Sentences with phrase «granted tenure protections»
The evaluations are used, in part, to determine which teachers are granted tenure protections.
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In April, the California Court of Appeal overturned the trial court's ruling in Vergara v. California [i], in which a group of families had challenged the constitutionality of state laws governing teacher tenure [ii](California state law automatically grants tenure to teachers after sixteen months, provides extra due process protections to teachers over and above those available to other state workers, and requires schools to use seniority rather than competency in layoff decisions.)
(California state law automatically grants tenure to teachers after sixteen months, provides extra due process protections to teachers over and above those available to other state workers, and requires schools to use seniority rather than competency in layoff decisions.)
Nearly every state grants tenure to teachers, but California is one of only five that provide the protections after two years.
Under current state law, districts must decide by March of the second year whether to grant teachers permanent status or tenure, which provides due - process rights and job protections.
California is one of a half - dozen states that grant due - process protections, known as tenure, to new teachers after two years or less on the job.
-- Proactive retention: Policymakers are advised to grant absolute protection during layoffs to excellent teachers, advanced roles for teachers should be established to allow for advancement in the profession, and tenure should be transformed to «elite tenure, offered only to consistent top performers who can then be empowered to choose their peers.»
Since 1971, North Carolina teachers who made it beyond the first four years of a probationary period were granted tenure, which gave them certain protections, including the right to a hearing in the event of dismissal.
Although Article III of the Constitution entrenches some protections for judges — the tenure and salary guarantees that were already protected in Great Britain by the Act of Settlement 1701 — prof. Groves shows that much of the architecture of judicial independence that observers of the American judiciary take for granted has no obvious foundation in the constitutional text.