Sentences with phrase «long tenured teachers»

He is one of the longest tenured teachers in the district.

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Tenure will take longer for teachers to obtain and poor - performing teachers can be fired, even those with tTenure will take longer for teachers to obtain and poor - performing teachers can be fired, even those with tenuretenure.

And now, following a national trend, New York's conservatives have joined in, using what they portray as a specimen of big - government overreach in the service of a longer - term fight to eliminate teacher tenure and promote alternatives to traditional public schools.

Unless he is willing to take on the MTA and its many out of control unions, the teacher» union together with tenure and guaranteed return on teachers» pensions and the police unions on Long Island, he has nothing to say and will not get my vote.

Education reform groups like StudentsFirstNY and the New Teacher Project say a lawsuit against New York State inspired by the Vergara case could change local tenure laws and present a long - awaited opportunity to legally assess long - term sticking points with the unions, such as merit pay and seniority rules.

In California, unlike in New York, uncertified teachers can be awarded tenure, and disciplinary hearings for California teachers can legally extend far longer than similar hearings in New York.

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

The authors concluded that, «Oregon's policymakers and citizens allocated substantial resources to its retirement system and, in return, received little economic benefit in the form of promoting longer teacher tenures.»

Tenure and seniority are no longer sacred, either, and the unions no longer get much traction with their declaration that it's inherently unfair to gauge teacher performance on the basis of student learning.

For alongside the reforms he implemented, Klein provides a second list just as long of the reforms that just died: less binding teacher tenure, serious increases in teaching time, a streamlined disciplinary process for teachers, and a salary scale that would have allowed for substantial merit pay.

Rather than focus solely on a teacher's performance during the most recent academic year, the teacher evaluation system should allow tenured teachers to accumulate a longer - term track record of excellence.

A fourth year probationary teacher who has been no more effective than a novice teacher should not receive the long - term commitment which accompanies tenure...

As our country embraces long overdue reforms in teacher hiring, evaluation, tenure, compensation, and school choice, we must not neglect teacher development.

Put bluntly, why should a tenured classroom teacher go to the effort of altering her long - standing instructional protocols to adopt new technologies when her pay, professional status, and job security are only remotely related to improving her effectiveness or her clients» satisfaction?

Citing a long list of recent laws that many argue will hurt public education, Ravitch anticipated a brain drain for the state thanks to bad policies, said that charters and vouchers do not save kids from failing public schools but instead pave the way for resegregation, and bemoaned the loss of teacher tenure.

He said he believes that a process where teachers can receive tenure after two years isn't long enough and that it's too difficult to fire teachers.

But meanwhile, in most of tenure cases so far under the new law, the arguments have been over typically either individual incidents of alleged misconduct or longer patterns of teachers failing to improve their practices.

• AB 1248 (Assemblyman Rocky Chávez, R - Oceanside) would have extended from two to three years how long it takes for teachers to win tenure and would allow administrators to revoke tenure if teachers have consecutive poor performance reviews.

This is, indeed, a «war on teacher tenure» that, funded by this «latest batch of tech tycoons... follows in the footsteps of a long line of older magnates, from the Carnegies and Rockefellers to Walmart's Waltons, who have also funneled their fortunes into education - reform projects built on private - sector management strategies.»

Opponents of the current K - 12 teacher tenure system in California often say the process is too easy, and that, unlike at the university level, it is no longer a professional benchmark that rewards hard work and success in the classroom.

LA School Report — Twenty - year LAUSD teacher Phylis Hoffman explains the need for a longer, more meaningful tenure process.

When even union supporters are telling AFT and its fellow teacher unions that fixes to the tenure system are needed, how long can Randi and her radical allies continue their trench warfare against America's schoolchildren?

A grand total of three teachers and two public education advocates attended the NC Department of Public Instruction's public hearing on the proposed model teacher contract, which local school districts will use to award the top 25 percent of teachers with 4 - year contracts that may come with $ 500 bonuses for each of those four years — as long as those teachers give up their tenure.

By 2018 all current teachers who have earned tenure will no longer have this benefit, which offers due process rights in the event of dismissal or demotion — not a guarantee of a lifetime job.

The hour - long, high - spirited discussion in Chicago covered teacher evaluations, high - stakes testing, merit pay, school funding, tenure and the role of teachers» unions.

Much of the public debate over tenure has focused on whether it is possible to fire tenured teachers who are no longer making the grade.

Republicans have long tried to curtail teacher tenure, and the group Democrats for Education Reform was founded in 2007 with a similar goal.

Many of the teachers are members of Educators 4 Excellence, a nonprofit group made up of current and former teachers that has challenged the union's long - held positions on merit pay and tenure.

Meanwhile, in many districts, working conditions are changing: Tenure is being eliminated, more demanding evaluation systems are in place, and teachers work a longer school day to address student needs.

