Sentences with phrase «of teachers in the state»

The highly qualified teacher data allows educators and the public to find out the percent of teachers in each state who have received waivers of state teacher quality regulations.

We estimated the power of unions with the fraction of all teachers in a state who are union members.

They also argued that a vast majority of teachers in the state's schools are competent and providing students with all the necessary tools to learn.

«We can close the gap» between the demand and the supply of teachers in the state «by lowering scores,» he said in announcing the move.

It's possible to use these retention rates to estimate what percentage of teachers in each state will reach various career milestones.

Support for increased teacher salaries falls sharply when respondents are first told the average annual salary of teachers in their state.

One illustration of how bad this data is is simply to look at the top 10 list of teachers in the State.

Students of color make up 35 percent of the public school population, yet just 15 percent of teachers in the state identify as persons of color.

The 4 - year contracts are to be awarded next year to the top 25 percent of teachers in the state.

In October 2014, 94 percent of teachers in the State of New York were identified by school district officials as either effective or highly effective.

However a government spokesperson argued: «Teaching has a lower turnover rate than the economy as a whole — 90 per cent of teachers in state schools stay in the profession from one year to the next while the number of teachers returning to the classroom continues to rise year after year.»

Overall, about 2 percent of teachers in the state received a layoff notice in either year.

«It really requires the development of a strong curriculum to interpret the standards, and honestly, I do not see that capacity in any state, or in most districts,» says Nancy Grasmick, the former state superintendent of Maryland, who is now helping to incorporate the standards into teacher preparation at Towson University, the largest producer of teachers in the state.

The state Education Department and SUNY are out with their lengthy TeachNY report on how to improve recruitment and effectiveness of teachers in the state.

«We have our own union because of the peculiarity of teachers in the state.

In Connecticut, Mark Waxenberg, executive director of the state's largest teachers union, the Connecticut Education Association, said, «I think it's fair to say that [Natale's column] reflects the opinion of the overwhelming majority of teachers in the state today.»

A former Speaker of the Osun State House of Assembly, Mr. Adejare Bello, has blamed the unimpressive performance of pupils of Osun origin in external exterminations on the poor welfare package of teachers in the state.

We were initially puzzled to find that, conditional on the successful passage of a charter law and controlling for law strength, the fraction of students enrolled in charter schools appears to increase with the fraction of teachers in the state who are unionized.

Thanks to a last - minute revision to North Carolina's year - old K - 12 accountability law, none of the teachers in the state's lowest - performing schools had to take a much - talked - about competency exam last week.

«Pass this jobs bill and thousands of teachers in every state will go back to work,» Obama said.

In Tennessee, the most effective programs produced graduates who were 2 - 3 times more likely to be in top quintile of teachers in the state, while the least effective programs produced graduates who were 2 - 3 times more likely to be in the bottom quintile.

A survey of more than 1,500 teachers last year by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers found more than half of teachers in state schools have faced aggressions from pupils.

«Due to the extreme shortage of teachers in the state, many school districts must seek opportunities to attract qualified teachers,» Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, D - South San Francisco, said of his bill meant to increase the supply of affordable housing for teachers.

One major obstacle does remain though: the CEA reports 70 percent of the teachers in the state do not teach a subject that has a standardized test.

As the second largest preparer of teachers in the state of Georgia, the Bagwell College of Education produced 697 teachers at the completion of the 2010 - 2011 academic year.

The recession and consequent layoffs, the ability of teachers in states like Wisconsin and Michigan to opt out of membership and the growth of the charter school movement have all taken their toll, along with the country's waning affection for Big Labor.

Building a Qualified Early Childhood Workforce to Teach English - Language Learners» A study of the education, certifications and professional development interests of teachers in state...

The piece presents many figures that highlight the importance of the case, explaining that 250,000 California students are served by the 13 named districts and that «about 98 percent of teachers in the state receive a satisfactory rating every year, but only 44 percent of students are proficient in reading and 33 percent proficient in math.»

UCF is the largest producers of teachers in the state; the university's education school enrolls more than 2,000 students.

The size of the college of education at the University of Missouri - Columbia, the largest supplier of teachers in the state, would be reduced dramatically under a universitywide consolidation plan proposed by Provost Ronald F. Bunn.

Last year, The Guardian newspaper ran a survey that found that 43 % of teachers in state schools intended to leave the profession within the next five years.

Distinguished — earned through evidence of leadership, including a letter of recommendation from the principal and two other teachers; a nomination from the district with student performance information and analysis of student growth; and meeting criteria set by the commissioner and being in the top 25 percent of all teachers in the state who teach in a similar certification area in student growth average over three years.

Betty Weller, president of the Maryland State Education Association, the union that represents the majority of teachers in the state, urged caution in interpreting the results.

Mississippi and Arkansas have the lowest percentage, with males making up just under 18 percent of the teachers in those states.

The letter, written by a top Cuomo aide, says the student test scores are «unacceptable,» and asks Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch and outgoing Education Commissioner John King what to do about an evaluation system that rates just 1 percent of all of the teachers in the state as poorly performing.

Interestingly, a defense witness conceded that between 1 and 3 percent of teachers in the state are «grossly ineffective.»

A total of 34.6 percent of teachers in North Carolina's traditional public schools missed more than 10 days of work because of sick days or personal days, compared to 12.8 percent of teachers in the state's charter schools.

Thirty - seven percent of teachers in the state's public schools are graduates of the UNC system, and they generally have better evaluations and higher pupil achievement than teachers who come from elsewhere.

The scores will apply to about 20 percent of all teachers in the state, given the limited number of teachers who have students taking the state tests in their subject areas.

Officials from the CEA, which represents 80 percent of the teachers in the state, were not available to comment Tuesday.

Finally, they show the percent of teachers in each state that will actually ever reach their break even point.