Sentences with phrase «many teachers and principals»

The harassment includes social boycott, expulsions, threats and violence against Ahmadi students by extremist students, teachers and principals of the majority sect.

There is no district - wide policy on homework so teachers and principals can use their own discretion.

On the other hand, while providing all of those supports, we understand if teachers and principals are not held accountable to high expectations for these children.

Building on reporting for his magazine, the author interviewed economists, psychologists and neuroscientists, examined their recent research, and talked to students, teachers and principals to produce this fascinating overview of a new approach with «the potential to change how we raise our children, how we run our schools, and how we construct our social safety net.»

But at least they provide the official mandate of the district and that fact alone should carry at least some weight with the teacher and principal.

When teacher and principal bonuses are tied to standardized testing, that may carry some weight.

Time for teachers and principals to recognize that McDonald's marketing is not education and support parents in countering the message that fast food is lovin».

Officials will be working with parents, teachers and principals through focus groups to gain feedback on how the school day should be structured.

Some teachers and principals believe that you need permission to home - educate, but this is not the case.

Kids deserve more support from their teachers and principals.

If you do find out that your child does not want to go to school because he is being bullied, let his teacher and principal know what is going on, and work side by side with them to make sure the bullying stops.

Communicate your values to the school's teachers and principal.

If your child is being harassed or threatened at school, you must enlist the help of the teacher and principal in keeping your child safe.

The support for school breakfast programs in Montana is growing by leaps and bounds — from local teachers and principals all the way to the state Office of Public Instruction.

Madeleine emphasized the importance of collaboration and communication; addressing barriers with teachers and principals who express resistance to in - classroom breakfast, and using the facts about breakfast — it improves test scores, and can be implemented with minimal additional work for everyone involved — to create support for the program.

Mary A. Zimmerman, 66, a longtime resident of Hoffman Estates who was a teacher and principal at elementary schools in the northwest suburbs, died Friday in Northwest Community Healthcare Center in Arlington Heights.

State Commissioner John King suspended federal improvement grant funding for 10 districts — including NYC — that failed to live up to their commitment to reach agreements with their teacher and principal unions on new performance evaluations).

He also stressed professional development for teachers and principals as being an essential part of education reform.

She spoke with parents, students, teachers, and school and district leaders to hear what they had to say about the State's learning standards, curriculum, assessments, and teacher and principal evaluations.

The bill, dubbed the «Every Student Succeeds Act,» would ban federal officials from requiring states and school districts to rate the job performance of teachers and principals, though states could continue doing that on their own.

At 9 a.m., the state Education Departmentis kicks off an all - day «Learning Summit» on teacher and principal evaluation today.

Also, $ 30 million would go to professional development for teachers and principals.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Senate Majority Coalition Co-Leaders Dean Skelos and Jeff Klein, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver today detailed an agreement to guarantee every school district has a permanent teacher and principal evaluation system in place by June 1st.

New York is going back to the drawing board to rethink the way it evaluates school teachers and principals after controversy over the use of student test scores in job evaluations helped fuel a massive boycott of state exams in recent years.

Some aspects of the rating system would be optional, so they would require negotiations between school districts, teachers and principals» unions.

He said the Regents were attempting to «delay» the rating system, but the proposal would not have stopped the evaluations or removed testing from the evaluations; rather, it would have stated explicitly that educators could use a Common - Core defense during disciplinary proceedings, an option unions said was already available to teachers and principals.

The Board of Regents, on recommendation from Cuomo's Common Core task force, put in place a moratorium on the use of test scores in teacher and principal evaluations through the 2019 - 20 school year.

Opposition to the tests boiled up after they became more challenging at the same time the state made plans to weigh them heavily in teacher and principal evaluations.

The session, at Spackenkill High School, was filled with parents and teachers opposed to King's policy agenda, including the state's rush to the Common Core standards, high - stakes Common Core tests and teacher and principal evaluations tied to those tests.

The Regents tabled a proposal that would have offered more protection for teachers and principals who could risk losing their jobs as a result of Common Core - based tests after Cuomo blasted it.

ALBANY — With nearly $ 2.32 billion in state school aid increases on the line, Assembly Democrats are attempting to decouple the link between aid and implementation of the teacher and principal evaluation system, Speaker Carl Heastie told POLITICO New York on Thursday.

Excerpt: «My experience in education has taught me that empowering parents, teachers and principals to make decisions about school policies is essential to building good schools.»

New York State United Teachers, the state's largest teachers union, supported the movement and leveraged it in the battle over teacher and principal evaluations.

State aid increases continue to be linked to compliance with the teacher and principal evaluation process; districts will be ineligible for school aid if they have not fully implemented the teacher evaluation process for the 2013 - 14 year by September 1, 2013.

Education advocates and teachers» unions have questioned the use of the test scores in the teacher and principal evaluations, saying they are unreliable.

Barbara Byrd - Bennett, the current CEO of the Chicago public schools, spent decades as a teacher and a principal in the New York City school system, working in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

A four - year moratorium on use of student scores on Common Core state tests to evaluate job performances by teachers and principals gained quick and overwhelming preliminary approval Monday from the state Board of Regents.

Until now, teachers and principals faced the possibility — albeit a small one — of losing their jobs if they were rated «ineffective» two years in a row.

Elia and the Board of Regents are revising the teacher and principal evaluations for the fifth time since 2010, and Pallotta said there's a lot riding on the reforms, including whether the test boycott movement will continue.

They would not be used to decide which teachers and principals will be assigned improvement plans or fired.

Support for Senate Legislation to Repeal the Annual Professional Performance Review of Teachers and Principals

The deal would delay that use for two years, but would allow the tests to continue to be used in job evaluations of teachers and principals, said two state officials Tuesday night.

Scores for fourth - through eighth - grade math and English teachers and their principals are expected to be finalized by mid-August and could be released through a Freedom of Information request under the current law.

Cuomo has sought a two - year moratorium on using test scores in students» grades, but wanted to use the testing as part of the job evaluations of teachers and principals.

New York might lose out on $ 300 million in federal funding if last - minute negotiations on teacher and principal evaluations disconnect Common Core test scores from final ratings.

«We are relying more than ever on state exams — to measure student achievement, to evaluate teacher and principal effectiveness, and to hold schools and districts accountable for their performance,» Regents Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch said.

More than 200 teachers and principals received erroneous scores from the state on a contentious measurement that ties their performance to how well their students do on tests, according to state documents obtained by The New York Times.

With nearly $ 2.32 billion in state school aid increases on the line, Assembly Democrats are attempting to decouple the link between aid and implementation of the teacher and principal evaluation system, Heastie said.

The union, which has been fighting for a moratorium on using Common Core tests to evaluate teachers, said the Regents» consideration was far from a solution; teachers and principals may already make that argument, they said.

Nearly every school district in the state, with the notable exception of New York City, began evaluating teachers and principals last year on a scale of «ineffective» to «highly effective.»