Sentences with phrase «now tenure decisions»

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More than 20 states now require that student test - score gains be used in key personnel decisions, often including tenure and salary determinations.

The advantage that we now have as experienced, tenured teachers is that we can and should speak up when our school leaders make unwise decisions.

Now, with Republican governors like Scott Walker in Wisconsin and John Kasich in Ohio publicly taking on collective bargaining for public school teachers, replacing strict salary schedules with merit pay, and introducing value - added measures into decisions about salaries and tenure, events have caught up to his message.

In addition, «27 states [now] require annual evaluations for all teachers, compared to just 15 states in 2009;» «17 states include student growth as the preponderant criterion in teacher evaluations, up from only four states in 2009... An additional 18 states include growth measures as a «significant» criterion in teacher evaluations;» «23 states require that evidence of teacher performance be used in tenure decisions [whereas no] state had such a policy in 2009;» «19 states require that teacher performance is considered in reduction in force decisions;» and the «majority of states (28) now articulate that ineffectiveness is grounds for teacher dismissal» (p. 6).

Additionally, instead of making teacher tenure an earned benchmark based on demonstrated quality of instruction, as teachers and policy organizations across the country strongly have advocated, AB 934 now doubles down on making tenure a time - based employment decision.

Now, their main tasks revolve around making teacher tenure decisions, conducting «Quality Reviews» of school's internal organizational structures, attending public hearings about schools in their districts, and putting out fires when they arise.

For instance, 16 states now require that tenure decisions factor into performance on the front end, and seven states allow districts to revoke tenure in the case of consistently poor performance.88

Rather than belabor the sorry procession of bad corporate decisions and compromised products that marred Ford's tenure as keeper of the Big Cat, let's just be here now, sliding for the first time behind the wheel of the new Jaguar XF.