Sentences with phrase «more than seniority»

And believe that performance should matter more than seniority when teachers are laid off,» (Kerhner 2015).

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But Joy Chik, 40, one of the execs in the room, says it's a sign that the company is spending a lot more time trying to use data rather than seniority or force of personality to make decisions about product fixes or features.

Mr. Fife reported the story, as it was decided his seniority put him on more solid footing than Mr. Vennavally - Rao.

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He was returning with about 160 other men and women to more seniority than 60 percent of the work force He was higher than 4200 people on the seniority list which by contract gave him The right to Switch shifts, Take better jobs, Take or refuse weekend overtime as he chose if it was not 100 percent.

Iannuzzi will begin his latest term at a critical juncture for the labor movement, as issues like collective bargaining and seniority are under attack nationwide, and as public K - 12 and higher education in New York struggle to cope with the devastating effects of more than $ 1 billion in cuts by state government.

She said she has disagreed with past legislation that would do away with protections for senior teachers, but thinks there may be some sort of formula that takes more than just seniority into account.

That was never more apparent than about a week ago when Johnson (R - West Babylon) missed a vote on state Sen. John Flanagan's controversial bill on teacher seniority.

An overwhelming majority — more than 80 percent — said that if teachers must be laid off, it should be based on performance, not seniority.

The Big Dog, however, was willing to end welfare as we know it, infuriating the left; Cuomo has passed up the chance to challenge Democratic orthodoxy and tell the teachers unions that seniority protections need to end because the archaic rules are damaging the unions» credibility even more than they're hampering what goes on in the classroom.

The top 10 lies told by men are as follows: 1) having a better job than they do, 2) taller than they really are 3) weight is less than it really is 4) more athletic than they really are 5) have more money than they really do 6) have more work seniority than they do 7) are in a more interesting profession than they really are 8) know celebrities 9) have employees or an assistant and 10) work in the film industry.

Coupled with a compensation scale that rewards seniority rather than performance, certification may well make the profession more attractive to graduates seeking a less demanding line of work.

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.

Influence generally increases with seniority for a variety of reasons, and these are enhanced in the case of pension politics, because the benefits of pensions are far more immediate and tangible for senior educators than for junior ones.

For example, in a seniority - based system, black students are far more likely than other students to have been in a classroom of a teacher who received a RIF notice.

However, this difference «pales in comparison to the difference in probability that a first - year teacher will be dismissed compared to a teacher with 12 or more years of seniority,» which is less than one - quarter of 1 percent.

This difference is statistically significant, but it pales in comparison to the difference in probability for a first - year teacher compared to a teacher with 12 or more years of seniority: The estimated probability of a teacher with 12 or more years of seniority receiving a layoff notice is less than one - quarter of 1 percent for every endorsement area (see Figure 1).

With a seniority - based layoff policy, school systems may be forced to cut some of their most promising new talent rather than dismiss more - senior teachers, who may not be terribly effective in raising student achievement.

Over the past two years, more than a dozen states have sought to change laws that make seniority the determining factor in layoff decisions; so far, Florida, Idaho, Utah, and Ohio have succeeded.

First, to achieve a targeted budget reduction, school districts need to lay off a greater number of junior teachers than senior teachers (as junior teachers have lower salaries), meaning that a seniority - based layoff policy will cause class sizes to rise more than they would under an alternate arrangement.

As noted earlier, one of the prevailing critiques of seniority - based layoffs is that it is necessary to lay off more teachers in order to attain a specified budget objective than it would be if districts used alternative criteria.

All of the 75 largest school districts in the nation use seniority as a factor in layoff decisions, and seniority is the sole factor determining the order of layoffs in more than 70 percent of these districts.

Trust is more powerful than contract and finally seniority is more respected than competence.

This report summarizes and analyzes two recent studies that demonstrate that more than 80 percent of seniority - based layoffs would result in better teachers leaving classrooms and worse teachers staying.

