality.

But unlike in January when HSTA rushed a tentative contract agreement to its members — only to have them reject it because they didn't understand its contents — Okabe said the union is not going to be bullied into bringing a new settlement proposal to teachers.

Note that I said unions (who do the contracting and working conditions negotiations) and not individual teachers.

In 2012, a seven - day CTU - led teachers strike ended in a new three - year contract, but it did not end the acrimony between the union and Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Mulgrew noted that the union contract already allows Department of Education officials to do exactly what Walcott's two plans announced today would do — incentivize teachers without permanent jobs to take buyouts, and require schools to remove teachers who receive consecutive unsatisfactory ratings.

What do you call 300 + page union contracts that practically dictate when teachers can sneeze?

Another 268 local teacher unions — 63 percent, which is more than previous estimates — did not have to decide about recertification this year because their contracts continued through this school year.

The audit also noted that district was not using state test scores in teacher evaluations during the 11 - year period reviewed and that the district's contract with the teachers union at the time did not allow for it.

As I chronicled here, the district was caught flat - footed earlier this year when a scandal involving a teacher sexually abusing students revealed that, under the terms of a contract negotiated with United Teachers Los Angeles (the local union), complaints against educators that don't result in disciplinary action are disregarded after only a few years (unsurprisingly, the teacher in question had a long paper trail).

The vast majority of charter schools, nationwide and in Chicago, are not unionized, and the flexibility that teachers and schools gain from not having a typical union contract does seem to make a difference — one researcher found that nonunion charters in Milwaukee performed better academically.

There were, in 2007 (when we circulated our petition), dozens of teachers I wouldn't want teaching my children, suspect you wouldn't want teaching yours, and know the principal didn't want teaching his; but they couldn't be removed due to the union contract.

As for the motivations of crappy teachers — do they suck because they aren't capable of teaching or because they don't care, are burnt out, don't like children (at least poor, minority children), or are unmotivated because they know that their union and its ridiculous contract will protect their jobs no matter what they do — I don't know.

Seven of those Top 10 most powerful unions don't have any limitations on what they can negotiate into teacher contracts.

It does not, however, have authority over matters governed by a union contract between teachers and a district.

As of August 24, 2011, leaders of the Chicago Teachers Union have not received the proposal as part of discussions between the Board of Education and the Chicago Teachers Union on possible changes in the current union contracts, which do not expire until June 30, Union have not received the proposal as part of discussions between the Board of Education and the Chicago Teachers Union on possible changes in the current union contracts, which do not expire until June 30, Union on possible changes in the current union contracts, which do not expire until June 30, union contracts, which do not expire until June 30, 2012.