Sentences with phrase «included firing teachers»

These included firing teachers, closing schools, and changing public schools into charter schools.

The conservator can make immediate changes, which can include firing teachers and hiring new business managers or administrators.

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With their alderman, Luis Gutierrez (26th), Clemente parents and teachers have begun meeting with Chicago Park District officials to try to resolve the issues, which include concern over broken lights, doors, fire alarms and dirty rooms and hallways.

He has picked up a long list of labor endorsements, including the Communication Workers of America District 1, Council of School Supervisors and Administrators Local 1, 1199 / SEIU, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1500, Teamsters Local 808, Uniformed Fire Officers Association, United Federation of Teachers, Working Families Party and 32BJ.

I AM pro teacher; it's just many of their benefits, including practically taking an act of Congress to discipline — or heaven forbid fire — one, that I'm against.

A Bronx charter school dedicated to educating students about social justice and the law fired 11 of its 15 teachers with no notice last month — including eight who were trying to bargain a union contract with management.

• No new faith school allowed to discriminate in its admissions • No existing faith school allowed to discriminate in admissions in the future • No faith school allowed to discriminate against teachers (including hiring, firing, and refusing promotion) on religious grounds

Assini noted that his figures only include the data of regular state employees, (because that's the information provided by the governor to date), and not fire, police or teachers, who make up the bulk of most localities» pension costs.

Since he made those comments during an interview with the Daily News editorial board, Cuomo has reiterated his intentions to battle unions over education reforms, most recently with a letter he sent to state education officials outlining what appeared to be his second - term schools agenda, including questions about firing teachers, extending the probationary period before tenure and boosting the charter school sector.

But the poll also found overwhelming support for many of Bloomberg's latest initiatives, including his proposals to make it easier to fire bad apples while offering a $ 20,000 bump in salary for the best teachers and a $ 25,000 bonus to help educators pay off student loans.

The legislation would give the city the power to base teacher firings on factors other than seniority, including chronic absenteeism and poor student test scores.

Finally, the Brooklyn - bred Democrat pointed to cases in which Gorsuch had ruled against individuals who had sued employers for firing them, including a teacher suffering from cancer and a truck driver who abandoned his load in a winter storm after his brakes failed.

Estimates from the mayor's office say they would have to eliminate up to 45,000 positions — including more than 10,000 teachers and 5,700 police officers — and cut daily Fire Department emergency medical services by seven percent.

Other new members include Elizabeth Zechella, an editor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; David Warren, a staff analyst for the Fire Department; Katherine Consuelo - Johnson, an active parent at P.S. 51 on the Upper East Side; attorney Frank Holozubiec; retired teacher Charles Bayor; retiree Aldona McCarthy; Democratic club activist Khemray Singh; and equity trader Delores Rubin.

The Senate's version of the bill includes a proposal to modify the «last in, first out» teacher firing policy as well as $ 280 million in additional school aid — about 9 percent more than Cuomo's proposed budget, State Sen. Liz Krueger said.

Sukh Shabad has studied and trained with many teachers from many traditions including: Kundalini Yoga with Ravi Singh and received his spiritual name — Sukh Shabad Singh, from Yogi Bhajan; Hatha and Raja Yoga, and Meditation with Dr. Vedula Satyananda Rao - «Babaji»; Tibetan Yoga & Meditation with Alejandro Chaoul - Reich, Ph.D. & Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche; Yin Yoga with Corina Benner; Therapeutic Yoga with Cheri Clampett & Arturo Peal; MEM Gong Yoga with Gong Grandmaster Don Conreaux; Bon Buddhism and Meditation with Latri Geshe Nyima Dakpa Rinpoche & Geshe Murig Nyima Kunchap Rinpoche; Sakya Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism with His Holiness the Sakya Trizin; Qigong Healing and Medical Qigong with Sifu Sat Hon, Master Tianyou Hao, Grandmaster Dr. Chen & Tina Zhang; Zen Buddhism and Meditation with Sensei Janet Jiryu Abels & Sensei Gregory Hosho Abels; Kundalini Maha Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Japa and Meditation with Shri Anandi Ma & Shri Deleepji; Hung - Ga Kung Fu & Shuai Jiao with Sifu Rik Kellerman; and Holy Fire II Karuna Reiki ® with William Lee Rand.

REVIEW: Most elementary teachers include Fire Prevention Week as part of the curriculum.

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?»)

But lately, accountability has been under fire from many critics, including Common Core opponents and those calling for more multifaceted measures of teacher and school performance.

Broad's collateral assault on the downtown school bureaucracy includes growing new charter schools and attracting strong principals who gain unfettered authority to hire and fire their own teachers.

As the Washington Post's savvy Nick Anderson reported,» Faulty calculations of the «value» that D.C. teachers added to student achievement in the last school year resulted in erroneous performance evaluations for 44 teachers, including one who was fired because of a low rating.»

His tenure follows the controversial leadership of former superintendent Cami Anderson, who led a series of unpopular initiatives in quick succession, including a new citywide enrollment plan and lottery that allowed parents to choose any traditional or charter school in the city, closures of underenrolled or poorly performing schools, mass firings of teachers and principals, and a new merit - pay program for teachers.

He also pressed for reform of the onerous work rules in the teachers» contract, including eliminating the seniority provisions, making it easier to fire incompetents, and establishing a system of merit pay.

Cushman's previous books include the best - selling «Fires in the Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from High School Students» and its sequel, «Fires in the Middle School Bathroom,» coauthored with adolescent psychologist Laura Rogers.

