Sentences with phrase «eliminating teacher tenure»

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.

Other national groups also propose parent trigger laws as part of agendas that favor charter schools, eliminating teacher tenure, and restricting teachers» unions.

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.

Eliminating teacher tenure.

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.

Then it's on to eliminating teacher tenure.

Additionally, supermajorities of California voters support policy changes to elevate teacher quality, including either eliminating teacher tenure or lengthening the time before teachers receive tenure from the current eighteen months to at least four years, taking performance into account when making layoff decisions, and making it easier to let go of underperforming teachers.

Micah Lasher pushed Mr. Bloomberg's agenda in Albany from 2010 until 2012, when he got the gig heading up the newly formed New York chapter of StudentsFirst, a national organization that advocates expanding charter schools and eliminating teacher tenure.

And now, following a national trend, New York's conservatives have joined in, using what they portray as a specimen of big - government overreach in the service of a longer - term fight to eliminate teacher tenure and promote alternatives to traditional public schools.

He has also battled with the United Federation of Teachers and worked to institute performance - based raises and eliminate teacher tenure, among other efforts.

Instead, he intends to eliminate teacher tenure and improve how teachers are rewarded.

Nearly 4 of 5 Tuck supporters, 79 percent, said they wanted to eliminate teacher tenure protections while 69 percent of Torlakson voters said preserving due process protection was a higher priority.

SB 361: would eliminate teacher tenure, aka «career status» by 2018 and offer teachers one year contracts for the first three years of employment.

In a ruling that affects the employment rights of thousands of public school teachers, a judge in Wake County ruled Friday that the state legislature's move to eliminate teacher tenure is unconstitutional.

If it is successful, the Vergara case will eliminate some teacher tenure protections, limit seniority, and diminish collective bargaining rights.

Tenure and achievement: When Florida legislators eliminated teacher tenure in 2011, they argued that making it easier to get rid of bad teachers could lead to better student academic results.

Teachers thought they had it pretty good when the union and Mayor Bill de Blasio agreed to a new contract that provides 18 percent raises over the next five years, but now parents are mounting an aggressive campaign to eliminate teacher tenure and weed out unsatisfactory teachers, CBS 2's Marcia Kramer reported Wednesday.

But let us not forget that on February 8, 2012, Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy, a Democrat, used his State of the State speech to eliminate teacher tenure as part of his corporate education reform industry initiative.

In Florida, all teachers hired after 2011 sign an annual contract as opposed to receiving tenure, while Kansas and North Carolina are also seeking to eliminate teacher tenure.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Equally alarming is Astorino's opposition to teacher tenure, as well as, his vow to eliminate the Triborough Amendment.

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.

Instead of eliminating tenure for all teachers, regardless of performance, Colorado's focused on the teachers» fitness.

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.

Maine's school boards are being urged to eliminate seniority clauses from teachers» contracts as the result of a state high - court decision, handed down this summer, that state law does not protect tenured teachers at the expense of nontenured teachers in layoff decisions.

Tenure reform should balance the benefits of using this protection to attract and retain good teachers with the costs it imposes by making it more difficult to eliminate bad teachers.

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.

Nonetheless, 77 percent of teachers surveyed said that they would oppose eliminating tenure.

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.

If you think about it, we made significant changes to public policy in education in 2010 as a part of our First to the Top agenda proposed by Gov Bredesen — a Democrat, followed by nightmarish changes to the teachers» environment in 2011 by eliminating collective bargaining, tenure, and removing TEA from their seat at the table, all in the name of «reform.»

Scott Smith, a third - year English teacher at Seneca Valley High School in Germantown, said the tenure protections that he won last year eliminated a source of stress.

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.

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.

Given the substantive way this law changes how Utah teachers are evaluated and dismissed, I was astonished to see a recent commentary («This teacher / legislator says it's time to end tenure,» June 22), penned by a legislator, speaking about the need to eliminate tenure in Utah.

The elected officials have been attacking the union's sacred cows with a ferocity that hasn't been seen before — eliminating seniority and tenure, introducing merit pay, defining teacher accountability, more school choice programs, etc. are all on the agenda.

Florida Republican Governor Charlie Crist vetoed a teacher reform bill that would have enacted performance pay and eliminated tenure after he was besieged by opposition.

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.

Several states, including New Jersey, North Carolina, Louisiana and South Dakota, have made it harder for teachers to receive tenure or have eliminated it.

National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel issued a statement saying the North Carolina legislature's attempt to eliminate tenure was misguided and would have hurt the ability of districts to recruit high quality teachers.

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.

Matthew A. Kraft Brown University «How Does Eliminating Tenure and Collective Bargaining Affect Teacher Labor Markets and Student Achievement?»

Judge Robert Hobgood ordered a permanent injunction against the law, which would eliminate career status — commonly known as teacher tenure — by 2018.

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.

Overall, I believe that the teacher tenure should be eliminated because it is too easy to become tenured and too hard to get fired.