Sentences with phrase «on firing teachers»

At a time when states like California face real teacher shortages, they say, the focus on firing teachers is misplaced at best.

Rather than focusing on firing teachers, it has one of the strongest initial teacher education systems in the world, and leaders credit that system with having produced nationwide improvements in student learning.4 There is relatively little emphasis in Finland on formal on - the - job evaluation, and much more emphasis on collaboration among professionals to promote student learning.

But when the IMPACT plan was rolled out, some teachers, and the local teachers» union, saw it as overly punitive — more focused on firing teachers than helping them improve.

It's interesting that so much of the reform movement is focusing on firing teachers at will.

Not exact matches

Jesse Randal Davidson, a popular teacher at Dalton high school, is accused of firing shots in class, prompting debate on arming educators

There, a shooter, who is now in custody, opened fire on defenseless students and teachers.

The New York City Employees» Retirement System; the New York City Fire Department Pension Fund; the New York City Teachers» Retirement System; the New York City Police Pension Fund; and the New York Board of Education Retirement System, as joint filers (NYC Retirement System), c / o The City of New York, Officer of the Comptroller, 633 Third Avenue, 31st Floor, New York, New York 10017, which in the aggregate held 12,707,578 shares of common stock on November 15, 2011, the New York State Common Retirement Fund, whose address is the same as that of the NYC Retirement System, which held 19,560,008 shares of common stock on November 22, 2011, and the Illinois State Board of Investment on behalf of the State Employees» Retirement System of Illinois, c / o 180 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 2015, Chicago, Illinois 60601, which in the aggregate held 928,927 shares of common stock on November 18, 2011, the Judges» Retirement System of Illinois and the General Assembly Retirement System of Illinois, as co-filers, intend to submit a resolution to stockholders for approval at the annual meeting.

-- A Georgia high school teacher brought a gun to school and fired a shot, testing Trump's theory on the safety of arming teachers.

One teacher said she was on her way out of the building after the fire alarm when another staff member told her the situation was code red — an active shooter.

Pastors and other Bible teachers have noticed this connection, and many have gone into great hermeneutical contortions trying to explain how it would be a good think to light your enemy's head on fire.

Michelle Rhee is the former Chancellor of DC Schools (despite not ever managing schools before) who fired a bunch of DC teachers and was on the news a lot.

2011.09.06 (Yala, Thailand)-- Islamists kill a 38 - year - old Buddhist teacher, then set his body on fire.

Many of those teachers of whom you speak are not fired, but are kept on and PAID to do nothing, costing the State of NY taxpayers millions of dollars that could be better spent elsewhere or actually SAVED!!

On the same day, the newspaper published an article accusing the Archdiocese of complicity in the firing of a married lesbian teacher from a parochial school.

This is the basic measure of value - added assessment in use today; teachers in many states across the country are evaluated (and sometimes compensated or fired) based on similar measures.

A teacher at Fox River Grove Middle School who was fired after officials complained that he had turned his art classes into lectures on veganism filed an appeal Wednesday with the Illinois State Board of Education.

With 60 hours of college credit, I became a substitute teacher on my days off from the fire department.

After the bombs on the Paris Metro and a TGV line in 1995, there were no significant Islamist attacks until the fire - bombing of the Charlie Hebdo office in November 2011, and the killings of three French soldiers (all of North African origin) and three Jewish children (and one teacher) by Mohamed Merah in Toulouse four months later.

The measures are predominantly opposed by the teachers unions, who say Cuomo's posture — especially on making it easier to fire educators who do not perform well in evaluations — as essentially anti-teacher.

Regents ease some testing and evaluation requirements, allowing teachers rated «ineffective» who face firing a chance to appeal on grounds they were not prepared to give lessons based on Common Core standards.

In June, Cuomo and legislative leaders announce agreement on a two - year moratorium on state rules that teachers would be fired based on «ineffective» ratings due to test scores.

«Whilst the «fire at will» proposal has been watered down, the remaining proposals represent an unprecedented and unacceptable attack on the employment rights of teachers and other ordinary working people.

In an intense Delegate Assembly on Jan. 18, UFT President Michael Mulgrew explained to delegates the competing visions of teacher evaluation held by the UFT and the city Department of Education that have resulted in the union being in Mayor Bloomberg's direct line of fire.

Mayoral hopeful John Liu infuriated Mayor Bloomberg Thursday with an optimistic outlook on city pensions - one that appeared to question Hizzoner's need to slash teachers and fire companies.

The Regents were set to vote to delay the effects of Common Core on high school seniors for five more years, until 2022, and to offer teachers some protections if they are fired during the next two years.

