Sentences with phrase «firing teachers as»

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.

Firing teachers as an isolated act, instead of improving how we prepare and support them, will not generate systemic change.

From teacher evaluation systems to value - added modeling to the recent Vergara decision in California, reformers have increasingly focused on selecting, measuring, developing, evaluating, and firing teachers as the key to educational improvement.

True, the school system often functions as a jobs program for adults, but jobs and money aren't the reason the mother of a second grader who has a derelict teacher regards someone pledging to fire the teacher as a demon.

But then the Georgia State Board of Education balked, unwilling to back Leeper's school governance experiment, in which the teachers would be organized like attorneys in a law office's partnership, and have the power to hire and fire teachers as well as the principal.

Not exact matches

As Krugman would argue, money to the states to prevent firing school teachers, police, and fireman are an easy win.

The New York City Employees» Retirement System; the New York City Fire Department Pension Fund; the New York City Teachers» Retirement System; the New York City Police Pension Fund; and the New York Board of Education Retirement System, as joint filers (NYC Retirement System), c / o The City of New York, Officer of the Comptroller, 633 Third Avenue, 31st Floor, New York, New York 10017, which in the aggregate held 12,707,578 shares of common stock on November 15, 2011, the New York State Common Retirement Fund, whose address is the same as that of the NYC Retirement System, which held 19,560,008 shares of common stock on November 22, 2011, and the Illinois State Board of Investment on behalf of the State Employees» Retirement System of Illinois, c / o 180 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 2015, Chicago, Illinois 60601, which in the aggregate held 928,927 shares of common stock on November 18, 2011, the Judges» Retirement System of Illinois and the General Assembly Retirement System of Illinois, as co-filers, intend to submit a resolution to stockholders for approval at the annual meeting.

While pensions are not nearly as common as they once were, they are a very important part of the retirement plans for many of society's most valued workers: teachers, police officers, fire fighters and more!

Gerald... the difference is that the schools did not coverup the abuse, and teachers are fired and jailed as this comes to light... Your group felt they were above mans laws..

We need something that can fire contemplatives and other religious, priests, preachers, teachers, catechists, theologians, parents, youth leaders, «the men and women in the pew» and the youth of today's Church as they all do their bit to learn from God's Word and announce the Good News revealed by Jesus Christ in His words, miracles, Passion and Resurrection.

Six months after firing him as coach, for the Bauman incident, the board of trustees voted him professor emeritus, and Hayes kept his small teacher's office at OSU until the end.

An e-mail that some city school principals interpreted as an order to identify two tenured teachers for removal has educators wondering whether the district has set a firing quota.

The measures are predominantly opposed by the teachers unions, who say Cuomo's posture — especially on making it easier to fire educators who do not perform well in evaluations — as essentially anti-teacher.

Speaker Carl Heastie, who is already under fire from NYSUT, the state's largest teacher's union for a budget they felt was unfavorable, said as much last week.

«I remember being scared witless as an 11 - year - old by a fire - and - brimstone history teacher who told us we would all be dead by Christmas because the Soviet Union urgently needed access to warm water ports for some reason, and the Red Army was going to sweep through Europe,» he wrote.

But many of his proposals — such as toughening up evaluation systems teachers barely agreed to in the first place, firing teachers with bad ratings, tying tenure to evaluations, and increasing the cap on charter schools — are sure to be met with ire from politically powerful state and city teachers union.

Generally, Cuomo has been more aggressive toward the state teachers union — which in the current climate is not nearly as strong, politically, as 1199 — and has fired several shots across NYSUT's bow.

The decision comes as battles over the way teachers are hired, fired and evaluated swirl through courtrooms and statehouses across the country.

I remember being scared witless as an 11 year old by a fire - and - brimstone history teacher who told us we would all be dead by Christmas because the Soviet Union urgently needed access to warm water ports for some reason, and the Red Army was going to sweep through Europe.

Mayor Bloomberg just released a carefully - worded response to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal for revising the Board of Regents teacher evaluation standards — an issue that has become something of a sticking point as the mayor is threatening to fire thousands of NYC teachers and pushing for the repeal of the last - in, first - out rule.

In a joint statement, Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Finance Chairman Domenic Recchia identified teacher layoffs, the child care cuts, a 29 percent cut to libraries and fire companies as their top priorities.

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.

The poll comes as the city and union are butting heads over a new teacher - evaluation system, which would be used in teacher - firing decisions.

MANHATTAN — Mayor Michael Bloomberg painted a bleak economic picture in his annual State of the City address Wednesday as he outlined a series of contentious reforms to overhaul the pension system and rules governing teacher firing to save the city money.

