They can design their own programs and hire and
fire teachers without necessarily having to deal with unions.
Federal law now provides those protections to everyone, yet the unions have continued to fight for ever - stronger job protections uniquely for teachers to the point where now, in 2014, it is nearly impossible to
fire any teacher without spending thousands of dollars and hours in legal battles, even when there is proof of student abuse!
Not exact matches
In many cases active
fire protection is engineered out of the equation
without the head
teacher knowing.
A recent series of articles by the Orlando Sentinel highlighted problems at some schools that participate in the program, describing Florida's choice system as «so weakly regulated that some schools hire
teachers without college degrees, hold classes in aging strip malls and falsify
fire - safety and health records.»
Virtually every school district in the nation possesses the authority to
fire ineffective
teachers within their first year or two on the job,
without much difficulty.
Because few charter schools are unionized, they hire and
fire teachers and administrative staff
without regard to the collectively bargained seniority and tenure provisions that constrain such decisions in many public schools.
In this article written for ASCD Express, she shares five ways school leaders can keep
teachers fired up,
without burning the candle at both ends.
The state can not overhaul how it
fires instructors
without first creating objective measures to determine which
teachers shouldn't be in front of children.
Charter schools are supposed to have complete authority within their walls — authority to hire,
fire and otherwise evaluate
teachers as they see fit
without outside requirements — in exchange for being held accountable for their students» success.
«If we have a system that's laying off people
without ever looking at their quality or their ability, then we're going to end up with some great
teachers getting
fired and that's going to hurt the students,» says Stone.
Some
teachers in urban systems expressed the view that advocacy by parents is a key to changing these conditions: Parents can put pressure on the system
without being
fired and can get the attention of the school board or mayor.
I want to be free to say anything I want, I want protection from arbitrary
firing, but we won't ever turn around the state of education
without being realistic and admitting to ourselves that some
teachers don't work as hard as they could because they know there are no consequences.
The stories, published in October, documented how private schools that take state scholarships have falsified
fire and health inspections, set up shop in rundown facilities and hired
teachers without college degrees and with criminal records.
Replacing them with even mediocre
teachers — or actually just
firing them
without hiring anyone new, as Andrew Biggs has proposed — would help tens of thousands of California students.
But the government has come under
fire for spending almost # 1 billion on bursaries for new
teachers —
without having properly evaluated their effectiveness.
Defendant Smith's Due Process Rights Were Violated When She Was
Fired as a
Teacher Without Notice or a Hearing.
It will be a long time before Indiana's Hanover Central High School
fires a
teacher again
without good cause.
It doesn't mean
teachers get
fired or schools close down, but it does mean kids from all walks of life could learn extremely valuable skills in things like computer programming, web design or number of any number of fields that suit their fancy
without relying on
teachers who correctly spent their time studying education rather than those pursuits.