Sentences with phrase «firing teachers»

But the school still fired both teachers who were in the room at the time.

Some districts are having difficulty with teacher pay in recent years, however, with one district even exploring the option of firing all teachers due to financial constraints.

Fire a teacher in the middle of the year?

We don't fire teachers solely based on the scores their students make on state assessments.

It's interesting that so much of the reform movement is focusing on firing teachers at will.

She started by firing teachers, who had long enjoyed considerable job security.

They can design their own programs and hire and fire teachers without necessarily having to deal with unions.

In addition, comprehensive schools can not hire and fire teachers at will.

A recent survey found that most principals agreed that they had the authority to fire a teacher if they needed to take such action.

The measures linked teacher evaluation performance to tenure and made it easier to fire teachers deemed to be performing poorly, despite having tenure.

But, again the cuts are too deep, and districts report firing teachers, including teachers of basic academic subjects.

These included firing teachers, closing schools, and changing public schools into charter schools.

Why value - added evaluation based on test scores is junk science, and why firing teachers is not a school improvement strategy.

The school district who decides to fire a teacher pays much of this expense.

The reaction of some teachers and union officials that value - added analysis might be used to fire teachers puzzles me.

It makes it easier to fire teachers who lost their jobs as a result of budget cuts and school closures.

However in a school I'm sure there are better ways to save money than by firing teachers.

By contrast, decisions about firing teachers are inherently about trade - offs: It is important to dismiss ineffective teachers, but also to attract and retain effective teachers.

The Hearts on Fire Teacher's Guide provides teachers with resources to inspire their students using real - life stories of people making positive change in the world.

[24] He finds some evidence of an increased likelihood of schools firing teachers with frequent absences and / or lower value - added scores.

Governor Jerry Brown is facing rising opposition to a bill designed to make it easier to fire teachers accused of abusing students.

If not for tenure however, officials like Carmichael might have succeeded in firing teachers as retaliation for involvement in Civil Rights activities or simply because of their race.

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.

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Mayor Bloomberg proposed a state law today that would make it easier to fire teachers charged or found guilty of sexual misconduct.

For example, Walcott pointed to a case in which it took the city an entire year to fire a teacher convicted of manslaughter.

Last year, the Iberville Parish school district fired a teacher who carried on sexual affairs with several of his students, resulting in a child with one of them.

Researchers utilized Louisiana Department of Education employment records, so the study can only speak to whether or not fired teachers ever worked in a Louisiana public school again.

The second bill (SB1530), sponsored by Sen. Alex Padilla (D - Pacoima), would give school boards more authority when firing teachers.

However, other research suggests portfolio districts fire teachers too quickly, hire non-certified teachers, and lack teachers with experience.

So firing teachers is not the answer.

I am willing to bet the Smarter Balanced people haven't learned yet how to keep a reasonable rate of reliability (or for that matter validity) on these testing approaches so they are using our kids as «guinea pigs» while they calibrate and re-calibrate their tests to show which of our kids our «most stupid» and they can call them pejorative names and close their schools and fire the teachers etc etc with harsh punitive measures that are meant to destroy public education.

Later that year, at the PGA at Valhalla, Norman and Harmon got into a dispute over Harmon's clothing contract, and Norman fired his teacher in the middle of a practice round.

The principal of P.S. 18 in Inwood fired teacher Madeline Luciano after she let a student write on a chalkboard the reasons why eighth - grade students didn't like a particular classmate.

«The tax refunds that Paulson and Singer would stand to receive through the refusal to extend the millionaires tax would be pocket change to them, but they could provide the New York City school district with the money to rehire dozens of recently - fired teachers aides.

During World War I, the superintendent of the Cleveland public schools suggested firing those teachers sympathetic to Germany, and anti-war teachers did lose their jobs in New York City.

Because in New York State, it's damn near impossible to actually fire a teacher.

Central Falls, R.I., where an entire high school teaching staff was recently fired, is the latest example of a growing trend: no - nonsense superintendents attempting to improve their schools by firing teachers perceived to be incompetent to secure a bigger share of federal education dollars.

Rep. Rob Bryan is working on legislation behind the scenes in the General Assembly that could turn over poorly performing public schools to for - profit charter school companies who could then fire teachers and administrators at will with no accountability.

The school decided to fire the teacher despite the students» protest.

Brought by seven parent plaintiffs, the case specifically sought to do away with the so - called «first in, last out» requirement that instructs districts to fire teachers according to seniority rather than ability.

A growing number of states have begun using value - added models, or VAMs, to judge and in some cases fire teachers.