Sentences with phrase «on teacher seniority»

But opportunities to advance were mostly based on teacher seniority, the pay was low, and he was eager for a fresh challenge in a new environment.

That was never more apparent than about a week ago when Johnson (R - West Babylon) missed a vote on state Sen. John Flanagan's controversial bill on teacher seniority.

Not exact matches

The salty speech came on a day when union officials discussed hot - button issues such as teacher seniority rights and charter schools.

By an overwhelming majority, (85 - 12), voters support the repeal of the «last in, first out» rule governing teacher layoffs, agreeing that the decision governing who loses a teaching job should be based on performance and not seniority.

City Hall says Cuomo's plan would simply expedite an already - underway process by the state Education Department to create guidelines for evaluating teachers but leave intact the legal language mandating layoffs be implemented based on seniority.

Mulgrew called the attacks on pensions, the threat of teacher layoffs, the fight to change seniority layoff rules, the targeting of teachers in the Absent Teacher Reserve pool, and the record number of proposed school closings «part of the mayor's strategy to throw everything at us at once.teacher layoffs, the fight to change seniority layoff rules, the targeting of teachers in the Absent Teacher Reserve pool, and the record number of proposed school closings «part of the mayor's strategy to throw everything at us at once.Teacher Reserve pool, and the record number of proposed school closings «part of the mayor's strategy to throw everything at us at once.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo weighed in this morning on the LIFO question in the wake of this morning's Q poll that found 85 percent of New Yorkers support the idea that merit, not seniority, should determine which public school teachers get to keep their jobs.

United Federation of Teachers» head Michael Mulgrew has taken the mayor's push as an attack on seniority and a move designed to cut costs by getting rid of more highly paid tTeachers» head Michael Mulgrew has taken the mayor's push as an attack on seniority and a move designed to cut costs by getting rid of more highly paid teachersteachers.

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.

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.

Sedlis said a potential legal complaint would likely focus on lengthening New York's probationary teaching period and changing the way teacher seniority is used.

Until now, most New York City teachers have been rewarded based on seniority or quantity of graduate education; neither has been shown to improve student achievement.

An overwhelming majority — more than 80 percent — said that if teachers must be laid off, it should be based on performance, not seniority.

The Big Dog, however, was willing to end welfare as we know it, infuriating the left; Cuomo has passed up the chance to challenge Democratic orthodoxy and tell the teachers unions that seniority protections need to end because the archaic rules are damaging the unions» credibility even more than they're hampering what goes on in the classroom.

The mayor's assault on schools and teachers reached a new low on March 1 when he convinced the New York State Senate to pass a bill that ended seniority rules that guarantee impartiality in layoffs.

Cuomo also said he'll focus on how to handle teacher layoffs so that performance, not just seniority, determines who keeps their job.

The Department of Education on March 16 directed its employees to get students and parents involved in the all - out war that Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the chancellor have been mounting in Albany against teachers» seniority rights.

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.

The unions want personnel decisions to be based on seniority and formal education, which offer advancement to all teachers regardless of their competence.

Courts have yet to reach a final verdict on teacher tenure and seniority rights, but the court of public opinion has already made a clear determination.

Confirming the disproportionate impact of current RIF systems on new teachers, the study finds that approximately 60 percent of teachers receiving layoff notices in 2008 - 10 had two or fewer years of experience, and approximately 80 percent had two or fewer years of seniority within their current district.

And, when layoffs are required, a final law requires that decisions can not take into account a teacher's effectiveness but must be based entirely on seniority.

Tenure and seniority are no longer sacred, either, and the unions no longer get much traction with their declaration that it's inherently unfair to gauge teacher performance on the basis of student learning.

It is interesting to note, however, that some teachers who receive layoff notices are well into their careers, implying that at least some districts in the state are making judgments about which teachers should be laid off based on criteria other than seniority.

Beyond the effects of seniority - based layoffs on the teacher workforce as a whole are potential distributional consequences.

The database does not include a direct measure of a teacher's seniority in the current district, so we estimate seniority based on how many years the teacher has been employed by the same district.

In other words, the fact that teachers who received layoff notices were, on average, somewhat less effective than their peers is an artifact of the relationship between effectiveness and seniority.

Most teachers, he said, are opposed to being judged based on student test scores and believe that the current seniority system is fair and necessary.

As Stephen Sawchuk notes, there has been a great deal of debate over whether teacher layoffs should be based on inverse seniority («last in, first out,» which many union contracts and state laws require) or based on teacher effectiveness.

It created a slower, tougher tenure process for teachers, and would base layoff and recall procedures on teacher evaluations rather than on seniority.

Indeed, she said that «healthy civilizations respect seniority and age,» and argued that policies which advantage veteran teachers are defensible on those grounds.

Instead of giving first priority to teachers who were at the school before Katrina and hiring them based on seniority, as the union contract would have dictated, the charter school group asked each teacher applicant to take a short test of math and writing skills.

The agreement sought to reward top - performing teachers with more pay, replacing the traditional «step and lane» system of pay increases based on seniority and levels of education.

Individual teachers» pay and benefits could be based on the scarcity of their skills and their individual performance rather than on seniority.

Yes, teachers could not on the basis of their seniority impose themselves on a principal who did not want them, but neither could they be assigned to a school they did not want to teach in.

In Ohio's case, state law dictates that teachers on continuing contracts and those with greater seniority should have preference, language that is effectively emulated in 14 other states in the country.

Seventeen years into his tenure but just a few months before retirement, Peter McWalters took on that state's famously strong union, voiding teachers» seniority rights in the troubled Providence school district.

The school district had no choice but to let her go as a result of a policy dictating that teachers be laid off based on seniority, not according to performance.

Moreover, average salary says much about the seniority of the teacher workforce and less about entry and maximum levels on the pay scale.

This February she sought a waiver to skirt tenure law to lay off nearly a third of Newark's district school teachers, based not on seniority but «performance» measures.

He's aware, though, that he'll have a tough sell with teachers unions, which give lip service to more - stringent teacher evaluations but prefer existing pay and promotion schemes based on seniority — even though they often end up matching the least experienced teachers with the most challenging students.

If you are forced by an outdated seniority system to pay some teachers more than they are worth or could get in private industry, or accept less effort, resources are being expended based on what is good for the union and teachers and not what is best for kids.

The Disproportionate Impact of Seniority - Based Layoffs on Poor, Minority Students Looking at the 15 largest districts in California authors Cristina Sepe and Marguerite Roza, demonstrate that teachers at risk of layoff are concentrated in schools with more poor and minority students, concluding that «last in, first out» policies disproportionately affect...

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.

Such changes are controversial because the idea of measuring a teacher's contributions to student learning contests the predominant labor management model in education: salaries and benefits that increase with experience, and layoffs based on reverse order of seniority.

This report analyzes the impact of massive seniority - based layoffs» disproportionate effect on newer teachers in poorer, high - minority communities.

Amid grim news about budget cuts, the year brought new awareness that relying on seniority alone in determining teacher layoffs is mindless.

Promotions and salary increases are based on teachers» seniority and their acquisition of advanced degrees.

Teachers are currently paid on the basis of seniority and education.