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Last year, most Joliet elementary schools hired specialized physical education teachers for the first time in 30 years.

Albany, New York — The push to change teacher hiring rules to end the policy of last hired first fired got a boost when Governor Andrew Cuomo introduced a bill to extend the proposal to all schools in the state.

Sources said Mulgrew announced at the convention that the union will run a Democratic primary fight against Manhattan Assemblyman Jonathan Bing, who has proposed a bill to curb the «last hired, first fired» provision that protects veteran teachers from layoffs.

Bloomberg projected that with the current funding cuts and with the last - hired, first - fired provision still in place he will have to lay off nearly 8,000 teachers â $ «all of whom will be recent hires.

Education Week is reporting on an Empire Center's report that says over the past decade «public schools hired nearly 15,000 teachers and almost 9,000 administrators, guidance counselors and other support workers over the last 10 years as enrollment dropped by more than 121,000 students.

Earlier this week, Bloomberg warned that unless teacher seniority rules are changed so good, newer teachers could be retained over more senior but weaker instructors, the city could have to lay off nearly every teacher hired in the last five years.

My last question is, if I was trying to hire you as a science teacher at my school — You wouldn't do that.

At the beginning of last year I was hired as a long - term substitute teacher and was stunned to find that jeans were not in the list of acceptable work attire!

Because of «last hired, first fired» laws and tenure protections, they will lay off thousands of young teachers, regardless of their effectiveness.

In the last two decades, school systems have hired all manner of instructional coaches, teachers» aides, program administrators, support staff, counselors, psychiatrists, specialists, and so forth.

One school district hired a yoga teacher to arrive shortly after the last class so that teachers can breathe and stretch their stress away.

In math, where Touchstone leaders were unable to hire a master teacher last year, Merit Prep's students had made three - fourths of a year of growth by March — solid results, but not enough to close achievement gaps.

As Ingersoll notes, our teacher workforce was «graying» for most of the last 25 years, driven both by existing teachers aging into the profession and an increase in the hiring of older «new» teachers.

Last year, the caucus helped 85 of its members get elected to the 350 - member union House of Representatives and promoted the election a union president who appears to be amenable to reforms; the union has since agreed to grant individual schools flexibility over the school calendar, hiring and assignment of teachers.

The numbers have shifted a bit since 2008, partly in response to a fall in teacher hiring in the wake of the last recession, but there are still far more new teachers in the classroom than there were two decades ago.

Our analysis of these data provides strong evidence that seniority plays an outsized role in determining which teachers are targeted for layoffs, likely in part because collective bargaining agreements ordinarily require that the teachers last hired are the first to be fired.

This trend coincided roughly with a teacher hiring boom here in the United States, meaning these changes happened despite districts» employing more teachers, and it's likely to continue as states and districts continue to feel the pressure from unfunded pension and health care promises, which totaled $ 1.38 trillion at last count.

When President Clinton called last week for legislation to help schools hire 100,000 new teachers, he received what may have been a telling response from Congress.

School administrators who hire substitute teachers are concerned that rules published last year by the federal Immigration and Naturalization Service may burden them with a mountain of new paperwork.

School officials in Baltimore said the city school system hired 32 teachers this year who failed to pass a test of basic writing competency; another 100 teachers who failed the basic - skills examination were hired last year and remain on the staff, school officials...

Last summer, for example, the Camden, New Jersey, school board outsourced its substitute hiring to a private vendor because the job was so onerous: between teachers calling in sick or on leave, the district needed to find subs for up to 40 percent of its teachers each day, it told the local newspaper.

She had been able to institute changes in teacher hiring and evaluation, for instance, scrapping the «last - in - first - out» rule, but what guaranteed their survival in the coming administration?

But de Blasio also has an Absent Teacher Reserve pool to deal with, another Bloomberg - Klein legacy: they got the union to back down on forcing principals to hire teachers they didn't want, «one of the only good things to come out of the last contract negotiations,» says Joe Williams.

The state's hard - and - fast seniority rule — last hired, first fired — provided Cleveland school officials with little wiggle room for deciding which teachers had to go.

