Sentences with phrase «include teacher layoffs»

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.

Earlier in the hearing, Chancellor Dennis Walcott confirmed that next year's DOE preliminary budget, which will go up by $ 183 million or about 1 percent, does not include any teacher layoffs.

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Key reforms include fostering more effective charter schools, merit pay for teachers, more aid to parochial schools and the elimination of stultifying laws such as «Last in first out» for teacher layoffs.

Topics include: Education funding and teacher layoff «propaganda», ethics reform, a property tax cap and the battle over naming an official state vegetable.

And while many in the crowd did applaud and cheer as the mayor passed, others expressed their resentment about the comments as well as recent cutbacks, including threats of thousands of teacher layoffs.

With so many other cuts under consideration, including thousands of teacher layoffs, it's unclear whether this will become a priority at the City Council.

Today I am proud to announce that Governor Cuomo heard our call, and at a press conference today at Yonkers City Hall, the Governor and I announced new State funding that will save all programs, including art, music and sports, restore full - day pre-k, and prevent teacher layoffs at Yonkers Public Schools.

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.

Our final sample includes 1,717 teachers who received a layoff notice in 2008 — 09 and 407 teachers who received one in 2009 — 10, with 130 teachers who received a layoff notice in both school years.

This result is not surprising given that teachers who received layoff notices included many first - and second - year teachers, and numerous studies show that, on average, effectiveness improves substantially over a teacher's first few years of teaching.

Third, there's a revolution underway in teacher evaluation and many of the HR practices associated with it, including retention, tenure, compensation, promotions, and 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.

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.

The highly publicized teacher layoffs during the budget downturn left a mark on the public psyche, including individuals who might have been considering a teaching career.

After a year in which the Baltimore city school district was forced to lay off 115 people to fill a massive budget shortfall — including the first classroom teachers to lose their jobs in a decade — this year's $ 1.3 billion proposed budget includes no layoffs.

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.

The district then weighted the different categories three different ways and averaged out scores to ensure that no teacher with an outlier score on one category was included in the layoffs.

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.

Following the economic collapse of 2008, which contributed to school revenue problems nationwide, massive teacher layoffs became the new norm, including in districts where teacher shortages had provided an entry to TFA in the past.

The NCTQ looked at factors including how high a grade point average an applicant to a teacher training program needed to gain admittance; the amount of high - quality student teaching experience they will need to complete the program; and how layoffs are decided when necessary.

Would layoffs and furloughs of school teachers and employees help fill the shortfall?Florida has more than 323,780 full - time public school employees, including 189,429 instructional staff, making Florida's public school system one of the largest employers in the state.

E4E is a two - year - old group founded by Evan Stone and Sydney Morris, former teachers who organized teachers around a core set of values about the profession, including an opposition to seniority - based layoffs.

The American Jobs Act includes $ 30 billion to prevent up to 280,000 teacher layoffs by supporting state and local efforts to retain, rehire, and hire early childhood, elementary, and secondary educators.

Those options include student reassignments and, as expected, massive layoffs among arts, music and physical education teachers to make way for hundreds of new core subject teachers.

The unions also proposed that evaluations be clearly tied to a teacher obtaining due process rights, usually known as «teacher tenure» and that decisions about layoffs in times of fiscal crisis include performance evaluations rather than a system based solely on seniority.

A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in 2014, finding that five long - standing teacher job protections, including a two - year probationary period for new teachers and a layoff system based on how many years one's been teaching, violated students» constitutional right to an equal education.

City schools CEO Gregory Thornton has faced backlash over staffing issues this year, following the departure of high - profile principals — including the principals who led schools in neighborhoods affected by the Freddie Gray unrest — and school layoffs that included the depletion of a surplus pool of teachers.

Layoffs offer some rights to teachers, meaning a financial obligation that the mayor said the city and its $ 110 million budget deficit — including $ 28 million short from schools — couldn't afford.

In passing the bill, Illinois becomes the latest in a slew of states including Florida and Wisconsin to overhaul the union rights and evaluation methods of public - school teachers in light of large budget gaps, looming layoffs and pressure from the Obama administration to focus on teacher accountability.

«Our students and teachers are dealing with the destructive consequences of budget cuts, including fewer resources, the elimination of programs, teacher layoffs, and increases in class size,» said CEA President Sheila Cohen.

Ten states — including New York and California — however, still require that the number of years a teacher has taught be a partial, or the primary factor for districts when making layoff decisions.

Although school districts control major operations on affiliated charters including employment decisions, the school gains access to the charter categorical block grant, which expands spending flexibility and can be used to reduce teacher layoffs in a given year.

These include not only salaries and benefits but also how teachers are assigned to schools and classrooms, the frequency and parameters for their performance evaluations, the criteria for layoffs and dismissals, and parent participation in school leadership councils.

The job cuts would mean a third straight year of layoffs in the school district, though cuts in recent years did not include teachers.

This past April, the California Court of Appeals unanimously struck down the controversial Vergara v. California decision, in which a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ruled that five longstanding teacher protections — including a two - year probationary period for new teachers and a layoff system based on how many years one's been teaching — violated students» constitutional right to an equal education.

The layoffs include fewer than 75 teachers in core subjects such as math and English, school officials said.

During the campaign, Tuck criticized the unions» influence over the Legislature and brought attention to Vergara v. the State of California, the lawsuit challenging current teacher employment laws, including teacher tenure after two years, a lengthy dismissal process and layoffs based on seniority.

The federal government has made hefty financial commitments to education in recent years, including the implementation of No Child Left Behind and the subsequent waivers from the standards - based law as well as the influx of about $ 89 billion in stimulus dollars to prevent teacher layoffs, keep class sizes down and avoid program cuts.

... in up to 45 Targeted Schools in the unfortunate event of budget - based teacher layoffs and provides support and resources aimed at stabilizing and improving these schools, including retention incentives for teachers and principals.

Robert Bobb (class of 2005), the Emergency Financial Manager of the Detroit Public Schools, recently sent layoff notices to every one of the district's 5,466 salaried employees, including all its teachers, and said that nearly a third of the district's schools would be closed or turned over to private charter operators.

The fact that both the NEA and AFT have become so fearful of the implications of last month's decision in Vergara v. California ending near - lifetime employment and reverse - seniority layoff rules — including the likelihood that teachers, now realizing that the two unions can no longer hold up bargain they struck with earlier generations in the profession — show how tied they are to this outdated model of unionism.