Sentences with phrase «around teacher seniority»

Layoffs might be one strategy for superintendents and other school leaders looking to work around teacher seniority.

Not exact matches

High - seniority teachers will bump low - seniority teachers all around the district.

In a historic ruling yesterday, a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge declared California's laws around teacher tenure, seniority and related policies to be unconstitutional.

Tuck, who supported the lawsuit and was heavily opposed by the teachers» unions, said he still believes the state needs «more rational policies around tenure and seniority - based layoffs,» but those would not be his first priorities were he to win.

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.

If there was no teacher seniority, energetic new teachers would work around the clock for two years before burning out and moving out, being replaced by another young recruit.

Even as New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Michelle Rhee and others around the nation are arguing for experienced teachers to be laid off regardless of seniority, every single study shows teaching experience matters.

In Los Angeles, seniority rules forced principals to fire teachers who had been brought in to turn around schools — and left them relying on a succession of substitutes.