Sentences with phrase «change tenure laws»

Christie says one way to reduce the gap would be to change tenure laws and other policies to make it easier keep the best teachers and oust the worst ones.

One option is to change tenure laws and due - process procedures.

Not exact matches

These reforms represent a sea change in a borough where County Leader after County Leader has been forced to abruptly end their tenures due to challenges with the law.

After last week's Vergara v. California ruling, New York's teachers unions and education reform groups are preparing to battle over expected legal action seeking to change the state's tenure laws.

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.

«It's more about what's missing,» Weisberg said when asked what he would like changed about New York's tenure laws.

A crusading local superintendent's effort to change his district's teacher recruitment and retention practices can be brought to a halt by the state's seniority law, tenure law, and collective - bargaining statutes.

In the wake of a crushing defeat for a landmark challenge to California's teacher tenure laws, the battle for change has shifted from the courts to the state Legislature.

ALBANY, N.Y. March 31, 2015 — New York State United Teachers today said changes to the teacher evaluation and tenure laws contained in the state budget are a disgrace.

Will MD consider changes to its charter law, tenure, and more?

Speaking to a downtown meeting of California newspaper publishers, the mayor said he would lobby for changes in state law that would alter the rules for evaluating teachers and for granting tenure to teachers.

The same law will also change Maryland's tenure system so that it takes teachers three years, rather than two, to acquire tenure.

Changing state law to allow performance and other factors to be considered in hiring, tenure and layoff decisions.

Even if tenure laws where changed, school systems do not have a handle on the complexity needed in evaluating the relative worthiness of teachers.

But, even so, he said there are a host of initiatives coming down on schools with changes in tenure laws, new accountability measures and strained state funding.

Given the substantive way this law changes how Utah teachers are evaluated and dismissed, I was astonished to see a recent commentary («This teacher / legislator says it's time to end tenure,» June 22), penned by a legislator, speaking about the need to eliminate tenure in Utah.

That letter was in response to one from the governor's office asking what changes should be made to the evaluation and tenure laws.

The Vergara decision, striking down tenure and dismissal laws in California as depriving the state's most vulnerable students equal access to a quality education, was widely seen as a blow to the teachers union and has moved public opinion toward agreeing with change.

CT test scores: Math achievement up slightly, English down a bit courant.com/education/hc-s… Changes to teacher tenure law on hold in Sacramento.

The regulations adopted by the New York State Board of Regents based on the 2010 law changing how the evaluations must work includings a line that says the new evaluations must be «a significant factor in employment decisions such as promotion, retention, tenure determinations, termination, and supplemental compensation,» as well as how teacher and principal development is approached.

Governor Pat McCrory says his staff will consider making changes to a new law that offers raises to top teachers who give up tenure rights.

This multi-method approach aims to contextualize the quantitative analysis by offering insight into how school administrators frame legislated changes to the tenure eligibility process and thus mediate teacher perception and behavior in reaction to the law change.

While it is true that the bill includes significant changes to Connecticut's teacher tenure and evaluation laws, there are still many people — including many legislators — who apparently don't know or don't understand the ramifications of some of the other incredible policy changes that have been packed deep into Malloy's bill.

Villaraigosa's support for a legal challenge to state tenure laws and his accusation that teacher unions blocked change while he was mayor, made the former Los Angeles union organizer a pariah to his old union, and to the statewide CTA, years ago.

The school board could require that teachers be endorsed by an evaluator before receiving tenure without changing state law.

Starting in 2009, many states began to change their teacher tenure laws.

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.

Other states also have debated or changed their laws regarding the number of years a teacher works before being eligible for tenure, including Ohio, Maryland, and Delaware.

Pechthalt, though, does not think the tenure law needs to be changed, and believes changing it would not solve the underlying issue of how tenure is assessed.

TRENTON — The first major change toNew Jersey's tenure law in a century, but one that leaves intact the practice of laying off teachers based on seniority, won unanimous backing today of a Senate committee.

«There has been a lot of concern about the effects of the new evaluation procedures and changes in the tenure law: Would lots of teachers get fired?»

The proposed change, extending the probationary period from two to three years, would align California with the vast majority of teacher tenure laws throughout the country, which award tenure after three to five years of teaching.

The group has advocated for the end of teacher seniority and changes to tenure laws, and now has begun funding programs in underperforming districts in New Jersey.

She is a tenured professor at the Vermont Law School, an affiliate professor at University of Alaska Fairbanks and University of Washington as well as a member of the Polar Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences and of the Science Steering Committee of SEARCH (Study of Environmental Arctic Change).

Mackinac's director of labor policy is Vincent Vernuccio, who chairs a committee of the labor task force of the Bradley - supported American Legislative Exchange Council and previously has worked at the Bradley - supported Capital Research Center and Bradley - supported Competitive Enterprise Institute... MCLF spent much of last year helping to defend the new right - to - work law, in policy and legal arguments, as well as in the larger public discourse in the state and nationally... MCLF is working with the Bradley - supported National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation on this and several other legal matters surrounding implementation of right to work in Michigan... On education, among other things, Mackinac is analyzing mroe [sic] than 200 collective - bargaining agreements (CBAs) in the state, covering some 75 % of the state's public - school students, to see if and if so, how, they are adhering to the teacher - tenure and - evaluation policy changes.

This change in approach has provided for the creating of «space» within some national land law systems for local customary tenure arrangements to continue to function.