Sentences with phrase «of seniority protection»

In an unusual request, the state Department of Education last week sent a short survey to every district and charter school asking them about their layoffs of teachers technically called «reductions in force» (RIFs) over the past five years, and about the impact of seniority protection on their «ability to manage their personnel.»

Jonah Edelman, its founder and the son of children's advocate Marian Wright Edelman, has raised millions of dollars in funds from the Gates and Walton Foundations, as well as many top business executives, and now pursues policies central to the corporate education agenda, including support of charter school expansion, the evaluation of teachers based on test scores and the elimination of their seniority protections.

Not exact matches

Mr. Cuomo protected New York City teachers, one of the state's most powerful political forces, by blocking Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's proposal this winter to immediately end teacher seniority protections.

She said she has disagreed with past legislation that would do away with protections for senior teachers, but thinks there may be some sort of formula that takes more than just seniority into account.

Some teachers, however, were especially critical of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's push to abolish seniority protection,

«It is right that everyone working for or with Parliament regardless of position or seniority should have the same rights and protections and should be held to the same high standards.»

The plaintiffs detailed the many ways in which seniority protection placed teacher interests ahead of those of minority students.

Teachers who entered the profession under these rules and patiently served their time, waiting for the rewards of seniority, are understandably resistant to measures that would significantly alter pay scales, job protections, or work rules.

In April, the California Court of Appeal overturned the trial court's ruling in Vergara v. California [i], in which a group of families had challenged the constitutionality of state laws governing teacher tenure [ii](California state law automatically grants tenure to teachers after sixteen months, provides extra due process protections to teachers over and above those available to other state workers, and requires schools to use seniority rather than competency in layoff decisions.)

The Washington Post reported that the court decided «tenure, seniority and other job protections for teachers have created unequal conditions in public schools and deprive poor children of the best teachers.»

The case arose from a challenge, funded by anti-union organizations, to five California statutes that provide K - 12 teachers a two - year probationary period, stipulate procedural protections for non-probationary teachers facing termination, and emphasize teacher seniority in reductions of force.

While other districts have put performance - pay systems in place and others still have relaxed seniority rules, the initiative coming out of the nation's capital would, in one stroke, swap job protection for salaries that outpace what most...

The tight budgetary environment played a big supporting role in the D.C. contract, in which teachers got a 21.6 % salary boost and a bucket of bonus dollars in return for substantial concessions on job protections, seniority, and merit pay.

Though 42 percent of likely California voters ranked education as their top priority this year, and the vast majority of voters surveyed after Treu's ruling agreed that the state should do away with «last hired, first fired» seniority protections, nearly 60 percent said they didn't know what the lawsuit was about.

Represented by Los Angeles law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, the plaintiffs allege teacher protections such as tenure, seniority rules in layoffs and other teacher dismissal statutes disparately keep ineffective teachers in the classroom in violation of the state constitution's equal protection clause.

Translation: Decisions about who gets a raise, a wanted transfer or protection from layoff will continue to be based mostly on how many and what kinds of college credits teachers earn, and on that old union standby, seniority.

He also has tried to limit job and seniority protections and to speed up the dismissal of teachers accused of serious misconduct or ineffectiveness in the classroom.

The Incite Agency, founded by former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs and former Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt, will lead a national public relations drive to support a series of lawsuits aimed at challenging tenure, seniority and other job protections that teachers unions have defended ferociously.

Specifically, the pattern of veteran teachers» leaving disadvantaged schools and novice teachers» staying in disadvantaged schools is more pronounced in districts with strong CBA seniority transfer protections.

«The Education Code expressly allows a school district to deviate from... seniority for... purposes of maintaining or achieving compliance with constitutional requirements related to equal protection of the laws,» said the ruling from Judge William F. Highberger.

Over the last quarter century, the teachers unions have clearly been the most powerful force in American education, and they have clearly been using their extraordinary power — in collective bargaining at the local level, in the political process at the state and national levels — to undermine major reform and to burden the schools (via seniority provisions, the protection of bad teachers, and all the rest) with ineffective forms of organization.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction candidate Marshall Tuck this week launched a petition calling on his opponent, incumbent Superintendent Tom Torlakson, not to appeal a lawsuit ruling that struck down statutes giving California teachers firing protections and rights to tenure and seniority.

While this brief focuses on Act 10's impact on Wisconsin teachers based on the data available, the same forces driving changes in the teaching workforce can also affect the broader public sector.3 Proponents of Act 10 insisted that reducing collective bargaining rights for teachers would improve education by eliminating job protections such as tenure and seniority - based salary increases.

Deborah Gist (class of 2008), Rhode Island Commissioner of Education, has supported the firing of all teachers in Central Falls and more recently in Providence, and is aggressively fighting seniority protections for teachers.

The plan called for an «infusion of philanthropic support» to recruit teachers and principals through national school - reform organizations; build sophisticated data and accountability systems; expand charters; and weaken tenure and seniority protections.

Eli Broad has said he «expects to be a major contributor» to Students First, former D.C. Chancellor Michelle Rhee's organization that advocates for the expansion of charters, vouchers, and an end to seniority protections for teachers.

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.

Just last month, citing a part of the education code that says that a district may deviate from seniority (f) or purposes of maintaining or achieving compliance with constitutional requirements related to equal protection of the laws, Superior Judge William Highberger ruled in favor of the plaintiffs.

Three factors: issue selection (including investment decisions on seniority / subordination, covenant protection, maturity, and bond versus CDS exposures), sector weighting, and quality tilt typically contribute the majority of any excess returns relative to the benchmark.

Academics — especially in Europe, and especially those with seniority — have impressive protections against outrages, and petty flare ups between colleagues are commonplace enough that one flip - flopping publicly because of some unpleasant friction for a few days or weeks has revealed far more about his own character than that of his detractors..