Sentences with phrase «while tenure laws»

While tenure laws have been in effect just about everywhere in the country for far too long, there is some good news.

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Partners with professional degrees in law and business, for example, can choose from a wide variety of employers, while Ph.D.'s looking for tenure - track jobs have far fewer opportunities.

Under the law, newly - hired teachers are supposed to be evaluated every year until they earn tenure, while tenured veterans are evaluated every two years until they reach their 10th year on the job.

Perhaps the higher levels of support we observed in 2014 reflected temporary shocks to public opinion stemming from events such as Wisconsin governor Scott Walker's recall election and the landmark Vergara v. California decision that struck down California's teacher evaluation and tenure laws, both of which took place while our survey was in the field.

Alabama also enacted tuition grant state laws permitting students to use vouchers at private schools in the mid-1950s, while also enacting nullification statutes against court desegregation mandates and altering its teacher tenure laws to allow the firing of teachers who supported desegregation.50 Alabama's tuition grant laws would also come before the court, with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama declaring in Lee v. Macon County Board of Education vouchers to be «nothing more than a sham established for the purpose of financing with state funds a white school system.»

And Anderson said while she recognized that the new teacher tenure law known as TEACHNJ provided some avenues for removing the least - effective teachers, the district needed to move more quickly than through a process that can include extensive documentation and arbitration.

Racially tinged expletives have been hurled atMichelle Rhee, the former D.C. schools chancellor, while an entire Web sitehas been created to lampoon Campbell Brown, the former CNN anchor who is challenging teacher tenure laws around the country.

Teachers union critics say the tenure and seniority laws that were hobbled by the June ruling protect longtime educators who are ineffective while more proficient ones with less experience face layoffs first.

The California Supreme Court will decide this summer whether to take up an appeal by nine students in the historic Vergara vs. California case challenging our unusually protective teacher tenure laws, as well as a seniority - based layoff system that often keeps ineffective teachers in district classrooms while letting more talented but less senior teachers go.

While this doesn't directly affect Hardy, who already works in a school without tenure, the law elevates the role that principals play in improving teacher effectiveness — just what Hardy is trying to do.

While it is true that the bill includes significant changes to Connecticut's teacher tenure and evaluation laws, there are still many people — including many legislators — who apparently don't know or don't understand the ramifications of some of the other incredible policy changes that have been packed deep into Malloy's bill.

Villaraigosa's support for a legal challenge to state tenure laws and his accusation that teacher unions blocked change while he was mayor, made the former Los Angeles union organizer a pariah to his old union, and to the statewide CTA, years ago.

Some states have laws governing tenure, while others do not.

During the early years, while practicing on his own, Paige also taught commercial law as a tenured professor at his alma mater, the University of Minnesota.

He has taught in law schools, at one point making tenure, while honing skills that have translated well to consulting, namely «being able to write in an accessible matter, and being able to make presentations at the level of your audience, whatever that may be,» Goren says.

They might be unknown to many of my younger colleagues, so I'll take the liberty of naming a few (without details of their distinguished careers): McGill's Marianne Scott had just recently been appointed National Librarian of Canada; Diana Priestly was just finishing her tenure as founding Law Librarian at the University of Victoria; Balfour Halévy, Osgoode's founding Chief Law Librarian, was still in charge at Osgoode and leading the charge nationally; Tom Shorthouse was centre - stage at the University of British Columbia (and wherever there was a piano); Edmonton was doubly - blessed with Lillian MacPherson (passionate about both women's studies and Iceland) at the University of Alberta and Shi - Sheng Hu (reluctant to discard superseded loose - leaf supplements) at the courthouse; the dynamic duo of Denis Marshall (at Queen's University, always so kind and supportive) and Denis Le May (at Laval, always so full of spritely humour) was in full swing; Ann Crocker was hard at work at the University of New Brunswick (though she hadn't yet been awarded the Order of Canada) as was Guy Tanguay at Sherbrooke; while Vicki Whitmell was re-inventing the law firm library at OslLaw Librarian at the University of Victoria; Balfour Halévy, Osgoode's founding Chief Law Librarian, was still in charge at Osgoode and leading the charge nationally; Tom Shorthouse was centre - stage at the University of British Columbia (and wherever there was a piano); Edmonton was doubly - blessed with Lillian MacPherson (passionate about both women's studies and Iceland) at the University of Alberta and Shi - Sheng Hu (reluctant to discard superseded loose - leaf supplements) at the courthouse; the dynamic duo of Denis Marshall (at Queen's University, always so kind and supportive) and Denis Le May (at Laval, always so full of spritely humour) was in full swing; Ann Crocker was hard at work at the University of New Brunswick (though she hadn't yet been awarded the Order of Canada) as was Guy Tanguay at Sherbrooke; while Vicki Whitmell was re-inventing the law firm library at OslLaw Librarian, was still in charge at Osgoode and leading the charge nationally; Tom Shorthouse was centre - stage at the University of British Columbia (and wherever there was a piano); Edmonton was doubly - blessed with Lillian MacPherson (passionate about both women's studies and Iceland) at the University of Alberta and Shi - Sheng Hu (reluctant to discard superseded loose - leaf supplements) at the courthouse; the dynamic duo of Denis Marshall (at Queen's University, always so kind and supportive) and Denis Le May (at Laval, always so full of spritely humour) was in full swing; Ann Crocker was hard at work at the University of New Brunswick (though she hadn't yet been awarded the Order of Canada) as was Guy Tanguay at Sherbrooke; while Vicki Whitmell was re-inventing the law firm library at Osllaw firm library at Osler.

I am looking for a career that will allow me to obtain a security clearance, providing a law enforcement service for a major government contract, with an emphasis on protecting U.S interests and its citizens from the criminal element, while incorporating the leadership and management skills that have been obtained throughout my tenure as a Law Enforcement Officer and Contract Managlaw enforcement service for a major government contract, with an emphasis on protecting U.S interests and its citizens from the criminal element, while incorporating the leadership and management skills that have been obtained throughout my tenure as a Law Enforcement Officer and Contract ManagLaw Enforcement Officer and Contract Manager.

While presiding in Rent Court, throughout his 12 year tenure, Judge Karasic developed expertise in landlord - tenant law and matters related to residential and commercial leases including rent escrow, housing code enforcement, lead paint regulations,, subleases and renewals, and condominium law.

These processes enable land councils to articulate decisions about land use made under traditional law and custom by the land owners to the outside world in conformity with standard Australian land tenure and land use procedures, while maintaining Aboriginal control.