Sentences with phrase «lawsuit over the teacher»

The governor is also asking for the state's largest teachers union and the state education department to drop a lawsuit over the teacher evaluation has that has further delayed things.

Magee said she also pushed early on for a lawsuit over the teacher - evaluation system.

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First, the state Education Department and the teachers unions must resolve a lawsuit over the evaluations or Cuomo will insert his own plan into the 30 - day amendments (taking advantage of the broad powers the governor has over the budget in New York).

The statewide teachers union filed a federal lawsuit late Wednesday over the state Department of Education's policy of requiring teachers to sign confidentiality agreements before scoring tests based on the Common Core standards.

A judge has rejected a lawsuit filed by the Los Angeles teachers union that was aimed at blocking the school district from allowing charter operators to take over new schools.

A lawsuit filed by a District of Columbia teacher over millions embezzled from the Washington Teachers» Union has been settled in a deal that requires the union and its national parent, the American Federation of Teachers, to try to recoup the money.

Both before and after Boston University took over the Chelsea schools in 1989, groups and individuals representing teachers, teachers» unions, and Hispanic parents filed lawsuits alleging the 10 - year contract was unconstitutional.

So when Harlem Success Academy, a charter group in New York, proposed to take over P.S. 194's building after the school was shut down for poor performance, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) and the New York Civil Liberties Union took the obvious step: they filed a lawsuit claiming that the state pressed forward without proper consultation with local school boards.

Over Thanksgiving weekend, Florida's Sun - Sentinel editorialized in favor of the Florida teachers union's lawsuit against the Sunshine State's most popular school choice law.

Villeda and others said they felt threatened by such efforts to take over campuses, attack their seniority rights in lawsuits and displace teachers.

It's mean to encourage collaboration, but has been controversial and even led to a lawsuit because teachers say they don't have control over how students they don't teach will fare.

4 More Miramonte School Students File Lawsuits in Child Abuse Case The list of plaintiffs in the case over alleged child abuse by teachers at Miramonte Elementary School is getting a little longer.

The union filed a lawsuit this fall to stop the New York City Department of Education from turning over teachers» performance data to five New York news organizations that had filed requests for the information under the state's Freedom of Information Law.

Gray areas in the law, though, led New York State United Teachers and the state board of regents into a lawsuit over the precise weight that could be given to students» standardized - test scores in the evaluation system.

Last week's Dropout Nation report on the possible lawsuit being brought on behalf of seven families by Barnes & Thornburg over the Los Angeles Unified School District's teacher evaluations has turned from a letter to reality.

«The lawsuit, first filed in late 2015, contends the school district «has been attempting to replace experienced, higher - paid teachers with relatively inexperienced teachers at entry level salaries» since Carstarphen took over the top post in July of 2014.

In fact, Martin Luther King III spoke at the «Rally in Tally» where over 10,000 people converged on Florida's Capitol building in Tallahassee to urge the state's largest teachers union to drop a lawsuit challenging a voucher - like education program that benefits low - income families.

In what may be among the first of many lawsuits over the new evaluations — which have been adopted by multiple states — the Florida teachers union is challenging the state's use of test scores in decisions about which teachers are fired and which receive pay raises.

The lawsuits have partly been fueled by debates within the academic community over whether it's even scientifically valid to use these measures to evaluate teachers.

The lawsuit follows months of wrangling between the school district and the teachers union over the «mutual consent» provision of the 2010 education reform law that implemented a new system for evaluating teachers.

Late yesterday, state District Judge David K. Thomson, who presided over the ongoing teacher - evaluation lawsuit in New Mexico, granted a preliminary injunction preventing consequences from being attached to the state's teacher evaluation data.

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In the past year, a lawsuit challenging state laws on teacher tenure, dismissals and layoffs by seniority has consumed much of the debate over education in California.

Now, with L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy locked in a stalemate with the teachers union over performance reviews, a prominent group of advocates believes it can force the issue with a lawsuit, which is expected to be filed Tuesday.

The Herald took an online poll of the community over the terminations, and the majority want district officials to fire the teachers involved and deal with any potential lawsuits.

The lawsuit was filed in 2014, amid rising tension between the teachers» union and the Legislature over efforts to expand the program.

During the campaign, Tuck criticized the unions» influence over the Legislature and brought attention to Vergara v. the State of California, the lawsuit challenging current teacher employment laws, including teacher tenure after two years, a lengthy dismissal process and layoffs based on seniority.

If that seems like something out of the ancient past in an age of hundred - million - dollar lawsuits over your phone's bezel design, students can also come to see that education retains an «exceptional» status within intellectual property law that promotes learning through fair use rights (copyright), experimental exceptions (patents), and an academic exception that recognizes the special contribution of teachers and scholars in creating intellectual property that does not simply and automatically belong to their employer (both).