But many of his proposals — such as toughening up evaluation systems teachers barely agreed to in the first place, firing teachers with bad ratings, tying tenure to evaluations, and increasing the cap on charter schools — are sure to be met with ire from politically powerful state and city teachers union.

Newsday has assembled a database of pension costs that reveals what public agencies on Long Island pay into three state pension systems - the Employees» Retirement System, the Police and Fire Retirement System, and the Teachers» Retirement System.

• No new faith school allowed to discriminate in its admissions • No existing faith school allowed to discriminate in admissions in the future • No faith school allowed to discriminate against teachers (including hiring, firing, and refusing promotion) on religious grounds

Tenure is linked to teacher performance on the evaluations and low - scoring teachers could be fired regardless of tenure.

The city runs and depends on all types of people doing all types of jobs, right, so the city's not going to function if there's no one to do service work or people who are teachers or people who are fire fighters and even police officers.

According to the early results, 92 percent of teachers outside New York City are either «effective» or «highly effective» and only 1 percent fall in the lowest category that could lead to their firing, state Education Commissioner John King told the Board of Regents on Tuesday.

The mayor spent much of the winter leading a full - court press, angrily complaining about state government's unfairness to the city and loudly insisting on the repeal of «LIFO,» the state law requiring that teachers with the least seniority be fired first.

A Regents panel voted to allow teachers and principals who could be fired based on poor student performance on Common Core exams this year or last year to defend themselves by citing the botched rollout of the tough new curriculum.

The principal of P.S. 18 in Inwood fired teacher Madeline Luciano after she let a student write on a chalkboard the reasons why eighth - grade students didn't like a particular classmate.

The chancellor also blasted Mr. Cuomo's call for the firing of any teacher whose students fail to meet test standards after two years as an intrusion on the internal workings of schools.

But Bloomberg drew glares from United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew when he suggested that the city could save money by firing higher paid, longer - serving teachers and keeping on lower paid, newer tTeachers President Michael Mulgrew when he suggested that the city could save money by firing higher paid, longer - serving teachers and keeping on lower paid, newer tteachers and keeping on lower paid, newer teachersteachers.

The legislation would give the city the power to base teacher firings on factors other than seniority, including chronic absenteeism and poor student test scores.

(CNN)- A surrogate for Mitt Romney's campaign said Monday the presumptive GOP nominee was taken out of context when he argued against the idea of hiring more fire fighters, police and teachers on the taxpayer dime.

Looks like Mayor Bloomberg will indeed find a sympathetic ear in Gov. Andrew Cuomo on the issue of the «last in, first out» requirement for firing public school teachers, although the governor so far isn't willing to publicly commit to the full repeal the mayor is seeking.

The new timeline is a win for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has spent recent months vigorously lobbying to replace the state's «Last in, first out» seniority - based teacher firing policy with one based on merit ahead of a massive layoff plan.

Changes would make it easier to fire workers and base teacher layoffs on performance instead of seniority.

Among other details, the governor has proposed tougher teacher evaluations that would make it easier to fire underperforming teachers, and fewer limits on charter schools.

A Manhattan high school history teacher, who resigned under fire after taking students on a spring - break «Club Red» field trip to Cuba three years ago, is a self - proclaimed Communist who...

Despite Mayor Bloomberg's desire for a «gotcha» teacher evaluation system, as Commissioner King noted in his announcement of the new system on June 1, New York City «is not going to fire its way to academic success.»

Other new members include Elizabeth Zechella, an editor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; David Warren, a staff analyst for the Fire Department; Katherine Consuelo - Johnson, an active parent at P.S. 51 on the Upper East Side; attorney Frank Holozubiec; retired teacher Charles Bayor; retiree Aldona McCarthy; Democratic club activist Khemray Singh; and equity trader Delores Rubin.

► As part of this week's Science special issue on forensics, Lizzie Wade told the story of how José Torero, a world expert in the forensic science of fire investigation, has shed a light on — or perhaps, added to the mystery of — «a crime that shocked the world: the disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School, a rural teacher's college near Tixtla, Guerrero,» in Mexico in September 2014.

Even as he spoke, he later learned, his ex-wife — who was a teacher at the elementary school on campus — was being fired «because she had known about my criminal past but had not told them.»

When the teachers on my staff announced to their employers that they intended to teach at my studio, in most cases they were fired immediately.

Or, as my teacher liked to say, you should «Practice like your hair's on fire!»

Following two teachers (Andy and Ron) as they try to maintain a corrupted school environment, Ron is fired after lashing out in his classroom, but only due to the fact that Andy was a rat and tattled on Ron, thus sparking a feud between them, strongly favoured by Ron.