Sentences with phrase «by teacher layoffs»

District administrators have often complained that the substitute pay requirements tend to undermine the savings that are generated by teacher layoffs and thus, requires more layoffs than would otherwise be needed.

Due to their relatively young teaching staffs, these three campuses were particularly hard - hit by teacher layoffs, in some cases losing up to two - thirds of their teachers.

The bill was introduced by Sen. Ruben Diaz and Assemblyman Jonathan Bing — who represent two of the districts that would be hardest hit by teacher layoffs.

Reed vs. California was filed in February 2010 and essentially argued that low - performing schools in high - poverty areas — already difficult to staff — were so unfairly impacted by teacher layoffs that it compromised the constitutional rights of students to be educated.

Not exact matches

For our public schools beleaguered by budget cuts, teacher layoffs, scandals, it seems like another nail in the coffin.

The 2.5 million - member AFL - CIO has backed Gregg Lundahl, a UFT member primarying Democratic Assemblyman Jonathan Bing, who has angered the teachers union by introducing a bill that would give principals authority over teacher layoffs.

«If Albany moves forward with the school aid cuts proposed by the Governor, New York City may have to lay off 6,400 teachers — the first teacher layoffs in New York City since the 1970s,» the letter reads.

The proposal came shortly after the State Senate passed a bill backed by Bloomberg that would reverse a rule protecting veteran city teachers from layoffs regardless of their effectiveness.

By an overwhelming majority, (85 - 12), voters support the repeal of the «last in, first out» rule governing teacher layoffs, agreeing that the decision governing who loses a teaching job should be based on performance and not seniority.

City Hall says Cuomo's plan would simply expedite an already - underway process by the state Education Department to create guidelines for evaluating teachers but leave intact the legal language mandating layoffs be implemented based on seniority.

Almost the entire Queens political delegation joined close to 1,000 chanting UFT members on the steps of Queens Borough Hall for an April 14 rally against budget cuts and teacher layoffs organized by the UFT's Queens office.

The lawsuits argue that teachers» due - process rights and layoff by seniority contravene the state's constitutional guarantee of a «sound, basic» education for all students.

He was frustrated by the threats of teacher layoffs and the damage done to a well - rounded curriculum by Draconian budget cuts.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's accusation this morning that school districts and their allies are playing politics with kids by using the threat of teacher layoffs to try to scare lawmakers — and the public — into opposing the governor's education funding cuts hasn't stopped them from doing... well... just that.

Cuomo has argued his $ 1.5 billion cut can be weathered by local school districts without teacher layoffs, and said school funding is sometimes absorbed by the «education bureaucracy.»

But now AFL - CIO President Denis Hughes is suggesting that the administration might actually cross that bridge if it supports a bill proposed by Sen. John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican, that would do away with the «last in, first out» rule of public school teacher layoffs.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Finance Chair Domenic Recchia Jr. said in a statement that they have «grave concerns» about teacher layoffs and would recommend alternative cuts to those proposed by the mayor.

Meanwhile, the Independent Budget Office released its own rebuttal as Walcott spoke, publishing a new analysis that argues the mayor's plan over-states the need for teacher layoffs by more than 1,600 positions.

Earlier this week, the New York State United Teachers union refused a request by Democratic Assemblyman Sam Hoyt of Buffalo to consider voluntarily postponing their raises and automatic step increases in pay this year to avoid layoffs and save $ 1 billion.

Lately Cuomo has been lucky as well as good: The full - court press by Mike Bloomberg to tear up teacher - layoff rules has pushed a traditional adversary, the city's teachers union, into Cuomo's corner.

Manhattan Institute senior fellow Stephen Eide in a new study finds that a flat rent of $ 2,400 per student, as recommended by the Independent Budget Office, would have resulted in 71 % of charters running deficits and potentially 577 teacher layoffs in 2011.

Launched on May 22, the 30 - second TV spot paints a bleak picture of city public schools with «class sizes up, after - school programs gone» and «great teachers threatened by layoffs.»

Speaking at the last public hearing before the City Council and City Hall finalize next year's budget by the June 30 deadline, Mulgrew said the UFT has repeatedly brought ideas to the table on how to close the city's projected budget gap without teacher layoffs, such as cutting back on outside contractors at the Department of Education or using a portion of the city's rainy - day fund.

Earlier in the hearing, Chancellor Dennis Walcott confirmed that next year's DOE preliminary budget, which will go up by $ 183 million or about 1 percent, does not include any teacher layoffs.

Teachers and parents in Jackson Heights voiced their concerns over teacher layoffs at a town hall meeting hosted by Councilman Danny Dromm (D - Jackson Heights) and United Federation of Teachers Queens District 30 Representative Barbara Mylite on Monday.

