Sentences with phrase «on hiring teachers»

«The way you would do what the [education] secretary is talking about is to say, «We're going to place a priority on hiring teachers at the top of the professional scale.»»

As districts increasingly rely on hiring teachers with little or no preparation, they incur academic and financial costs.

This is also true for decisions on hiring teachers.

Not exact matches

Mark Bello (above) opened Pizza a Casa on New York City's Lower East Side, he says, after spending nearly five years as a «nomadic pizza - teacher - for - hire,» sharing his pizza skills at various locations around the Big Apple.

Teach yourself or hire a staff of teachers on a full - or part - time basis.

A law allowing schools in the UK to hire teachers on the basis of their religion has been upheld by the European Commission.

Let's say you are a school teacher and one day you decided that we never landed on the moon and no longer accepted the codes of conduct you signed on the day of your hiring and just say heck with that I'm going to do my own thing.

Under ordinances forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, churches have been taken to court for refusing to hire a homosexual as church organist or as teacher in the church school, ministries to the poor have lost their funding when they refused to tolerate homosexual behavior within their programs, and a Jesuit university was required to give recognition and support to a gay rights group.

Lawyers for Peter G. Kelly Jr., former senior vice president of a Syracuse energy company, sought a separate trial for him on the charges that he bribed Percoco by having the energy company hire Percoco's wife, a teacher, for an educational consulting job, and by providing Percoco with a fishing trip and a meal.

Donohue said instead of cutting resources to teachers and support staff who keep schools running, the state would be better off eliminating the financial perks school districts have been lavishing on law firms they hire to represent them against their workers.

Senate Republicans not only stuck it to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio on mayoral control of the public schools, but also handed a victory to his nemesis, Success Academy charter school network founder Eva Moskowitz by allowing charters to hire more uncertified teachers.

• 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

Give the principals full power (as they have with the open market) to hire them or not with the restriction that if they hire one, they must keep an ATR teacher on staff as well for each retired teacher they hire.

They said candidates will be presented to the United Federation of Teachers, parent leaders and other groups, but the chancellor makes the final decision on who is hired.

Bloomberg also pushed his plan to reform teacher hiring practices so that layoffs can be based on performance, not just how long a teacher has taught.

She said that as a teacher in Newburgh, she was asked to be on a hiring committee, and after reviewing «stacks of résumés, one being better than the next, I thought, «I should quit and let these people take my job — they're all so incredible!

State Sen. Jim Tedisco lauded the district and its administrators for spending the funding on hiring more teachers and expanding programs aimed at needy children and proposing a budget that cuts school taxes.

Education Week is reporting on an Empire Center's report that says over the past decade «public schools hired nearly 15,000 teachers and almost 9,000 administrators, guidance counselors and other support workers over the last 10 years as enrollment dropped by more than 121,000 students.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday the city will use part of its $ 23 million budget allotment on arts education to hire 120 arts teachers at underserved middle and high schools.

Flanked by Stringer and chancellor Carmen Fariña at Tuesday's press conference, de Blasio further broke down how the $ 23 million would be spent: $ 5 million on hiring costs that will be shared by 50 middle schools, $ 7.5 million to upgrade existing arts facilities, and a $ 3.1 million fund directed to schools with certified full - time arts teachers, at $ 1,000 a teacher.

Rosa, who has been outspoken on testing and teacher evaluations issues, may clash with state education commissioner MaryEllen Elia, who was hired under the leadership of Tisch and supports high standards and state testing for data purposes.

(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.

According to the American Federation of Teachers Union, replacement workers have been hired to take over for LIU staff members when classes begin on Wednesday.

A divided state Board of Regents on Sept. 16 proposed three changes to the state evaluation system aimed at making the process fairer: an appeals process to address aberrations in growth scores, ensuring that privacy protections to bar the release to the public of individual teachers» growth scores will remain in force and the creation of a hardship waiver for school districts who find it difficult to hire outside evaluators.

Schools Superintendent Pamela Brown says raising attendance is a priority, but doesn't know if the district can hire more attendance teachers on its budget.

«NYU was hiring teachers for the summer and then, the week before classes were supposed to start, canceling classes that didn't have enough students and leaving people without the money they were relying on,» Lymer says.

Defendant Louie Boffano has a hired gun, a.k.a. the «teacher» (Alec Baldwin), who scans the jury box for a vulnerable juror, and there sits Annie with an implied «me» written on her forehead.

