Sentences with phrase «of tenure rules»

The criticisms of tenure rules in both the Vergara case and today's New York lawsuit come in roughly three buckets.

In addition, John E. Deasy, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District and «a staunch opponent of tenure rules and «last in, first out» seniority for teachers,» testified on the side of the plaintiffs, while also noting, however, that «good administrators don't grant due process rights to ineffective teachers.»

Not exact matches

During his tenure as Chief of OMI, Mr. Martinez oversaw efforts to remove dormant shell companies from the market, support an enforcement sweep of violations of Regulation M Rule 105, and identify broker - dealers not in compliance with their Bank Secrecy Act obligations.

If events take a turn for the worse, as in the case of Valeant, executives can ride off with little fear of losing the large compensation they received during their tenure as clawback rules are rarely enforced.

Since the beginning of her tenure, DeVos has rolled back rules designed to protect students from loan servicers.

Many who hated Scalia's rulings could not help but be entertained by his razor - sharp writing, which he used especially in his dissenting opinions to carve up the majority's reasoning (my favorite is Planned Parenthood v. Casey, where among other things he referred to the majority's «Nietzschean vision of us unelected, life - tenured judges — leading a Volk who will be «tested by following»» the Court's rulings obediently).

Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis called the idea of a quota «morally repugnant,» especially with a federal judge ruling last month that CPS's recent firing of hundreds of tenured teachers was mishandled.

The standing rule of the Senate stipulates that any bill that could not be passed within the tenure of a particular Senate automatically dies and can not be continued in the tenure of the next Senate except it is sponsored afresh.

In the six years that Mahama ruled Ghana, first as an emergency President following the death in 2010 of his principal, H.E President John Evans Atta - Mills, and winning the election in 2012 to begin his first tenure, Ghana, has experienced a great infrastructural turnaround in all facets of the country's economy including a complete overhaul of the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange, now famously called Ghana's Dubai, which is the first of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa.

Getting rid of Cox would be difficult for his detractors, as there is no mechanism in the party's rules for ousting a chairman in the middle of his tenure.

In a precedent - setting decision, a Staten Island judge ruled last week that the Department of Education took illegal shortcuts in firing a tenured teacher.

Opponents of New York State's teacher tenure laws won a small but important victory when a Staten Island judge allowed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of those rules to move forward.

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A federal judge ruled that a conservative group can not get State Department records about Clinton's use of a private server during her tenure as Secretary of State because those documents don't show evidence of government «malfeasance.»

Party patronage should be balanced by a strong independent element, and a 15 year tenure (subject to the rules of the house, rather than party patronage.

He stated that two of the grounds of the appeal against the Court of Appeal's judgment in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, were on the ruling that the tenure of three national officers would expire by August while that of 18 others would end in July 2018.

At the beginning of Quinn's tenure — and in the name of transparency — Quinn revised the council rules to make it easier to bring a bill to the floor if it was stalled in committee.

They include stricter teacher evaluations, tougher tenure rules and expansion of charter schools.

Even before a California court ruling on teacher tenure rocked the education world last week, a group of Buffalo parents were talking about a similar lawsuit.

In other words, a lawsuit similar to Vergara's could be a vehicle to implement sweeping change to teacher rules and protections beyond tenure, significantly weakening the power of local unions.

Cuomo has suggested $ 1.1 billion in additional education spending — but only if lawmakers agree to implement tougher tenure rules, teacher evaluations more reliant on student test performance and the authorization of more charter schools.

«The tenure of the current National Working Committee (NEC) headed by Chief John Odigie Oyegun of the ruling All Progressives Congress has come to an end, which was in line with the constitution of the party.

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

«It is my hope and expectation that the President - Elect's tenure in office will be marked by the delivery of progress and prosperity to the Gambian people in conditions of freedom and the rule of law,» Nana Akufo - Addo added in his statement.

The teachers union, considered by many to be «the most powerful interest group in the Capitol,» has stepped up its political giving in the wake of Vergara v. California, a landmark court ruling that could ultimately throw out California's teacher tenure system.

