Instead of
eliminating tenure for all teachers, regardless of performance, Colorado's focused on the teachers» fitness.
Not exact matches
Receiving harsh criticism from reviewers
for failing to raise the charter school cap,
eliminate issues with
teacher tenure, and also
for their plan to use some of the money
for an upgrade in furniture.
Content with
eliminating tenure for future
teachers, North Carolina declined to appeal in federal court.
In addition, Mr. Cuomo proposed
eliminating «building
tenure»
for school principals in New York City; requiring school - board members to participate in state - sponsored training programs; and expanding computer - training programs
for teachers.
First, the argument
for eliminating tenure: As Judge Rolf M. Treu of Los Angeles Superior Court ruled on Tuesday, any benefit that
tenure provides to
teachers is far outweighed by its costs to children and society by keeping grossly ineffective instructors in the classroom.
While we certainly see the strong benefit of offering job security
for teaching - track faculty (and recognize that higher levels of job protections likely attracts more excellent
teachers to the university), giving them de facto
tenure would
eliminate this important lever
for department chairs, deans and provosts.
The Republican - controlled General Assembly ended
teacher tenure, halted a salary bump
for earning a master's degree, and
eliminated a cap on class size.
Teacher tenure, formally known as «career status,» was
eliminated by lawmakers who were interested in introducing free - market principles to the teaching profession by way of short - term contracts and small pay increases
for the top 25 percent.
They have already voted no to across the board
teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on
teachers» salaries that has been in place
for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break
for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay
for Masters degrees,
eliminated most of the state's
teacher assistants, gone after
tenure and offered the top 25 % of the
teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their
tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.
While Cuomo has poured more money into charter schools than Malloy, Malloy is the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with
teacher tenure and proposing legislation that would unilaterally
eliminate collective bargaining
for teachers in turnaround schools.
SB 361: would
eliminate teacher tenure, aka «career status» by 2018 and offer
teachers one year contracts
for the first three years of employment.
Several states, including New Jersey, North Carolina, Louisiana and South Dakota, have made it harder
for teachers to receive
tenure or have
eliminated it.
He used the event to publicly burnish his credentials as a successful fighter
for changes sought by the school - choice movement, such as vouchers and
eliminating seniority - based
teacher tenure.
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.
And
teachers don't seem to matter to people like Connecticut Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy who is not only an adherent to the Common Core and the Common Core Testing fiasco but remains the only Democratic Governor in the nation to propose
eliminating tenure for all public school
teachers and rescinding collective bargaining rights
for teachers working in the state's poorest school districts.
Michigan's Public Act 4 is the most extreme example, but lawmakers from New York to California are seeking ways to circumvent or
eliminate public school
teacher tenure, pushing
for staffing decisions to be made based on merit rather than seniority.
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.
Weingarten, along with the leadership of the American Federation of
Teachers — Connecticut Chapter and the Connecticut Education Association have endorsed Malloy despite the fact that Governor Malloy remains the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose repealing tenure for all Connecticut public school teachers and unilaterally eliminating collective bargaining rights for a teachers working in the state's poorest
Teachers — Connecticut Chapter and the Connecticut Education Association have endorsed Malloy despite the fact that Governor Malloy remains the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose repealing
tenure for all Connecticut public school
teachers and unilaterally eliminating collective bargaining rights for a teachers working in the state's poorest
teachers and unilaterally
eliminating collective bargaining rights
for a
teachers working in the state's poorest
teachers working in the state's poorest schools.
And the governor who tried to repeal
tenure and
eliminate collective bargaining
for some
teachers...
With Randi Weingarten in Connecticut today, the leadership of the AFT and CEA have a unique opportunity to actually force Malloy to stand up, step up and come clean about his 2012 effort to
eliminate tenure for all public school
teachers and repeal collective bargaining
for teachers working in Connecticut's poorest school districts.
While this brief focuses on Act 10's impact on Wisconsin
teachers based on the data available, the same forces driving changes in the teaching workforce can also affect the broader public sector.3 Proponents of Act 10 insisted that reducing collective bargaining rights
for teachers would improve education by
eliminating job protections such as
tenure and seniority - based salary increases.
Like Malloy, Walker spent his first term trying to destroy
teacher tenure,
eliminate collective bargaining rights
for teachers and dramatically expand public funding
for charter schools and the overall effort to privatize public education.
In 2012 Malloy rolled out his «education reform» initiative becoming the first Democratic governor in history to call
for eliminating teacher tenure for all public school
teachers and unilaterally repealing collective bargaining rights
for teachers in the state's poorest schools.
The District, which initiated major school reforms in 2007, has served as a test case
for often controversial policies — such as expanding school choice,
eliminating teacher tenure and tying evaluations to test scores — which have since been adopted by a growing number of states.
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.
Ravitch also uses credible research to debunk the «fixes» in vogue
for our public schools: such as Teach
for America, charter schools, test - based accountability,
eliminating tenure, test - based
teacher evaluation, parent trigger, school closures and the Common Core State standards.
So, Mr. Cunningham, thanks again
for all that you and Education Post do to «honor
teachers for the work they do every day as professionals», and shining the bright reformer spotlight on the serious problems in public education today — by attacking unions, working to
eliminate teacher tenure and job protections, and supporting the proliferation of
for - profit charter schools (under the guise of «school choice») that under - perform and siphon money away from public schools.