Sentences with phrase «near quality employment»

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Add in certification rules that keep mid-career professionals with strong math and science skills out of teaching, near - lifetime employment policies and discipline processes that keep laggard and criminally - abusive teachers in the profession, and practices that all but ensure that low - quality teachers are teaching the poorest children, and shoddy teacher training perpetuates the nation's educational caste system.

The state's governor, Bobby Jindal, is looking to further burnish the state's efforts on the teacher quality front this week with his proposal to eliminate near - lifetime employment for laggard teachers with unsatisfactory ratings on the state's new teacher evaluation system, while pushing further on expanding charters by allowing successful charter operators to expand without having to go through the current approval process, and allowing the state education department to authorize charters throughout the state (and thus, ending efforts by traditional districts to restrict school choice within their boundaries).

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.

When coupled with bad policies and practicesthat govern professions — be they use - of - force laws and dismissal processes in law enforcement, or near - lifetime employment rules and subjective teacher quality evaluation regimes in education — as well as the legacies of the state - sanctioned bigotries that are America's Original Sins, the damages to both professions, peoples, and communities are devastating.

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

Seeking long - term employment in / near Lompoc, CA as an Environmental Health / Range and Safety, Quality Assurance (QA) Compliance Manager / Inspector and / or Logistics / Transportation professional Coordinator, Program / Project Manager, Team Lead or Analyst.