Sentences with phrase «changing teacher protections»

«The public wants public schools,» Mulgrew said, adding that he believes reform groups are trying to denigrate traditional public education, partially by changing teacher protections.

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In other words, a lawsuit similar to Vergara's could be a vehicle to implement sweeping change to teacher rules and protections beyond tenure, significantly weakening the power of local unions.

A divided state Board of Regents on Sept. 16 proposed three changes to the state evaluation system aimed at making the process fairer: an appeals process to address aberrations in growth scores, ensuring that privacy protections to bar the release to the public of individual teachers» growth scores will remain in force and the creation of a hardship waiver for school districts who find it difficult to hire outside evaluators.

Union leaders often invoke norms of justice when seeking to ensure that veteran teachers continue to enjoy the same perks and protections they were implicitly promised when they entered the profession a quarter century ago — despite intervening changes in the larger world, in the needs of students, and in management and organizational practice.

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He said the law will improve the ranks of teachers by rewarding the most ambitious and competent while maintaining job protections for current teachers who don't want to change.

I agree that some of the tenure language should be changed to make it easier to dismiss teachers who are not doing their jobs, yet this lawsuit was an attempt to gut teacher union protections without really solving the problems of educational inequities.

According to Zimmer, who supports some of the changes in teacher - protection, Deasy never even discussed the case with the school board.

Survey: Teachers support changes in state job protection laws The majority of public school teachers who participated in a new survey support changes in state teacher job protection laws that were the focus of last year's landmark ruling in Vergara v. CalTeachers support changes in state job protection laws The majority of public school teachers who participated in a new survey support changes in state teacher job protection laws that were the focus of last year's landmark ruling in Vergara v. Calteachers who participated in a new survey support changes in state teacher job protection laws that were the focus of last year's landmark ruling in Vergara v. California.

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While these changes can't match the pensions, union protections, and tenure provisions teachers have at many traditional schools, they mark a significant shift for charters.

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The views of teachers in the survey offer a path to compromise, «a «third way» between reformer calls to throw out all teacher job protections and old - guard calls to preserve virtually all elements of the current system,» Teach Plus, which has called for changing the laws challenged in the Vergara lawsuit, said in its summary of the teacher survey.

While this brief focuses on Act 10's impact on Wisconsin teachers based on the data available, the same forces driving changes in the teaching workforce can also affect the broader public sector.3 Proponents of Act 10 insisted that reducing collective bargaining rights for teachers would improve education by eliminating job protections such as tenure and seniority - based salary increases.

As students and as teachers we sometimes crave that protection; without it we risk changing who we are.

These interventions focused on changes within the school and classroom climate to increase awareness about bullying, increase teacher and parent involvement and supervision, form clear rules and strong social norms against bullying, and provide support and protection for individuals bullied.