Sentences with phrase «make teacher tenure»

In New York City, value - added data has been used for the last two years by principals only to make teacher tenure decisions.

We would hope, for example, that the measures used to make teacher tenure decisions are good predictors of how teachers will perform in the years after they receive tenure.

Use teacher evaluations to make teacher tenure decisions, with teachers granted tenure after receiving two Highly Effective or three Effective ratings within a five - year period.

Many have criticized Cuomo for making teacher tenure more difficult and changing the teacher evaluation system.

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Additionally, instead of making teacher tenure an earned benchmark based on demonstrated quality of instruction, as teachers and policy organizations across the country strongly have advocated, AB 934 now doubles down on making tenure a time - based employment decision.

Now, their main tasks revolve around making teacher tenure decisions, conducting «Quality Reviews» of school's internal organizational structures, attending public hearings about schools in their districts, and putting out fires when they arise.

Indiana passed laws that created an expansive voucher system, made teacher tenure contingent on effectiveness, limited collective bargaining, ended the process of firing teachers in order of seniority and required teacher evaluations to be «significantly informed» by student performance on standardized exams.

The law, titled SB7, makes teacher tenure and layoffs contingent on student achievement and makes it easier for school districts to dismiss tenured teachers deemed ineffective based on student performance.

Not exact matches

You'd be surprised, a lot of HS wrestling coaches in this country are gym teachers looking to make a few extra bucks or unqualified guys kissing up to their athletic director in an attempt to get tenured.

Nevertheless, Cuomo was successful this year in forming a new teacher evaluation system as well as making it harder for teachers to obtain tenure — a move that state lawmakers felt they had no choice but to accept given the policy's linkage to an increase in school aid.

The budget includes a receivership plan for struggling schools and makes it more difficult for teachers to obtain tenure.

State lawmakers earlier this year agreed to a package of education policy changes that linked test scores to evaluations as well as in - classroom observation and made it more difficult for teachers to obtain tenure.

Cuomo championed those reforms, including making it harder for teachers to obtain tenure.

The biggest sticking points for the union: Changes to the teacher evaluation system, tenure and the 3020A proceedings which make it easier for districts to fire poorly performing teachers.

The measures linked teacher evaluation performance to tenure and made it easier to fire teachers deemed to be performing poorly, despite having tenure.

Still, voters do approve of at least one of Cuomo's proposals: 62 percent support Cuomo's proposal to make teachers eligible for tenure in five years, rather than three years as it is now.

The budget would also make changes to the teacher tenure process, but leaders offered conflicting information on what the budget would include.

The governor has proposed making it harder for teachers to get the job protection of tenure and easier to remove educators who are incompetent or engaged in misconduct.

ALBANY, N.Y. — The state budget included changes to New York's education policies, ranging from making it harder for teachers to obtain tenure, new evaluation criteria and a plan for schools to enter receiverships.

Nevertheless, the New York State United Teachers union and the United Federation of Teachers has taken out a $ 1 million advertising campaign opposing the changes, which include making it harder for teachers to obtainTeachers union and the United Federation of Teachers has taken out a $ 1 million advertising campaign opposing the changes, which include making it harder for teachers to obtainTeachers has taken out a $ 1 million advertising campaign opposing the changes, which include making it harder for teachers to obtainteachers to obtain tenure.

The move comes after NYSUT pushed back this year against efforts by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to overhaul the state's teacher evaluation system, with the performance evaluations linked to both standardized test results and in - classroom observation, while also making it more difficult for teachers to obtain and keep tenure.

A Siena College poll released this week found most New Yorkers — 62 percent — back Cuomo's efforts to make it more difficult for teachers to obtain tenure.

Education policy issues are due to dominate the legislative session once again next year after lawmakers and Cuomo agreed to changes in the state's teacher evaluation the state's teachers unions deeply opposed in part due to the weakening of tenure and making it harder to obtain.

The lawsuit was filed earlier this year with both the state and the United Federation of Teachers listed as plaintiffs, but before state lawmakers approved a budget that included provisions that ultimately made it harder for teachers to obtain and keepTeachers listed as plaintiffs, but before state lawmakers approved a budget that included provisions that ultimately made it harder for teachers to obtain and keepteachers to obtain and keep tenure.

Since he made those comments during an interview with the Daily News editorial board, Cuomo has reiterated his intentions to battle unions over education reforms, most recently with a letter he sent to state education officials outlining what appeared to be his second - term schools agenda, including questions about firing teachers, extending the probationary period before tenure and boosting the charter school sector.

