Sentences with phrase «at tenure decisions»

But if principals were taking advantage of their pre-tenure freedom to fire at will, we'd expect to see the lower - value - added teachers leaving schools at much higher rates than their higher - value - added counterparts, and an increase in dismissals at the tenure decision point between the fourth and fifth years.

Not exact matches

But, he added that the speed at which the board made decisions and enforced them was hindered during his tenure.

Rubin's decision to share his story about financial losses at Goldman Sachs where he «weathered the storm» using his magical existential thinking stands in contrast to Citigroup's condition with Rubin as the long - tenured Chair of the Executive Committee.

The sources said Pruitt's decision to put Greenwalt in charge of his international travel, which came just months into his tenure at EPA, fit a pattern of Pruitt assigning the most sensitive responsibilities to his small cadre of aides who had previously worked with him in Oklahoma before he became EPA administrator — aides who sources said were more likely to acquiesce to his demands, even as other EPA staffers objected to Pruitt's spending and travel decisions.

Fuller Seminary decided not to offer tenure to a New Testament professor, J. R. Daniel Kirk, whose view of marriage does not comport with Jesus's view.Although a decision such as this is never made happily or easily, I am grateful for the courage of senior faculty at Fuller Seminary in asserting....

United's offensive deficiencies have exposed Louis van Gaal's decision to offload the likes of Robin van Persie, Chicharito, Danny Welbeck, James Wilson (currently on loan at Brighton), Nani and Angel Di Maria during his tenure.

id like to see him stop with the weirdness that he's been displaying in later years no one can deny what he's achieved for the club in his tenure with us But no one can deny either that some of his decisions have been appalling at some points what's wrong with suggesting that we need three more class players?

Gettleman's decision at no. 2 might be more important than any pick that Reese made for his entire tenure.

It was a particularly perplexing decision considering the stature of the match — indisputably the biggest of Liverpool's season and Klopp's tenure at the club — and also considering the 26 - year - old's fine recent form.

The group which joined Celebrities for Mahama, mentioned on Montie FM Entertainment show «Fontoomfrom» that the decision to endorse candidate Mahama, comes due to the evidence and the rate at which President Mahama has developed the country in the shortest time of his tenure.

the president had on Tuesday urged the National Executive Committee of the party to reverse the decision that granted tenure elongation to party executives of the party at all levels.

The decision of the party to allow congresses followed appeals by President Muhammadu Buhari who had opposed the approval of tenure elongation for party executives at all levels.

Buhari had said at another meeting of NEC in Abuja on March 26 that the NWC's tenure extension decision was illegal and unconstitutional.

The FBI is reportedly working to release to the public several documents at the heart of its decision not to recommend charges against Clinton for her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state and the Justice Department's ultimate decision to follow the FBI's recommendation.

It was learnt that the governors had assured the state chairmen and their officials that their positions were not under threat by the decision not to elongate the tenure of the leaders of the party at all levels.

Looking at the figures, it seems apparent that many teachers who might previously have gotten tenure after three years, saw their decisions delayed.

If you want to work at one of the top - tier PUIs — institutions where research is weighed heavily in the tenure decision — you're better off staying in the lab.

During my 3 - year tenure at Accenture, I developed a set of skills that were key to business success: leading a team, making tough decisions and communicating them, presenting ideas clearly, and making changes even when it meant overcoming resistance.

His decision in 1998 to move from NASA's Ames Research Center to a tenured position in the geology department at Arizona State University is another example of a willingness to take on new challenges.

«The ratings that students give instructors are really important, because they're used to guide higher education decisions related to hiring, promotions and tenure,» says Lillian MacNell, lead author of a paper on the work and a Ph.D. student in sociology at NC State.

«The decision to go with an advanced notice [of proposed rule making] or not was ultimately Steve Johnson's» (the EPA administrator at the end of the Bush tenure), Connaughton says.

Everyone is expected to perform at a high level, but no one endures a single, make - or - break tenure decision.

The day chemist Rebecca Conry's tenure decision came at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), she sat waiting alone at home for the department chair to call.

In a stroke of bad luck, he lost his funding at about the same time the tenure committee reached its decision, which didn't help his job search.

If pressed to point out a key decision and experience that allowed me to obtain tenure at the College of William and Mary, it would be choosing my postdoctoral position at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Third, by relying on the scores given by external observers, the tenure decision would no longer be at the sole discretion of the local principal.

Because a tenure decision involves thousands of future students as well as future colleagues and supervisors at other schools in a district where a teacher might work, it makes no sense to leave the decision in the hands of their current supervisor alone.

Additionally, supermajorities of California voters support policy changes to elevate teacher quality, including either eliminating teacher tenure or lengthening the time before teachers receive tenure from the current eighteen months to at least four years, taking performance into account when making layoff decisions, and making it easier to let go of underperforming teachers.

Maine's school boards are being urged to eliminate seniority clauses from teachers» contracts as the result of a state high - court decision, handed down this summer, that state law does not protect tenured teachers at the expense of nontenured teachers in layoff decisions.

Just two months ago, lawmakers from both parties, at the behest of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, increased the role of test scores in teacher evaluations and tenure decisions.

«On the problem with extending the tenure beyond two years... It's important that while we want teachers to at some point have due process rights in their career, that that judgment be made relatively soon; and that a floundering teacher who is grossly ineffective is not allowed to continue for many years because a year is a long time in the life of a student... having the two - year mark — which means you're making a decision usually within 19 months of the starting point of that teacher — has the interest of... encouraging districts to make that decision in a reasonable time frame so that students aren't exposed to struggling teachers for long than they might need to be....

In March, Governor Cuomo, dismayed at the large percentage of teachers getting high ratings, succeeded in tying teacher evaluations and tenure decisions more closely to the tests.

Tennessee's largest teachers union is taking another swing at statistics being used to make pay and tenure decisions.

This week, The 74's Matt Barnum looks at the national push to improve teacher quality — specifically, the Obama administration's call for states to «evaluate individual teachers and tie those evaluations to pay, tenure, promotion and dismissal decisions.»

I think it's also possible that — having watched a lot of school districts over the years — not having a moment at which you have to make a tenure decision could allow districts to just keep fairly mediocre teachers along, without doing the due diligence of making a decision in the early years that would protect kids from teachers just kind of hanging on.

In fact, at least four states have had tenure reform bills introduced this spring that would bring teacher quality into the tenure / dismissal decision:

According to another poll from last year, even most educators believe that a teacher should serve in the classroom at least five years before an administrator makes a decision about whether or not to grant tenure.

Her tenure at the museum has been a troubled one: according to the New York Times, one particular source of tension between Raicovich and the board was her decision to close the museum on 20 January 2017 to mark the J20 Art Strike, a day of art - institution protest against the inauguration of Donald Trump.

The unanimous decision to extend his tenure by another four years follows a process initiated by IEA Member Countries at their last Ministerial Meeting in November 2017.

Fortunately for my tenure at the firm, he did not seem to have been involved in the hire - back decisions.

Other landmark decisions involving Mr. Minami include: United Pilipinos for Affirmative Action v. California Blue Shield, the first class action employment lawsuit brought by Asian Pacific Americans on behalf of Asian Pacific Americans; Spokane JACL v. Washington State University, a class action on behalf of Asian Pacific Americans to establish an Asian American Studies program at Washington State University; and Nakanishi v. UCLA, a claim for unfair denial of tenure that resulted in the granting of tenure after several hearings and widespread publicity over discrimination in academia.

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