Sentences with phrase «while teacher contracts»

Dismissal: While teacher contracts often lay out the steps a district must take to help a teacher who is struggling, contracts rarely account for those teachers whose performance does not improve, even after they receive additional support and professional development.

While teacher contracts may flesh out the details of school rules and rights of teachers, states are in the driver's seat.

Not exact matches

Last year, Ontario imposed a contract on public - school teachers that eliminated bankable sick days, while back in June, Treasury Board president Tony Clement vowed to fight federal employee absenteeism, which he said was costing taxpayers millions.

Moody's Investors Service weighed in today on the nine - year contract deal reached by NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and the NYC teachers union, the UFT, saying that while the agreement «could eliminate» fiscal uncertainty by paving the way for other outstanding labor contracts, it also comes at a «large» cost and relies on assumptions that may or may not come to pass.

«The contract with the teachers» union expired in October 2009, while contracts with the union for principals and other school administrators and District Council 37, the city's largest public employee union, expired in March 2010.

The teachers» union, for example, have agreed to a contract without a salary increase for the first year and a half, while superior officers have assented to keeping their pay flat for 11 months — «zeroes» in public employee parlance, unacceptable to Mr. Lynch, whose members are among the lowest paid big - city cops in the country.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew said that while the mayor was right to sound the alarm, he is ignoring potential cost - saving measures, including a retirement incentive for senior teachers, more oversight over DOE contracts, and a commitment to filling open positions with teachers from the ATR pool.

Mulgrew said that while the mayor was right to sound the alarm, he was ignoring potential cost - saving measures, including a retirement incentive for senior teachers, more oversight over DOE no - bid contracts, and a commitment to filling open positions with teachers from the ATR pool.

While procedures for removing tenured teachers for «just cause» appear in most contracts, the available procedures are so burdensome that they are rarely used.

Most everyone, from those who believe that teachers should earn more, so that the profession attracts the best and the brightest, to those who believe that union contracts are bankrupting American schools, while also leading to poorer educational outcomes, agrees that there is something wrong with the way our educators are paid.

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Notably, while most teachers in traditional public schools are tenured and have multiyear contracts, 96 percent of charter teachers in their study were either at - will employees or had annual contracts; thus charters can and do separate ineffective teachers.

For beginning teachers (those evaluated in their first and fourth years), a poor evaluation could result in nonrenewal of their contract, while a successful evaluation is required before receiving tenure.

She negotiated a groundbreaking teacher's contract to help reward the best teachers while getting rid of the worst.

Whether quality control is done on an assignment - by - assignment basis or as part of a work contract, standards are being raised while the teacher's workload is being reduced.

Among other reforms encouraged by Race to the Top, Washington, D.C., adopted a new teacher contract that raised salaries across the board while adding performance pay, and New York City increased its allotment of public charter schools, to cite just two notable examples.

While the racial, social, political, and economic consequences of poorly performing schools are innumerable and harsh, they won't be felt by Burris who earned $ 268,000 as a principal; or Ravitch who became a fierce public school advocate only after her children completed private school; or Valerie Strauss — another private school parent — who uses her Washington Post real estate to bolster all the drivel teachers» unions send her (without mentioning her connection to communication contracts with labor).

While the teachers union came up with the idea for the 10 - year contract, Thompson said the union compromised on key issues such as keeping an unpopular two - tiered pay schedule designed to pay new hires at lower salaries.

If Californians don't become more informed and demand public access to teacher's contract negotiations — and in fact all public employee contract negotiations — they will continue to let the special interests have their way while the taxpayers get to pay and pay and pay.

While many see merit in having a contract — establishing a forum to discuss issues with administration and standards for pay, evaluations, and scheduling — some teachers feel the federation sometimes appears more interested in pushing its own agenda than tending to the needs of such a tiny school, Iskric said.

While the bill, SB 793, or Charter School Modifications, clarifies that the salaries of charter school teachers and non-profit boards of directors are subject to public disclosure, employees of for - profit companies that are contracted to manage the operations of charter schools would not be subject to those rules.

Three years without a contract with no transparency in the negotiation process, while teachers, the union, and public education are under systematic attack.

