Sentences with phrase «more uncertified teachers»

Yet, at the same time lawmakers assert that they plan to strengthen the state's ability to address the problem, they have weakened their ability to do so by allowing more uncertified teachers into the classroom.

New York City's charter school sector appears to have secured a significant victory in the 11th hour of the Legislative session Wednesday night, with a set of regulations that will make it much easier for large charter networks to hire more uncertified teachers.

Cuomo's allies at the State University of New York would issue regulations allowing more uncertified teachers at charter schools — something they had sought and the Assembly had fought — that would let Flanagan and Senate Republicans claim a win.

Senate Republicans not only stuck it to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio on mayoral control of the public schools, but also handed a victory to his nemesis, Success Academy charter school network founder Eva Moskowitz by allowing charters to hire more uncertified teachers.

Not exact matches

Over the years, an array of studies has sought to determine whether certified teachers serve students more effectively than uncertified teachers.

Uncertified teachers, teaching fellows, and TFA corps members all tend to teach in schools that, relative to those employing more certified teachers, have a higher percentage of minority students; more low - income, ESL, and special - education students; and students with lower achievement levels.

For instance, the authors refer to «the reform» case as though it were monolithic and uncontested, and cite, for example, arguments that certified teachers are no more effective than uncertified, with no indication that this finding is disputed in the literature.

In fact, students in high needs schools are four times more likely to be taught by uncertified teachers.

More specifically, the findings showed that certified teachers consistently produced stronger student achievement gains than their uncertified counterparts (Darling - Hammond et al., 2005).

I agree with the arguments that charter schools are not necessarily more effective than the traditional public schools, and the fact that charter schools hire uncertified and less experienced teachers to teach.

Although, I can somewhat agree with Jason Engerman, to clear up this broken formula is changing the standards of just hiring inexperienced or uncertified teachers to something more purposeful for the success of students.

Teacher certification arises as another common sticking point in any discussion about charters, which generally get more leeway to hire more uncertified and nonunion teachers, which they say lets them recruit people who don't come from the usual teacher - education Teacher certification arises as another common sticking point in any discussion about charters, which generally get more leeway to hire more uncertified and nonunion teachers, which they say lets them recruit people who don't come from the usual teacher - education teacher - education tracks.

Although most U.S. teachers are certified, for example, black students are more than four times as likely (PDF) as white students to attend schools where uncertified and unlicensed teachers are concentrated.

And under current rules, charter schools can have no more than 15 uncertified teachers on faculty or have more than 30 % of their faculty uncertified, whichever number is lower.