Sentences with phrase «eliminate teacher tenure systems»

Parents and teachers must join together to eliminate teacher tenure systems that protect bad teachers and that divert our best teachers away from many of the students who could benefit most from their skills and experience.

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Requiring that college students have higher grade point averages in order to become teachers, eliminating teacher tenure and linking a teacher's evaluation and their job status to statistical changes in Connecticut's standardized tests is not Education Reform — nor are the expanding efforts to «privatize» our Constitutionally mandated public education system.

Streamlining steps needed to complete evaluations with steps needed to secure tenure in order to eliminate redundant work on the part of both teachers and administrators, and align feedback and support across both systems.

Meanwhile, in many districts, working conditions are changing: Tenure is being eliminated, more demanding evaluation systems are in place, and teachers work a longer school day to address student needs.

The governor who proposed doing away with tenure (the very system that ensures that public school teachers have due process) and who actually proposed eliminating the right for some public school teachers to collectively bargain, is now claiming that he «firmly believes» in the very rights he proposed taking away.

Malloy's proposed bill eliminated tenure and replaced it with a complex system that left teachers at the mercy of losing their jobs every 30 months.

Even the AFT and CEA have admitted that Governor Malloy's 2012 Corporate Education Reform Industry Initiative sought to eliminate tenure for all public school teachers in Connecticut and replace it with a system of short - term contracts in which continued employment as a teacher would depend, in part, on the test scores teachers» students got on the unfair and inappropriate Common Core Standardized Tests.

As we know, the attack is particularly serious in Connecticut where, in 2012, Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy became the only sitting Democratic governor in the country to propose eliminating meaningful tenure for all public school teachers and unilaterally repealing collective bargaining rights for teachers working in the state's poorest school system.