«While there's still more to do this session on charters and the education investment tax credit, and more to ensure every child has access to great schools, Governor Cuomo fought hard to make meaningful reforms to tenure, arbitration policies and teacher evaluation criteria and his vision and hard work paid off.»

-- A solid majority of voters surveyed — 62 percent — said they agreed with Cuomo's proposal to make public school teachers eligible for tenure after five years, instead of the current three - year requirement.

Making teacher evaluations more dependent on test scores, reforming tenure and adding charter schools in the city were all priorities of StudentsFirstNY and became significant pieces of the governor's agenda for the 2015 legislative session, which he announced in his State of the State speech on Jan. 21.

Bloomberg expressed pleasure with the results, saying in a prepared statement, «Making tenure an earned distinction rather than an automatic right will help our teachers get better and ensure that more of them can develop into not just good but great teachers.

Cuomo and the teacher unions have been at war over the governor's proposed education - reform package that would revamp the teacher tenure and evaluation programs, make it easier to fire bad and lecherous instructors, and expand charter schools.

His aggressive, bare - knuckle style, cuts to public spending, and well - publicized clashes with the New Jersey Education Association have made the governor a media sensation and shoved his education reform ideas — which include expanding school choice options for students and overhauling teacher tenure, compensation, and pensions — into the national spotlight.

Courts have yet to reach a final verdict on teacher tenure and seniority rights, but the court of public opinion has already made a clear determination.

Similarly rejected were statutes that make requirements for removing a tenured teacher so onerous and costly that it is seldom attempted.

But the groundbreaking decision in the Vergara case makes it clear that early, and effectively irreversible, decisions about teacher tenure have real costs for students and ultimately all of society.

State laws governing teacher tenure in most states make implementation of such plans unlikely.

-- the percentage of those giving the schools an «A» or a «B» on the traditional A to F grading scale drops 11 percentage points, from 49 % to 38 %; — support for a proposal to make vouchers available to all families regardless of income jumps 13 percentage points, increasing from 43 % to 56 %, while opposition to the proposal declines from 37 % to 25 %; — support for charter schools shifts upward from 51 % to 58 % when respondents learn the national rank of the local district, while opposition to charters declines from 26 % to 23 %; — opposition to teacher tenure climbs 8 percentage points, from 47 % to 55 %, while support for tenure drops 8 points to 25 %.

A high - school English teacher in her ninth year, Keigan and other fellows have been involved in shaping the details of SB 191, the Colorado reform bill that made major changes to teacher - related policies, including evaluations and tenure.

Such a lawsuit could pressure districts to make efforts to attract and retain talented pedagogues as well as to dismantle excessive protections that can make it prohibitively expensive to fire tenured, yet ineffective teachers.

Unfortunately, once a veteran teacher earns «tenure,» state and local policy make it complicated and cumbersome to fire him, even if he has demonstrated time and again that he is a poor educator.

At the same time, opposition to teacher tenure increases by 8 percentage points, support for charter schools increases by 7 percentage points, and support for making school vouchers available to all families shoots upward by 13 percentage points.

Second, school and district leaders can use VAMs to make workforce decisions — recognizing and rewarding effective teachers and denying tenure and dismissing the lowest - performing teachers, according to Corcoran and Goldhaber.

There's been a heavy emphasis of late on teacher evaluation, with states and districts making it a pillar of their efforts to rethink tenure, pay, and professional norms.

Because a tenure decision involves thousands of future students as well as future colleagues and supervisors at other schools in a district where a teacher might work, it makes no sense to leave the decision in the hands of their current supervisor alone.

Iron - clad seniority and tenure rights codified in state laws and collective bargaining agreements make it nearly impossible for boards to remove ineffective teachers.

By an overwhelming margin (87 percent), Hispanic respondents favor proposals to condition teacher tenure on their students» making adequate progress on state tests.

Teacher Tenure - 51 percent of Americans support requiring teachers to demonstrate that their students are making adequate progress on state tests in order to receive tTenure - 51 percent of Americans support requiring teachers to demonstrate that their students are making adequate progress on state tests in order to receive tenuretenure.

Is it in children's interest to make teacher - tenure decisions in 18 months?

They could make a much better decision about which teachers to retain for tenure if they had an extra few years of data.

KANE: Here's what I hope happens: In states around the country, teachers» unions will recognize that they have an interest in making sure the tenure review process is rigorous and subject to high standards.