Sentences with phrase «of teacher layoffs»

After years of teacher layoffs, districts began hiring again as the economy recovered from the Great Recession.

The mayor has already asked city agency heads to prepare lists of potential new cuts, in addition to the thousands of teacher layoffs that are already planned.

Contract talks have been going on for more than a year and for much of that time district held out the threat of teacher layoffs because of its poor financial situation.

For me, 2011 started — as it did in many school districts across the country — with the announcement of teacher layoffs for the fourth year in a row.

The city has calculated that it will save $ 270 million as a result of the teacher layoffs.

They also are protesting neighborhood school closings that could result in scores of teacher layoffs; they want a guarantee that the laid - off teachers would be tapped for other district jobs.

For months, parents, teachers, elected officials and community leaders fought back against threats of teacher layoffs.

In a new study, researchers find that seniority - based layoff policies — the norm in public schools — lead to higher numbers of teacher layoffs than would be necessary if administrators were allowed to make effectiveness the determining factor in issuing layoff notices, rather than length of service.

Mayor Villaraigosa today thanked the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education for their approval of a settlement agreement in Reed v. State of California, a class action suit that claimed the plaintiffs» constitutional rights to a quality education was being violated by the disproportionate impact of teacher layoff at their schools.

Assessing the Determinants and Implications of Teacher Layoffs.

After many years of teacher layoffs in California, school districts are using an influx of new k — 12 funding to hire again.

The closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant is three years away, but already the local school district is preparing for the possibility of teacher layoffs, higher taxes and even shutting down a school.

Because of teacher layoffs and falling enrollments at education training programs, the commission's revenues have dropped off steeply during the past three years.

Every agency has an IT division, and the hiring of high - priced consultants on top of that conclusively establishes the corruption in the midst of teacher layoffs and endless bashing of civil servants, with vital functions, field surveillance and enforcement all but eviscerated.

The two have appeared to be on a collison course in this budget season, however, on the topic of control of teacher layoffs.

The Education Department's list of teacher layoffs would cut as much as 70 percent of teaching staff at some schools.

Angry at the idea of teacher layoffs?

A radio ad thanking parents, teachers, elected officials and community leaders for fighting back against the threat of teacher layoffs started airing on June 30.

BTF Pesident Phil Rumore is blasting the timing of the teacher layoffs in the Buffalo School District.

Looming over this is the question of teacher layoffs.

But United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew disputed the necessity of teacher layoffs in light of the $ 200 million in extra state aid.

The discussions of teacher layoffs have led Congressman Obey to try to find money to avert any dismissals of teachers.

Noelle — Here's a question about the extent of teacher layoff / fuloughs.

Nevada school superintendents pleaded with state lawmakers Thursday for flexibility from educational mandates to try to meet a 10 percent budget reduction that could mean thousands of teacher layoffs statewide.

Twenty - year veteran teacher Gregg Lundahl says he entered the Democratic primary because East Side Assemblyman Jonathan Bing introduced a bill this year to get rid of the «last hired, first fired» policy in the event of teacher layoffs.

Contrary to the claims of Republican legislative leaders, the newly adopted education budget cuts to have led to hundreds of teacher layoffs and thousands of lost jobs according to data released recently by the Department of Public Instruction.

Darling - Hammond said some of the enrollment declines are related to years of teacher layoffs due to the state's budget crisis.

In light of the continuing budget crisis, LAUSD was facing another round of teacher layoffs, and these three schools again were expected to bear a disproportionate burden of layoffs, so we moved for a preliminary injunction to prevent LAUSD from laying off any teachers at these three schools.

There has been ongoing litigation about the disproportionate impact of teacher layoffs on the state's most impoverished schools, some of which face losing most of their teachers if layoffs are based on seniority rather than performance.

But before that can happen, it's back to the annual spring ritual of teacher layoffs to close a projected $ 66 million hole in next fall's budget — a gap caused by shrinking revenues partly linked to declining enrollment.

To close a hole of that size, as required by state law, the Cleveland school board on Tuesday approved a level of teacher layoffs that would be disastrous.

According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, up to half of these schools» budgets could be cut, forcing a spate of teacher layoffs and other losses.

Civil rights groups sued the Los Angeles Unified School District and the state on Wednesday, claiming thousands of teacher layoffs will deprive inner - city children of their right to an education.

«The massive number of teacher layoffs, school closings, cuts to academic programs and extracurricular activities could have been worse had districts not tapped into reserve funds or worked hard to negotiate contract concessions with their employee unions.»

(2010); The New Teacher Project, The Case Against Quality - Blind Teacher Layoffs (2011); Boyd, Donald; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; and Wyckoff, James, «Teacher Layoffs: An Empirical Illustration of Seniority v. Measures of Effectiveness» The Urban Institute, CALDER (2010); Goldhaber, Dan and Theobold, Roddy, «Assessing the Determinants and Implications of Teacher Layoffs.»

CORTLANDT, N.Y. — The closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant is three years away but already the local school district is preparing for the possibility of teacher layoffs, higher taxes and even shutting down a school.

When she heard Bobb's announcement of the teacher layoffs, she said it was «not a surprise,» but it was «insulting and demeaning.»

Mulgrew called the attacks on pensions, the threat of teacher layoffs, the fight to change seniority layoff rules, the targeting of teachers in the Absent Teacher Reserve pool, and the record number of proposed school closings «part of the mayor's strategy to throw everything at us at once.»

At the urging of Mayor Villaraigosa and his Partnership for Los Angeles School, the ACLU and Public Counsel filed a lawsuit (Reed v. Smith) on behalf of Gompers, Liechty, and Markham Middle Schools arguing that the children's constitutional right to a quality education was being violated due to the disproportionate impact of teacher layoffs at those schools.

After many years of teacher layoffs in California, school districts around the state are hiring again.

After many years of teacher layoffs in California, school districts are using an influx of new k — 12 funding to hire again.

And while many in the crowd did applaud and cheer as the mayor passed, others expressed their resentment about the comments as well as recent cutbacks, including threats of thousands of teacher layoffs.

He was frustrated by the threats of teacher layoffs and the damage done to a well - rounded curriculum by Draconian budget cuts.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's accusation this morning that school districts and their allies are playing politics with kids by using the threat of teacher layoffs to try to scare lawmakers — and the public — into opposing the governor's education funding cuts hasn't stopped them from doing... well... just that.

With so many other cuts under consideration, including thousands of teacher layoffs, it's unclear whether this will become a priority at the City Council.

The Bronx UFT office hosted NAACP President Beverly Roberts, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and dozens of educators at a press conference on March 10 to denounce the threat of teacher layoffs and budget cuts.

That study, «Managing the Teacher Workforce: The consequences of last in, first out personnel policies,» by Dan Goldhaber and Roddy Theobald, found that last in, first out policies resulted in higher numbers of teacher layoffs than would be necessary if principals were able to make decisions based on teacher effectiveness.