Sentences with phrase «lead to fired teachers»

The proposed cuts have engendered the usual howls of outrage that it will lead to fired teachers, overcrowded classrooms, and sick people dying in the street.

Not exact matches

According to the early results, 92 percent of teachers outside New York City are either «effective» or «highly effective» and only 1 percent fall in the lowest category that could lead to their firing, state Education Commissioner John King told the Board of Regents on Tuesday.

The mayor spent much of the winter leading a full - court press, angrily complaining about state government's unfairness to the city and loudly insisting on the repeal of «LIFO,» the state law requiring that teachers with the least seniority be fired first.

In fear of his job Any Campbell rats out a fellow teacher who gets fired, leading him to challenge Campbell to a fight at the end of the day.

But Lam was fired when teachers engineered the election of her sworn enemies, and the Memphis school board abandoned House's initiatives soon after she resigned, voluntarily, to lead a national school reform group.

His tenure follows the controversial leadership of former superintendent Cami Anderson, who led a series of unpopular initiatives in quick succession, including a new citywide enrollment plan and lottery that allowed parents to choose any traditional or charter school in the city, closures of underenrolled or poorly performing schools, mass firings of teachers and principals, and a new merit - pay program for teachers.

Harrisburg, Pa — Pennsylvania Gov. Richard Thornburgh's attempt to establish a state education block grant, modeled after the Reagan Administration's block grants, has touched off a heated partisan political controversy, deepened the rift between the Governor and the state's largest teachers» organization, and led to demands that Governor Thornburgh fire the chief state school officer.

Growing concerns over the inadequate achievement of U.S. students have led to proposals to reward good teachers and penalize (or fire) bad ones.

Students Matter, the organization that has taken the lead in challenging teacher tenure and hiring and firing laws in Vergara v. California, has added one of the nation's leading — and liberal — constitutional scholars to its legal team: Harvard law professor Lawrence Tribe.

Gist, whose reform efforts led to the firings of all teachers and staff at one of the state's worst - performing schools, said test scores in the state need vast improvement, the graduation rate must grow and too few high school graduates — just more than half — are heading directly to college.

1912: NEA endorses Women's Suffrage 1919: NEA members in New Jersey lead the way to the nation's first state pension; by 1945, every state had a pension plan in effect 1941: NEA successfully lobbied Congress for special funding for public schools near military bases 1945: NEA lobbied for the G.I. Bill of Rights to help returning soldiers continue their education 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sex couple

But it's not enough merely to measure effectiveness, according to many leading thinkers and policymakers; personnel decisions — from pay and promotions to layoffs and outright firings — should be based on teacher - effectiveness data, they say.

The New York State Education Department is upset because it believes at least one district subverted state law by reaching a sotto voce, improper agreement with its teachers» union that new evaluations wouldn't lead to teachers getting fired.

Specifically, teacher ratings based on evaluations from the 2011 - 12 and 2012 - 13 school years wouldn't lead to any teacher being fired, whatever the results were.

Even back then, though, their responsibilities were broad: hiring teachers and interpreting directives from the district and state, as well as handling inquiries and complaints from parents, meting out discipline to unruly students, writing grants, leading the fire drills, MC» ing schoolwide assemblies, overseeing the physical plant of the building, and figuring out what to do with the student who misses the bus home.

«It would lead to firing arts, music, and other specialist teachers in exchange for hiring more early grade teachers.

In the application for the $ 100 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Hillsborough predicted they would fire at least 5 % of the districts tenured teachers for «poor performance,» and the grant work led her to develop, with collaboration from the teachers» union, an evaluation system that uses test scores for 40 % of teachers» ratings.

This very bad bill amazingly had the support of the Washington Education Association — the teachers union in Washington State — even though it led to the firing of more than one thousand public school teachers in Washington State as any student in any other school district could sign up for this corrupt program and their home school district would lose $ 8,000 per student nearly all of which would be passed through the Steilacoom School District to K21 INC!

The central idea of the school - reform community, Perry said, is that improving public education will lead to an overall improvement in New Orleans social conditions, and that this goal justifies the radical changes they have imposed on schools here — firing teachers, closing schools, moving students every few years.

The ways in which a strong middle class leads to better educational outcomes, such as middle - class parents putting pressure on administrators to fire or transfer bad teachers, are described more completely in our companion report, «The Middle Class Is Key to a Better - Educated Nation.»

There is a «fire Kristi» movement that has led to a vicious hate mail attack from members of teachers unions.

Once again, a teacher in Rochester encouraged a talented student's artistic bent and led Gasevski to CCS in Detroit, and once again, the sight of model cars and renderings fired an impulse to join the ranks of car creators.