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Removing tenure and having the flexibility to make longer days and a longer calendar at the same time PLUS being able to fire bad teachers will free up more money.

North Carolina's teachers will no longer face the choice of getting a pay raise or keeping their tenure.

«On the problem with extending the tenure beyond two years... It's important that while we want teachers to at some point have due process rights in their career, that that judgment be made relatively soon; and that a floundering teacher who is grossly ineffective is not allowed to continue for many years because a year is a long time in the life of a student... having the two - year mark — which means you're making a decision usually within 19 months of the starting point of that teacher — has the interest of... encouraging districts to make that decision in a reasonable time frame so that students aren't exposed to struggling teachers for long than they might need to be....

In keeping with Jindal's months - long offensive, the Jindal administration decried the move, noting that teachers will leave the classroom the week before students take standardized tests that determine, in part, student promotions and graduations, school accountability assessments and teacher evaluations for tenure.

Race to the Top initiated a long - overdue debate over how to improve teacher quality in the United States and highlighted a number of dysfunctional state practices around teacher training, placement, evaluation, tenure, and dismissal.

It means setting high standards and longer time frames for teacher tenure — and providing tenure only to teachers who achieve those standards.

In his «historic» call for «education reform», an end to teacher tenure and a disproportionate transfer of public dollars to charter schools the Governor failed to point out that (1) Connecticut already has one of the longest probationary periods for teachers in the country — four years — which gives school administrators more opportunity to judge a teacher's capability than do those in most other states and that (2) in 2010 the Legislature adopted major revisions to the teacher evaluation process that already gives Malloy's Department of Education the power to revamp how teachers are evaluated and require school administrators to actually conduct appropriate evaluations.

Among the influential members of NAACP's 64 member board: Hazel Dukes, whose long (and often infamous) tenure as head of its Empire State affiliate included teaming up with the AFT's United Federation of Teachers in an unsuccessful effort to stop the Big Apple from renting space in half - empty traditional school buildings to charter schools.

The court noted that the U.S. Supreme Court had long ago decided that the Indiana teacher tenure statute created contractual rights that are protected by the federal Impairment of Contracts Clause.

Changes to tenure rules are legally acceptable, as long as the state honors the rights granted to tenured teachers before the legislation changed.

Earlier this year we heard Malloy claim, «I don't mind teaching to the test as long as test scores go up,» while proudly uttering the falsehood that teachers need only show up for four years to get tenure.

The political operative is widely credited with writing Malloy's 2012 anti-teacher speeches in which Malloy proposed doing away with teacher tenure and observed that he didn't mind having teachers teach to the test as long as test scores went up.

She also calls for a longer time period before teachers gain tenure.

One of the central debates in California is how long the probationary period should be before teachers can be eligible for tenure.

But I will proudly stand by my statement that a Democrat who proposed doing away with teacher tenure for all public school teachers and repealing collective bargaining for teachers in the poorest school; who refuses to de-couple inappropriate standardized tests from teacher evaluation; who diverts a hundred million dollars a year from public schools to prop up unaccountable charter schools that refuse to educate their fair share of bi-lingual students and students who need special education services; and who refused to settle the CCEJF lawsuit and develop a long - term change to Connecticut's school funding formula... DOES NOT deserve the badge of honor that comes with being endorsed by teacher unions.

And that any normal political candidate would have worked diligently to persuade teachers that he understood that he had been wrong to propose doing away with tenure; that given a second term he would de-couple teacher evaluation from unfair standardized testing; that he would settle the critically important CCEJF school funding lawsuit in order to ensure that long after he has left office Connecticut would have a school funding formula that was both constitutional and successfully guaranteed that every Connecticut public school had the resources need to ensure their students had the education they deserved.

Teacher tenure is classified as a property right and as long as a teacher has achieved it, then due process is constitutionally reTeacher tenure is classified as a property right and as long as a teacher has achieved it, then due process is constitutionally reteacher has achieved it, then due process is constitutionally required.

Efforts by reformers along with reform - minded (and, in many cases, budget - conscious) governors to make it harder to attain tenure or abolish near - lifetime employment altogether, along with moves to subject teachers to performance - based evaluations, means that they would lose the benefits for which they have long worked.

She credits her long tenure to training at Long Beach State, the mentorship of older teachers at her school, her colleagues» willingness to share supplies without a second thought, and the knowledge that she can talk to her principal about any issue she's having without risk of judgmlong tenure to training at Long Beach State, the mentorship of older teachers at her school, her colleagues» willingness to share supplies without a second thought, and the knowledge that she can talk to her principal about any issue she's having without risk of judgmLong Beach State, the mentorship of older teachers at her school, her colleagues» willingness to share supplies without a second thought, and the knowledge that she can talk to her principal about any issue she's having without risk of judgment.

E4E - Los Angeles member Erin Fitzgerald - Haddad argues that the LAUSD tenure policy needs to change, saying «becoming an effective teacher is a long process and...