New York teachers are suing the state over new regulations that allow superintendents to
impose teacher improvement plans on underperforming teachers without negotiating them with their union first.
Not exact matches
The union is challenging recent state measures that allow superintendents to
impose improvement plans on
teachers who receive poor evaluation scores.
Teachers and school leaders know the
improvements are due to their unremitting efforts to do their best for every child and young person, whatever their background, and despite the relentless changes to the curriculum, tests and exams,
imposed by the Government, that have added to their workload over the past few years.
In this view,
teacher change (and
teacher learning) is a necessary evil — externally
imposed, difficult, and painful, but needed for
improvement in student learning.
The central idea of the school - reform community, Perry said, is that improving public education will lead to an overall
improvement in New Orleans social conditions, and that this goal justifies the radical changes they have
imposed on schools here — firing
teachers, closing schools, moving students every few years.