Sentences with phrase «forces teacher layoffs»

To win the contest, the states had to present new laws, contracts and data systems making teachers individually responsible for what their students achieve, and demonstrating, for example, that budget - forced teacher layoffs will be based on the quality of the teacher, not simply on seniority.

Not exact matches

Cambridge, MA — Most school districts devote well over half of all spending to teacher compensation, and strained budgets are forcing layoffs of teachers.

Newly available data on «reduction - in - force» (RIF) notices received by teachers in Washington State shed light on the consequences of existing layoff policies for student achievement as well as the consequences of adopting alternatives.

With a seniority - based layoff policy, school systems may be forced to cut some of their most promising new talent rather than dismiss more - senior teachers, who may not be terribly effective in raising student achievement.

After a year in which the Baltimore city school district was forced to lay off 115 people to fill a massive budget shortfall — including the first classroom teachers to lose their jobs in a decade — this year's $ 1.3 billion proposed budget includes no layoffs.

According to the Court, the laws in question — laws that govern teacher tenure, dismissal, and layoffs — impose substantial harm on California's students by forcing administrators to push passionate, inspiring teachers out of the school system and keep grossly ineffective teachers in front of students year after year.

Friction with the Sacramento City Teachers Association started early, during tense negotiations in response to state - forced budget cuts, over higher class sizes, furlough days, pay cuts and hundreds of preliminary layoff notices.

But more rural districts were taking the Senate budget proposal more seriously and considering larger reductions to their teacher assistants in anticipation of a budget scenario that forces large - scale layoffs of TAs.

The parties in a 4 - year - old lawsuit challenging mass layoffs of teachers at low - income middle schools in Los Angeles Unified announced a settlement Tuesday that an attorney called a potential model for creating a stable work force in schools beset by teacher churn.

And then in October, $ 753 million in cuts to New York City schools forced mass layoffs of school support workers: secretaries, teacher aides and parent coordinators.

Teacher layoffs in New Jersey are governed by a rigid quality - blind mandate, often referred to as the «last in, first out» policy, which forces schools to fire teachers based on district seniority alone.

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.

In an unusual request, the state Department of Education last week sent a short survey to every district and charter school asking them about their layoffs of teachers technically called «reductions in force» (RIFs) over the past five years, and about the impact of seniority protection on their «ability to manage their personnel.»

«Subject to its obligations under pre-existing labor agreements... School Districts shall use reasonable efforts not to terminate any employed Teacher from his / her teaching position in the event of a reduction in force (RIF), layoffs, «leveling» or other elimination or consolidation of teaching positions within School District.

Exempting grow - your - own teachers from layoffs (in the event that the district must reduce the size of the teaching force).

The numbers are even more impressive given the funding challenges facing the district in recent years, where rising teacher pension costs and declining state support have forced endless borrowing, budget cuts and layoffs, escalating tensions with the local teachers union.

Citing the constitutional rights of its public school student plaintiffs, the suit seeks to overturn state laws that schedule tenure consideration after two years of teaching, dictate the use of seniority when budget cuts force layoffs, and impose due process rules on teachers» terminations.

... We're talking about an opportunity now for transformational change across Illinois in that principals will have the power to dismiss ineffective teachers, that they'll be able to hire who they want, that they'll no longer be forced to accept teachers they don't want in their buildings, and that when layoffs happen, they'll be able to let people go based on performance, not just seniority — and in Chicago they'll be able to lengthen their day and year which has been just a horrible inequity for decades.

The great recession, caused by the near collapse of the banking industry, resulted in teacher layoffs / reductions in force through the capitol region.

«We applaud you for shining a light on the economic forces that helped create the national teacher shortage: low pay, higher student loan debt and recession - linked layoffs.

Unfortunately, there have been too many instances where local teachers unions have refused to assist in cost - cutting efforts, forcing layoffs and cuts to student programs.

One study simulating a reduction in force with teacher layoffs based on three methodologies — principal evaluations, pure seniority, and results of value - added measures — found that the scenario utilizing value - added measures identified less effective teachers better than either principal evaluations or seniority.

Force teachers deemed fully or partially ineffective to face layoffs, even if they have seniority, a key element demanded by education reform advocates.

According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, up to half of these schools» budgets could be cut, forcing a spate of teacher layoffs and other losses.

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.

These quality - blind layoffs could force a new generation of teachers, like those recruited by Teach for America, out of classrooms in the coming months.)