Sentences with phrase «math teacher the seniority»

With this math teacher the seniority transfer issue at Stuyvesant reached a level of comic absurdity.

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One New York City teacher can not be paid more, or less, than any other teacher at the same level of seniority, regardless of the particular teacher's talents and effort or the difficulty of recruiting a teacher for a hard - to - find position such as math or science.

A final way in which seniority - based systems may have consequences for student achievement is that strict adherence to seniority would require at least some districts to lay off teachers in subject areas with teacher shortages, such as math and special education.

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.

Instead of giving first priority to teachers who were at the school before Katrina and hiring them based on seniority, as the union contract would have dictated, the charter school group asked each teacher applicant to take a short test of math and writing skills.

The superintendent's HR office does most of the vetting and placing, but it is shackled by the contract, by state licensure practices (which may be set by an «independent» — and probably union and ed - school dominated — professional - standards board), by seniority rules that are probably enshrined in both contract and state law, and by uniform salary schedules that mean the new teacher (assuming similar «credentials») will be paid the same fixed amount whether the subject most needed at Lincoln is math or music.

Given that defined - benefit pensions (along with near - free healthcare benefits, near - lifetime employment rules in the form of tenure, and seniority - and degree - based pay scales) have been proven to be ineffective in either spurring improvements in student achievement, are a disincentive in rewarding high - quality work by teachers (who get the same levels of compensation as laggard colleagues), and actually serve as a disincentive to luring math and science collegians into teaching, it is high time to scrap this and other aspects of traditional teacher compensation.