Sentences with phrase «favor teacher seniority»

These differences may originate in collective bargaining agreements that make it relatively expensive for pilot schools to expand instructional hours and staffing and that favor teacher seniority over classroom effectiveness.

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Like every other public school in the city, Stuyvesant is plagued by bureaucratic regulations and corrosive work rules that favor seniority and paper credentials over a teacher's knowledge and skill in the classroom.

Districts have negotiated contracts with teacher unions that eliminate schools» discretion in favor of seniority preferences.

Unfortunately, this practice of favoring seniority at the cost of early career teachers extends to pensions, albeit in a slightly different form.

She said many of her former classmates at Cal State East Bay's School of Education have lost their jobs because of budget cuts and seniority rules favoring more experienced teachers.

Judge Treu ruled in favor of the plaintiffs on every issue, removing five statutes concerning tenure, seniority and teacher dismissal rules from the state's constitution, adding, «The evidence is compelling.

Suburban districts, after all, also have to deal with quality - blind seniority - based privileges such as reverse - seniority layoff rules, pay scales that favor seat time over performance, and restrictions on the use of objective student test score growth data from use in teacher evaluations.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been seeking to overturn provisions that require teachers be dismissed based on seniority in favor of an evaluation system.

Deasy also testified that the seniority statute, know as LIFO for «Last in, first out,» which favors seniority when layoffs are required, is harmful to both students and teachers.