Sentences with phrase «established merit systems»

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Bloomberg has repeatedly argued that failing to repeal the law and establish a system based on merit immediately would be devastating to schools as the city moves forward with a plan to lay off 4,666 teachers, which is set to begin as early as this spring.

The Quality Instruction Incentive Council, established this summer in a special legislative session to develop recommendations for a statewide merit - pay system, has three classroom teachers as members, one of whom represents the feau.

Now entire state systems are moving toward merit pay, with new policies established recently in Florida and Texas requiring districts to set teachers» salaries based in part on the gains their students are making on the state's accountability exam.

He also pressed for reform of the onerous work rules in the teachers» contract, including eliminating the seniority provisions, making it easier to fire incompetents, and establishing a system of merit pay.

The NEA analysis of the proposed legislation claimed it favored «1) establishing a teacher evaluation system using gains in student test scores; 2) allowing «community stakeholders» to have a role in designing teacher evaluation systems; and 3) providing merit pay for teachers based upon gains in student test scores.»

During his eight years in Tallahassee, the governor established a far - reaching accountability system, including limits on social promotion in elementary school; introduced a plethora of school choice initiatives (vouchers for the disabled, vouchers for those in failing schools, tax - credit funded scholarships for the needy, virtual education, and a growing number of charter schools); asked school districts to pay teachers according to merit; promoted a «Just Read» initiative; ensured parental choice among providers of preschool services; and created a highly regarded system for tracking student achievement.

The union objected, saying it never agreed to the new terms and argued that the new system created a path to establish merit pay to reward the highest performing teachers.

In March, Florida passed legislation that establishes a statewide assessment and merit pay system by 2014, denies tenure to teachers hired after July 1, 2011 and limits collective bargaining rights.

I think that there is great merit in establishing accountability in schools, but only to the extent that the those systems imbue a sense of ownership and stake for those providing educational services.

Back in 2003, I felt that the technology to establish credits for «carbon removal» from the atmosphere was not sufficiently developed to warrant inclusion of such a system in an offset system proposed for Canada — even though removal of carbon from the atmosphere and long term sequestration seemed to have more merit than simple emission reduction.

The merits of these vertical coordinate systems are still being established.

The term «civil service laws» refers to a personnel system established by law which is designed to protect employees from arbitrary action, personal favoritism, and political coercion, and which uses a competitive or merit examination process for selection and placement.