Sentences with phrase «of firing all teachers»

Not one supporter of value added analysis would accept stop trying to teach students that have failed with an effective teacher while the logic indicates this follows from the idea of firing teachers based upon value added analysis.

Ted Mitchell, president of the State Board of Education and chairman of the task force, said the total number of fired teachers shouldn't be the sole indicator of improved evaluations.

Some districts are having difficulty with teacher pay in recent years, however, with one district even exploring the option of firing all teachers due to financial constraints.

Indiana passed laws that created an expansive voucher system, made teacher tenure contingent on effectiveness, limited collective bargaining, ended the process of firing teachers in order of seniority and required teacher evaluations to be «significantly informed» by student performance on standardized exams.

After floating a raft of names — from former rival and now designated Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Dr. Ben Carson to New York City charter magnate Eva Moskowitz to former Washington D.C. School Chancellor and Patron Saint of Firing Teachers Michelle Rhee to actually qualified school choice advocate and Hoover Institute Fellow Dr. Williamson Evers — Donald Trump has settled upon Michigan billionaire and school privatization zealot Betsy DeVos as his nominee for Secretary of Education.

I am in contact with one of the fired teachers.

Also, another person who is directly involved says that many of the fired teachers were competent.

Not exact matches

«Since the tragedy in Parkland, Florida, a number of companies have decided to sever their relationship with the NRA, in an effort to punish our members who are doctors, farmers, law enforcement officers, fire fighters, nurses, shop owners and school teachers that live in every American community,» the NRA said in a statement.

Jesse Randal Davidson, a popular teacher at Dalton high school, is accused of firing shots in class, prompting debate on arming educators

«Their idea was that if you fire thousands of teachers, teachers» aides, school support workers, nurses, nurses» aides and people that work in the hospitals that somehow the price of oil would go back up,» she told a Unifor convention in Ottawa this week.

The New York City Employees» Retirement System; the New York City Fire Department Pension Fund; the New York City Teachers» Retirement System; the New York City Police Pension Fund; and the New York Board of Education Retirement System, as joint filers (NYC Retirement System), c / o The City of New York, Officer of the Comptroller, 633 Third Avenue, 31st Floor, New York, New York 10017, which in the aggregate held 12,707,578 shares of common stock on November 15, 2011, the New York State Common Retirement Fund, whose address is the same as that of the NYC Retirement System, which held 19,560,008 shares of common stock on November 22, 2011, and the Illinois State Board of Investment on behalf of the State Employees» Retirement System of Illinois, c / o 180 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 2015, Chicago, Illinois 60601, which in the aggregate held 928,927 shares of common stock on November 18, 2011, the Judges» Retirement System of Illinois and the General Assembly Retirement System of Illinois, as co-filers, intend to submit a resolution to stockholders for approval at the annual meeting.

-- A Georgia high school teacher brought a gun to school and fired a shot, testing Trump's theory on the safety of arming teachers.

While pensions are not nearly as common as they once were, they are a very important part of the retirement plans for many of society's most valued workers: teachers, police officers, fire fighters and more!

They thought it was a fire drill at first, so the students hurried out of the classroom, and geography teacher Scott Beigel locked the door behind them.

One teacher said she was on her way out of the building after the fire alarm when another staff member told her the situation was code red — an active shooter.

Many public school teachers that are Christians have been fired because of their beliefs, especially around Christmas and Easter time, when they merely mention the reasons behind the seasons and don't advocate Santa Claus and the Easter bunny with its colored eggs (funny how the different colors of eggs represent the rainbow's colors).

God gave us many «names» for His many facets so that all of us could find some kind of positive connotation to which we could cling — cloud, pillar of fire, father, shepherd, teacher, bread, friend, king, creator, provider, mother hen, water, rock, tower of refuge, master, physician, light, servant, prince, vine, and many others.

In Philadelphia a teacher can be fired for wearing «any dress, mark, emblem, or insignia» of religious significance.

Totally agree with you, I am here in Texas and we are already feeling his wrath of destruction, fired thousands of teachers, and many more has lost their job.

Michelle Rhee is the former Chancellor of DC Schools (despite not ever managing schools before) who fired a bunch of DC teachers and was on the news a lot.

A teacher of religion at a Baptist college was denied tenure and effectively fired.

Many of those teachers of whom you speak are not fired, but are kept on and PAID to do nothing, costing the State of NY taxpayers millions of dollars that could be better spent elsewhere or actually SAVED!!

Hundreds of teachers have been removed from the classroom for misconduct but it is almost impossible to fire them because they are protected by the teachers» unions.