In the latest disagreement between contract negotiators for LA Unified and the teachers union, UTLA, the district says the teachers» latest salary demand would cost way more than the district can afford while the union president charged that the district could afford it, if the district had the right spending priorities.

While it is very difficult to remove public school teachers, private school teachers generally have contracts that are renewable each year.

Rep. Craig Horn (R - Union) told Greensboro's News & Record that lawmakers could delay implementation of the law while they seek funds to award the contracts to more than 25 percent of the state's teachers.

Mary Bell, president of the Wisconsin Education Association Council, the state's largest teachers union, said that while teachers won't necessarily obstruct changes, they are less likely to offer new ideas themselves if they are not covered by a union contract.

While the Hawaii State Teachers Union has been locked in a battle with the state over a new contract that would link student test scores to teacher ratings and pay, education reformers have praised the state for creating a merit pay pilot program and funding charter schools.

While it is true that when Green takes off his journalist hat and puts on his columnist one he is no longer under any obligation to describe things accurately, he is being more than a bit disingenuous to suggest the «Commissioner's Network» (Section 18 of Senate Bill 24) simply means «longer days, year - round school, more social services, better pay for sought - after science and math teachers — without the constraints of restrictive labor contracts.»

The financing plan also ends nearly five weeks of uncertainty surrounding the contract, widely regarded as a progressive breakthrough emphasizing teacher quality while diminishing seniority as a traditional determinant of job security and assignments.

They dump Connecticut teachers and school personnel, while hiring more and more out - of - state consultants and directing contracts to out - of - state businesses.

In the past year, Emanuel stripped teachers of a 4 percent pay raise, and his effort to institute longer school days while sidestepping the union contract has infuriated union members.

Ending that loophole will return to Chicago's teachers the power to challenge intolerable conditions like overcrowded classrooms and third party contracts that leave our schools filthy while Aramark and Sodexo get filthy rich.

*** A note on the data: The data is yearly, while teachers» contracts span the school year.

While several Hartford students spoke in support of their TFA teachers, many of the critics Monday, including Andrea Johnson, president of the Hartford Federation of Teachers, described the contract as paying a «headhunters fee» and argued that the money should be spent on improving school pteachers, many of the critics Monday, including Andrea Johnson, president of the Hartford Federation of Teachers, described the contract as paying a «headhunters fee» and argued that the money should be spent on improving school pTeachers, described the contract as paying a «headhunters fee» and argued that the money should be spent on improving school programs.

While in office, she chaired the Education Committee and conducted an unprecedented set of hearings on the 77,000 - word teacher contract, hoping (in vain, it turns out) to expose its excesses and foster a more streamlined labor - management relationship.

In Florida, all teachers hired after 2011 sign an annual contract as opposed to receiving tenure, while Kansas and North Carolina are also seeking to eliminate teacher tenure.

While the state sets some «guidelines and guardrails» for how the new systems (which are required in teacher contracts beginning with the 2012 - 2013 school year) will work, local districts get to determine who evaluates teachers and how to rate them in the state's «effective / ineffective» scoring bracket.

Unless parents and community members demand that substantive steps are taken to revise the contract, the Portland Association of Teachers will continue pay lip service to student safety, while protecting the worst of the worst.

No, Ed Burke is embarrassed because Karen Lewis, the president of the Chicago Teachers Union, opposes CPS's going back on the current contract to force teachers to work an extra 90 minutes per day while the district holds back 50 % of the contractually promised raise for the comiTeachers Union, opposes CPS's going back on the current contract to force teachers to work an extra 90 minutes per day while the district holds back 50 % of the contractually promised raise for the comiteachers to work an extra 90 minutes per day while the district holds back 50 % of the contractually promised raise for the coming year.

While getting her Master's degree in Administration, she also shared a fifth grade teaching contract for three years with Mrs. Mariah Rodeghiero, one of North Star's amazing fourth grade teachers.

And, while teacher development time is built into our district's union contract, we have not yet used this time effectively to promote meaningful teacher collaboration, especially among general educators and teachers who specialize in unique student populations.

Teachers are considered full time if under contract for 8 out of 12 months while averaging over 30 hours per week during the contractual period.

Many FE teachers have portfolio careers and are employed by a number of organisations, sometimes on short - term contracts, while also working in their specialist area outside of education.