Sentences with phrase «as tenure rules»

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During his tenure as Chief of OMI, Mr. Martinez oversaw efforts to remove dormant shell companies from the market, support an enforcement sweep of violations of Regulation M Rule 105, and identify broker - dealers not in compliance with their Bank Secrecy Act obligations.

If events take a turn for the worse, as in the case of Valeant, executives can ride off with little fear of losing the large compensation they received during their tenure as clawback rules are rarely enforced.

In the six years that Mahama ruled Ghana, first as an emergency President following the death in 2010 of his principal, H.E President John Evans Atta - Mills, and winning the election in 2012 to begin his first tenure, Ghana, has experienced a great infrastructural turnaround in all facets of the country's economy including a complete overhaul of the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange, now famously called Ghana's Dubai, which is the first of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa.

Getting rid of Cox would be difficult for his detractors, as there is no mechanism in the party's rules for ousting a chairman in the middle of his tenure.

A federal judge ruled that a conservative group can not get State Department records about Clinton's use of a private server during her tenure as Secretary of State because those documents don't show evidence of government «malfeasance.»

Education reform groups like StudentsFirstNY and the New Teacher Project say a lawsuit against New York State inspired by the Vergara case could change local tenure laws and present a long - awaited opportunity to legally assess long - term sticking points with the unions, such as merit pay and seniority rules.

A brief stint teaching troubled students at schools in Brooklyn and on Rikers Island convinced Mitchell of the need for strong schools — he advocates longer school days and tougher tenure rules — as well as more jobs and after - school options for youth.

As a rule, appointments off the tenure track cost universities a lot less in salary and benefits than do those within tenured ranks.

Multiple national level influences, such as rule of law, environmental governance, land tenure or policy are potentially influencing PADDD and further national level studies are needed to better understand these mechanics.

Governors as diverse as George Pataki of New York, Roy Barnes of Georgia, and Gray Davis of California have led the push to strengthen certification requirements, to design innovative recruitment incentives, and even, at least in Barnes» case, to loosen tenure rules.

First, the argument for eliminating tenure: As Judge Rolf M. Treu of Los Angeles Superior Court ruled on Tuesday, any benefit that tenure provides to teachers is far outweighed by its costs to children and society by keeping grossly ineffective instructors in the classroom.

Of course, this requires union leaders who don't see today's rules on tenure and seniority as labor's raison d'être.

Fordham's Mike Petrilli and AEI's Mike McShane discuss the spread of legal challenges to state laws governing teacher tenure, dismissal, and seniority in the wake of the Vergara v. California ruling, in which a court struck down California's laws governing teacher employment as unconstitutional.

As the education world continues to reverberate from the Vegera vs. California teacher tenure ruling, Eric Westervelt at NPR reports that some teachers in California are recognizing that tenure needs to be reformed, but they want to fix it, not nix it.

Just as importantly, eight decades of court rulings — driven by the courtroom work of civil rights activists and school funding equity advocates — also provides reformers with the legal arguments necessary to challenge tenure laws and other policies that impede the constitutional obligation of states to provide children with high - quality education.

Louisiana, Oklahoma and New York also approved bills modifying their tenure and evaluation rules in the last week, just in time to meet Tuesday's application deadline for Round 2 of the competition, known as Race to the Top.

Represented by Los Angeles law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, the plaintiffs allege teacher protections such as tenure, seniority rules in layoffs and other teacher dismissal statutes disparately keep ineffective teachers in the classroom in violation of the state constitution's equal protection clause.

Given that defined - benefit pensions (along with near - free healthcare benefits, near - lifetime employment rules in the form of tenure, and seniority - and degree - based pay scales) have been proven to be ineffective in either spurring improvements in student achievement, are a disincentive in rewarding high - quality work by teachers (who get the same levels of compensation as laggard colleagues), and actually serve as a disincentive to luring math and science collegians into teaching, it is high time to scrap this and other aspects of traditional teacher compensation.

As you would expect, the suit demands that New York State's tenure, teacher dismissal, and reverse - seniority layoff rules be struck down because they violate the Empire State constitution's provision that all kids are provided sound basic education.

The California Supreme Court's decision on whether to take up Vergara v. California, a landmark ruling that challenged teacher tenure and declared some school employment laws unconstitutional, could come as early as this afternoon.

Under his tenure, Raymond devised what he described as «work around» programs, ways to circumvent the rules and get ineffective teachers out of the classroom.

What also has not helped, she said, has been the push in recent years, as evidenced by the Vergara v. California ruling, to make it more difficult for teachers to get tenure, and making it easier to fire them, along with a national drive to link teacher evaluations to student test scores.

The plaintiffs are challenging the state's tenure and layoff rules as well as dismissal procedures they say make it too costly and difficult to fire teachers for cause.

In the Vergara case, bankrolled by Silicon Valley elites, a state judge effectively invalidated California's teacher tenure rule as violating the civil rights of poor students, who can not have bad teachers jettisoned from their classrooms.

As states change their teacher tenure rules, they must take care not to revoke rights they have previously granted.

Changes to tenure rules are legally acceptable, as long as the state honors the rights granted to tenured teachers before the legislation changed.

As the Christie administration's new regulations for teacher evaluation near a critical juncture, the prime author of the landmark tenure reform law behind the proposed rules said the administration may be moving too aggressively in some places.

I really am interested in how a former undersecretary of education has come to the point that he is so determined to attack teacher tenure, teacher unions and «restrictive work rules» for teachers — especially during a time when public schools have been systematically defunded, forced to jump through hoops (Race to the Top) in order to get what remains of federal funding for education, like some kind of bizarre Hunger Games ritual for kids and teachers, and as curriculums have been narrowed to the point where only middle class and wealthier communities have schools that offer subjects like music, art, and physical education — much less recess time, school nurses or psychologists, or guidance counselors.

They're a central feature of Obama's efforts to address climate change, but they are also set to become the subject of a massive lobbying war between industry and environmental groups as the administration deliberates over the final rule — a process that could take up much of the rest of the president's tenure in office.

Walter ruled the 2011 study leave complaint was timely, and could be heard as part of McCue's claim that her tenure application was discriminatorily denied.

Complied with all regulatory, environmental, and safety rules and standards, as well as company policies throughout tenure

[A] ll indigenous communities have, and uphold, a complete code of rules of various kinds which are applicable to the tenure and conservation of land as an important factor in the production process, the foundations of family life and the territorial basis for the existence of peoples as such.