In late May, WKCD will publish a companion book to Fires in the Mind in the form of an «enhanced e-book» that includes audio and video commentary from students, teachers, and learning scientists as well as links to other resources.

The film, which included interviews with Michelle Rhee, Bill Gates, and the economist Eric Hanushek, among others, made the central points that public education was failing, that resources don't matter, and that the best ways to fix the national crisis of low test scores were to expand the number of privately managed charters, fire ineffective teachers, and weaken the unions that protected them.

(In 2013, calculation errors resulted in erroneous evaluation scores for 44 teachers, including one who was mistakenly fired.)

Rhee, the former chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public schools, and Henderson, her ex-deputy and interim replacement, have pushed aggressive data - driven ed - reform policies that include increasing teacher pay and performance - based compensation, closing low - enrollment schools, and firing underperforming teachers and principals.

There are a number of potential explanations for this finding, including a limited supply of effective teachers (it's rational to keep a mediocre teacher if the likely replacement will be no better), a lack of administrator ability to discern teacher quality (their observations are less predictive of value - added than those of outside observers), or a simple unwillingness to make the unpleasant decision of firing someone.

Rather than improve schools, though, the governor is blocking the authority to fire poor - performing teachers requested by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn and superintendents of 23 school districts, including Tacoma and Seattle, as revealed in a letter they sent to lawmakers on Feb. 22.

The stakes attached to them now commonly include school funding and evaluation and closure, teacher pay and evaluation and firings, and of course student promotion and self - perception.

Ninety - three Connecticut school districts did not fire a certified teacher between Fall 2004 and Summer 2010, according to a review of state Department of Education data, including 20 of the 50 largest districts.

Recently, a teacher fired a gun while barricaded in a classroom, and last week alone there have been several accidental gun discharges at schools, including by a school resource officer at a middle school and by a teacher, the latter resulting in injury to a student.

New efforts labeled «recovery school districts,» «achievement school districts,» «turnaround schools,» and the like are making their way into places that include Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas, to name a few — efforts that allow states to take over failing schools and relegate their management to private charter school operators that would be free to fire teachers and start from scratch.

Warped opinions about our nation's public schools include: they are inferior to private schools; they are among the worst in the world in math and science; teachers should be fired if their students don't score at the national average, and on and on.

As of today, 44 teachers have been told their scores from last year were wrong (including one teacher who was fired).

This included firing four percent of district teachers, mostly black, and replacing them largely with TFA - style teachers, mostly white, whom one astute black Washingtonian labeled «cultural tourists.»

Their proposal includes a 100 - day process replete with multiple hearings and meetings that does allow for firing teachers for criminality, but contains no provision for getting rid of incompetent teachers.

As a parent, it concerns me that you have required states to expand charter schools, increase standardized testing overall, tie teacher jobs to test scores, and turn around schools by firing half or more of the staff, when the overwhelming body of evidence — including that of the research arms of the federal government — is clear that these strategies do not improve academics overall and can have serious negative effects on children and their education.

His expertise is labor, education, and employment law with 40 years of experience representing, «over 100 school administrator associations, in addition to individual employees, school superintendents, and other public sector unions, including teacher, police, fire, secretarial, paraprofessional, nurse, and town hall employee units in collective bargaining, grievance arbitration, termination matters, and unfair labor practice complaints.

Meanwhile, Governor Malloy's 2012 education law includes a new teacher evaluation system that will be used to determine whether teachers should be retained or fired.

The report's authors ask for six very significant steps including asking the U.S. Department of Education to replace its four required punitive school turnaround models (that feature firing teachers, closing schools and privatizing schools) with a «Sustainable School Success» model that would support and improve struggling schools.

From where Casey sits, the criticism of Brown and others about the unwillingness of the AFT to embrace any reform of the obsolete process for teacher dismissals — including the Big Apple affiliate's successful opposition to Bloomberg's effort this year to give the city's schools chancellor final say over dismissing those alleged and convicted of criminal misconduct (and those engaged in inappropriate behavior with students)-- amounts to» a vicious slander» geared to «chip away at public support for the due process rights» and to «distract» people from the city's failures to put more effort into firing such teachers.

But her opinion soured as she gradually realized that support for the Common Core included accepting the features that came with it, including more standardized tests that are used to evaluate and fire teachers.

More than three dozen teachers,» including many who [had] just been rated «highly effective» by the New Mexico Public Education Department, working in the Albuquerque Public School District — the largest public school district in the state of New Mexico — turned to a burning bin this week, tossing their state - developed teacher evaluations into the fire in protest in front of district headquarters.

Wealthy philanthropists invested millions of dollars into their own playbook for reforms that spread to Newark and other cities, including Chicago: Close failing schools with low enrollment and test scores; create «charter schools» that get public money but are run by private groups; and move to a business model that makes fundamental changes in hiring, firing and evaluating teachers.

In a June interview with Salon, Weingarten touted a statewide compromise in Connecticut (backed by both national unions) which included school takeovers with limited collective bargaining, and a union contract for New Haven, Connecticut which give management greater discretion in firing teachers.

Indeed, I think my daughter's teachers should be counseled and supported (and provided with some professional development that includes basic civics instruction on what public school teachers can not do), but frustrated as I am with their judgment regarding the candy, I don't think this alone is anywhere near a firing offense.

Weingarten said the final straw was the news that the contractor calculating VAM scores for D.C. teachers made a typo in the algorithm, resulting in 44 teachers receiving incorrect scores — including one who was unjustly fired for poor performance.»

But, again the cuts are too deep, and districts report firing teachers, including teachers of basic academic subjects.