Sentences with phrase «new teacher contract»

The platform was brought to the bargaining table when the union negotiated new teacher contracts and resulted in victory for teachers and the community.

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He credited the push for «educator effectiveness,» including a dramatic new teacher contract that has moved away from pay - for - longevity and to pay linked to performance.

Under a state - appointed superintendent, the district pursued a wide - ranging reform agenda, including a major new teacher contract and evaluation system intended to retain and reward the district's effective teachers and remove ineffective teachers from the classroom.

But in an interview with WBEN Radio, Paladino again reiterated his argument that he was removed for disclosing information about the new teachers contract that been in the public domain for three months.

The deficit is largely driven by costs related to the new teacher contract and Cash's ambitious plan for school improvement.

He was trying to inform the public that the district could not afford the new teachers contract.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and the teachers union have agreed on a new teachers contract that exempts 200 regular schools from union and city rules.

An editorial in the New York Daily News outlines shortcomings of the new teachers contract including the absent teacher reserve, laboratory schools, teacher evaluations, and parental involvement.

And what about the billions in dollars in costs that will likely be attached to a new teachers contract?

WBFO's Focus on Education reporter Eileen Buckley says as the board awaits the information, there is a call for changes in a new teacher contract that would focus more on students.

Bryon McIntyre, Vice President of the District Parent Coordinating Council, recently joined the Buffalo Niagara Partnership calling for a new teachers contract that puts children first.

Instead, the board majority argued that Paladino violated policy when he subsequently published information about the new teachers contract discussed privately in executive session.

Buffalo Teachers Federation President Philip Rumore testified, and Paladino's attorneys pressed him on his role in the May 2016 school board races and whether he waited until after the election to finalize negotiations for a new teacher contract.

Buffalo school officials plan to present the details of a new teacher contract to the school board in a closed private session when it meets at 4 p.m., a meeting that would violate the state's open meetings law.

Philip Rumore, the union president, wants a new teacher contract within the first month of the school year.The district is noncommittal about a timeline, and it's unclear how newly elected, union - friendly school board members will influence the process.A major wild card is Superintendent Kriner Cash, who may want work - rule changes, but also faces pressure from his bosses o...

That will go a long way helping pay for the ambitious education agenda put forth by Superintendent Kriner Cash, as well as the cost of a the new teacher contract approved in October.

Add to that a new teachers contract, which will cost $ 98.8 million over the next three years.

Central to the hearing was negotiations for a new teacher contract, with those board members seeking Paladino's removal saying he disclosed confidential information about the contract talks to the public.

The tensions Wednesday were clearly a carryover from the five - day State Education Department hearing seeking Paladino's removal for allegedly violating board policy by disclosing confidential information about the new teacher contract.

The new teachers contract in D.C. will give innovative teachers an opportunity to prove that they can help poor kids realize their untapped potential, Jay Mathews writes.

Among other reforms encouraged by Race to the Top, Washington, D.C., adopted a new teacher contract that raised salaries across the board while adding performance pay, and New York City increased its allotment of public charter schools, to cite just two notable examples.

In 2012 — 13, Newark Public Schools (NPS) ratified a new teacher contract with the Newark Teachers Union, the main goal of which is to implement a high - quality measure of teaching effectiveness and use it to support and manage teachers in ways that improve student outcomes.

The school board in Indianapolis has approved a new teacher contract that will allow six schools to implement an experimental program that allows high - performing teachers to take on new roles, reach more students, and earn higher salaries.

• According to an independent analysis conducted by American Institutes for Research, the new teacher contract has:

Charter schools should consult an attorney when creating (and before issuing) new teacher contracts to ensure all laws and best practice are incorporated.

Charters can use this new teacher contract flexibility to offer incentives that allow them to compete with better - funded schools.

In April, Bluum, in partnership with Idaho Charter School Network, hosted a work session to dive into what the new Teacher Contract Flexibility law could mean for charter schools.

Durham Public Schools high school English teacher Tim McNamara just got his first up - close look into the implementation of the new teacher contracts that were passed into law last July.

An editorial in the New York Daily News outlines shortcomings of the new teachers contract including the absent teacher reserve, laboratory schools, teacher evaluations, and parental involvement.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and the teachers union have agreed on a new teachers contract that exempts 200 regular schools from union and city rules.

Public charter schools, which are funded with taxpayer dollars, are exempt from implementing the new teacher contract system.

According to one lawmaker, the new teacher contracts have not been well - received by teachers and principals in his district — regardless of political affiliation.

This past month Bluum, in partnership with Idaho Charter School Network, hosted a working session to dive into what the new Teacher Contract Flexibility law could mean for charter schools.

As November drew to a close, Quitman's principal was finalizing details on how he will use money from the state program combined with funding from the new teachers contract to restore the extended day for the rest of the academic year.

The New Haven school district has just completed a new teacher contract, with union support, that includes many of the best reform ideas.

The new teacher contract, announced Thursday by Mayor Bill de Blasio, includes wage increases and back pay, a streamlined teacher evaluation process and time built into the school day for professional development and parent engagement.

Adding an element of competition to the classroom will be good for boosting academic achievement, say lawmakers who have pushed for the new teacher contract system.

Under Rhee's leadership, DCPS implemented a new teacher contract that permitted merit pay and reduced the roles played by teacher tenure and seniority.

Now that the details are out on the new teachers contract, take a closer look at whether the contract substance matches Mayor de Blasio's flowery rhetoric.

The issue - unhappiness about a reduction in personal planning time in exchange for school - wide staff development in the new teacher contract - mobilized the kind of teacher turnout not seen at board meetings since the mid-1990s when labor strife was more common.

To recap some of the governor's political and personal initiatives: appointing a reform - minded superintendent in Newark, and playing a large role in hammering out a new teachers contract there; opposing Abbott v. Burke school - equity decisions; pushing for private school vouchers; blocking the surrender of state control in both Newark and Paterson; and, most recently, launching a takeover of Camden schools.

In Pittsburgh, a new teachers contract overhauls the way teachers are hired, evaluated and paid, including paying more to teachers who get the best results.

The new teacher contract — approved hastily in March before the state's changes to collective bargaining were to take effect — allows principals to hold staff meetings during that time.

When it was signed almost a year ago, Newark's new teacher contract was touted as a national model for rewarding strong teachers and for improving or in some cases, getting rid of weaker ones.

That idea, broached by the city earlier in contract negotiations over a new teachers contract, was again shot down by a Chicago Teachers Union official who promised a fight if it is pursued.

Any new teacher contract signed in Indiana must now include a system for evaluating teachers — and school districts are holding their breath, worried the whole thing could turn into fiasco.