The strategy appears to be working: Since last August, 1,200 new teachers have been hired.

The suit also challenged the «last hired, first fired» laws that require districts to follow seniority during layoffs and dismiss the least - senior teachers first, with exceptions for those with needed and specialized skills.

Agora officials said last week that they hired 25 teachers in the past couple of weeks.

The Chicago school system, the nation's third largest, hired 2,236 new teachers for the 2000 - 01 school year — up by more than 300 from last year, according to data released this month.

Teacher quality emerged as one of the highest educational priorities — second only to school safety — in the public opinion poll released last week by Recruiting New Teachers Inc., a Belmont, Mass., nonprofit group that advocates better school - hiring practices.

Simply put, for every 20 additional students enrolled in America's K - 8 schools in the last 10 years, we hired three additional elementary school classroom teachers.

Today, we're going to discuss how to hire great teachers last minute.

However, as the school year opened last August, districts around California scrambled to hire qualified teachers and many came up short.

For instance, hiring and firing policies in 11 states still adhere to Last In, First Out (LIFO), which rewards teacher tenure, not ability or success rates with student performance.

Meanwhile DeVos» lack of soft skills required of any political officeholder — along with her failure to hire a strong communications team who can help her prepare for public events — was also on full display last week when she criticized teachers and American public education for not being innovative during a speech before innovation - minded teachers and school leaders at SXSW's annual education conference.

A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge tentatively approved significant changes to the «last hired, first fired» rules that govern teacher layoffs to keep campuses with young staffs from bearing the brunt of budgetary cutbacks in the nation's second - largest school district.

While NPR's Westervelt criticizes Kane for making a «pretty scathing and strong indictment» of America's education system, what Kane does not understand writ large is that the very solutions for which Kane advocates — using VAM - based measurements to fire and hire bad and good teachers, respectively — are really no different than the «stronger accountability» measures upon which we have relied for the last 40 years (since the minimum competency testing era) within this alleged «echo chamber.»

The draft Bryan unveiled Wednesday had few differences from last year's prospective bill, potentially ceding the power to hire and fire teachers and administrators to private, for - profit charter leaders.

When a California judge earlier last week struck down teacher tenure protections, his reasoning was that poor students were being harmed when bad teachers with seniority were retained while younger, better teachers were either not hired or let go in layoffs.

By state law, those layoffs would have been conducted on a last - hired, first - fired basis, meaning most teachers hired after 2007 in New York City would lose their jobs, no matter how they performed in the classroom.

Twenty - year veteran teacher Gregg Lundahl says he entered the Democratic primary because East Side Assemblyman Jonathan Bing introduced a bill this year to get rid of the «last hired, first fired» policy in the event of teacher layoffs.

It filled most of the vacancies, but a few dozen opened at the last minute, when teachers it had hired changed their minds.

It also calls for ending «last hired, first fired» teacher - layoffs policies.

When education reporter Lillian Mongeau wrote a story for The Hechinger Report last month headlined «How to hire more black principals,» she quoted a black principal, a black teacher, a black student and a black CEO, along with a Latina professor and one white man.

Few people realize that even while thousands of «last hired» teachers are getting laid off, especially in big states like California and New York, there are thousands of other teachers who aren't even teaching, but will continue to receive their full salaries and benefits until the system finds a principal who will hire them.

A Los Angeles County judge's ruling last month that tenure and several other state laws governing the hiring and firing of teachers run afoul of the state constitution was a step in the right direction.

Verona School District has used TeacherMatch's programs to hire teachers since last year, said human resources director Jason Olson.

Ruiz has reworked how new teachers would be granted and denied tenure and effectively ended the last - hired, first - fired policy.

Nearly two thirds of districts report hiring teachers on temporary permits and waivers, and half of those districts hired a greater proportion of teachers on these emergency - style permits this year than they did last year (see Figure 3).

There has been a lot of pressure exerted from a variety of reform groups to use the money to leverage states to eliminate seniority as the primary consideration in teacher layoffs — the so - called «last hired — first fired» provisions.

The study, published last week in the journal Educational Researcher, looks at the average SAT scores of newly certified and hired teachers in New York state over the past 25 years.