Sentences with phrase «debate over tenure»

The debate over tenure reform in New Jersey is likely to be back on the front burner next week, as a high - profile bill goes before a key Senate committee with some key questions far from resolved.

Much of the public debate over tenure has focused on whether it is possible to fire tenured teachers who are no longer making the grade.

Not exact matches

Throughout his career, including his 16 - year tenure as president of Burger King, Clayton found himself embroiled in annual debates over merit raises.

, its speech codes, its teacher evaluations conducted sub secreto pontificio, its heated debate over the minutest matters, its hair - splitting fights over teaching loads and research assistants (tenure as benefice!)

In his last address to parliament after 8 years in power, President Kufuor opened a debate over presidential tenure when he suggested that at least a five - year tenure should be suitable for the African situation.

Eight years ago, in his last address to parliament after 8 years in power, President Kufuor opened a debate over presidential tenure when he suggested that at least a five - year tenure should be suitable for the African situation.

It was a soft - spoken smackdown at the first debate between U.S. Senate hopeful Richard Blumenthal and rival Linda McMahon tonight, as the pair faced off over the Democrat's misstatements about his military service and the Republican's tenure running World Wrestling Entertainment.

Clinton and de Blasio, who have a longstanding relationship dating back to the mayor's tenure working at the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development in the 1990s, touched on the charter debate during a broader conversation over education issues, the sources said.

The debate over how to strengthen the Act is due to begin in Congress next month, and it will take months, or perhaps even the entire two - year tenure of this Congress, to reach a series of compromises and draw up a new act.

During his tenure, he oversaw a significant enrollment increase, the implementation of six new academic programs, the acquisition of over $ 3.5 million in grants and donations, the building and refurbishing of key academic spaces, created an office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness, Teaching and Learning Center, and revitalized the Honors Program and Debate Team.

The other thing that's an obvious connection here is thinking about the recent debate over teacher tenure policy which has been in the courts.

But in its swirl of jargon and personal acrimony — a parent at a meeting once asked Ms. Anderson, the white mother of a biracial child, why she did not want the same for Newark's «brown babies» as she did for her own — the fight over her tenure is emblematic of the bitter national debate about how to educate American students for a more competitive world.

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.

In an interview last week, the 32 - year - old Marrocco talked about her path to excellence, a climb marked by a few stepping stones that are often overlooked in debates over teacher evaluation, tenure, and test scores.

Their goal is to help influence the debate now taking place in New Jersey over efforts by Republican Gov. Chris Christie to change the way teachers are evaluated and to overhaul the tenure system.

Race to the Top initiated a long - overdue debate over how to improve teacher quality in the United States and highlighted a number of dysfunctional state practices around teacher training, placement, evaluation, tenure, and dismissal.

on The «Tenure» Debate: Attracting and retaining good teachers or a political maneuver to win over the anti-teacher forces?.

In the past year, a lawsuit challenging state laws on teacher tenure, dismissals and layoffs by seniority has consumed much of the debate over education in California.

Even after years of debate and litigation over teacher evaluations and tenure, California had no official definition of what constituted a bad educator — until now.

Over the past year many states have begun debating tenure reform proposals.

Nevertheless, the data has introduced some new qualms into the debate over teacher quality that has roiled state education circles for the better part of the past three years, culminating in the passage of the new tenure law last summer.

Caleb Stevens of World Resources Insitute said that there's debate among land tenure experts over whether or not perpetual land rights are necessary to get the desired results of protected forests.