A brief stint teaching troubled students at schools in Brooklyn and on Rikers Island convinced Mitchell of the need for strong schools — he advocates longer school days and tougher tenure rules — as well as more jobs and after - school options for youth.

At most institutions, the department chair is the primary interpreter of written tenure policy; it's his or her obligation to communicate the unwritten «rules of the game.»

«The decision to go with an advanced notice [of proposed rule making] or not was ultimately Steve Johnson's» (the EPA administrator at the end of the Bush tenure), Connaughton says.

Luckily for greens, the back - and - forth on the issue over the past eight years has meant that only seven miles of new roads — yielding access to just 500 acres of timber — have been cut on lands slated for protection under the Roadless Rule during Bush's tenure.

Besides working for eight years to overturn the Clinton administration's «Roadless Rule» that prevented road building (and the logging that usually follows) on 58.5 million acres of national forests, the Bush White House has opened up 45 million additional acres of public land across the American West to oil and gas drilling during its tenure.

The 12 - year rule is now seriously affecting a generation of the country's researchers, many of whom are currently midcareer but do not hold a full professorship or a tenured position.

Multiple national level influences, such as rule of law, environmental governance, land tenure or policy are potentially influencing PADDD and further national level studies are needed to better understand these mechanics.

The rule's exceptions, who are exempt from the overtime provisions regardless of how much they earn, include numerous employees of higher educational institutions, including teachers (from graduate assistants through tenured professors), coaches, and graduate and undergraduate students — but not postdocs.

In a stunning decision, a judge in the California Superior Court has ruled that, because education is a fundamental right of California youth, the laws governing teacher tenure, teacher dismissal and rules for layoffs are unconstitutional.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that a school district's failure to provide tenured public - school teachers with a hearing prior to dismissal violates the teachers» due - process rights under the 14th Amendment.

The charters can also operate outside of rigid work rules and tenure protection enjoyed by unionized teachers across the nation.

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.)

Governors as diverse as George Pataki of New York, Roy Barnes of Georgia, and Gray Davis of California have led the push to strengthen certification requirements, to design innovative recruitment incentives, and even, at least in Barnes» case, to loosen tenure rules.

First, the argument for eliminating tenure: As Judge Rolf M. Treu of Los Angeles Superior Court ruled on Tuesday, any benefit that tenure provides to teachers is far outweighed by its costs to children and society by keeping grossly ineffective instructors in the classroom.

Of course, this requires union leaders who don't see today's rules on tenure and seniority as labor's raison d'être.

In June, a California court ruled, in Vergara v. State of California, that the state's tenure and seniority laws are unconstitutional.

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.

They defend near - lifetime employment in the form of tenure and weak rules on evaluating teachers and principals that help keep Epps and other so - called educators in their jobs.

The full implementation of Judge Treu's striking down five laws that set rules for teacher dismissal, seniority rights and tenure will likely not take effect for years — or not at all if the state wins on appeal.

In a landmark ruling, a Los Angeles superior court judge on Tuesday struck down key elements of California's teacher tenure statutes after finding that the near inability to fire ineffective teachers disproportionately hurts poor and minority students.

She pointed out that the California Teachers Association has racked up three wins since spring, with the appellate court's unanimous ruling to overturn Vergara, the Supreme Court's decision this week to decline to review the case and the thwarting of her own bill that would have made changes to teacher tenure and dismissal procedures.

A Michigan school district did not violate the rights of a teacher when it denied her tenure because of her relationship with a former student, a federal appeals court has ruled.

Treu's ruling drew praise from President Obama's secretary of education, Arne Duncan, and other critics of the tenure system.

Fordham's Mike Petrilli and AEI's Mike McShane discuss the spread of legal challenges to state laws governing teacher tenure, dismissal, and seniority in the wake of the Vergara v. California ruling, in which a court struck down California's laws governing teacher employment as unconstitutional.

Speaking to a downtown meeting of California newspaper publishers, the mayor said he would lobby for changes in state law that would alter the rules for evaluating teachers and for granting tenure to teachers.