Sentences with phrase «ineffective teachers in our public schools»

While both sides agree there are ineffective teachers in our public schools, and they are concentrated in low - income communities, they can't agree on what to do about it.

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Overall, people are quite pleased with the quality of teachers in their local school, but the public sees 15 percent of teachers as unsatisfactory, and even teachers believe 11 percent are ineffective.

Notably, while most teachers in traditional public schools are tenured and have multiyear contracts, 96 percent of charter teachers in their study were either at - will employees or had annual contracts; thus charters can and do separate ineffective teachers.

Efforts to overturn public school job protections like tenure, for example, stem from the argument that ineffective teachers can stay in classrooms indefinitely.

Accordingly, this report was widely publicized given the assumed improbability that only 1 % of America's public school teachers were, in fact, ineffectual, and given the fact that such ineffective teachers apparently existed but were not being identified using standard teacher evaluation / observational systems in use at the time.

«New Jersey's LIFO law forces school districts like Newark to retain ineffective teachers and, in fact, put them back in the classroom while cutting spending to other critical areas of public education.

The state and the unions argued that the laws help school districts attract and retain teachers while the plaintiffs countered that they keep in place ineffective teachers whose instructional skills deny students the promise of a quality public education.

Bashing teachers in regard to Title 1 public schools has been so effective that many Americans believe all teachers in public schools are lazy and ineffective when most public schools are doing well and the Title 1 public schools are only a minority of the public schools in America.

As a widely - published expert and now emeritus professor at Arizona State University, Berliner offered helpful testimony for the defense in the Vergara v. California trial, which is focused on how to minimize the impact and number of ineffective teachers in California public schools — at least until his cross-examination.

The operational and political reality of public school systems, therefore, led these ineffective tenured teachers to be highly concentrated in schools that served low - income students of color.

The lawyers at Gibson Dunn first became aware of the teacher unions» practice of bundling political activities with job - related benefits in their dues structure while preparing for Vergara v. California — a lawsuit brought by California public - school students challenging five seniority statutes that harm low - income children by entrenching grossly ineffective teachers in their schools.

Meetings and presentations from public school leaders to the Gates Foundation have brainstormed various ideas, including»... focus on teacher training, putting the best teachers in the most challenging classrooms, giving the best teachers new roles as mentors and coaches while keeping them in front of children, making tenure a meaningful milestone, getting rid of ineffective teachers, and using money to motivate people and schools to move toward these goals.»

A veteran teacher suing New York state education officials over the controversial method they used to evaluate her as «ineffective» is expected to go to New York Supreme Court in Albany this week for oral arguments in a case that could affect all public school teachers in the state and even beyond.

A lawsuit that could dramatically change how California public schools deal with ineffective teachers gets underway Monday in a California Superior Court for Los Angeles County, where LA Unified Superintendent John Deasy is expected to be the first witness to testify.

The point of this article is that public school districts, and the schools within the districts, are so entrenched in politics and red - tape as to render them ineffective, and what can be done to change that, bringing success to the districts, the schools, the teachers, and the students.