Sentences with phrase «firing of teachers»

This impulse came to a head when he condoned the mass firing of teachers at Rhode Island's Central Falls High School in February.

When districtwide layoff notices hit every one of Detroit Public Schools» 5,466 unionized employees late last week, an American Federation of Teachers spokeswoman called the move the largest «one fell swoop» firing of teachers in union memory.

A principal's decision to make a 4th grade girl move rocks as punishment, along with the subsequent firing of a teacher who helped the child, apparently has resulted in the departure of seven of the 10 teachers in Missouri's tiny East Lynne school district.

Recently, the rest of the nation took note when a superintendent, acting with Gist's support, fired all of the teachers at one of the state's worst schools after they rejected a series of proposed reforms.

The paper calls for a careful evaluation of the long - term consequences of the large - scale firing of teachers before launching a nationwide initiative and suggests examining the effectiveness of policies to improve teacher quality along with teacher accountability measures.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rolf M. Treu found five California laws governing the hiring and firing of teachers unconstitutional.

A Los Angeles County judge's ruling last month that tenure and several other state laws governing the hiring and firing of teachers run afoul of the state constitution was a step in the right direction.

The LA Times editorial board said her bill would make the rules «more reasonable and practical, while preventing capricious or vindictive firings of teachers by school administrators.»

But the Orleans Parish School Board fired all of its teachers following the storm, and the charter and state - run schools that replaced the old district relied heavily upon programs such as Teach For America to hire new teachers.

His tenure follows the controversial leadership of former superintendent Cami Anderson, who led a series of unpopular initiatives in quick succession, including a new citywide enrollment plan and lottery that allowed parents to choose any traditional or charter school in the city, closures of underenrolled or poorly performing schools, mass firings of teachers and principals, and a new merit - pay program for teachers.

1) Assign talent strategy to a senior reform executive: The thinking behind this strategy is to have a single person responsible for the hiring, development, retention, and firing of teachers in the district.

The chancellor also blasted Mr. Cuomo's call for the firing of any teacher whose students fail to meet test standards after two years as an intrusion on the internal workings of schools.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, points out that teacher tenure was enacted nationwide more than a century ago to protect academic freedom and to stop the firing of teachers based on political and partisan changes in local school boards and principals.

These typically small schools operate under thin labor contracts, giving principals more authority over the hiring and firing of teachers and awarding teachers a wider range of flexible roles.

A California judge's recent ruling that the state's teacher protection laws are unconstitutional breathed new life into a national conversation about the future of the hiring and firing of teachers.

Though the Orleans Parish School Board would still maintain control over the budget and the hiring and firing of teachers, A&M would report directly to the state superintendent and have the authority to appoint the district's top financial officers.

It resulted in school closings, mass firings of teachers and principals, and more students in charter schools, which aggravated complaints that Ms. Anderson was catering to wealthy ideologues with misguided ideas about how to improve urban education.

This matters to me because it means transitioning decisions regarding curriculum development, the hiring and firing of teachers, and determining how school funds are to be spent from bureaucracies into the hands of communities.

Charter schools differ from traditional public schools in that they have more say in the hiring and firing of teachers, and charter school teachers and parents have more freedom to design innovative curriculum and teaching strategies.

Gist, whose reform efforts led to the firings of all teachers and staff at one of the state's worst - performing schools, said test scores in the state need vast improvement, the graduation rate must grow and too few high school graduates — just more than half — are heading directly to college.

The bipartisan effort to dramatically change the rules around the hiring and firing of teachers is nothing new.

(3) Assessment of teacher performance, disciplinary matters and design of the curriculum should be under district control with continual input from the community as should hiring and firing of teachers.

They are able to exercise independent control in the vital areas of hiring and firing of teachers, tenure, administrative duties and curriculum content.

Another sign of the shifting sands: the ruling this week in Vergara v. California striking down laws governing the hiring and firing of teachers.

[1] We are referring to strategies such as high stakes testing, grading schools, diverting funds to unregulated charters, mass firing of teachers and staff, and other non-child focused strategies that research studies have found do not close achievement gaps for poor and minority communities.

The court decision comes as state legislatures across the country move to consider student achievement data in the hiring, evaluation and firing of teachers.

«The extraordinary ruling orders the state to revamp virtually all areas of public education — from the hiring and firing of teachers, to special education services, to education standards for elementary and high school students,» reported the Hartford Courant.

Deborah Gist (class of 2008), Rhode Island Commissioner of Education, has supported the firing of all teachers in Central Falls and more recently in Providence, and is aggressively fighting seniority protections for teachers.

Laws that alter collective - bargaining rights or the hiring and firing of teachers have passed in Wisconsin, Georgia, Oklahoma, Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Arizona.

The report comes as congress works to reauthorize and overhaul No Child Left Behind, and as states countrywide pass laws that link the hiring and firing of teachers to their students» performance on standardized tests.