Sentences with phrase «fill classroom vacancies»
Similarly, when it becomes necessary to fill a classroom vacancy or to remove an ineffective teacher, district officials are often hobbled by contract language.
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In 2003 - 04, for example, 27 percent of schools with a math teaching vacancy reported that filling that vacancy was «very difficult» or ultimately unsuccessful, as compared with just four percent of schools with vacancies in elementary classrooms (see Figure 1).
In 2000, more than 30 grassroots groups and foundations found common ground and agitated successfully for contractual changes that made it easier for schools to fill teaching vacancies with outside hires and harder for unwanted teachers with seniority to bump talented first - year teachers from the classroom.
It's a fact made even more apparent as districts nationwide struggle to fill vacancies, and as some look to place Black male and other teachers of color in classrooms.
In Winston Salem - Forsyth schools, where administrators are still working to fill 81 teacher vacancies, 47 of those openings are in the district's elementary classrooms.
Guilford's school officials are still scrambling to fill around 50 teacher vacancies — many, unusually, in elementary classrooms.
TAMPA, Fla. — As Florida schools prepare to fill next year's vacancies, thousands of aspiring Florida teachers continue their battle just to get in the classroom.
With an increasing share of teachers leaving the classroom, schools face the challenge of filling more vacancies — the difficulty of which is compounded by national trends of lower enrollment in teacher preparation programs.53
Like many education reform initiatives (i.e., charter schools, merit pay), Teach for America was created out of what were once noble intentions: to provide bright, young teachers to fill vacancies in some of our nation's most difficult to staff classrooms.
When vacancies like these happen en masse, a school becomes destabilized because a revolving door of substitutes is called to fill the vacated classrooms.