Sentences with phrase «bad teachers we fire»

The problem with the approach that Friedman and others advocate is that it assumes we have all these wonderful, high - quality teachers just waiting in the wings to take over the jobs of the bad teachers we fire.

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But many of his proposals — such as toughening up evaluation systems teachers barely agreed to in the first place, firing teachers with bad ratings, tying tenure to evaluations, and increasing the cap on charter schools — are sure to be met with ire from politically powerful state and city teachers union.

But the mixed judgment also upheld an expedited review process that could speed up the firing of bad teachers.

But the poll also found overwhelming support for many of Bloomberg's latest initiatives, including his proposals to make it easier to fire bad apples while offering a $ 20,000 bump in salary for the best teachers and a $ 25,000 bonus to help educators pay off student loans.

Klein also said he had streamlined legal procedures to make it easier to fire teachers and end the «dance of the lemons,» the shuffling of bad teachers from school to school.

But anyone who expects the UFT to accept more rigorous teacher evaluations, or to clear a path for firing bad teachers, simply hasn't been paying attention for the past decade.

Teachers who receive «ineffective» ratings for two years in a row can be fired — the first time teachers have ever been allowed to be fired for bad perfTeachers who receive «ineffective» ratings for two years in a row can be fired — the first time teachers have ever been allowed to be fired for bad perfteachers have ever been allowed to be fired for bad performance.

Cuomo and the teacher unions have been at war over the governor's proposed education - reform package that would revamp the teacher tenure and evaluation programs, make it easier to fire bad and lecherous instructors, and expand charter schools.

In the decades to come, Paymer would remain an ever - present force on screen, appearing in films like In Good Company, Drag Me to Hell, Bad Teacher, and Redbelt, as well as TV shows like Line of Fire and The Good Wife.

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But things go from bad to worse when Campbell crosses the school's toughest and most feared teacher, Ron Strickland (Ice Cube), causing Strickland to be fired.

From talk of one big book franchise to another, «The Hunger Games» sequel «Catching Fire «has now added actor Bruno Gunn («Bad Teacher,» «Oz») and Alan Ritchson («Blue Mountain State «-RRB- to the cast.

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A new policy analysis by the Fordham Institute, Undue Process: Why Bad Teachers in Twenty - Five Diverse Districts Rarely Get Fired, goes beyond anecdote and assumption.

In this telling, valor is awarded to those willing to make «hard» decisions: these people support merit pay, firing bad teachers, holding schools accountable, and closing failing schools.

Akin to Obamacare, it's an idea that seems appealing at first blush (let's recognize our best teachers and fire our worst!)

One consequence is that it's still virtually impossible to fire bad tenured teachers.

Simply paying good teachers more, and firing the bad ones is not enough.

The teens have to combat perceptions among students and teachers at VUHS that Walden is a place where the «bad kids» go, or even, according to one of the most extreme rumors, where they sit around the fire smoking pot.

Mr. Brock was one of several school psychologists who were asked to help children at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, Calif., after a gunman opened fire on Jan. 17, 1989, killing 5 children and wounding 29 other students and one teacher, in what was at the time one of the worst instances of school violence in the nation's history.

Susan Schaeffler, the founder and head of the successful KIPP schools in D.C. (all of them start - ups), once told me she thought she could fix one of the worst regular schools in the city if she had the power — which she has at KIPP — to hire and fire teachers at will.

They would get higher test scores if schools could fire more bad teachers and pay more to good ones.

KARL: It's hard to fire bad teachers.

Guggenheim seems to demand that public schools start firing «bad» teachers so they can get the great results that one of every five charter schools gets.

In the United States, we tend to think that improving education is about improving teachers - recruiting better ones, firing bad ones.

If three years of data is used there is about a 25 percent change that a teacher who is «average» would be identified as significantly worse than average, and, under new evaluation systems, perhaps fired.

The Time article, which features a gavel about to smash an apple on the cover, is headlined, «Rotten Apples: It's nearly impossible to fire a bad teacher; some tech millionaires may have found a way to change that,» and is a look at the history of the case and the wealthy group of tech executives who have helped support it.

Growing concerns over the inadequate achievement of U.S. students have led to proposals to reward good teachers and penalize (or fire) bad ones.

Schools can change the length of the school day, fire bad teachers and spend their money as they wish.

Private schools, unlike the traditional public variety, don't have bloated administrations and a gargantuan bureaucracy to feed and can fire bad teachers.

The main intent of the new laws is to help identify which teachers are doing a good, bad or mediocre job so that those struggling in the classroom can be given extra support or, if their performance doesn't improve, fired.

Six in 10 California voters said teachers should not continue to receive tenure, as it makes firing bad teachers difficult.

The unions don't support bad policies — like those that make it impossible to fire bad teachers, for example — because they think they're good for kids.

Inspired by Vergara, she has identified six children who have agreed to serve as plaintiffs, arguing they «suffered from laws making it too expensive, time - consuming and burdensome to fire bad teachers.»

We can revamp our teacher evaluation systems and fire all of the «bad» teachers in our midst tomorrow but it will not make an appreciable impact on the quality of education for our students.

We all know DC public schools are bad and many teachers need to be fired.

He found «no dispute that there are a significant number of grossly ineffective teachers currently active in California classrooms» and that the legal system protects them by making it all but impossible for districts to fire even the worst teachers.

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!

The article summarizes, or I should say celebrates, the Vergara v. California trial, the case in which nine public school students (emphasis added as these were not necessarily these students» ideas) challenged California's «ironclad tenure system,» arguing that their rights to a good education had been violated by state - level job protections making it «too difficult» to fire bad teachers.

Warped opinions about our nation's public schools include: they are inferior to private schools; they are among the worst in the world in math and science; teachers should be fired if their students don't score at the national average, and on and on.

Due process prevents good teachers from being fired for bad reasons, and it protects teachers» professional judgment and academic freedom.»

While NPR's Westervelt criticizes Kane for making a «pretty scathing and strong indictment» of America's education system, what Kane does not understand writ large is that the very solutions for which Kane advocates — using VAM - based measurements to fire and hire bad and good teachers, respectively — are really no different than the «stronger accountability» measures upon which we have relied for the last 40 years (since the minimum competency testing era) within this alleged «echo chamber.»

Anyhow, as summarized (and celebrated) in this piece, the Vergara judge found that (1) «[t] enure and other job protections make it harder to fire teachers and therefore effectively work to keep bad ones in the classroom,» and (2) «[b] ad teachers «substantially undermine» a child's education.»

This has always been the point that drives me nuts about «firing bad teachers.»

In its paper version next week, TIME Magazine will release an article titled «Rotten Apples: It's Nearly Impossible to Fire a Bad Teacher.»

Is the idea to let the public know how bad some teachers are (at least as their students» test scores seem to show) so maybe they will fight for teachers to be more easily fired?

Jane Arnold Lincove, a professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the study's lead author, says that the study suggests that the prospects for those veteran teachers fired after Katrina only got worse over the years, as more schools went charter and those schools embraced younger teachers recruited through programs like Teach for America.

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.

He talked tough about closing failing schools and firing bad teachers.

Invariably, what is labeled «teacher bashing» is nothing more than anger at the teachers unions for blocking every type of education reform imaginable, as well as the unions doing their level best to block school districts» attempts to fire bad and even criminal teachers.