Sentences with phrase «of teacher tenure»

The issue of teacher tenure, or «continuing contracts,» has received less attention despite its potential importance to efforts to improve teacher quality.

New research shows a connection between the loss of teacher tenure and a higher rate of teacher turnover.

The controversies of teacher tenure are likely to be a part of education reform in the future.

A similar measure that only covers the extension of teacher tenure is also in the signature - gathering stage.

SGOs are one of three measures used to judge teacher effectiveness as part of the teacher tenure reform law that went into effect last year.

The concept of teacher tenure in American public education, as Dana Goldstein documents in her book The Teacher Wars, was an idea originally imported from Germany.

The Vergara ruling has been stayed pending an appeal, but critics of teacher tenure laws clearly consider it a promising template for potential battles across the country.

Backers of teacher tenure lost another battle to defend the job - protection practice when a Brooklyn court refused to toss a lawsuit challenging it.

Backers of teacher tenure lost another battle to defend the job - protection practice Wednesday when a Brooklyn court refused to toss a lawsuit challenging it.

The independent expenditure effort was heavily supported by charter school supporters like Paul Singer, a wealthy hedge - fund manager and investor who supports charter school expansion, as well Daniel Loeb, a director at Success Academy and Dan Senor, a former Bush administration official who is married to former CNN anchor Campbell Brown, a critic of teacher tenure.

Each has revisited the historic system of teacher tenure that is not based on any true evaluation of the teacher's contribution to students» learning but instead is based solely on a couple of years on the job.

The folly of teacher tenure and the protection it inappropriately affords to classroom failures has become far more widely recognized.

The consequences of last summer's raft of legislative changes affecting the teaching profession — including another year of frozen salaries, the discontinuation of supplemental pay for advanced degrees, and the end of teacher tenure — were not reflected in this report, leaving many to wonder what this year's numbers will look like next fall.

The grades, part of a teacher tenure reform bill that sits on Gov. Chris Christie's desk, would be kept secret.

Under cross-examination today, LA Unified Superintendent John Deasy faced pointed questions from attorneys representing California's biggest teacher unions and the state in a controversial lawsuit that could turn the practice of teacher tenure on its head.

In a 2 - 1 decision, with Judge Chris Dillon agreeing in part with the majority, the three - judge appeals court panel found that the repeal of teacher tenure in 2013, a bill signed by Gov. Pat McCrory, amounted to an illegal taking of contract and property rights.

Proponents of teacher tenure say that it is not a guarantee of a job — rather, it is a guarantee of due process rights.

Union - allied defenders of teacher tenure here also say New York City's intensive and controversial new teacher evaluation laws ensure quality among teachers, and point out that tenure reforms implemented under the Bloomberg administration led to a significant decline in teachers approved for tenure.

The UFT is appealing a state judge's ruling that allowed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of teacher tenure and seniority rights to proceed.

The basic claim in this lawsuit is that California's handling of teacher tenure, dismissal, and the like are resulting in grossly ineffective teachers being placed in classrooms; that these teachers are disproportionately affecting low - income and minority students; and that this violates the California Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.

And voters are skeptical of teacher tenure (both Republicans and Democrats plurality opposed).

Teachers unions, of course, remain s teadfast in their defense of teacher tenure.

In the few instances when researchers have focused on the issue of teacher tenure specifically, they have generally sought to document the costs and benefits of tenure, make normative arguments about whether tenure should or should not be abolished, or propose specific ways in which tenure policies could be improved.

Empirical evidence should be the basis for a serious — and unprecedented — conversation among policymakers as well as the general public about the costs and benefits of teacher tenure and the circumstances under which it should be granted and revoked

It will provide an overview and history of teacher tenure; analyze the nature of current and past teacher tenure reform proposals and their variation across states; offer a brief assessment of the reforms where they have been enacted; and highlight recommendations for policymakers going forward.

The U.S. Department of Education should fund research and pilot demonstration programs that will provide empirical evidence of how effective different kinds of teacher tenure policies are on raising teacher quality and student achievement

That's an independent body created by Governor Rick Snyder and the legislature two years ago after the passage of teacher tenure reform in Michigan.

State Board of Education members approved a model teacher contract for local school districts to use in place of teacher tenure.

The tests would still be rolled out as planned if the legislation passed but the results would not count toward teacher evaluations, the centerpiece of the teacher tenure reform law signed by Christie in 2012.

In a relatively quiet election year at the state level, the high - profile governor running for re-election in New Jersey will attempt to defend and build on the big changes he initiated in the areas of teacher tenure and state control of struggling districts.

What do you think of teacher tenure laws?

These newer groups» brand of education reform is data driven and accountability focused: They're advocating for stricter teacher evaluations that take student student performance on standardized tests into consideration; merit pay for teachers; better professional development for teachers; and the elimination or fundamental reworking of teacher tenure.

Reactions to questions and elements of teacher tenure demonstrate that Americans are not particularly concerned with teacher tenure, and instead support efforts that give teachers the tools and skills they need to improve teacher effectiveness (through collaboration, mentoring, survival skills, more training and prep time).

The legislature is now considering a revamp of teacher tenure that would hinge on the new evaluation system.

Even those who are very supportive of teacher tenure feel lengthening the amount of time it takes to earn it makes sense.

Most teachers absolutely deserve to keep their jobs, and some have begun to speak out about the absurdity of teacher tenure, but it's impossible to pretend that the number of firings actually reflects the number of bad teachers protected by tenure.

A topic of major contention between liberals and conservatives education policy debates today revolves around the idea of teacher tenure and whether it is helping or hindering education reform.

The proposed change, extending the probationary period from two to three years, would align California with the vast majority of teacher tenure laws throughout the country, which award tenure after three to five years of teaching.

February 16, 2015 (New York)-- As school districts, education leaders and New York's courts debate the future of teacher tenure, Educators 4 Excellence — New York (E4E) members today issued a series of recommendations to preserve job protections but make tenure designations more meaningful.

California voters will go to the polls this fall to decide controversial issues of teacher tenure and school funding in a special election that will test the strength of the state teachers» unions in their ongoing conflict with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.