Sentences with phrase «actually fire a teacher»

Because in New York State, it's damn near impossible to actually fire a teacher.

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Many of those teachers of whom you speak are not fired, but are kept on and PAID to do nothing, costing the State of NY taxpayers millions of dollars that could be better spent elsewhere or actually SAVED!!

But it gets worse: now the CA legislature has passed a new bill, AB 375, as a guise for facilitating the firing of abusive teachers... but it actually makes it HARDER to do so!

While some have regularly portrayed evaluation as a tool for firing bad teachers, evaluation is actually a starting point for keeping more teachers in our classrooms and making them better.

We need to allow principals to actually act like bosses — hiring, training and, when needed, firing their own staffs, and we need teachers to be treated like professionals: given feedback on performance, training when needed, and rewards for excellence.

And it is not acceptable that the major emphasis of educational reform is on bubbling in Scantron test booklets, the results of which will be used to rank and sort schools and teachers, so that those at the bottom can be fired or closed — not so that we will invest the resources needed actually to provide good education in these schools.

Saying that firings are a function of LIFO is implying that seniority actually buys you leeway in being incompetent, ie that younger teachers with cause will be focused on before older teachers with equal cause.

So instead of creating quality schools in every neighborhood, what CPS has done is created this two - tier system and actually is closing down, as you said, neighborhood schools under Renaissance 2010 and replacing them with charter schools and a privatized education system, firing or laying off, I should say, certified teachers, dismantling locally elected school councils, and creating a market of public education in Chicago, turning schools over to private turnaround operators.

It was the will of the lawmakers that the firing of the teachers with the lowest VAMs — regardless of whether the metric reflected actually effectiveness — would make schools more like corporations, so practitioners would have to accept it.

Replacing them with even mediocre teachers — or actually just firing them without hiring anyone new, as Andrew Biggs has proposed — would help tens of thousands of California students.

The process of transition at Cohen also came under fire, with extensive questioning about how much job security high - performing teachers at Cohen actually have.

After floating a raft of names — from former rival and now designated Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Dr. Ben Carson to New York City charter magnate Eva Moskowitz to former Washington D.C. School Chancellor and Patron Saint of Firing Teachers Michelle Rhee to actually qualified school choice advocate and Hoover Institute Fellow Dr. Williamson Evers — Donald Trump has settled upon Michigan billionaire and school privatization zealot Betsy DeVos as his nominee for Secretary of Education.

Despite an ongoing teacher shortage, this doesn't seem to bother Dr. Joseph and his team, who were actually caught celebrating the firing of these literacy experts after our board meeting.