Sentences with phrase «abusive teachers»

At 9:30 a.m., public school parents, organized by Families for Excellent Schools, will demand that the NYC Department of Education «release the names of abusive teachers at city public schools and address a systemic culture of violence that puts children in danger,» City Hall steps, Manhattan.

A bill passed the California Legislature days after the Vergara ruling that reduces the time it takes to fire abusive teachers from up to two years to seven months.

She opposes some teacher seniority rules and supports legislation making it easier to fire abusive teachers.

But I can argue that her defense of near - lifetime employment and teacher dismissal policies that keep criminally abusive teachers in classrooms to harm children is morally as well as intellectually indefensible.

Mayor de Blasio and his administration must act now to make sure parents have this safety option by giving public charter schools the chance to grow and by pulling abusive teachers out of district school classrooms.

moving abusive teachers around from school district to school district is so common in the profession that it is called «passing the trash».

Hagman Blames Teachers» Unions for Bill's Failure Diamond Bar AOL Patch: Assemblyman Curt Hagman, R - Chino Hills, expressed disappointment and blamed unions that amendments to a Senate bill aimed at protecting students from abusive teachers did not pass out of the Assembly Education Committee.

Casey would go on the next year to accuse news anchor - turned - teacher quality reform activist Campbell Brown (along with several other reformers) of committing «the equivalent of a blood libel» against teachers for daring to expose the complicity of the AFT's Big Apple local (and that of the national union) in keeping criminally abusive teachers on the city's payroll.

SB1059 would strip abusive teachers of their pensions and health benefits and prevent disciplinary records from being removed from personnel files after any length of time.

(The Advocate, Monday, May 9, 2016 p. 1B) He also commented about «union - created deadlock where only ineffective and possibly abusive teachers would benefit,» pointing to the infamous «rubber rooms» associated with New York public schools — «temporary reassignment centers where union - represented teachers accused of misconduct or incompetency have been sent while they await rulings from independent arbitrators.»

Add in certification rules that keep mid-career professionals with strong math and science skills out of teaching, near - lifetime employment policies and discipline processes that keep laggard and criminally - abusive teachers in the profession, and practices that all but ensure that low - quality teachers are teaching the poorest children, and shoddy teacher training perpetuates the nation's educational caste system.

Dare any reformer mention how tenure protects laggard and criminally - abusive teachers from being sacked from classrooms and you will see NEA and AFT bosses, along with traditionalists in their amen corner, accusing that person of hating teachers and not respecting their hard work.

Through his training with an old beggar named Pai Cheng - Tien (Yuen), he gains confidence, bests the abusive teachers, invents a new style of martial arts, and defeats a wicked clan of fighters dedicated to the eradication of practitioners of Snake - style kung fu — the very same style taught by Cheng - Tien.

An over-the-top, abusive teacher is a part riddled with pitfalls.

«Whiplash» actor J.K. Simmons and director Damien Chazelle offer a behind - the - scenes look into a particularly chilling scene between an abusive teacher (Simmons) and his student (Miles Teller).

In «Whiplash,» Miles Teller plays a jazz drummer who believes his hands must literally bleed if he's to become the next Charlie Parker — a self - flagellating perfectionism reinforced by his abusive teacher (J.K. Simmons), who likes to say that «there are no two words in the English language more harmful than «good job.»»

Klein railed against what he called the three biggest problems contained in the contract and the culture the contract produces: lockstep pay for teachers, regardless of their skills or assignment; lifetime tenure, making it difficult to get rid of incompetent or abusive teachers; and seniority rights that dictate assignments based solely on a teacher's longevity in the system.

As Dropout Nation has detailed over the last year, the enabling of incompetent and criminally - venal cops by state laws and criminal justice bureaucracies parallels the protection of laggard and criminally - abusive teachers by state education agencies and traditional districts.

And I know plenty of teachers — so I assume she does too — who agree with today's focus on removing ineffective teachers from the classroom: they understand that bad / abusive teachers are a HUGE problem, and that the impact they have on children and schools is devastating.