Cohen and Walsh point out that it is state law which
drives tenure policy and which frequently mandates much of the anachronistic step - and - lane pay schedule as well as the restrictions on teacher evaluation.
Not exact matches
A better means of
driving reform would be to reward states and districts based not on unenforceable promises but on specific, concrete steps to overhaul anachronistic
policies like teacher
tenure, now granted in most states as a matter of course after just a couple of years in the classroom.
Just as importantly, eight decades of court rulings —
driven by the courtroom work of civil rights activists and school funding equity advocates — also provides reformers with the legal arguments necessary to challenge
tenure laws and other
policies that impede the constitutional obligation of states to provide children with high - quality education.
These members of the Deformer «advance force» parrot a regressive agenda of union - busting,
tenure - smashing, and teacher - demonizing, paired with an obsessive devotion to standardized testing, «data
driven decision making», charter school expansion, and privatization as the «answers» to the «crisis in public education» — while remaining seemingly oblivious to the fact that it was their
policies that manufactured the crisis they claim to be addressing, and which are paying off so handsomely for the investors who fund their charter schools and pay their generous salaries.
To a significant extent, reforms to state law are being
driven by
policies of the Australian Government, particularly its secure
tenure requirements under the Remote Indigenous Housing Agreement.