Sentences with phrase «city teachers»

Yet it seems the amount of city teachers who have faced termination charges double.

The lag in pay is also costing city teachers in pension benefits.

More than 92 % of city teachers earned an effective rating or higher that year.

Many city teachers found the tests too long, badly designed and developmentally inappropriate.

One can only imagine how many inner - city teachers choose to live outside the communities where they teach to access better public schools for their own kids.

Three - quarters of city teachers are white, while the vast majority of students are not.

Panepinto confirmed then that four staffers had left his Senate payroll since the end of December, including Daniel Corum, a former employee of the New York City teachers union who worked on the senator's 2014 campaign before joining his staff in 2015.

New York City teacher union President Michael Mulgrew said in a statement the evaluations were «a strategy designed only to raise test scores.»

Andrea Flinders, president of the Kansas City teachers union, can list the school superintendents she has known over the past decade.

Each quarter, the Kansas City Teacher Residency takes time to highlight one of its school partners that exemplifies one of our core values.

«A New Way to Pay: Reimagining Teacher Compensation,» penned by 16 New York City teachers on E4E's Pay Structure Policy team, suggests that a different compensation structure can elevate the teaching profession.

The graph below comes from apaper by Josh McGee and Marcus Winters and shows the percentage of New York City teachers who stay in the classroom over the years and their corresponding pension wealth.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top education aide took his boss's message on the road Thursday night for a speaking event with city teachers.

As for city teachers, what are the chances that Bloomberg gets what he wants with respect to both the last in, first out rule and control over pension negotiations?

Liberals who taunt inner city teachers for perpetuating «the bigotry of low expectations» by not trying hard enough must recognize the extreme stress of teaching in those schools.

I used the same methodology to calculate the historical retention rates for New York City teachers from 95 years ago.

Visit the blog where New York City teachers take on local and national issues: Edwize, the offering of Gotham's teachers union, the United Federation of Teachers.

Friction with the Sacramento City Teachers Association started early, during tense negotiations in response to state - forced budget cuts, over higher class sizes, furlough days, pay cuts and hundreds of preliminary layoff notices.

The national organization Educators 4 Excellence (E4E) is expected to announce today that it has joined forces with a fledgling group of Twin Cities teachers who want a bigger voice in education policy and has appointed one of the local group's founders, Madaline Edison, the new chapter's first executive director.

Educators 4 Excellence, which counts about 7,000 city teachers as members, released a report Monday that calls for the voluntary summer training along with other changes to teacher support and evaluation, testing, and communication with parents.

Toll said she briefed Elm City teachers on the possibility of opening two new Greenfield schools.

In December 2011, the Sacramento City Teachers Union sued the school district over the policy.

In December 2011, we sent an open online survey to New York City teachers about our initial ideas that received more than 200 responses.

«We have a long history with Hillary,» said city teachers union President Michael Mulgrew.

The unions are willing to hold poor families hostage to a failed system even while a majority of Jersey City teachers and their union president send their own children to private schools.

Vision, hard work and self - sacrifice by a group of dedicated New York City teachers led to the founding of the UFT more than 50 years ago.

New York's city and state pension funds lost a combined $ 102 billion in 2009, including city teachers» retirement system, which lost $ 11 billion; the city's police pension fund, which lost $ 4 billion; and the firefighters» fund, which lost $ 2 billion.

At 2:30 p.m., Families for Excellent Schools and New York City teachers hold a «Teachers for Equality» press conference on the City Hall steps, followed by 3:30 p.m. rally at Foley Square, Manhattan.

McIntrye says the next teachers contract should benefit students, providing a better and sound education, while supporting city teachers.

Buffalo's school board is setting the ground rules for what it wants from negotiations with the union representing city teachers.

Although new state tests will be rolled out this spring based on demanding Common Core national standards, almost 8 out of 10 New York City teachers surveyed said the city's Department of Education has yet to address the new learning benchmarks, including failing to provide any curriculum or other instructional materials keyed to the new standards.

Only then will we see substantive engagement, and not the kinds of rushed reactions I've seen recently from New York City teachers over the current teacher - evaluation debates.

This means that even if a New York City teacher stays in teaching until her fifth year but leaves before year 10, she forfeits any rights to a pension benefit.

In February 2012, the New York Times took the unusual step of publishing performance ratings for nearly 18,000 New York City teachers based on their students» test - score gains, commonly called value - added (VA) measures.

Thousands of New York City teachers called on Mayor de Blasio to expand charter schools to meet the growing demand.

Governor Cuomo's top education advisor answered questions from a panel of teacher moderators and 100 New York City teachers at E4E's event, where 82 percent of...

New York City teachers recently balked at a proposal to include student test data in evaluations, costing the city at least $ 250 million in state funding.

And a 2004 study by the Fordham Institute showed that the percentage of big city teachers who put their own kids in private school was even greater.

Park City teachers earn prestigious title Three achieve National Board Certification after long application process

Claypool's comments in an interview at the district's Loop headquarters came as the Illinois Senate approved a measure that provided for a one - time, roughly $ 200 million state contribution toward city teacher pensions while authorizing the city's school board to levy a property tax to pay for a portion of teacher pensions.

New York City teachers today do not remain in the profession as long as they did 95 years ago.

ALBANY — Mayor Bloomberg's drive to end «last in / first out» protections for underachieving city teachers got a big boost in the state Senate last night with the introduction of a measure to end the union - backed practice, The Post has learned.

The original New York City Teacher Fund was established in 1905, and after becoming insolvent and declaring bankruptcy, was re-organized and replaced by the Teachers» Retirement System of the City of New York.

As in D.C., a lot of New York City teachers leave in their first few years and departures fall gradually from there.

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.

The New York City teacher salary schedule has weird kinks at years 10, 13, 15, 18, 20, and 22.

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.

United Federation of Teachers chief Mike Mulgrew reportedly is crowing that almost 97 percent of city teachers rated «effective» or «highly effective» this year.