Sentences with phrase «about the tenure process»

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That resulted in an instant souring of relations between Spitzer and his fellow lawmakers that followed the governor through the rest of his brief tenure before he was felled by his own sex scandal, and might serve as a deterrent should Cuomo think about wielding too heavy a hand in the forthcoming process.

Empire State Development president Ken Adams echoed this point after a hearing where several lawmakers were skeptical about their diminished role in the ongoing process, which doled out $ 220 million in competitive awards on top of nearly $ 500 million that, prior to Cuomo's tenure, would simply trickle out of state agencies.

UTFA wants to engage its members in discussions about the effects of the tenure process on candidates» research focus and their personal lives.

Faculty at private institutions report less clarity on tenure process, criteria, and standards than those at public institutions, and faculty at universities report less clarity than those at colleges about the tenure expectations for teaching, advising, and colleagueship.

That process will allow the lawsuits» supporters to publicize embarrassing facts about incompetent teachers protected by tenure and generate momentum for reform in the legislature.

As you may recall, Brown and I did a Q - and - A (Meet The Reporter Behind The Violet Nichols Tenure Story) about how she got the story and the challenges of writing about such a complicated and little - understood process.

Tenure is about due process — not about guaranteeing jobs for life.

Brown's most memorable story for me is the 2012 piece she did about the teacher dismissal process in Fairfax, Va: Teacher tenure: a Fairfax schools firing case.

However, the teacher tenure issue is largely about insuring and supporting teacher quality and professional standards, not about due process.

I've asked Korn to tell me exactly where the law specifies this, and when I hear back from him, I will update this post.UPDATE: The teachers» union, to back up its assertion, is citing a memo from the state department to the Board of Regents last year which contains this background sentence about the evaluation law: «Tenured teachers and principals with a pattern of ineffective teaching performance — defined by law as two consecutive annual «ineffective» ratings — may be charged with incompetence and considered for termination through an expedited hearing process.»

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.

There's a national conversation underway about teacher tenure, and nearly half the states and the District of Columbia are already overhauling their teacher evaluation processes so that they are tied more directly to student testing data.

A recent reform of the tenure process in New York City provides an unusual opportunity to learn about the role of tenure in teachers» career outcomes.

4 in a row — I heard something about teacher tenure — a facade — never existed — so I propose that CT be the first state to abolish teacher tenure and get rid of that nasty word forever — Instead teachers will agree to just due process where an arbitrator would decide their fate quickly and the arbitrators decision is binding — what say??? No more tenure — only state to agree to this — jump on this bandwagon — T

Tenure is all about making sure you belong to the group (and can bring in enough grants to keep the deans happy) and that the first filter, the hiring process, wasn't faulty.

Maybe if the AGW proponents stopped calling those skeptical of their hypotheses «deniers», and did something about the continued tenure of those who engaged in unscientific practises such as data bending, opaque statistical massaging and weighting, email deletion, undermining the peer review process and subverting journal editor's independence, then the big bad nasty «deniers» might stop using the «Alarmist» tag and highlighting climategate.

By which I mean a British guy asking Kappos open - ended questions about his 10 - month tenure as director, and Kappos doing a fair amount of patting himself on the back for making the PTO a super-terrific more efficient patent processing machine.

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.

The preservation of traditional lands in ultimately inalienable form for the use and enjoyment of future generations is still an important principle of Indigenous land tenure, as recognised by the first and second NIC Principles.136 There has been a strong policy focus over more than thirty years on Indigenous people gaining traditional land, having the right to manage it in accordance with Indigenous tradition, and being able to make decisions about land use in accordance with traditional decision - making processes.

[126] While it is encouraging that the NSW Government is applying the full right to negotiate process without exceptions to the issue of productive mining tenures, concerns remain about the impact on native title parties procedural rights of the Government's use of non-claimant applications.

In addition to presenting arguments about land tenure, the Native Title Report 2005 outlines human rights concerns with the Indigenous Land Tenure Principles, Principle 4 proposes that in order to facilitate the process of granting individual ltenure, the Native Title Report 2005 outlines human rights concerns with the Indigenous Land Tenure Principles, Principle 4 proposes that in order to facilitate the process of granting individual lTenure Principles, Principle 4 proposes that in order to facilitate the process of granting individual leases: