Sentences with phrase «from teacher layoffs»

The district projects it will save $ 11.3 million from teacher layoffs and an additional $ 6.7 million from attrition.

Not exact matches

The proposal came shortly after the State Senate passed a bill backed by Bloomberg that would reverse a rule protecting veteran city teachers from layoffs regardless of their effectiveness.

Sources said Mulgrew announced at the convention that the union will run a Democratic primary fight against Manhattan Assemblyman Jonathan Bing, who has proposed a bill to curb the «last hired, first fired» provision that protects veteran teachers from layoffs.

Reynolds said three teachers were excessed from the school in February and he expects they will lose two more if there are layoffs.

ALBANY - Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Cuomo's war over the law governing teacher layoffs went nuclear on Wednesday with verbal bombs dropping from New York City to Albany.

Randi Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers, criticized the Senate version of the bill for cutting about $ 40 billion from money «targeted to help states avoid drastic education cuts and teacher layoffs,» as well as $ 20 billion from construction aid to schools and colleges and $ 1 billion from new aid for Head Start and other early childhood education programs.

The statewide teachers union has tallied projected reductions from 232 districts that have crafted their budgets so far and determined they collectively plan to eliminate 13,560 positions — mostly through layoffs.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's accusation this morning that school districts and their allies are playing politics with kids by using the threat of teacher layoffs to try to scare lawmakers — and the public — into opposing the governor's education funding cuts hasn't stopped them from doing... well... just that.

«I just came from a meeting of thousands of teachers and they have lost all respect for the mayor,» said Mulgrew, «This is what they are telling me: â $ ˜ He is fighting for how to do layoffs instead of fighting against them.»»

The message to the mayor from the more than 600 UFT members, parents, students and supporters at Brooklyn Borough Hall on May 5 was clear: he has the money to prevent teacher layoffs and child care cuts.

The $ 68.7 billion budget, unveiled at City Hall, includes no new teacher layoffs and no additional cuts from those laid out when the administration previously updated its budget in the fall.

The Bloomberg administration just released a memo from Deputy Education Chancellor John White, outlining how Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed teacher evaluation bill won't change the current last in, first out layoff requirement that the mayor has been pushing to change.

«It has no tax increases, no layoffs of teachers or uniformed workers, and no walking away from our long - term investments,» said the mayor, who credited prudent fiscal planning for avoiding more draconian cuts.

A new study by Dan Goldhaber and Roddy Theobald from the University of Washington looks at the characteristics of teachers who were targeted for layoffs in Washington state, and at the impact of LIFO provisions on student achievement.

We find that the probability that students in a particular subgroup have a teacher who received a layoff notice varies considerably from one subgroup to the next.

How many teachers and principals should receive extra compensation, be protected from layoffs, be given additional responsibilities, and encouraged to stay on the job?

The sharp division between the Obama administration and key congressional Democrats over education policy and priorities may never have been more clear than it was Thursday night when the U.S. House of Representatives voted to cut $ 800 million from key administration initiatives to help pay for an effort to avert teacher layoffs.

Using national examples from districts including LAUSD, the report also includes information about how seniority - based layoffs exacerbate the number of people who lose their jobs because districts have to layoff more teachers with low salaries to meet budgetary demands.

After years of teacher layoffs, districts began hiring again as the economy recovered from the Great Recession.

Additionally, supermajorities of California voters support policy changes to elevate teacher quality, including either eliminating teacher tenure or lengthening the time before teachers receive tenure from the current eighteen months to at least four years, taking performance into account when making layoff decisions, and making it easier to let go of underperforming teachers.

Quality - blind layoffs are just one vestige of seniority rules introduced decades ago to promote fairness and protect teachers from capricious administrators.

View key facts and statistics from the Vergara v. California trial, including information about Plaintiffs» witnesses, the long - term impact of ineffective teachers and the harm caused by California's permanent employment, dismissal and «last - in, first - out» layoff laws.

Maine's school boards are being urged to eliminate seniority clauses from teachers» contracts as the result of a state high - court decision, handed down this summer, that state law does not protect tenured teachers at the expense of nontenured teachers in layoff decisions.

In papers filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the teachers claimed that the layoff clause in their contract violated their equal - protection and due - process rights under the 14th Amendment and their right to protection from racial discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Sections 1981 and 1983 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871.

Nevada school superintendents pleaded with state lawmakers Thursday for flexibility from educational mandates to try to meet a 10 percent budget reduction that could mean thousands of teacher layoffs statewide.

