Sentences with phrase «many teacher dismissals»

In a stunning decision, a judge in the California Superior Court has ruled that, because education is a fundamental right of California youth, the laws governing teacher tenure, teacher dismissal and rules for layoffs are unconstitutional.

Cambridge, MA — When current U.S. education secretary, Arne Duncan, headed the Chicago Public Schools in 2004 - 05, the city implemented a new collective bargaining agreement that covered teacher dismissal policy: principals were given more flexibility to dismiss non-tenured teachers.

But the bias in classroom observation is not a serious problem with respect to teacher dismissal.

That being the case, teacher dismissal policies and procedures can have profound implications for how much students learn.

We excluded instances of conflicts between schools and teachers (such as teacher dismissal cases) and between schools and nonstudent outsiders (such as drug - and weapon - free - zone cases that did not involve students), as well as student rights cases focused exclusively on free speech issues (that is, those not combined with the school's use of suspension, expulsion, corporal punishment, and transfer).

We also discovered that just 3 percent of the managing - personnel course weeks mentioned teacher dismissal, and less than 3 percent mentioned compensation.

Even ranking states on the number of education lawsuits filed by families to challenge the array of near - lifetime job protections and teacher dismissal policies that harm children would have been good to determine.

The full implementation of Judge Treu's striking down five laws that set rules for teacher dismissal, seniority rights and tenure will likely not take effect for years — or not at all if the state wins on appeal.

These proposals have generally sought to do one or more of the following: lengthen the probation period for new teachers, strengthen the teacher evaluation process, streamline the teacher dismissal process, or «end tenure» by moving to renewable contracts.

Second, policies surrounding teacher dismissal may be the less important side of the teacher quality coin.

But I can argue that her defense of near - lifetime employment and teacher dismissal policies that keep criminally abusive teachers in classrooms to harm children is morally as well as intellectually indefensible.

AB 375, a new bill meant to streamline teacher dismissals, could be headed for quick passage after clearing the State Assembly's Education Committee with a 7 — 0 vote Thursday.

The plaintiffs — nine students in five California public school districts — argue that five laws governing teacher dismissal, tenure, and «last in - first out» layoff...

Despite some victories this year — passage of a state ballot measure for more school funding and a revamped L.A. school board that the union perceives as more «teacher - friendly» — many instructors said they felt beaten down by large classes, staff cutbacks, rising teacher dismissals and public disrespect.

This paper takes advantage of a unique policy change to examine how principals make decisions regarding teacher dismissal.

Indeed, there are a few things we still don't know about the candidates» education positions, including where they stand on the controversial No Child Left Behind «waiver» that LAUSD is trying to get from Washington, whether they support SB 441, the teacher dismissal bill going through the state legislature, and — perhaps most important — which candidate they support for the District 6 School Board runoff.

DeBose and Vergara are among nine students challenging state laws on teacher dismissal, seniority and tenure that they say violate their right to an effective education.

As defendants, the state and its two biggest teachers unions tried to persuade the judge that in four weeks of testimony, the plaintiffs — nine students — did not present enough evidence to prove that the five contested statutes governing teacher dismissal, tenure and layoffs deny students right to an effective education.

«In 2015, 28 states now articulate that ineffective teaching is grounds for teacher dismissal,» according to Sandi Jacobs, vice president of state and district policy for the Council and project director for the report.

It's a case that could overhaul major parts of state laws that govern teacher dismissal and tenure opportunities.

What has been overlooked by all parties in the debate is that in the absence of workable teacher dismissal laws there is an outsize role parents play in what happens to truly bad teachers.

After nine months of hearings and amendments, legislation aimed to quicken and streamline teacher dismissal procedures failed to pass in the Senate Education Committee by one vote.

Brown's most memorable story for me is the 2012 piece she did about the teacher dismissal process in Fairfax, Va: Teacher tenure: a Fairfax schools firing case.

Previous posts: Union Tells Teachers How to Protest Evaluations; Deasy Requests Changes to Teacher Dismissal Bill; Union & District Clarify Positions on Teacher Evaluation

In addition, «27 states [now] require annual evaluations for all teachers, compared to just 15 states in 2009;» «17 states include student growth as the preponderant criterion in teacher evaluations, up from only four states in 2009... An additional 18 states include growth measures as a «significant» criterion in teacher evaluations;» «23 states require that evidence of teacher performance be used in tenure decisions [whereas no] state had such a policy in 2009;» «19 states require that teacher performance is considered in reduction in force decisions;» and the «majority of states (28) now articulate that ineffectiveness is grounds for teacher dismissal» (p. 6).

