Sentences with phrase «about firing teachers»

The Huff bill is about firing teachers with more seniority.

By contrast, decisions about firing teachers are inherently about trade - offs: It is important to dismiss ineffective teachers, but also to attract and retain effective teachers.

«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?»

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.

Not exact matches

The average Chicago property tax bill is going up about 10 percent this year following City Hall and Chicago Public Schools tax hikes to pay for police, fire and teacher pensions, according to calculations released Tuesday by the Cook County clerk's office.

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?

Chicago Ridge Park District officials have come under fire from parents who feel the district was unresponsive to complaints about a teacher's aide in the district's pre-school program.

Hypothetically, if all 49 children came from one or two grade levels, it might be possible to fire two teachers and save about $ 90,000 to $ 100,000 per year in salary and benefits, but nowhere near $ 300,000.

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and City Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras (D - East Elmhurst) visited Corona's PS 19 last week and collected about 100 signatures from parents and students within an hour imploring Mayor Michael Bloomberg not to fire 4,100 teachers from city schools.

A Bronx charter school dedicated to educating students about social justice and the law fired 11 of its 15 teachers with no notice last month — including eight who were trying to bargain a union contract with management.

«The Council has serious concerns about 4,200 teacher layoffs, losing nearly 17,000 unfunded childcare slots and the closure of 20 fire companies,» she said in a joint statement with Council Finance Chairman Domenic Recchia (D - Brooklyn).

The mayor spent much of the winter leading a full - court press, angrily complaining about state government's unfairness to the city and loudly insisting on the repeal of «LIFO,» the state law requiring that teachers with the least seniority be fired first.

@blip I've talked with a tenured teacher active in the local union, and their opinion seemed to be tenured teachers would not be fired for anything cops wouldn't be called about.

The Senate's version of the bill includes a proposal to modify the «last in, first out» teacher firing policy as well as $ 280 million in additional school aid — about 9 percent more than Cuomo's proposed budget, State Sen. Liz Krueger said.

Even as he spoke, he later learned, his ex-wife — who was a teacher at the elementary school on campus — was being fired «because she had known about my criminal past but had not told them.»

It is a pretty good bet that just about any show that features adults and teens interacting The fire happened while Miranda was at Hendrix Elementary School and her fourth grade teacher wanted to help.

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Education Next's Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (October 14) about education politics in Washington, D.C., where Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee recently fired 229 teachers.

Mrs. Bush is equally articulate about «backpack spending» (the institute is sponsoring a project on school - district productivity that includes 20 different researchers» papers); teacher autonomy («Obviously, if you are held accountable as the principal of your school and you don't have the authority to change anything, by either hiring or firing, or setting up another structure that your school district doesn't allow, then how can you be really accountable?»)

Second, the school is run by a cooperative of teachers, who make all the key decisions about the school — from the learning program to the budget to hiring and firing.

Kathleen Cushman's latest book, Fires in the Mind: What Kids Can Tell Us About Motivation and Mastery, provides a unique exploration into the question of how teachers can better engage and inspire today's students.

And if we had a different pension system — one that allowed teachers to build pension wealth throughout their careers and take it with them whenever they left — then they wouldn't be worried about losing their big payout by getting fired a few years before retirement.

«We know when we get our primary - age children fired up about reading, they stay readers all the way through middle school, and the Accelerated Reader program helps teachers do that,» Ingram explained.

In the education realm, buzz is building about an Arizona charter school teacher who got fired for refusing to remove a bumper sticker from her car.

AP gets a higher percentage in favor of «firing» teachers by talking directly about «poor performance.»

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.

Fourth, big changes are brewing in teacher preparation and licensure as ed schools come under fire, as «alternate routes» proliferate, as programs like Teach For America get greater traction, and as more attention is paid to what a teacher knows about her subject than to what pedagogy courses she took in college.

Another student adds that new teachers frequently worry too much about being nice to students, when in fact, «they're setting fires in the bathroom.»

Teachers are inspired when their students are «on fire» about learning.

Another group read Story Time, a satirical novel about a school obsessed with standardized testing (in one passage, an English teacher is fired for hanging up a Shakespeare poster because Shakespeare isn't on the test).

In the United States, we tend to think that improving education is about improving teachers - recruiting better ones, firing bad ones.

Jason Kamras, deputy to D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee in charge of human capital, talks with Education Next about the new teacher evaluation system put in place in D.C. Beginning this year, teachers in D.C. will be evaluated based on student test scores (when available) and classroom observations (by principals and master educators), and poorly performing teachers may be fired, regardless of tenure.

To the extent they're talking about charter schools, they're not wedded to the full mission of what a charter school is — which is to give complete autonomy to a principal to hire the best teachers and fire those who are not performing well.

In acting on more than 1,900 appeals on Oct. 7, the first day of its new term, the court rejected a request from a Kentucky school district to uphold its right to fire a 5th grade teacher for giving lessons about industrial hemp.

If three years of data is used there is about a 25 percent change that a teacher who is «average» would be identified as significantly worse than average, and, under new evaluation systems, perhaps fired.

After our last Harvard Business Review article looking at the one type of leader who can turn around a failing school, we received emails from several Head Teachers saying,» I'm making the long - term changes you suggest, but I'm about to be fired!

The Time article, which features a gavel about to smash an apple on the cover, is headlined, «Rotten Apples: It's nearly impossible to fire a bad teacher; some tech millionaires may have found a way to change that,» and is a look at the history of the case and the wealthy group of tech executives who have helped support it.

The district has rehired about one fourth of the group fired in April, but have hired NO first year teachers who aren't TFA, except a few trained in shortage areas like special education, math, science, etc..

Senate Bill 5896 also contained language about how evaluations would be considered in hiring and firing teachers, and requiring educators to reach a certain level of competence before they would earn a continuing contract.

The prosecution's suggested replacement to the «old» way of doing this, of course, was to use value - added scores to make «better» decisions about which teachers to fire and whom to keep around.

There were lies about her personal accomplishments (those fantasy - land «miraculous» test scores in Baltimore), and there were lies about her policies (the budget «shortfall» and teacher firings even as she hired hundreds of brand - new teachers).

In one fifth - grade classroom, teacher Rivky Fisch led her students in a discussion about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 as a part of a unit on immigration.

As per Weingarten: «Over a year ago, the Washington [DC] Teachers» Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to see the data from the school district's IMPACT [teacher] evaluation system — a system that's used for big choices, like the firing of 563 teachers in just the past four years, curriculum decisions, school closures and more [see prior posts about this as related to the IMPACT prograTeachers» Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to see the data from the school district's IMPACT [teacher] evaluation system — a system that's used for big choices, like the firing of 563 teachers in just the past four years, curriculum decisions, school closures and more [see prior posts about this as related to the IMPACT prograteachers in just the past four years, curriculum decisions, school closures and more [see prior posts about this as related to the IMPACT program here].

(About 275 teachers have been fired there because of low ratings.)

Some argue that efforts to rethink tenure and seniority are really about making it easier to fire older teachers (who are farther up on the salary scale) and replace them with younger «less expensive» teachers.

Warped opinions about our nation's public schools include: they are inferior to private schools; they are among the worst in the world in math and science; teachers should be fired if their students don't score at the national average, and on and on.

This has always been the point that drives me nuts about «firing bad teachers.»

The first came under fire from the institutions, most of which didn't directly participate, for inaccuracies and questions about methodology, but it's clear states are enacting changes to laws designed to ensure teachers are ready for their jobs.

Now 35 states require student achievement to be a significant factor in teacher evaluations, and many school districts are using those evaluations to make decisions about teacher bonuses and as a basis for firings.