Sentences with phrase «making teacher seniority»

By making teacher seniority an issue the mayor would be able to control which teachers get to teach and rid himself of senior teachers who are due raltively high salaries and expensive benefits.

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The legislature must let school boards use teacher performance, not seniority, in making layoff decisions.

Changes would make it easier to fire workers and base teacher layoffs on performance instead of seniority.

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.

In a new study, researchers find that seniority - based layoff policies — the norm in public schools — lead to higher numbers of teacher layoffs than would be necessary if administrators were allowed to make effectiveness the determining factor in issuing layoff notices, rather than length of service.

Because traveling between classrooms isn't usually a desirable option, the situation most often is experienced by the newest teachers, those who lack seniority — and the experience to make it work.

It is interesting to note, however, that some teachers who receive layoff notices are well into their careers, implying that at least some districts in the state are making judgments about which teachers should be laid off based on criteria other than seniority.

Seniority rights are a big deal right now because older teachers have a lot to lose: higher salaries that they've reached after a lifetime of anemic ones; and significant pension wealth if they make it to retirement.

Besides challenging seniority - based layoffs, the shortage of experienced math and science teachers in inner - city districts — a problem that single salary schedules make worse — could inspire a lawsuit.

He also pressed for reform of the onerous work rules in the teachers» contract, including eliminating the seniority provisions, making it easier to fire incompetents, and establishing a system of merit pay.

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

States and districts can eliminate seniority - based layoffs, which should consider effectiveness instead, and make it easier to transfer or remove ineffective teachers who can not improve.

Delaware passed legislation making the state more hospitable to Teach For America, and Rhode Island put a stop to all seniority - based teacher assignments.

States and districts can establish a policy of «mutual consent» that gives principals the right to choose their own teachers... States and districts can eliminate seniority - based layoffs, which should consider effectiveness instead, and make it easier to transfer or remove ineffective teachers who can not improve.»

Last In, First Out (LIFO) policies prioritize seniority when a district must make reductions to its teacher workforce.

These differences may originate in collective bargaining agreements that make it relatively expensive for pilot schools to expand instructional hours and staffing and that favor teacher seniority over classroom effectiveness.

In his 2014 ruling, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu said the tenure and seniority laws make it prohibitively time - consuming and expensive to remove incompetent teachers.

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.

Seniority, tenure, bumping rights, LIFO — all of these policies make it easier for teachers to choose (and remain in) the schools they want and harder for administrators to assign them — especially the most senior and likely most effective among them — to schools where they might do more good in classrooms with more challenging (but needier) kids.

In 2000, more than 30 grassroots groups and foundations found common ground and agitated successfully for contractual changes that made it easier for schools to fill teaching vacancies with outside hires and harder for unwanted teachers with seniority to bump talented first - year teachers from the classroom.

Moreover, the two premises represent a tautology — student test score growth is the most important measure, and we have to choose other teacher evaluation measures based on their correlation with student test score growth because student test score growth is the most important measure... This point, by the way, has already been made about the Gates study, as well as about seniority - based layoffs and about test - based policies in general.

If successful, this lawsuit will remove the tenure, seniority and arcane dismissal statutes from the California education code and render them unconstitutional, thus making it easier to get rid of incompetent and criminal teachers while outlawing seniority as a method of teacher - retention.

Some argue that efforts to rethink tenure and seniority are really about making it easier to fire older teachers (who are farther up on the salary scale) and replace them with younger «less expensive» teachers.

One thing Wisconsin has done right is reduce or eliminate seniority restrictions that make it harder for districts to hire and recruit minority teachers.

In an economic layoff for declining enrollment or district mismanagement, seniority rules are the only barrier to unfairly laying off the more senior teachers who are making higher salaries than newer teachers costing less.

«Current tenure, dismissal, and seniority policies make it virtually impossible to dismiss bad teachers.

However, a new bill in the Legislature would change the law to give schools the power to take into account factors besides seniority, such as a teacher's performance, when making layoff decisions.

Defendants in the case, the state and teacher unions, are trying to prove that these other factors make it difficult for the nine - student plaintiffs to show that state laws governing teacher dismissal, seniority and tenure should be struck down as impediments to a quality education.