Analysis shows that coercion in the punishment of a child, in firing a teacher, or in government enforcement of socially adopted laws consists in withholding rewards or applying penalties.

and if cases are reported they are dealt with and investigated by the authorities and folks go to jail, or teachers fired... you are still trying to deflect the appalling actions of the so called church of christ to protect its own image.

On the same day, the newspaper published an article accusing the Archdiocese of complicity in the firing of a married lesbian teacher from a parochial school.

When a student learns math from a human teacher, the fire of love for the teacher is limited by whatever the nature of the relationship is, and the fire of love for the subject may well be limited by intelligence.

We need something that can fire contemplatives and other religious, priests, preachers, teachers, catechists, theologians, parents, youth leaders, «the men and women in the pew» and the youth of today's Church as they all do their bit to learn from God's Word and announce the Good News revealed by Jesus Christ in His words, miracles, Passion and Resurrection.

Later that year, at the PGA at Valhalla, Norman and Harmon got into a dispute over Harmon's clothing contract, and Norman fired his teacher in the middle of a practice round.

Six months after firing him as coach, for the Bauman incident, the board of trustees voted him professor emeritus, and Hayes kept his small teacher's office at OSU until the end.

This is the basic measure of value - added assessment in use today; teachers in many states across the country are evaluated (and sometimes compensated or fired) based on similar measures.

Our economy is not in the best shape of all right now while California and now Texas are firing teachers due to budget shortfall, so JO's timing is a bit off.

While it's unlikely that a tenured teacher can be fired, he can be taken out of the classroom and transferred to a non-teaching position within the school district.

Mr. CANADA: Well, you know, it's sort of interesting, because I have some of my Republican friends who love to tout the fact that I am about results, and I want to use data, and I'm prepared to fire teachers or principals or anyone who can't really deliver for children, right?

Once a teacher has worked for a minimum period of time, they can not be easily fired even if their performance is shoddy.

A teacher at Fox River Grove Middle School who was fired after officials complained that he had turned his art classes into lectures on veganism filed an appeal Wednesday with the Illinois State Board of Education.

With 60 hours of college credit, I became a substitute teacher on my days off from the fire department.

Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis called the idea of a quota «morally repugnant,» especially with a federal judge ruling last month that CPS's recent firing of hundreds of tenured teachers was misTeachers Union president Karen Lewis called the idea of a quota «morally repugnant,» especially with a federal judge ruling last month that CPS's recent firing of hundreds of tenured teachers was misteachers was mishandled.

After the bombs on the Paris Metro and a TGV line in 1995, there were no significant Islamist attacks until the fire - bombing of the Charlie Hebdo office in November 2011, and the killings of three French soldiers (all of North African origin) and three Jewish children (and one teacher) by Mohamed Merah in Toulouse four months later.

Earlier today, Silver made a very friendly appearance before members of the Alliance for Quality Education — a group partially funded by the teachers union that often comes under fire from the Cuomo administration.

In fact, during the last leadership election for Jeremy Corbyn, and at many of his rallies in this campaign, I was repeatedly taken by how many teachers and nurses and fire - fighters and doctors I came across.

I don't want the endorsement of a mayor shutting down schools and firing teachers.

Albany, New York — The push to change teacher hiring rules to end the policy of last hired first fired got a boost when Governor Andrew Cuomo introduced a bill to extend the proposal to all schools in the state.

The proposed cuts have engendered the usual howls of outrage that it will lead to fired teachers, overcrowded classrooms, and sick people dying in the street.

Harry Nespoli, chairman of the city's labor coalition, suggested letting New York apply some of the $ 400 million of unused cash from the union health - insurance fund to pay for teachers who would be fired under the mayor's $ 65.7 billion spending plan.

«Whilst the «fire at will» proposal has been watered down, the remaining proposals represent an unprecedented and unacceptable attack on the employment rights of teachers and other ordinary working people.

He has picked up a long list of labor endorsements, including the Communication Workers of America District 1, Council of School Supervisors and Administrators Local 1, 1199 / SEIU, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1500, Teamsters Local 808, Uniformed Fire Officers Association, United Federation of Teachers, Working Families Party and 32BJ.

United Federation of Teachers president Mike Mulgrew issued a statement saying he opposed giving the chancellor the authority to «unilaterally» fire a teacher and ignore an arbitrator's decision to the contrary.

In an intense Delegate Assembly on Jan. 18, UFT President Michael Mulgrew explained to delegates the competing visions of teacher evaluation held by the UFT and the city Department of Education that have resulted in the union being in Mayor Bloomberg's direct line of fire.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has urged the state to repeal the seniority - based firing policy ahead of major teacher layoffs.