Sentences with phrase «forced teacher transfers»

Advocacy groups also recently noted that the department's proposal on supplement, not supplant does not offer protections against forced teacher transfers to meet comparability requirements.

Education Week looked at the issue of «forced teacher transfers» and whether they are permitted under ESSA's proposed spending rules.

Not exact matches

A 2005 study by the New Teacher Project, the national nonprofit organization that works with school districts to recruit high - quality teachers, examined five urban districts and concluded that seniority - based transfer privileges written into contracts often force principals «to hire large numbers of teachers they do not want and who may not be a good fit for the job and their school.»

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.

Republican lawmakers don't like it, and the leading teachers» unions are not comfortable with it either fearing it could force transfers of experienced teachers from richer schools without doing anything to improve poorer schools.

Some have argued that the only way for districts to close the comparability gap is to force experienced teachers to transfer to high - poverty schools, which typically employ teachers with fewer years of experience and lower salaries.

Its purpose was to promote the usage of students» test scores to grade and pay teachers annual bonuses (i.e., «supplements») as per their performance, and «provide a procedure for observing and evaluating teachers» to help make other «significant differentiation [s] in pay, retention, promotion, dismissals, and other staffing decisions, including transfers, placements, and preferences in the event of reductions in force, [as] primarily [based] on evaluation results.»

The driving force behind flipped classrooms is that transfers of information (lectures, if you will) are not the best use of a teacher's instructional time.

They could be forced to transfer out teachers, and principals, who did not make the grade.

A petition to force the government to equalise the way teachers» pensions transfer to their partners is gathering strength.

For instance, most districts give transferring teachers a maximum of five years credit for previous experience, forcing teachers with more experience to take a salary cut if they want to be hired.

While the actual rules state, «Nothing in this section should be construed to require the forced or involuntary transfer of any school personnel,» American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten interpreted them differently — as banning transfers.

More specifically, the bill is to «provide a procedure for observing and evaluating teachers» to help make «significant differentiation [s] in pay, retention, promotion, dismissals, and other staffing decisions, including transfers, placements, and preferences in the event of reductions in force, [as] primarily [based] on evaluation results.»