Not exact matches
Other issues on Carranza's agenda will be what to do about
dozens of failing schools in New York City, the debate over testing, the
question of how to attract the best
teachers and what
teachers are lacking in their current contracts.
Fielding
questions from UFT president Michael Mulgrew, vice president, Karen Alford, and a half -
dozen teachers, the candidates took turns touting their education experience and criticizing Mayor Bloomberg, who is profoundly unpopular with the union.
And the topics covered in those pages extend far beyond bread - and - butter
questions of salary and benefits; there are
dozens of clauses covering a district's ability to evaluate, transfer, terminate, and manage the workload of
teachers, all having potentially serious effects on the management of schools and student achievement.
In the research by the pair,
teachers were given a
dozen hypothetical multiple - choice
questions where they were asked for help by students,
teachers, and administrators.
The Louisiana legislature in 2008 gave
teachers in that state's public schools the legal right to raise
questions about evolution — and a
dozen or more states have K - 12 science standards that pussyfoot around the topic.
The
dozen educators who stood trial, including five
teachers and a principal, were indicted in 2013 after years of
questions about how Atlanta students had substantially improved their scores on the Criterion - Referenced Competency Test, a standardized examination given throughout Georgia.