Sentences with phrase «current tenure of the policy»

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Additionally, supermajorities of California voters support policy changes to elevate teacher quality, including either eliminating teacher tenure or lengthening the time before teachers receive tenure from the current eighteen months to at least four years, taking performance into account when making layoff decisions, and making it easier to let go of underperforming teachers.

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.

I am saddened that my efforts researching and negotiating the work of public education seem meaningless in the face of current policy debates — and that last year's nationwide struggle over teacher tenure or this week's «debates» over teacher evaluation in New York arrive forcefully, demanding immediate reaction rather than initiative from educators.

Former Congressman and current Teach Plus board member George Miller said in that statement, «For poor and minority children, there's a real urgency that the state address inequities of LIFO, tenure, and dismissal policies.

Prior to his current position, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights from June 1997 until January 2000, following his three - and - a-half year tenure as Senior Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights.

The American Prospect's Rachel Cohen interviewed Jesse Rothstein, the former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor and a current public policy and economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who testified during the Vergara trials in defense of California's teacher tenure and seniority statutes.