Sentences with phrase «keep ineffective teachers in classrooms»

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

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.»

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.

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...

Not exact matches

First, the argument for eliminating tenure: As Judge Rolf M. Treu of Los Angeles Superior Court ruled on Tuesday, any benefit that tenure provides to teachers is far outweighed by its costs to children and society by keeping grossly ineffective instructors in the classroom.

That's why our schools need policies that support teachers» development, keep our best teachers in the classroom, and counsel consistently ineffective teachers out of the classroom.

The California Supreme Court will decide this summer whether to take up an appeal by nine students in the historic Vergara vs. California case challenging our unusually protective teacher tenure laws, as well as a seniority - based layoff system that often keeps ineffective teachers in district classrooms while letting more talented but less senior teachers go.

That the traditional teacher compensation system, focused on rewarding teachers based on seniority and degree attainment, is ineffective in spurring student achievement fails to reward good - to - great teachers and keeps laggards in classrooms to continue educational malpractice.

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.»