Sentences with phrase «of job security for teachers»

Among the bones of contention: The role of testing in evaluations, the strength of job security for teachers and the number of kids in a class.

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With these changes in selectivity, opportunity, and pay, our nation could go from giving no one what's needed to giving everyone what they want: for teachers, sustainable, well - paid career advancement, rigorous development on the job, and whole careers» worth of engaging work; for students, excellent teaching for all, consistently, increasing their lifelong prospects; and for the broader community, an improved economy, national security, and social stability.

Of course, things are much better for teachers today, what with much higher (if still mediocre) salaries, generous benefits, and over-the-top job security.

In a series of valuable reports, including several recently released, ERA found, for instance, that initial reforms led to the dismissal of thousands of teachers; NOLA teachers today report lower job satisfaction, less job security, and less autonomy; average teacher salaries are lower and there are fewer teachers per pupil; and the teaching force has grown less black, experienced, and local.

While we certainly see the strong benefit of offering job security for teaching - track faculty (and recognize that higher levels of job protections likely attracts more excellent teachers to the university), giving them de facto tenure would eliminate this important lever for department chairs, deans and provosts.

Their mission is to protect the jobs of teachers in the regular public schools, and real technological change — which outsources work to distant locations, allows students and money to leave, substitutes capital for labor, and in other ways disrupts the existing job structure — is a threat to the security and stability that the unions seek.

In a resounding victory for teachers unions, the Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles overturned a judge's June 2014 ruling that the state's tenure and job - security rules violated the right of students to an equal education.

While job security for teachers was traditionally pegged to years of experience, new laws are taking student test scores into consideration.

On tap for 2014: We'll look at how many of the top 25 percent of teachers who are currently tenured will give up their job security for the meager pay increases that come with 4 - year contracts.

The Vergara lawsuit is ultimately a very crude way of enacting policy change; the decision does not require, for example, any measures to compensate teachers for reductions in job security.

One of the central tensions for reformers when it comes to improving teacher quality is that on the one hand they believe teachers are fighting desperately for excessive job security but also, on the other hand, that you can substantially reduce that job security without making teaching significantly less attractive.

In today's economic environment, when so many hard - working skilled people have lost jobs and job security, it's hard for the unions to continue to argue that tenure makes sense, when the results of our schools show that far too many teachers are not making the grade.

In the published presentation of results, the question about teacher tenure asks: «Do you support or oppose tenure for teachers, the practice of guaranteeing teachers lifetime job security after they have worked for a certain amount of time?»

CHICAGO — For the first time in a quarter century, Chicago teachers walked out of the classroom Monday, taking a bitter contract dispute over evaluations and job security to the streets of the nation's third - largest city — and to a national audience — less than a week after most schools opened for faFor the first time in a quarter century, Chicago teachers walked out of the classroom Monday, taking a bitter contract dispute over evaluations and job security to the streets of the nation's third - largest city — and to a national audience — less than a week after most schools opened for fafor fall.

In places where the supply of teachers is already limited, districts may need to provide higher teacher salaries or improve working conditions to make up for the diminished job security that accompanies tenure reform.»

In fact, a sense of job security (and not the bogus notion that you have a job for life; the knowledge that you can speak your mind and not fear for removal by your superiors and the knowledge that you will have due process if action is instituted against you) have been shown conclusively to be a significant factor in positively influencing teacher performance.

These moves come at a time when teacher satisfaction nationally is at its lowest point in more than two decades, according to the annual MetLife Survey of the American Teacher, with more of those in the profession saying they are considering leaving it or fear for the security of their jobs than at any recenteacher satisfaction nationally is at its lowest point in more than two decades, according to the annual MetLife Survey of the American Teacher, with more of those in the profession saying they are considering leaving it or fear for the security of their jobs than at any recenTeacher, with more of those in the profession saying they are considering leaving it or fear for the security of their jobs than at any recent time.

Experienced teachers who meet or exceed standards of teacher quality may also qualify for tenure, which provides an added measure of job security.

Teachers» unions would certainly argue yes: Job security could improve the quality of education teachers provide, for iTeachers» unions would certainly argue yes: Job security could improve the quality of education teachers provide, for iteachers provide, for instance.

D.C. teachers have to give up some of their job security and will be fired for poor performance.

Moreover, as with defending job security as a cheaper way to attract decent teachers, defined - benefit pension plans have big downsides with hidden costs: They make it unappealing for a talented person to work as a teacher for just part of a career, make it hard for teachers to move around, offer huge bonuses to older teachers who don't add any special value, etc. (And this is all viewing education in isolation — committing future taxpayers to pay for pensions teachers are earning now is going to mean spending less on other priorities in the future.

Other important factors that predict teacher job satisfaction include job security, quality of colleagues, the amount of autonomy teachers have, and whether or not there is opportunity for career advancement.

Thus, the highest number of points — 138 of the 500 - point scale that Duncan and his staff created for the Race — would be awarded based on a commitment to eliminate what teachers» union leaders consider the most important protections enjoyed by their members: seniority - based compensation and permanent job security.

Last week, unionized teachers in Chicago walked out of their classrooms for the first time in 25 years in a strike over proposals similar to Obama's, including revamped teacher evaluations and ending job security based only on seniority.

Her focus is on education, where the teachers unions have blocked meaningful reforms for years; protecting bad teachers from being terminated, promoting based on seniority instead of merit, taking over local school boards with hand - picked, union - financed candidates, attacking charter schools, prioritizing teacher compensation and job security over student achievement, and pushing a social agenda in front of academic fundamentals.