Sentences with phrase «about teacher layoffs»

We're all hearing stories about teacher layoffs and shrinking education budgets.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Finance Chair Domenic Recchia Jr. said in a statement that they have «grave concerns» about teacher layoffs and would recommend alternative cuts to those proposed by the mayor.

The head of the United Federation of Teachers, Michael Mulgrew, told the Times: «I don't understand why the mayor continues to be talking about teacher layoffs,» Mr. Mulgrew said.

That was the conclusion of a 2012 California's Legislative Analyst Office report about the teacher layoff process.

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Asked if an override was possible about his thoughts on the bill, Silver responded, «I'm not going to be responsbile for losing a billion dollars in teacher layoffs or police and firefighter layoffs.»

And while many in the crowd did applaud and cheer as the mayor passed, others expressed their resentment about the comments as well as recent cutbacks, including threats of thousands of teacher layoffs.

Randi Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers, criticized the Senate version of the bill for cutting about $ 40 billion from money «targeted to help states avoid drastic education cuts and teacher layoffs,» as well as $ 20 billion from construction aid to schools and colleges and $ 1 billion from new aid for Head Start and other early childhood education programs.

Bloomberg warned of more harsh cuts, but said he was «optimistic» about a deal on merit - based teacher layoffs.

«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).

«That's why we have grave concerns about a budget that allows for teacher layoffs, which would be immensely damaging to our education system and children's opportunities for a quality education.

Bing said he got involved in the issue during last year's budget process when his community school district seemed about to lose 19 percent of its teachers because of layoffs.

«We have grave concerns about a budget that allows for teacher layoffs, which would be immensely damaging to our education system and children's opportunities for a quality education,» City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Council Finance Chair Domenic Recchia, Jr. said in a statement.

Earlier in the hearing, Chancellor Dennis Walcott confirmed that next year's DOE preliminary budget, which will go up by $ 183 million or about 1 percent, does not include any teacher layoffs.

It is interesting to note, however, that some teachers who receive layoff notices are well into their careers, implying that at least some districts in the state are making judgments about which teachers should be laid off based on criteria other than seniority.

We still focus on all RIF notices because they indicate the teachers who were targeted for layoffs, and thus tell us about the likely effects of the system that governs layoffs.

We calculate that districts would only have to lay off 132 teachers under an effectiveness - based system in order to achieve the same budgetary savings they would achieve with 145 layoff notices under today's seniority - driven system, a difference of about 10 percent.

Using national examples from districts including LAUSD, the report also includes information about how seniority - based layoffs exacerbate the number of people who lose their jobs because districts have to layoff more teachers with low salaries to meet budgetary demands.

View key facts and statistics from the Vergara v. California trial, including information about Plaintiffs» witnesses, the long - term impact of ineffective teachers and the harm caused by California's permanent employment, dismissal and «last - in, first - out» layoff laws.

Amid grim news about budget cuts, the year brought new awareness that relying on seniority alone in determining teacher layoffs is mindless.

Both San Diego Unified and Montebello Unified failed to tighten their belts earlier and now are facing austerity: San Diego gave layoff notices to 850 teachers this month and still faces a deficit in 2018 - 19, while Montebello Unified, amid instability and complaints about its chief business officer, gave layoff notices to 333 teachers.

Moreover, the two premises represent a tautology — student test score growth is the most important measure, and we have to choose other teacher evaluation measures based on their correlation with student test score growth because student test score growth is the most important measure... This point, by the way, has already been made about the Gates study, as well as about seniority - based layoffs and about test - based policies in general.

And when we talk about improving public education, and the very real and increasing threat that is coming from the corporate «education reform» types, who want to layoff teachers, ban or reduce collective bargaining rights, take - over public schools and transfer the care and control of our public schools to various third parties... let's not forget that many districts do not fund enough IA positions and every district fails to fairly compensate IAs for the incredible work they do.

There is no mention at all about better ways to choose which teachers stay and which teachers go should layoffs become necessary.

Within each those categories, the layoffs would then be based on seniority, but by the time it reached into teachers with «effective» ratings, only about a third of them would be affected.

The teachers union has every right to scream about funding cuts and potential layoffs (even if we won't have real numbers for several weeks at least).

In an unusual request, the state Department of Education last week sent a short survey to every district and charter school asking them about their layoffs of teachers technically called «reductions in force» (RIFs) over the past five years, and about the impact of seniority protection on their «ability to manage their personnel.»

The reality is that for all the talk from the NEA and AFT about how they represent teachers, the reality is that their defense of seniority - and degree - based pay scales, reverse - seniority layoff policies, and near - lifetime employment privileges through tenure do little for the younger, more reform - minded teachers who realize the damage these policies do to their profession and, ultimately, to the children in their care.

The first day of my student teaching assignment back in 2009, I attended a teacher meeting regarding the mass layoffs that were about to take place by the Los Angeles Unified School District.