She predicted that now that layoff protections aren't needed, teachers will defect from the Priority Schools.

The confidential responses from districts indicate how schools are likely to be different next year as a result of these cuts, which are expected to include teacher layoffs.

Under the plan, 1,000 teachers who are successful in reducing dropout rates and raising student achievement would be eligible for a $ 3,000 bonus and a two - year contract that protects them from layoffs.

The layoffs announced Monday by Chicago Public Schools — 62 workers, 17 of them teachers — were far milder than feared earlier in the school year, but the district's plan to end its longstanding practice of picking up pension costs for teachers led to a fresh strike threat from the Chicago Teacherteachers — were far milder than feared earlier in the school year, but the district's plan to end its longstanding practice of picking up pension costs for teachers led to a fresh strike threat from the Chicago Teacherteachers led to a fresh strike threat from the Chicago TeachersTeachers Union.

And when we talk about improving public education, and the very real and increasing threat that is coming from the corporate «education reform» types, who want to layoff teachers, ban or reduce collective bargaining rights, take - over public schools and transfer the care and control of our public schools to various third parties... let's not forget that many districts do not fund enough IA positions and every district fails to fairly compensate IAs for the incredible work they do.

Melvoin worked on the ACLU's Reed v. California lawsuit, which challenged LA Unified's seniority - based teacher layoff policies, by helping recruit former students and co-workers from Markham to join the lawsuit.

Massive teacher layoffs have led to concerns that young people will shy away from entering the suddenly less - than - secure profession.

In a subsequent post on its website, the union went bonkers, claiming, «Corporate millionaires and special interests have mounted an all - out assault on educators by attempting to do away with laws protecting teachers from arbitrary firings, providing transparency in layoff decisions and supporting due process rights.»

He also expressed outrage at a system that shields veteran teachers from layoffs, regardless of their competence.

The ATR exists because the UFT has fought to protect weak teachers from quality - based layoffs.

A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge tentatively approved significant changes to the «last hired, first fired» rules that govern teacher layoffs to keep campuses with young staffs from bearing the brunt of budgetary cutbacks in the nation's second - largest school district.

The Wright v. New York case was first filed in 2014, when nine families from across the state brought suit against the State of New York and others, claiming that teacher tenure, dismissal, and quality - blind layoff laws deprive New York children of their right to a sound basic education as guaranteed under the New York State Constitution.

These shortfalls mark a dramatic change from the years of teacher layoffs that occurred during the economic recession of 2008 and the several years that followed.

Fletcher, of UTLA, and other educators don't oppose outright the content within the agreement, which includes teacher - friendly provisions such as a commitment from the district to resolve any budget shortfalls without turning to teacher layoffs, and from school leaders to ensure teachers get the proper resources to fulfill new expectations under the Common Core State Standards.

They said these additional resources will work in conjunction with existing seniority regulations to give teachers more training and other benefits that will better protect new teachers from any future budget - based layoffs.

In 2011, the court issued a ruling in the case, protecting 45 low - income schools from budget - based layoffs, a direct challenge to the existing practice of basing teacher layoffs solely on seniority.

The reality is that for all the talk from the NEA and AFT about how they represent teachers, the reality is that their defense of seniority - and degree - based pay scales, reverse - seniority layoff policies, and near - lifetime employment privileges through tenure do little for the younger, more reform - minded teachers who realize the damage these policies do to their profession and, ultimately, to the children in their care.

«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.

In a January interview with CBS LA, Deasy said preventing teacher layoffs was a possibility next year, but far from a certainty.

They focused on flexibilities from the contract relating to the hiring and retaining teachers, especially in the face of impending layoffs.

Support from Democrats and, at the last minute, from a teachers union in Colorado represents a major political shift at a time when states are facing huge budget cuts that could mean thousands of teacher layoffs.

Sacramento Superintendent Jonathan Raymond agrees with Jacobs that exempting some schools from layoffs is a short - term solution that doesn't get at the bigger question of which teachers help students most.

Translation: Decisions about who gets a raise, a wanted transfer or protection from layoff will continue to be based mostly on how many and what kinds of college credits teachers earn, and on that old union standby, seniority.

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

But it's not enough merely to measure effectiveness, according to many leading thinkers and policymakers; personnel decisions — from pay and promotions to layoffs and outright firings — should be based on teacher - effectiveness data, they say.