Sentences with phrase «forced placement»

«They're all about espousing making teachers more professional and treating them like professionals, and at the same time they're fighting — starting today — in the courts and in the legislature to allow for forced placement of teachers in places that either they or the leadership of the school doesn't want them to work,» Schoales said.

411 teachers from these renewal schools may return to the ATR and be candidates for forced placement.

• Backs districts into a corner on forced placement of teachers.

But if a district finds itself in the not - uncommon position of: (1) using a staffing methodology; (2) having more senior and therefore expensive teachers in non-Title I schools; and (3) lacking major additional funds, it is difficult to see how they could comply without forced placement.

Forced placement = bad for kids.

A lawsuit brought by the teachers union (CEA) seeks to reinstate forced placement.

SB - 191 replaced forced placement with «mutual consent» wherein both the teacher and the school administration must agree to a teaching assignment.

Four years ago, Colorado was the first state to pass landmark legislation to end a practice called forced placement.

... If the contract does endorse forced placements, it would come as a blow to education advocacy groups, who argue that principals should be free to hire who they want into their buildings.

But this past October, in an effort to cut costs, they backed off on that promise, explaining that it wasn't really forced placements because ATR teachers would only go to schools with open positions (would teachers ever go to schools with no open positions?)

For more than three years, the de Blasio Administration has promised that forced placement of teachers was not an option and that principals would be able to decide which teachers were hired into their schools.

With his flip - flop on forced placement, Mayor de Blasio is turning back the clock to the days when schools were forced to accept teachers that no other principals wanted.

This action will add to the size of the pool and the DOE still has no strategy to decrease the size without forced placement.

Measures such as quotas that force placement of a higher number of women into leadership may provide rapid results, but may not do much to help get rid of the bias, and won't change a company's culture.

When Mayor de Blasio first announced his plans to close the ATR pool, Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina pledged to do so without resorting to forced placement — a policy that allows the NYC Department of Education (DOE) to place a teacher from the ATR pool at a school whether or not the principal wants to hire that teacher.

Earlier this month, Mayor de Blasio announced a change of policy that would result in the forced placement of 400 teachers from the ATR pool into schools across the city.

This «forced placement» of teachers led to bad teachers being passed from school to school, and the ones on the receiving end — most often, schools serving underprivileged students — had no choice but to accept these «lemons.»

And the reason they were doing a ton of forced placement was because that's just the way the district operated.

A handful of districts and two states are doing away with the forced placement of teachers in schools in favor of a system requiring both the teacher and principal to agree to a transfer.

All negotiators agreed that forced placement is not a desired practice.

When I wrote about this before I was incredulous but still naive enough to believe some political force would stop the forced placement of these teachers.

For more than three years, the de Blasio Administration has promised that forced placement of teachers was not an option and that principals would be able to decide which teachers were hired into their schools.

Earlier this month, Mayor de Blasio announced a change of policy that would result in the forced placement of 400 teachers from the ATR pool into schools across the city.

The Wright v. New York plaintiffs are fighting for their case to move forward just as New York City implements a plan to return to forced placement, a policy that was eliminated in 2005.

People hear of equitable distribution, and they think of forced placement.»

The 2010 law requires districts to reimagine their talent - management and educator - support systems by requiring annual performance evaluations, ensuring tenure is earned and not the guarantee of lifetime employment, and ending both seniority - based layoffs and the forced placement of teachers into schools where they neither want to be nor fit well.

Principals, of course, are too happy about these forced placements.

When New York City Council members posed that question directly to Chancellor Carmen Fariña in 2014, she emphatically stated: «There will be no forced placement of teachers.»

District officials have been trying to shrink the size (and expense) of the ATR pool for years, leading some to wonder whether they would resort to forced placement to accomplish their goal.

As two schools» turnaround plans may lead to the return of «forced placement,» E4E - New York Executive Director Jonathan Schleifer argues that principals need...

«Ultimately this is a matter for the courts to decide, but the principle of forced placement for teachers is a bad thing,» Superintendent Tom Boasberg said.

Three widespread practices in particular are in need of major revision: teacher evaluation and tenure systems that do not distinguish effective teachers from ineffective ones; forced placement, where teachers are assigned to schools based on seniority rather than the match of teacher skills to school preferences and needs; and LIFO (last in first out), by which teacher lay - offs are based entirely on seniority rather than teacher effectiveness.

«Force placing teachers is never ideal, and unfortunately under the current system these «forced placements» occur predominately at schools in our highest - need communities.

«We applaud Acting Superintendent Ekchian's proposal to provide «forced placement» waivers for LA Unified's highest - need schools,» said Joan Sullivan, chief executive officer of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, which manages 18 high - need schools in LA Unified.

This would spare families the burden of ineffective teachers and forced placements, perks currently the provenance of NYC's public charter schools, which are unshackled from tenure laws, free to make their own hiring, and spared the pressure to accept ATR teachers.

«The Department of Education took a good first step towards ensuring that there is more transparency in the forced placement of teachers from the Absent Teacher Reserve (ATR) pool by releasing this information,» said Evan Stone, Co-CEO and Founder of Educators for Excellence.

Below is a press release from StudentsFirstNY, which relays reactions of New York City parents to the news that Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chancellor Carmen Fariña will force placements of 400 of the 882 teachers assigned to the Absent Teacher Reserve.

Mr. Cerf said school districts must prove that they will end «forced placement» of teachers, as Ms. Anderson did.

Forced placement — when teachers are placed in a school without an interview process — is common practice in school districts across the state.

At the top of Superintendent Shafer's list of «challenges, not excuses» was what she called «forced placements» of teachers in unfamiliar positions last year «because of the layoffs caused by budget cuts.

In charge of arranging the forced placement of insurance on collaterals to protect the bank's interest.