Sentences with phrase «hire more teachers of»

The researchers say the findings point to the value for schools of recruiting and hiring more teachers of color.

However, while school systems have made significant progress in recruiting and hiring more teachers of color, they have done little to keep them in the classroom over time.

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Accommodating Amazon's thousands of workers will require hiring more teachers, widening roads and building more housing.

Charter schools have argued that there is a shortage of teachers and that it is hard to hire enough instructors under the more stringent qualification required by the State Education Department.

Charter schools have argued that there's a shortage of teachers and that it's hard to hire enough instructors under the more stringent qualification required by the State Education Department.

Senate Republicans not only stuck it to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio on mayoral control of the public schools, but also handed a victory to his nemesis, Success Academy charter school network founder Eva Moskowitz by allowing charters to hire more uncertified teachers.

The Rochester City School District is in the midst of hiring season for the next school year, and is pushing to add more teachers with diverse backgrounds to classrooms.

New York City's charter school sector appears to have secured a significant victory in the 11th hour of the Legislative session Wednesday night, with a set of regulations that will make it much easier for large charter networks to hire more uncertified teachers.

(CNN)- A surrogate for Mitt Romney's campaign said Monday the presumptive GOP nominee was taken out of context when he argued against the idea of hiring more fire fighters, police and teachers on the taxpayer dime.

In the teeth of the worst recession in decades, more than one - third of the over 6,800 teachers hired in 2006 - 2007 left New York City public schools of their own accord, largely because of the DOE's mismanagement and its obsession with test prep rather than real education.

Core academic requirements, parent or student preferences for electives and the financial burden of hiring more teachers can limit opportunities to expand health education courses.

But Connelly changed things, reducing English and math class sizes to an average of sixteen students, hiring more teachers for core subjects («I buy teachers — I don't buy test coordinators,» she states), and switching to mastery grading.

Districts would have no option if they wanted to provide their staff a different mix of compensation, even if they'd prefer to spend more resources on higher teacher salaries, hiring more teachers or making other investments.

Another possibility is that many individuals who graduate from college with an education major do not actually end up teaching, and it may be that the more academically competent among those trained to teach actually become teachers, either because of application or hiring decisions.

But perhaps more pressing than hiring teachers and building new schools are issues related to the language of instruction.

Although the demand for teachers also depends on policies such as class size and the use of technology, this increase in retirement - eligible teachers may well portend the need to hire more teachers in upcoming years.

Examples of putting the funds to good use include providing staff with professional development, mentoring, training and resources to help teach the subject more effectively, and hiring qualified sports coaches to work with teachers to enhance or extend opportunities.

Taken together, TFA and the TNTP maybe prepare slightly more than 5 percent of new teachers hired by districts.

«Teachers hired during recession periods appeared to be somewhat more effective than those teachers hired in more secure times, according to a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic RTeachers hired during recession periods appeared to be somewhat more effective than those teachers hired in more secure times, according to a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Rteachers hired in more secure times, according to a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

The numbers have shifted a bit since 2008, partly in response to a fall in teacher hiring in the wake of the last recession, but there are still far more new teachers in the classroom than there were two decades ago.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

So I think you're seeing more districts recognizing the cuts were not as severe as they [were expected to be], and across the state I have seen evidence of districts hiring back teachers.

We have poured more money into schools, hired an army of new teachers to reduce class size, expanded professional development, and retained more experienced teachers — everything that the teacher unions have in mind when they repeat their mantra that we know what works and just need the resources to do it.

Instead of hiring even more teachers or paying them more money, districts are devoting an increasing share of finite resources to employee benefits.

That said, there has been a little bit of recent research suggesting some districts are doing things that help select teachers that might be more predictive in the hiring process.

The teachers then walked out anyway, on behalf of an agenda that included, depending on who was talking, more funds for textbooks, non-teaching staff, and salaries; changes in Oklahoma's capital gains tax rate; other changes in the tax code; new hires at the State Department of Education, and more.

In addition to the curriculum - reform recommendations, the Elementary Grades Task Force suggested more aggressive efforts to consider ethnic background in hiring teachers, expanded social services within schools, and performance - based assessments that, in the case of limited - English - proficient students, would be given in their native language.

