Sentences with phrase «city teachers choose»

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Physics lessons can be taught by qualified engineers, history lessons can be taught by former lawyers and maths teachers can be former City high - fliers who have chosen to change their careers; they are not prevented from teaching in these schools because they do not have a certain teaching qualification.

Also at 11 a.m., Assemblywoman Nily Rozic joins Townsend Harris High School students, alumni, parents, teachers and others at a rally against acting Principal Rosemarie Jahoda and her candidacy in the C - 30 process to choose the next principal, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Mindful of criticism that she has moved to the right politically in her years as speaker, Quinn also mentioned her role in enacting a living wage requirement for businesses receiving city subsidies, in curbing deportation of undocumented immigrants convicted of minor offenses, in protecting a woman's right to choose, and in preventing teacher layoffs.

In New York City, for example, a teacher might choose her current contract and a $ 65,000 salary, or the alternative employment terms with a $ 90,000 salary but with no tenure guarantees.

Operating across eight locations, the award - winning Me & MyCity 6th Grade program includes teacher training and learning resources for 10 lessons, followed by a visit to a miniature city where students work in their chosen profession and learn more about being a consumer and citizen, including banking, voting... and spending their hard - earned salary!

His tenure follows the controversial leadership of former superintendent Cami Anderson, who led a series of unpopular initiatives in quick succession, including a new citywide enrollment plan and lottery that allowed parents to choose any traditional or charter school in the city, closures of underenrolled or poorly performing schools, mass firings of teachers and principals, and a new merit - pay program for teachers.

With our New York City program, many classrooms have peace corners, where students can choose for themselves a time - in, as opposed to a teacher sending them to a time - out.

Most of their teachers choose to work in remote areas because they want little to do, either personally or professionally, with business or the turbulent city - centered new economy.

Microsoft magnate Bill Gates» foundation (link to profile) chose Los Angeles as one of four cities in which to test out its teacher evaluation methods.

The New York City Department of Education has chosen to ignore this factor by forcing principals from 39 schools to hire 41 teachers from what was... Continue reading The New York City DOE Chooses Cash Over Kids

Without standard paid time off, the city is also discriminating against teachers who choose to be parents.

Across the city right now, teachers are choosing how they want to be observed this year: through a pre-announced, formal supervisor visit and three or more shorter, less formal ones, or through at least six informal observations.

She has been nominated as the Arizona Teacher of the Year and has been chosen eight times as a Distinguished Teacher in Lake Havasu City.

Superior teachers of inner - city minority children quit because anyone who chose to teach in those schools was more likely than other teachers to be fired under the new system.

Recent clients include Urban Teachers, The Achievement Network, Teach Plus, Choose to Succeed, City on a Hill, and Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools.

The Chicago Teachers Union said Wednesday that it's not likely to strike before the end of the school year, choosing instead to continue to press state and local lawmakers to provide a financial lifeline to the city's troubled schools.

Vowing to rebuild relations with New York City's teachers and their union, he chose as his chancellor Carmen Fariña, a former teacher and school administrator who had written extensively about the importance of teamwork and collaboration among school stakeholders (Fariña & Kotch, 2008).

The New York City Department of Education has chosen to ignore this factor by forcing principals from 39 schools to hire 41 teachers from what was dubbed the «rubber room,» via Steven Brill's New Yorker essay, but is really called the Absent Teacher Reserve, or ATR.

Coal City Middle School Social Studies Teacher Jim Hitchcock was chosen as the VFW Department of Illinois 18th District Citizenship Educatio...