Sentences with phrase «fire teachers based on performance»

They can strategically alter class sizes, and hire and fire teachers based on performance or school priorities.

Michigan has seen major school reform this year, passing a law with bipartisan support that limited teachers» collective bargaining and made it easier to fire teachers based on performance.

Not exact matches

A Regents panel voted to allow teachers and principals who could be fired based on poor student performance on Common Core exams this year or last year to defend themselves by citing the botched rollout of the tough new curriculum.

Changes would make it easier to fire workers and base teacher layoffs on performance instead of seniority.

Following the work on teacher absence, Muralidharan realized that low accountability — only one out of 3,000 schools reported firing a teacher for repeated absence — and the complete lack of differentiation between teachers on the basis of performance, were part of a systematic problem.

[vi] The transformation model required replacing the principal, implementing curricular reform, and introducing teacher evaluations based in part on student performance and used in personnel decisions (e.g., rewards, promotions, retentions, and firing).

A Regents panel voted to allow teachers and principals who could be fired based on poor student performance on Common Core exams this year or last year to defend themselves by citing the botched rollout of the tough new curriculum.

I do not think administrators should be firing large numbers of teachers for performance, but I'm certainly not the only person who believes they should be dismissing some teachers based on poor evaluations.

Analysts at the Fordham Foundation created a rubric for gauging the difficulty of firing ineffective teachers based on these three metrics: Does tenure protect veteran teachers from performance - based dismissal?

The key is making it easier to fire bad teachers and reward teachers based on performance, not seniority.

Los Angeles school district officials are planning to fire more than 110 non-tenured teachers this year based on their performance, about three times the number of probationary teachers dismissed annually in recent years.

The Obama administration, with Race to the Top and the waiver process, decided instead to put their full weight behind the new Common Core State Standards, fund the development of new tests set to those standards, hold teachers individually accountable for the performance of their own students against the Common Core State Standards, implement the new tests and urge states to use teacher evaluations based on test results to fire teachers whose students did not perform satisfactorily.

The fact that police, fire, and soldiers were cited as examples of scaled salaries is a prime example of why schools should be able to set individual pay based on performance: the job of teacher is more technical, requires more education, and the results make more of a difference in society.