Sentences with phrase «lifetime tenure»

All but five states have laws giving teachers lifetime tenure after three years or less.

For that matter, should anyone get lifetime tenure in any job?

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has long criticized the almost automatic granting of lifetime tenure to teachers in the New York City school system.

My reply was: «You're a federal judge with lifetime tenure telling me, an executive branch creature, that I tout «judicial independence» so that I can do what I want.»

It does not hold the adults who care for our children accountable; it does not allow teacher evaluations based on whether students are being given the tools to succeed; it does not allow for differential pay for teachers serving in our most challenging schools, and it gives lifetime tenure usually after two to three years — making it nearly impossible to lay off ineffective teachers.

He's been in office a short time, let's dump the ones in both parties that have assumed lifetime tenure and have done nothing but cash their campaign contribution checks and helped to build a public sector dictatorship where there are no private sector jobs.

Even if they must abide by state laws allowing for unassailable lifetime tenure, they can shorten dismissal timelines and make evaluations and personnel actions less vulnerable to baseless challenges.

The corporate reformers have done a good job of persuading the media that our public schools are failing because they are overrun by bad teachers, and these bad teachers have lifetime tenure because of their powerful unions.

A bill before the Legislature would use the ratings as a major factor in determining which teachers receive or lose lifetime tenure protections and who would be the first to go in the case of layoffs.

And, among all possible motivations climatists are actually being paid out of the limitless purse of the government and academia's promise of lifetime tenure to make evidence and models dance to any tune they wish to play and accordingly, the climatists will always succeed in «proving wrong theories right,» whatever it takes.

As a federal judge with lifetime tenure, he continues to draw his judicial salary of $ 174,000 a year plus benefits.

Kano State Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has accused the presidency of plotting a lifetime tenure ambition for President Goodluck Jonathan.

There's more: Steps to end the lifetime tenures of incumbents would help.

«I have always been a principal in the private setting, where there was no lifetime tenure, nor any real guarantee of a job in the future,» says Lyn McCarty, former principal of Martins» Achievement School.

Several years ago, principals in New York City had an opportunity to consider an unusual contract offer — a huge pay increase in exchange for giving up lifetime tenure.

The bill of particulars includes unchecked prices, chronic inefficiencies, uneven outcomes, lifetime tenure, arcane research, scattered authority, and aversion to change.

End LIFO and lifetime tenure.

Klein railed against what he called the three biggest problems contained in the contract and the culture the contract produces: lockstep pay for teachers, regardless of their skills or assignment; lifetime tenure, making it difficult to get rid of incompetent or abusive teachers; and seniority rights that dictate assignments based solely on a teacher's longevity in the system.

Vergara argues that lifetime tenure — awarded after less than two years in the classroom, dismissal procedures that make it nearly impossible to fire incompetent teachers, and «last in first out» layoff policies that reward seniority over merit, have harmed California's children.

Despite Smith's claim, no teacher has lifetime tenure.

In 1988 she moved to New York to help establish & found the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program NY, where she currently has lifetime tenure and is a board member.

Unlike federal district court judges, federal magistrates don't have lifetime tenure.

One great thing about having the dual advantages of lifetime tenure and a cadre of clerks at your command is that you can feel free to wax poetic — or rhapsodic, depending upon your nature — about things that the man on the street wouldn't spend a lot of time debating.

And lifetime tenure can only go so far to ensuring that presumption exists in the case of a blatantly political appointments process.

We used to think that if we put competent and thoughtful people on the federal bench and gave them lifetime tenure, they'd exercise their discretion and try to impose appropriate sentences in all cases.

Lawyers also don't want to alienate federal judges who have almost unlimited power, no real accountability, and lifetime tenure.