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.

Represented by Los Angeles law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, the plaintiffs allege teacher protections such as tenure, seniority rules in layoffs and other teacher dismissal statutes disparately keep ineffective teachers in the classroom in violation of the state constitution's equal protection clause.

Previous Posts: Brown Facing Pressure to Veto «Flawed» Teacher Dismissal Bill, Mixed Reactions to New Teacher Dismissal Bill, Deasy Requests Changes to Teacher Dismissal Bill

NYC Educator tears apart the Unity argument by simply saying that the old S or U system always placed the burden of proof in teacher dismissal hearings on management to show we were incompetent or had committed misconduct but that under the current law, after two ineffective ratings we are presumed to be incompetent.

In a telephone interview last week, Nunez gave LA School Report his take on education politics in Sacramento, recent shifts in union priorities after last year's controversial debate over teacher dismissals, and his vision for higher - performing...

In a telephone interview last week, Nunez gave LA School Report his take on education politics in Sacramento, recent shifts in union priorities after last year's controversial debate over teacher dismissals, and his vision for higher - performing schools.

LA Unified Superintendent John Deasy applauded Governor Jerry Brown's decision today to veto AB 375, a controversial teacher dismissal bill which had widespread teacher union support.

As you would expect, the suit demands that New York State's tenure, teacher dismissal, and reverse - seniority layoff rules be struck down because they violate the Empire State constitution's provision that all kids are provided sound basic education.

The stage was set with the two public education luminaries, ready to square off on such lightning rod issues as tenure and teacher dismissal laws in the wake of last month's Vergara trial: Randi Weingarten, leader of the nation's second largest teachers organization, AFT, and Superintendent John Deasy, leader of the second largest school district in the...

From where Casey sits, the criticism of Brown and others about the unwillingness of the AFT to embrace any reform of the obsolete process for teacher dismissals — including the Big Apple affiliate's successful opposition to Bloomberg's effort this year to give the city's schools chancellor final say over dismissing those alleged and convicted of criminal misconduct (and those engaged in inappropriate behavior with students)-- amounts to» a vicious slander» geared to «chip away at public support for the due process rights» and to «distract» people from the city's failures to put more effort into firing such teachers.

Republicans also have introduced proposals to update teacher dismissal rules.

Most states have laws on their books that address teacher dismissal; however, until recently these laws were much more likely to consider criminal and moral violations than performance.

The legislation streamlines the process for removing underperforming teachers and would resolve teacher dismissals in a much shorter time, helping to reduce costs associated with dismissals for both districts and employees.

The state has a policy for teacher dismissal based on their performance but no such policy for layoffs.

0 — the state does not have a policy for teacher dismissal or layoff that is based on how effectively they supported their students» growth in meeting CCR standards

The state does have a policy for teacher dismissal based on performance but no such policy for layoffs.

In Cincinnati, almost twice as many teacher dismissals resulted from peer reviews as from administrator evaluations.

Taveras named «maximum flexibility» as the rationale behind his city's teacher dismissals and Wasko used precisely the same language in Detroit.

They did this across CPS's almost 600 schools and its more than 12,000 teachers, with high - stakes being recently attached to teacher evaluations (e.g., professional development plans, remediation, tenure attainment, teacher dismissal / contract non-renewal; p. 108).

Fixing the broken teacher dismissal system is not the solution to fixing our schools, but it is a problem that urgently needs to be addressed.

The near - lifetime employment rules through tenure and teacher dismissal policies defended by NEA and AFT that deny high - quality teaching to black children.

The Big Two defend near - lifetime employment in the form of tenure and shoddy teacher dismissal policies that make it difficult for districts to root out laggards (as well as those engaged in criminal and sexual abuse).

(Tenured Teacher Dismissal in New York: Education Law § 3020 - a «Disciplinary procedures and penalties.»

That will be cold comfort for teachers, as those five sections, according to a statement released by the California Teachers Association, «grant permanent status to teachers, provide due process in teacher dismissal proceedings and protect seniority as a component of the layoff process.

In her work with Children Now, she fought for legislation on teacher dismissals that she clearly didn't fully understand, and, in an interview with the editorial board, gave an inaccurate description of how it would work.