Sentences with phrase «current teacher tenure systems»

We need more teachers who are passionate about closing achievement gaps, but current teacher tenure systems deter «our best and brightest,» writes E4E -...

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The leaders of the state's teachers unions aren't happy with how Gov.Dannel P. Malloydescribed the current tenure system in his State of the State address Wednesday — «the only thing you have to do is show up for four years» — but they say they are willing to work with him on his proposed reform.

Ending tenure without ending the current pension system would create some impossible pressures; teachers nearing certain vesting thresholds, for instance, would have a target on their backs.

Sen. Phil Berger is a longtime proponent of doing away with teacher tenure, saying that the current system does not remove bad teachers from the classroom.

He even backed the highly controversial Vergara lawsuit that charged that the current system of awarding tenure to teachers is unconstitutional.

Opponents of the current K - 12 teacher tenure system in California often say the process is too easy, and that, unlike at the university level, it is no longer a professional benchmark that rewards hard work and success in the classroom.

Our member educators are in agreement that the current tenure system is not working and teachers should not be fired solely based on seniority.

She saw, behind closed doors, what the public can't: the «dance of the lemons,» a term that broadly describes controversial tactics LAUSD utilizes to cope with tenured teachers who can't teach but, under the current system, can not be fired.

Though Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, offered up $ 1.1 billion in new school aid, he attached strings that could kill the deal for allies of the teachers» unions in the Assembly: a much more rigorous teacher evaluation system to replace the current one, new hurdles for teachers on the path to tenure, and an expansion by 100 of the limit on the number of charter schools statewide.

While Indiana's current tenure system hasn't made it impossible for teachers to be fired, the new system will make it easier for all teachers, both new and experienced, to be let go.

The new system also makes it easier for current teachers who have achieved tenure, those considered «established,» to be fired.

This district is to use these data, along with student growth ratings, to inform decisions about teachers» tenure, retention, and pay - for - performance system, in compliance with the state's still current teacher evaluation system.

Michelle Rhee who, as many of you know, is the founder and current CEO of StudentsFirst, as well as former Chancellor of Washington D.C.'s public schools who during her tenure there, enacted a strict, controversial teacher evaluation system (i.e., IMPACT) that has been at the source of different posts here and here, most recently following the «gross» errors in 44 D.C. public school teachers» evaluation scores.