Sentences with phrase «ineffective teachers in the classroom»

Teacher contracts and state policies that keep ineffective teachers in the classroom need to be revised.

Once again, plaintiffs tried to point out that even with cooperation from both teachers and school districts, that the contested statutes are cumbersome and still leave ineffective teachers in the classroom.

Parents across the country are asking courts to weigh in on unjust laws that keep ineffective teachers in classrooms.

As I told the judge in Richmond, my children and his would probably be ok despite having ineffective teachers in their classrooms as we can teach them what they don't get in school.

The new AB 934 also does nothing to streamline California's arduous dismissal process, which entrenches grossly ineffective teachers in classrooms indefinitely.

Represented by Los Angeles law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, the plaintiffs allege teacher protections such as tenure, seniority rules in layoffs and other teacher dismissal statutes disparately keep ineffective teachers in the classroom in violation of the state constitution's equal protection clause.

«Californians want their children's teachers to succeed and want to give them every tool possible to succeed, but they are also willing to take stronger steps to remove ineffective teachers in the classroom,» said Dan Schnur, the poll director and executive director of the Unruh Institute of Politics of USC.

Lawyers in that high - profile case, Vergara v. California, argued that the rules that help keep ineffective teachers in the classroom violated the equal protection clause of the state's constitution.

For two hours, Boutrous and McRae laid out their vision, arguing that the statutes handcuff school districts, thus leaving ineffective teachers in the classroom and denying students their constitutional right to a quality education.

It was a total triumph for the nine student plaintiffs, giving them a victory on all counts in an equal protection case aimed at striking down five laws that govern tenure, seniority and dismissal that the students argued kept ineffective teachers in their classrooms.

An ineffective teacher in any classroom is a failure of the system at the expense of students.

«An ineffective teacher in any classroom is a failure of the system at the expense of students,» said StudentFirstNY Executive Director Micah Lasher.

But Walcott said that appointing an outside arbitrator would add a «burdensome new procedural layer» he charged was «designed to keep ineffective teachers in the classroom.»

A + Denver does not believe that tenure was ever intended to keep ineffective teachers in classrooms.

An ineffective teacher in any classroom is a failure of the system at the expense of students.

The plaintiffs said that state laws kept ineffective teachers in classrooms, depriving students of their fundamental right to education.

Amid a national debate about tenure laws that can keep ineffective teachers in the classroom, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), an advocacy group, has turned the spotlight on teacher education programs and the results paint a grim picture.

Amid a national debate about tenure laws that can keep ineffective teachers in the classroom, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), an advocacy group, has turned the spotlight...