A bit more than a year ago a California Superior Court, ruling in Vergara v. California, overturned California statutes guaranteeing due process protections for K - 12 teachers with more than two years experience (so - called «teacher tenure») and layoff by seniority.

If you are forced by an outdated seniority system to pay some teachers more than they are worth or could get in private industry, or accept less effort, resources are being expended based on what is good for the union and teachers and not what is best for kids.

Public - opinion surveys suggest that the proposal — which ties hiring, firing, and transfer decisions to teacher effectiveness, while still giving some consideration to seniority — may be more popular than the merit - pay or school - voucher proposals.

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.

Or teacher quality, of course that's taboo to talk about even though LA's results showed some teachers are far better than others and some young teachers provide over double the value of teachers earning more than them by our outdated and ineffective seniority - based pay system.

The belief that organizational improvement needs to cascade down from the top upper echelons of school managers no longer works in today's schools where frequently the staff has more seniority and experience than the principal.

So is more freedom for principals to hire and assign teachers in ways they think best, rather than following outdated seniority rules.

In a survey this year by the New Teacher Project, a nonprofit teacher - recruiting organization, three - quarters of teachers said layoffs should be based on more than just seniority.

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.

Fraisse's response: «I have not seen a better or more objective system than seniority.»

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Attempting to maintain support among the very teachers it is supposed to represent — and looking to show that it cares about elevating the teaching profession it debases through its defense of quality - blind seniority - based privileges and reverse - seniority layoff rules — the NEA gave $ 73,500 to the National Network of State Teachers of the Year; that the selection of teachers of the year is usually more of a popularity contest than one based on objective measures of teacher performance is often conveniently ignored by all but the most thoughtful of observers, and thus, serves as a good way to spend union funds.

The discrepancies occur because, though Franklin publishes a pay scale, salaries are subject to one - on - one negotiation that hinges on more than degrees and seniority.

But in offering such options, it made predicting salary increases more difficult than relying on seniority.

A Teach Plus poll this year of more than 500 principals found that nearly three out of four principals have had to lay off teachers that they would have preferred to keep because of seniority.

Public schools are asked to be competitive and act more like private entities, but there is little comparison to the flexibility of the private sector in forcing public schools to furlough teachers based on seniority rather than performance or other important educational considerations.

LIFO, or «last - in, first - out,» rules refer to the process of newer teachers facing layoffs first — even if they are more effective in the classroom than their colleagues with greater seniority.

In effect, tenure and seniority work together to give employers the flexibility to lay people off when economic circumstances require it, but in a way that protects teachers from being arbitrarily targeted, or targeted because they were paid more than more junior faculty.

As a result of seniority - based layoffs, the highest poverty schools in California are likely to lose 30 percent more teachers than wealthier schools.

For example, the judge wrote that the state's teacher evaluation system is «little more than cotton candy in a rainstorm» since «[s] tate standards are leaving teachers with uselessly perfect evaluations and pay that follows only seniority and degrees instead of reflecting need and good teaching.»

Unsurprisingly, we find that layoffs determined by a measure of teacher effectiveness result in a more effective workforce than would be the case with seniority - based layoffs.

unsatisfactory business operations, including difficulty for teachers and administrators getting the basic necessities to operate schools and classrooms, and traditions of promotion based more on seniority and politics than on evidence of skill and commitment to system efforts to improving education quality

First, assuming readily available measures of teacher effectiveness actually measure true teacher effectiveness, an assumption to which we return below, the differences between seniority and effectiveness - based layoffs are larger and more persistent than we anticipated.

DIAMOND BAR, Calif. (May 18, 2009)-- For the first time in the SEMA Show's 43 - year history, organizers are awarding more than one seniority point to exhibitors for participating in the 2009 event.

The disadvantage of equity is there's more risk, equity has lower seniority than debt.

People with more seniority in their current positions actually have worse photos, on average, than newer employees.