Sentences with phrase «end teacher seniority»

Still, he has fallen short on other measures that might have given the state better grades by Rhee's standards, including his stalled proposal for a school - voucher program and his failed bid to end teacher seniority rights under the new tenure law.

The announcement came as the New York State Senate geared up for a vote on a bill that would end the teacher seniority system and allow the city to conduct layoffs based on merit.

Mr. Cuomo protected New York City teachers, one of the state's most powerful political forces, by blocking Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's proposal this winter to immediately end teacher seniority protections.

Not exact matches

The Big Dog, however, was willing to end welfare as we know it, infuriating the left; Cuomo has passed up the chance to challenge Democratic orthodoxy and tell the teachers unions that seniority protections need to end because the archaic rules are damaging the unions» credibility even more than they're hampering what goes on in the classroom.

The mayor's assault on schools and teachers reached a new low on March 1 when he convinced the New York State Senate to pass a bill that ended seniority rules that guarantee impartiality in layoffs.

Ending seniority was easier in Arizona, where Republicans control the Legislature, than it will probably be in New York, where Democrats are in power and the teachers» union still has influence.

He's aware, though, that he'll have a tough sell with teachers unions, which give lip service to more - stringent teacher evaluations but prefer existing pay and promotion schemes based on seniority — even though they often end up matching the least experienced teachers with the most challenging students.

Klein also gave schools A through F letter grades based on student performance, ended the teachers» union's practices of letting teachers pick schools based on their seniority, and established a citywide curriculum.

The 2010 law requires districts to reimagine their talent - management and educator - support systems by requiring annual performance evaluations, ensuring tenure is earned and not the guarantee of lifetime employment, and ending both seniority - based layoffs and the forced placement of teachers into schools where they neither want to be nor fit well.

During the 2005 contract negotiations, he was able to end the long - standing practice of giving teachers with seniority the ability to select which schools to work in.

Arizona ended the use of seniority as the determinant of which teachers are laid off.

The financing plan also ends nearly five weeks of uncertainty surrounding the contract, widely regarded as a progressive breakthrough emphasizing teacher quality while diminishing seniority as a traditional determinant of job security and assignments.

He got them, but it seemingly cost him everything else he wanted, including an end to seniority and higher pay for teachers in difficult subjects, also known as «merit pay.»

Indiana passed laws that created an expansive voucher system, made teacher tenure contingent on effectiveness, limited collective bargaining, ended the process of firing teachers in order of seniority and required teacher evaluations to be «significantly informed» by student performance on standardized exams.

The four bills would increase the probationary period — the length of time before a teacher is up for tenure — from four to five years; end the practice of laying teachers off predominately based on seniority; put teachers evaluated as ineffective back on probation; make it easier to fire teachers for a broader slew of offenses; and limit collective - bargaining rights, barring unions from negotiating areas such as teacher evaluations.

The recent deal brokered by Stand for Children with the Massachusetts Teachers Association (and at the end supported by the AFL - CIO and the Massachusetts chapter of the American Federation for Teachers) made some progress in making student performance a larger consideration in evaluating teachers and lessened the role of seTeachers Association (and at the end supported by the AFL - CIO and the Massachusetts chapter of the American Federation for Teachers) made some progress in making student performance a larger consideration in evaluating teachers and lessened the role of seTeachers) made some progress in making student performance a larger consideration in evaluating teachers and lessened the role of seteachers and lessened the role of seniority.

As a «teacher - led» advocacy group, their stated goals are to end seniority, institute merit pay and replace tenure with what the group calls «earned tenure,» in which teachers who are able to push up standardized test scores are provided with greater job security and financial bonuses.

Among the «teacher advocacy group's» major funders is Education Reform Now, another corporate funded advocacy group that spends its money promoting charter schools and an end to tenure and «seniority - based layoff.»

Bcause Baby Boomers remain in control of leadership posts within both unions (and thanks to rules that allow retirees to vote in union elections), the NEA and AFT end up defending seniority - based privileges and layoff policies that hurt the younger, more reform - minded teachers who make up the majority of their respective memberships.

Many teacher tenure critics also want to end the process of «seniority» — which requires that districts make layoff decisions based on the number of years a teacher has been working.

Teachers with seniority sometimes ended up in new positions they never held before, she said.

In Detroit Public Schools, the Detroit Federation of Teachers threatened to strike when the emergency financial manager called for teacher merit pay and an end to the seniority system.

Eli Broad has said he «expects to be a major contributor» to Students First, former D.C. Chancellor Michelle Rhee's organization that advocates for the expansion of charters, vouchers, and an end to seniority protections for teachers.

Last week, unionized teachers in Chicago walked out of their classrooms for the first time in 25 years in a strike over proposals similar to Obama's, including revamped teacher evaluations and ending job security based only on seniority.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been lobbying the state government to end seniority rules as his schools budget projects the layoffs for 4,100 teachers.

Does a recent court ruling in Los Angeles really signal the beginning of the end of an unjust teacher seniority system?

The fact that both the NEA and AFT have become so fearful of the implications of last month's decision in Vergara v. California ending near - lifetime employment and reverse - seniority layoff rules — including the likelihood that teachers, now realizing that the two unions can no longer hold up bargain they struck with earlier generations in the profession — show how tied they are to this outdated model of unionism.

The group has advocated for the end of teacher seniority and changes to tenure laws, and now has begun funding programs in underperforming districts in New Jersey.

The New Jersey School Boards Association spoke most strongly against the bill, saying it would not end the practice of laying off teachers based on seniority, a practice known as «last in, first out.»