The mayor's budget proposal must be approved by the City Council, and some Council members have been vocal in opposing the teacher layoffs.

School districts faced with declining enrollments could avoid layoffs by using a popular Canadian program that allows teachers to defer part of their annual salaries to fund a year off with pay.

Even if Rhee was objectively justified in removing over two hundred teachers, her actions reinforced the fears of many teachers that linking teacher evaluations to student performance will result in wholesale layoffs that are based on scant data viewed by many as suspect.

The authors next look at what would happen if the existing seniority - driven system of layoffs were replaced by an effectiveness - based layoff policy, in which teachers are ranked according to their value - added scores and districts lay off their least effective teachers.

Newly available data on «reduction - in - force» (RIF) notices received by teachers in Washington State shed light on the consequences of existing layoff policies for student achievement as well as the consequences of adopting alternatives.

A new study by Dan Goldhaber and Roddy Theobald from the University of Washington looks at the characteristics of teachers who were targeted for layoffs in Washington state, and at the impact of LIFO provisions on student achievement.

To get a more concrete sense of the extent to which various factors play into the targeting of teachers for layoffs, we ran simulations based on the effects calculated by our statistical model.

Districts filled 1,688 open positions by either recalling teachers who had been served layoff notices earlier in the year or by hiring younger educators who commanded smaller salaries.

A bit more than a year ago a California Superior Court, ruling in Vergara v. California, overturned California statutes guaranteeing due process protections for K - 12 teachers with more than two years experience (so - called «teacher tenure») and layoff by seniority.

A major class - action settlement that gives LAUSD teachers layoff protection at several dozen schools in high - poverty areas has been invalidated by the California 2nd District Court of Appeal.

View key facts and statistics from the Vergara v. California trial, including information about Plaintiffs» witnesses, the long - term impact of ineffective teachers and the harm caused by California's permanent employment, dismissal and «last - in, first - out» layoff laws.

According to the Court, the laws in question — laws that govern teacher tenure, dismissal, and layoffs — impose substantial harm on California's students by forcing administrators to push passionate, inspiring teachers out of the school system and keep grossly ineffective teachers in front of students year after year.

The parties in a 4 - year - old lawsuit challenging mass layoffs of teachers at low - income middle schools in Los Angeles Unified announced a settlement Tuesday that an attorney called a potential model for creating a stable work force in schools beset by teacher churn.

When filed by attorneys on behalf of students at three Los Angeles Unified middle schools in 2010, the lawsuit challenged the state law mandating teacher layoffs based on seniority.

Moreover, the two premises represent a tautology — student test score growth is the most important measure, and we have to choose other teacher evaluation measures based on their correlation with student test score growth because student test score growth is the most important measure... This point, by the way, has already been made about the Gates study, as well as about seniority - based layoffs and about test - based policies in general.

He argued that the union's seniority system for layoffs meant the neediest children got the worst teachers, as measured by his earlier «value - added» analysis of student test scores.

By my best estimate, under 10 percent of New York City's teachers participated in any kind of protest or public action over last year's threatened teacher layoffs.

The layoffs announced Monday by Chicago Public Schools — 62 workers, 17 of them teachers — were far milder than feared earlier in the school year, but the district's plan to end its longstanding practice of picking up pension costs for teachers led to a fresh strike threat from the Chicago Teacherteachers — were far milder than feared earlier in the school year, but the district's plan to end its longstanding practice of picking up pension costs for teachers led to a fresh strike threat from the Chicago Teacherteachers led to a fresh strike threat from the Chicago TeachersTeachers Union.

Melvoin worked on the ACLU's Reed v. California lawsuit, which challenged LA Unified's seniority - based teacher layoff policies, by helping recruit former students and co-workers from Markham to join the lawsuit.

In a subsequent post on its website, the union went bonkers, claiming, «Corporate millionaires and special interests have mounted an all - out assault on educators by attempting to do away with laws protecting teachers from arbitrary firings, providing transparency in layoff decisions and supporting due process rights.»

But thanks to CTU and other unions, these layoffs are determined by seniority, not teacher quality.

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.

Teacher layoffs in New Jersey are governed by a rigid quality - blind mandate, often referred to as the «last in, first out» policy, which forces schools to fire teachers based on district seniority alone.

Within each those categories, the layoffs would then be based on seniority, but by the time it reached into teachers with «effective» ratings, only about a third of them would be affected.

In a survey this year by the New Teacher Project, a nonprofit teacher - recruiting organization, three - quarters of teachers said layoffs should be based on more than just senTeacher Project, a nonprofit teacher - recruiting organization, three - quarters of teachers said layoffs should be based on more than just senteacher - recruiting organization, three - quarters of teachers said layoffs should be based on more than just seniority.