Also taken out of the bill was a provision to balance teacher performance with seniority when making layoff decisions, and a new streamlined dismissal process for ineffective teachers.

The key is making it easier to fire bad teachers and reward teachers based on performance, not seniority.

I was a ninth grade English teacher with very little seniority in a school where senior teachers who taught eleventh and twelfth grade really didn't understand the extent of the problems some of our students were having because so many of those students would drop out before they made it to higher grade levels.

California's employment laws are considered among the most generous in the country to teachers, allowing them to be granted permanent employment status after 18 months on the job, for example, and making layoff decisions based largely on seniority.

A teacher with 25 years seniority in the system, however, would make $ 85,000.

In structure, Minneapolis» first self - governed school would resemble teacher - led programs in the Milwaukee public schools, where the teachers in charge of the new schools retain their union seniority and district benefits like their colleagues but work under a contract that makes them responsible for their schools.

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.

He waxes eloquent about «renegade groups» of younger teachers who are rising up to demand a new brand of unionism — one in which the unions disavow seniority provisions, insist on serious teachers evaluations, make it easy to get bad teachers out of the classroom, and otherwise do whatever is best for children and effective schools.

Call out models, including preferential, rotational and seniority were researched, and members were asked to make submissions on call out models and the issues regarding retired teachers working as TTOCs.

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.

Michigan's Public Act 4 is the most extreme example, but lawmakers from New York to California are seeking ways to circumvent or eliminate public school teacher tenure, pushing for staffing decisions to be made based on merit rather than seniority.

The four bills would increase the probationary period — the length of time before a teacher is up for tenure — from four to five years; end the practice of laying teachers off predominately based on seniority; put teachers evaluated as ineffective back on probation; make it easier to fire teachers for a broader slew of offenses; and limit collective - bargaining rights, barring unions from negotiating areas such as teacher evaluations.

One of the world's most successful college dropouts is making the case that even amid deep state spending cuts, schools can improve student performance by focusing on teacher quality instead of paying educators based on seniority and advanced degrees.

The recent deal brokered by Stand for Children with the Massachusetts Teachers Association (and at the end supported by the AFL - CIO and the Massachusetts chapter of the American Federation for Teachers) made some progress in making student performance a larger consideration in evaluating teachers and lessened the role of seTeachers Association (and at the end supported by the AFL - CIO and the Massachusetts chapter of the American Federation for Teachers) made some progress in making student performance a larger consideration in evaluating teachers and lessened the role of seTeachers) made some progress in making student performance a larger consideration in evaluating teachers and lessened the role of seteachers and lessened the role of seniority.

E4E's mission is to make it seem like real teachers support the corporate education reform industry's agenda that includes repealing teaching tenure, eliminating the teacher seniority process and promoting the use of the unfair and discriminatory Common Core testing scheme.

Bcause Baby Boomers remain in control of leadership posts within both unions (and thanks to rules that allow retirees to vote in union elections), the NEA and AFT end up defending seniority - based privileges and layoff policies that hurt the younger, more reform - minded teachers who make up the majority of their respective memberships.

Many teacher tenure critics also want to end the process of «seniority» — which requires that districts make layoff decisions based on the number of years a teacher has been working.

He argues that the Commonwealth Foundation and Pennsylvania School Boards Association make the case for eliminating the seniority protection «only from an economic angle,» and that firing veteran teachers would cause educational quality to suffer.

See, the salary schedule for teachers in Michigan puts a premium on seniority and educational attainment, so the longer you've been a teacher, the more you make.

Following the original Vergara decision, Republican lawmakers introduced a package of three bills to extend the time it would take a teacher to earn tenure, to repeal the «last - in, first - out» statute that makes layoff decisions based on seniority, and to establish an annual teacher evaluation system.

To win the contest, the states had to present new laws, contracts and data systems making teachers individually responsible for what their students achieve, and demonstrating, for example, that budget - forced teacher layoffs will be based on the quality of the teacher, not simply on seniority.

Bill Lucia, president of Sacramento - based advocacy group EdVoice, suggests various options might be considered that «include elements of a seniority system but with exceptions made for excellent teachers or permanent teachers willing to serve in hard - to - staff schools.»