Sentences with phrase «eliminating tenure for all teachers»

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

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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.