One way to address these gaps would be to scramble for funding to fill them with more of the same: hire more teachers and more guidance counselors.

They will be able to hire and maintain a teaching force with the goal of higher test scores in mind, and they will have more flexibility than public schools do to reward or punish their teachers on the basis of test results.

Although better principals may also attract and hire more - effective teachers, the absence of reliable quality measures for new teachers and the fact that many principals have little control over new hires lead us to focus specifically on turnover.

Second, hiring more teachers may dilute the quality of the workforce, thereby negating any gains among the students of good teachers.

«Although the statutes may lead to the hiring and retention of more ineffective teachers than a hypothetical alternative system would, the statutes do not address the assignment of teachers; instead, administrators — not the statutes — ultimately determine where teachers within a district are assigned to teach.»

Remember that my test for whether school choice raises demand for certain teacher characteristics is two-fold: 1) whether a school that faces stronger competition hires teachers with more of a certain characteristic; and 2) whether that characteristic earns a premium in an environment of greater school choice.

So far, schools in Lafayette, located about 120 miles west of New Orleans, reportedly have registered 2,500 evacuee students and hired more than 100 teachers, while Shreveport, 350 miles northwest of the Crescent City, has enrolled 1,000 new students.

In Nevada's Clark County, teachers with more than 30 years of experience actually earn substantially less total compensation than a novice teacher: the loss in retirement payments for such a teacher who remains employed another year is more than the difference between his salary and that of a newly hired teacher.

In the end, hiring a nontraditional principal may be considered more of a risk than hiring teachers or superintendents with nontraditional backgrounds — two related trends that have swept the nation over the past decade.

But for the past few years, DPS has treated the innovation school authorization process much like the charter authorization process, and new innovation schools have looked far more like charters — with a year to plan, clear visions and strategies, and careful hiring of teachers.

In an ambitious study that seeks to examine state education spending down to the school level, a new analysis of K - 12 expenses in Wyoming shows that while per - pupil spending has swelled to one of the highest rates in the country, schools devoted a significant portion of their money to raising teacher salaries rather than hiring more educators.

Those that do provide AP courses today only offer a fraction of the 34 courses for which AP exams are available, because they lack the resources to hire more AP teachers or there is not enough student demand to justify a dedicated course and teacher.

One group of local citizens — teachers and other employees of the school district — has an intense interest in everything the district does: how much money it spends, how the money is allocated, how hiring and firing are handled, what work rules are adopted, how the curriculum is determined, which schools are to be opened and closed, and much more.

Districts and schools wishing to hire more - effective teachers could benefit from collecting a broader set of information on their candidates, concludes a new working paper by several well - known teacher - quality researchers.

Heads of schools should also have more knowledge than central administrators about which teachers to hire and who deserves promotion or a raise in salary.

The Parent Teacher Organization invested $ 600, mostly for pots and pans, since the kitchen had been mostly reheating prepared foods, The program was so successful that increased sales allowed the hiring of more staff, making it sustainable after Connolly stopped cooking.

It's not necessary because, if former teachers and graduates of programs in educational administration are more qualified, school districts will hire them ahead of other candidates.

How much money is spent, and where, who is hired or fired, how we promote effective teaching, how we measure education outcomes, and more — all are affected by the relative power of the teachers unions at any given moment.

There are smarter, better ways to approach the challenge at hand: expand the hiring pool beyond recent college graduates; staff schools in ways that squeeze more value out of talented teachers; and use technology to make it easier for teachers to be highly effective.

My dream is to be able to hire other teachers to make more videos (with a wider variety of topics and themes) and turn unicoos into a platform that supports teachers to practice a flipped classroom.

To improve schooling, the U.S. has adopted the peculiar policy of hiring ever more teachers and asking them each to do the same job in roughly the same way.

The accountability provisions of the law bedevil the unions to this day, but the large increase in federal education spending ended up helping the unions» bottom line, as still more teachers and support workers were hired.

In rural areas, a solution more immediate than hiring Hispanic teachers and paraprofessionals may be to recruit and train promotores — staff who provide families with advice, encouragement, and assistance in unfamiliar aspects of schools and their organizational culture.