This portrait of the pupils, teachers, and local environment of Norway House Cree Nation — a robustly successful school and community center in Manitoba, steered toward the needs of Native students and the hiring of Native faculty — represents the 85 - year - old Obomsawin's 50th feature, and she is already at work on the 51st.

Because entering the teacher workforce is a function of whether an individual applies for a position and the hiring decisions of districts, these results show the effect of academic competency on the likelihood of applying and getting hired contingent on applying.

Districts would have no option if they wanted to provide their staff a different mix of compensation, even if they'd prefer to spend more resources on higher teacher salaries, hiring more teachers or making other investments.

The new policy would have eventually based teachers» salaries in part on evaluations by the principal and a number of outside evaluators hired by the district.

«The year I was hired, the whole school took a workshop on Responsive Classroom,» said Flanders fourth grade teacher Andrew Dousis.

And a Mathematica study is due out soon studying the impact on student achievement when high value - added teachers were offered bonuses to move and randomly assigned among a set of schools that had volunteered to hire them.

In preparation for the program, the district hired about 800 new teachers, installed room dividers in hundreds of classrooms, and devised a new curriculum that focuses only on basic skills.

Although the demand for teachers also depends on policies such as class size and the use of technology, this increase in retirement - eligible teachers may well portend the need to hire more teachers in upcoming years.

The right to hire or not to hire a teacher is limited by teachers» «transfer rights,» which gives them first choice on a place in another school.

Mrs. Bush is equally articulate about «backpack spending» (the institute is sponsoring a project on school - district productivity that includes 20 different researchers» papers); teacher autonomy («Obviously, if you are held accountable as the principal of your school and you don't have the authority to change anything, by either hiring or firing, or setting up another structure that your school district doesn't allow, then how can you be really accountable?»)

«When I look at résumés, I'm envisioning teachers who have coached before, or taught special education, because they're used to working one on one with students and building relationships,» says Todd Yarch, VOISE Academy High School's newly hired principal and a former teacher at several Chicago high schools.

Districts have options when hiring, and the willingness of a teacher to leave a position will depend on the availability of an attractive position elsewhere.

Most districts trying to reduce teacher turnover and increase the number of well - qualified teachers in their schools have focused on improving hiring and recruitment practices.

Deals on school construction, after - school programs, and hiring new teachers appeared to be in jeopardy, as the Senate approved a temporary spending measure to keep education programs funded at current levels until Nov. 14.

IMPACT's effects also depend on the direct impact of teacher turnover and the quality of newly hired teachers.

For teachers in the current system, a newly hired 25 - year old would need to work until age 51 simply to make a positive return on her contributions; in other words, a new teacher's benefits are negative for the first 25 plus years of service.

In other words, if a teacher is hired on January 1, 2014, her pension - benefit formula can never go down for the rest of her working career and into retirement, even if, for example, she lives until the year 2074.

Also, you are not hiring these teachers forever, since they can complete the eLearning course and go back to their schools to go on with their regular jobs.

While it might be useful to interview local hiring administrators and district personnel to get a better sense of what's happening on the ground, there are some federal data sources that might give us a clearer picture of teacher shortages.

Concerned about complaints that several schools in the past year have conducted raids on other schools» students and teachers, among other questionable practices, the New York State Association of Independent Schools has issued a set of guidelines to its 140 member schools on admissions and hiring standards.

He said his education initiatives focus on recruiting, training, and hiring teachers, which will help reduce class size and improve teacher quality.

Glass said his priority is to alter the «one - minute interviews» used to make decisions on teacher hiring in too many school districts.

• Make it a «non-negotiable» • Recruit and hire teachers who buy - in from the get - go • Provide them with hands - on professional development and plenty of examples • Share and celebrate «best practices» • Identify teachers who do it well and have others visit their classrooms • Give instructional teams time to collaborate and to develop quality prompts • Stockpile successful A.R.T. plans and incorporate them into the school's curriculum map • Hire and / or bring in practicing artists to participate • And, most importantly, get excited - as though you had just seen a narwhal tusk for the first thire teachers who buy - in from the get - go • Provide them with hands - on professional development and plenty of examples • Share and celebrate «best practices» • Identify teachers who do it well and have others visit their classrooms • Give instructional teams time to collaborate and to develop quality prompts • Stockpile successful A.R.T. plans and incorporate them into the school's curriculum map • Hire and / or bring in practicing artists to participate • And, most importantly, get excited - as though you had just seen a narwhal tusk for the first tHire and / or bring in practicing artists to participate • And, most importantly, get excited - as though you had just seen a narwhal tusk for the first time!