The Shorr, Johnson and Magnus Strategic Media - produced ad comes as the mayor and UFT continue to spar over a new teacher evaluation system, which will eventually be used in teacher firing decisions.

Despite Mayor Bloomberg's desire for a «gotcha» teacher evaluation system, as Commissioner King noted in his announcement of the new system on June 1, New York City «is not going to fire its way to academic success.»

The Senate's version of the bill includes a proposal to modify the «last in, first out» teacher firing policy as well as $ 280 million in additional school aid — about 9 percent more than Cuomo's proposed budget, State Sen. Liz Krueger said.

► As part of this week's Science special issue on forensics, Lizzie Wade told the story of how José Torero, a world expert in the forensic science of fire investigation, has shed a light on — or perhaps, added to the mystery of — «a crime that shocked the world: the disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School, a rural teacher's college near Tixtla, Guerrero,» in Mexico in September 2014.

Even as he spoke, he later learned, his ex-wife — who was a teacher at the elementary school on campus — was being fired «because she had known about my criminal past but had not told them.»

Gabriel is a veteran teacher who ignites the fire of aspiration not only to your asana practice, but to our spiritual life as well.

As a teacher of yoga, fire may be cultivated to create confidence, clear and effective communication, discipline, charisma, and a warmth that radiates out to your students.

Or, as my teacher liked to say, you should «Practice like your hair's on fire!»

Following two teachers (Andy and Ron) as they try to maintain a corrupted school environment, Ron is fired after lashing out in his classroom, but only due to the fact that Andy was a rat and tattled on Ron, thus sparking a feud between them, strongly favoured by Ron.

In the decades to come, Paymer would remain an ever - present force on screen, appearing in films like In Good Company, Drag Me to Hell, Bad Teacher, and Redbelt, as well as TV shows like Line of Fire and The Good Wife.

«The School of Rock» (Paramount) After a demented rock guitarist (Jack Black) is fired from his band, he poses as a substitute teacher at a private school.

New Mexico's system also drew fire for its use of teacher attendance as an additional performance measure, another step that widened the spread of ratings among teachers.

REVIEW: Most elementary teachers include Fire Prevention Week as part of the curriculum.

Even as school systems redrew their boundaries, fired black teachers and principals, and tore up foundational enrollment structures to comply with desegregation orders, they largely ignored Coleman's earlier research on motivation and academic achievement, which found that competition «has a magic ability to create a strong group goal.»

Mrs. Bush is equally articulate about «backpack spending» (the institute is sponsoring a project on school - district productivity that includes 20 different researchers» papers); teacher autonomy («Obviously, if you are held accountable as the principal of your school and you don't have the authority to change anything, by either hiring or firing, or setting up another structure that your school district doesn't allow, then how can you be really accountable?»)

As a charter school, it can fire underperforming teachers more easily — though DiBella emphasizes that he rarely uses this option.

At a recent seminar on fire safety in the Palace of Westminster, one primary head teacher gave a first hand graphic description of a blaze that occurred after lunch in her school as a result of a fault on a desk fan.

Notably, the effects of a minimally effective rating on retention and performance occurred at the end of IMPACT's second year, when the political credibility of the reform had been affirmed by the appointment of Kaya Henderson as chancellor and by the first instance in which teachers (roughly 140) were fired for having two consecutive «minimally effective» ratings.

But because the law applied only to schools and not to other public employers, such as police and fire departments, teachers unions argued that it engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.

District spokeswoman Nora Carr said officials are recommending that one teacher be fired for writing that she teaches «in the most ghetto school in Charlotte» and describing her students as «chitlins.»

Such a lawsuit could pressure districts to make efforts to attract and retain talented pedagogues as well as to dismantle excessive protections that can make it prohibitively expensive to fire tenured, yet ineffective teachers.

In a blog post dated March 29, 2011, Diane Ravitch makes the same point: «The gains under Rhee were no greater than the gains registered under her predecessor Clifford Janey, who did not use Rhee's high - powered tactics, such as firing massive numbers of teachers.»

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.»

The first teachers to be fired under North Carolina's 2 - year - old accountability program are fighting their dismissals and, in the process, providing an early illustration of the struggles that may lie ahead as states push administrators and teachers to take more responsibility for student achievement.

As the Washington Post's savvy Nick Anderson reported,» Faulty calculations of the «value» that D.C. teachers added to student achievement in the last school year resulted in erroneous performance evaluations for 44 teachers, including one who was fired because of a low rating.»

Voice of Experience: How to Keep the Fire Burning (Or Lessons Learned from Edith, the Kids, and «the Fear») In this week's Voice of Experience essay, Max Fischer shares how, after almost 30 years as a classroom teacher, he keeps things fresh — for himself and for his students.