Sentences with phrase «benefits of teacher tenure»

Empirical evidence should be the basis for a serious — and unprecedented — conversation among policymakers as well as the general public about the costs and benefits of teacher tenure and the circumstances under which it should be granted and revoked

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The authors concluded that, «Oregon's policymakers and citizens allocated substantial resources to its retirement system and, in return, received little economic benefit in the form of promoting longer teacher tenures.»

Anecdotal data also suggest that, even setting aside the enormous benefit of the job security that accompanies tenure, the fringe benefits of public school teachers compare favorably with those in the private sector.

Statewide tenure laws remain largely intact, as do laws that require a specific set of education - school courses before a teacher can be certified, despite the paucity of evidence that such courses (or certification) yield benefits in the classroom.

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.

While we certainly see the strong benefit of offering job security for teaching - track faculty (and recognize that higher levels of job protections likely attracts more excellent teachers to the university), giving them de facto tenure would eliminate this important lever for department chairs, deans and provosts.

In the few instances when researchers have focused on the issue of teacher tenure specifically, they have generally sought to document the costs and benefits of tenure, make normative arguments about whether tenure should or should not be abolished, or propose specific ways in which tenure policies could be improved.

Tenure reform should balance the benefits of using this protection to attract and retain good teachers with the costs it imposes by making it more difficult to eliminate bad teachers.

A team of ten New York City teachers started exploring teachers» perspectives on current tenure regulations in August 2014, after which they spoke with experts, researched tenure policies and crafted recommendations that will elevate the teaching profession and benefit students.

In spring 2014, the Alaska Legislature passed House Bill 278, which included the following language in Section 52: «No later than June 15, 2015, the Department of Administration shall present to the legislature a written proposal for a salary and benefits schedule for school districts, including an evaluation of, and recommendations for, teacher tenure.»

By 2018 all current teachers who have earned tenure will no longer have this benefit, which offers due process rights in the event of dismissal or demotion — not a guarantee of a lifetime job.

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.

But with teachers confronting the overhaul of evaluations and tenure as well as looming changes in pension benefits, the small but rapidly growing charter school movement — with schools that are publicly financed but privately operated — is pushing to redefine the arc of a teaching career.

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals said that since the state's original 1927 law and until the 2012 change, «Indiana teachers... benefited from enforceable contractual rights when they became tenured.

For years, the institute has been laying the groundwork for radical changes to Missouri's education system, producing reports, testimony, and policy papers purporting to show the benefits of ending teacher tenure and enacting vouchers in the form of «tuition tax credits,» along with other efforts to privatize education and undermine teachers» unions.

You make teachers more accountable (lowering benefits, replacing tenure with «merit pay») and you put students through high - stakes testing to make sure they've learned the exact body of knowledge you want them to have, or, alternatively, how to pass a standardized test.

Parents and teachers must join together to eliminate teacher tenure systems that protect bad teachers and that divert our best teachers away from many of the students who could benefit most from their skills and experience.