Sentences with phrase «key teacher protections»

The Vergara ruling, which is likely to be appealed, struck down key teacher protections in California and is expected to have reverberations across the nation.

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Among the minority of charter schools that are unionized, some, such as Amber Charter School in New York City and Springfield Ball Charter School in Springfield, Illinois, have developed relationships between the teachers union and the school administration that offer teachers protection and input while maintaining the flexibility key to the charter school model.

TCTA vigorously opposed the legislation, arguing that it was not evidence - based, threatened to undermine key statutory provisions that have long provided a baseline of protections for teachers, parents and students, and was too broadly available to school districts that were mediocre in performance, given that districts with merely «acceptable» accountability ratings were eligible (95 percent of school districts in Texas earned an acceptable rating in 2015).

While the 12 plans finalized as of mid-July do not include exemptions from teacher legal protections, they do encroach on key aspects of the profession, including the importance of teacher certification and the benefits of small student - to - teacher ratios.