Sentences with phrase «hired school district teachers»

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He was an ubiquitous presence in the school,» said Darlene Larson, an associate superintendent for human resources at District 214 who was hired by Miller as an English teacher at Buffalo Grove High when it opened.

The Buffalo School District may have hired three dozen new gym teachers for this year but there's already a fight over their future.

Donohue said instead of cutting resources to teachers and support staff who keep schools running, the state would be better off eliminating the financial perks school districts have been lavishing on law firms they hire to represent them against their workers.

Buffalo Public Schools are changing the way the district hires teachers, planning to do it much earlier when the talent pool is larger.

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

While the main hiring priority of any school district should be hiring the most qualified teachers who can build up their students the most, building a teaching workforce that is reflective of the community in which they work must be a goal for districts.

The dispute between Buffalo Public Schools and the Buffalo Teachers Federation centers around whether the district can cut 5 1/2 teaching positions and hire aides to perform non-supervisory roles.

State Sen. Jim Tedisco lauded the district and its administrators for spending the funding on hiring more teachers and expanding programs aimed at needy children and proposing a budget that cuts school taxes.

Sean has successfully fought for billions more in education aid, to help school districts hire more teachers, lower class sizes, and actually make investments in arts, music, and sports.

A divided state Board of Regents on Sept. 16 proposed three changes to the state evaluation system aimed at making the process fairer: an appeals process to address aberrations in growth scores, ensuring that privacy protections to bar the release to the public of individual teachers» growth scores will remain in force and the creation of a hardship waiver for school districts who find it difficult to hire outside evaluators.

Schools Superintendent Pamela Brown says raising attendance is a priority, but doesn't know if the district can hire more attendance teachers on its budget.

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.»

As part of a move toward site - based management, some schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District have tried to involve parents and teachers in hiring principals and other staff members.

Mrs. Bush is equally articulate about «backpack spending» (the institute is sponsoring a project on school - district productivity that includes 20 different researchers» papers); teacher autonomy («Obviously, if you are held accountable as the principal of your school and you don't have the authority to change anything, by either hiring or firing, or setting up another structure that your school district doesn't allow, then how can you be really accountable?»)

The district's decision to hire teachers for summer school — part of the retention plan — outside of union hiring rules created another furor.

Most districts trying to reduce teacher turnover and increase the number of well - qualified teachers in their schools have focused on improving hiring and recruitment practices.

By examining the fundamental requirements of each program — admissions standards, course requirements, coverage of essential content, preparation in the CCSS, how the student teaching program operates, instruction in classroom management and lesson planning, and how teacher candidates are judged ready for the classroom — the Review will capture the information that any consumer of these programs would want to see, including aspiring teachers and school districts looking to hire the best teachers.

And for the school districts that do, I imagine that it won't take long before they realize the mistake they made and start hiring special education teachers back.

Districts hiring TFA or VIF teachers are making a trade - off between faster student growth and more stability within their schools.

The education profession is not immune to larger economic forces, and, just like with all other employers, school districts don't hire as many teachers during recessions.

Some school districts, like Boston, MA; Spokane, WA; and Washington, DC, have been able to improve their teacher hiring processes, and their efforts could be spread to the rest of the country.

One school district hired a yoga teacher to arrive shortly after the last class so that teachers can breathe and stretch their stress away.

This is also not surprising, given that teacher hiring in charter schools is often less tightly regulated than it is in the district sector.

Glass said his priority is to alter the «one - minute interviews» used to make decisions on teacher hiring in too many school districts.

Some growing Oklahoma school districts have not hired new teachers they need or have made budget cuts because the Governor and the state legislature could not agree on doling out special payments for the districts.

Nearly two - thirds of survey respondents indicated that teacher - hiring decisions are made at the school level or jointly by school and district.

Delaware lawmakers have approved a bailout, teachers have gotten pink slips, and turnaround consultants have been hired — all for a budget crisis that former leaders of the state's largest school district say doesn't exist.

The Philadelphia school district is overhauling its human - resources department in an effort to improve hiring practices and address complaints that inefficiency has hurt teacher recruitment.

One now - infamous controversy arose when the superintendent of a school district in southeast Michigan wrote CMU's president notifying him that his district would no longer accept student teachers from CMU, hire CMU graduates, or recommend their high - school graduates attend CMU.

The district created grade - level teacher teams in each school and hired a coach to provide professional development to teachers.

If the school's district needed to hire 300 teachers per year before, it needs to hire 450 now.

97, ED.D.» 09, mentions recruitment trips to historically black colleges and universities, a «community - to - teacher» program that offers college graduates with a four - year degree a pathway to becoming teachers, getting successful high school students to consider careers in the classroom, and hiring teachers beginning in March instead of the summer like many other districts.

The typical urban school district's personnel and budgeting systems leave principals without much say in hiring teachers or allocating resources.

In a complex yet constitutional process, Title I funds provided services to students in parochial schools through funds granted to the public school districts.The public districts — in addition to taking care of their own students — also purchased books and hired teachers for the parochial school students.

Usually, the vacancies were in urban schools, and the district had to scramble to fill them in the opening days of school, and often was forced to hire the least experienced teachers.

Last summer, for example, the Camden, New Jersey, school board outsourced its substitute hiring to a private vendor because the job was so onerous: between teachers calling in sick or on leave, the district needed to find subs for up to 40 percent of its teachers each day, it told the local newspaper.

Few of these schools and their districts are accustomed to being highly selective when it comes to hiring teachers for their high - poverty schools.

The act burdens the states as well as local districts, imposing obligations to develop academic standards, test all students annually in grades 3 through 8, hire «highly qualified» teachers in core subjects, and reconstitute persistently failing schools in order to remain eligible for federal aid.

The 12 administrative subdistricts within the Houston school district hired teacher trainers to provide continuing support, working with teachers individually (in their classrooms) and in small groups.

Some states and districts require EMO - managed schools to hire certified teachers or even to retain the existing teacher force.

The fragmented teacher labor market has implications for how we think about improving teacher preparation, not to mention how school districts go about hiring new teachers.

Most new teachers (77 %) are hired through a decentralized process in which most of their interactions are with individual schools rather than with district central offices.

Budgetary shortfalls, school district bankruptcies, teacher and administrator layoffs, hiring and salary freezes, pension system defaults, shorter school years, ever - larger classes, faculty furloughs, fewer course electives, reduced field trips, foregone or curtailed athletics, outdated textbooks, teachers having to make do with fewer supplies, cuts in school maintenance, and other tales of fiscal woe inevitably captivate the news media, particularly during the late - spring and summer budget and appropriations seasons.

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.

School districts, including most charter schools, have no choice but to pay the rates set by the state legislature, even if they'd prefer to spend precious resources on higher teacher salaries, hiring more teachers, or making other critical investments in school serSchool districts, including most charter schools, have no choice but to pay the rates set by the state legislature, even if they'd prefer to spend precious resources on higher teacher salaries, hiring more teachers, or making other critical investments in school serschool services.

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.

Though the Orleans Parish School Board would still maintain control over the budget and the hiring and firing of teachers, A&M would report directly to the state superintendent and have the authority to appoint the district's top financial officers.

The most popular way of soaking up excess revenues is to increase salaries and to hire additional school personnel, especially in districts that have difficulty attracting and retaining qualified teachers.

The report recommends that school districts hire only certified teachers and those who have a major in the field in which they are teaching.

Large and medium - size school districts are hiring more rookie teachers and eliminating administrative jobs to reduce their costs, a recent survey by the Educational Research Service says.