The median age of the crowd looks to be about 28, and with Mayor Bloomberg predicting thousands of layoffs, these young teachers are particularly vulnerable under existing regulations that protect seniority.

After Tuck took over some of LA's most troubled schools as CEO of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, «about half of his teachers received layoff notices because of the system's seniority based layoff system, which protects older teachers regardless of job performance.»

E4E is a two - year - old group founded by Evan Stone and Sydney Morris, former teachers who organized teachers around a core set of values about the profession, including an opposition to seniority - based layoffs.

Translation: Decisions about who gets a raise, a wanted transfer or protection from layoff will continue to be based mostly on how many and what kinds of college credits teachers earn, and on that old union standby, seniority.

Attempting to maintain support among the very teachers it is supposed to represent — and looking to show that it cares about elevating the teaching profession it debases through its defense of quality - blind seniority - based privileges and reverse - seniority layoff rules — the NEA gave $ 73,500 to the National Network of State Teachers of the Year; that the selection of teachers of the year is usually more of a popularity contest than one based on objective measures of teacher performance is often conveniently ignored by all but the most thoughtful of observers, and thus, serves as a good way to spend unioteachers it is supposed to represent — and looking to show that it cares about elevating the teaching profession it debases through its defense of quality - blind seniority - based privileges and reverse - seniority layoff rules — the NEA gave $ 73,500 to the National Network of State Teachers of the Year; that the selection of teachers of the year is usually more of a popularity contest than one based on objective measures of teacher performance is often conveniently ignored by all but the most thoughtful of observers, and thus, serves as a good way to spend unioTeachers of the Year; that the selection of teachers of the year is usually more of a popularity contest than one based on objective measures of teacher performance is often conveniently ignored by all but the most thoughtful of observers, and thus, serves as a good way to spend unioteachers of the year is usually more of a popularity contest than one based on objective measures of teacher performance is often conveniently ignored by all but the most thoughtful of observers, and thus, serves as a good way to spend union funds.

He wanted to talk about political influence and big - money funders through the lens of two reform - oriented school systems — New Orleans (suggesting that teacher layoffs could be blamed on TFA and not Hurricane Katrina) and Chicago (pointing to school closings and mayoral control, as if either of those two policies had anything to do with TFA).

The unions also proposed that evaluations be clearly tied to a teacher obtaining due process rights, usually known as «teacher tenure» and that decisions about layoffs in times of fiscal crisis include performance evaluations rather than a system based solely on seniority.

13) Illinois: As Chicago Mayor Emanuel announces 1,400 school layoffs, maintenance cutbacks and reduced transportation services, the Chicago Teachers Union releases a report «that highlighted CPS» false claims about central office cuts, the misplaced priorities of the administration, reckless outsourcing approved by the Board, dangerous indebtedness to banks, and ways by which CPS should prioritize their budget to meet the needs of students.»

There has been ongoing litigation about the disproportionate impact of teacher layoffs on the state's most impoverished schools, some of which face losing most of their teachers if layoffs are based on seniority rather than performance.

... We're talking about an opportunity now for transformational change across Illinois in that principals will have the power to dismiss ineffective teachers, that they'll be able to hire who they want, that they'll no longer be forced to accept teachers they don't want in their buildings, and that when layoffs happen, they'll be able to let people go based on performance, not just seniority — and in Chicago they'll be able to lengthen their day and year which has been just a horrible inequity for decades.

Almost every day brings another story somewhere in the state about teacher assistant layoffs, the loss of teacher positions, an increase in class size, or less money for supplies and instructional support for teachers and students.

Although I disagree I do appreciate you taking the time to add to the discussion — what about the E4E pledge that members are supposed to sign — Teachers who join E4E are expected to support value - added test - score data in evaluations, higher hurdles to achieving tenure, the elimination of seniority - driven layoffs, school choice, and merit pay.

The federal government has made hefty financial commitments to education in recent years, including the implementation of No Child Left Behind and the subsequent waivers from the standards - based law as well as the influx of about $ 89 billion in stimulus dollars to prevent teacher layoffs, keep class sizes down and avoid program cuts.

The Race to the Top Fund, as Duncan calls it, is part of about $ 100 billion the bill would channel to public schools, universities and early childhood education programs nationwide, helping stave off teacher layoffs, keep class sizes in check and jump - start efforts to revamp aging schools.

As a result of the limited applicability of teacher value - added measures to the full population of teachers as well as concerns about potential mis - measurement of effectiveness associated with using value - added measures even when available, neither seniority nor measures of value - added to student achievement should be the sole criterion determining layoffs.

This week, CPS chief Forrest Claypool raised the prospect of 5,000 more teacher layoffs this year, which has the Chicago Teachers Union talking about the possibility of a second strike since 2012.

Nationwide, the economic - stimulus package has prevented massive teacher layoffs, spurred states to devise sweeping reform plans and jumpstarted a national conversation about overhauling the worst schools.