Sentences with phrase «other teacher protections»

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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.

A California Supreme Court majority declined to hear Vergara v. California, the case that challenged teacher tenure and other job protections for teachers.

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.)

The Washington Post reported that the court decided «tenure, seniority and other job protections for teachers have created unequal conditions in public schools and deprive poor children of the best teachers.»

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Emboldened by the California decision, reformers are challenging teacher protection laws in other states.

(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.)

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«It's surprising that the court, which used its bully pulpit when it came to criticizing teacher protections, did not spend one second discussing funding inequities, school segregation, high poverty or any other out - of - school or in - school factors that are proven to affect student achievement and our children.

And if it does, the first time an armed teacher uses a weapon for something other than protection, a whole new uproar over school safety will follow, and once again the media will be there, for better and worse.

The judge ruled that the tenure and other job protection laws for teachers violate the state constitution's guarantee that children receive «basic equality of educational opportunity.»

Teachers unions, who have the money and the membership to exercise considerable clout in many state legislatures, defend tenure, seniority and other job protections as simply guaranteeing due process.

Villaraigosa and O'Donnell had some back and forth exchanges and disagreements on various points, including Vergara vs. California, the landmark lawsuit challenging teacher tenure and other protections.

Federation officials say their motive is the same one that drove teachers in school districts to unionize decades ago: Every worker deserves fair pay, due process, and other workplace protections.

The case also became a battle over the power of teacher unions to preserve protections that are not always available to other public employees.

I'm not opposed, in principle, to carefully paring back tenure protections for teachers in exchange for higher salaries or other benefits.

Professional and Student Membership in the Association of American Educators includes $ 2,000,000 Professional Liability Insurance coverage — more protection than other teacher associations provide for a much lower price.

Anyhow, as summarized (and celebrated) in this piece, the Vergara judge found that (1) «[t] enure and other job protections make it harder to fire teachers and therefore effectively work to keep bad ones in the classroom,» and (2) «[b] ad teachers «substantially undermine» a child's education.»

Caputo - Pearl said his «Union Power» group believes Fletcher has been too passive in fighting attacks on teachers and plans to organize the broader community to press for smaller classes, pay raises and protections for campuses against charter schools and other outside groups.

When you have so many hard - working, capable people in myriad other professions getting laid off and struggling to survive, it becomes more difficult to ignore that teachers have life - long job protection whether they are effective or not, and even sometimes when they have lost or been removed from their actual positions (did I mention a surreal quality to this work?).

Represented by Los Angeles law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, the plaintiffs allege teacher protections such as tenure, seniority rules in layoffs and other teacher dismissal statutes disparately keep ineffective teachers in the classroom in violation of the state constitution's equal protection clause.

The unions have been fighting the expansion of public charter schools, teacher evaluations based on test scores, and challenges to tenure and other workplace protections.

The Incite Agency, founded by former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs and former Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt, will lead a national public relations drive to support a series of lawsuits aimed at challenging tenure, seniority and other job protections that teachers unions have defended ferociously.

The approved settlement targets schools for protection from layoffs and defines those targeted schools as the 25 ranked in the bottom 30 percent by Academic Performance Index (API) score, high teacher turnover rates, and other determining criteria.

Despite such problems, the system in California provides teachers protections that go beyond what they receive in many other states.

Among other things, the package would dramatically curtail tenure protections for new teachers and make it easier to fire existing ones; shift hiring and firing power from school boards to superintendents; pave the way for a significant increase in public charter schools; and create a program that uses the public school financing formula to pay private school tuition for certain low - income students.

Ruling in Vergara v. California, Treu struck down five decades - old California laws governing teacher tenure and other job protections on the grounds that they violate the state's constitution.

Attorneys Theodore Boutrous, far right, and Marcellus McRae, second from right, represent nine California public school students who are suing the state to abolish its laws on teacher tenure, seniority and other protections.

And I think if we end up in a place... where we have no protection against firing for reasons other than competence, teaching — which is already a fairly unattractive occupation because of all the teacher - bashing that's going on — will become an even more unattractive occupation.

There's a long history in education of teachers being able to be dismissed — and in fact, that's still the case in many states which don't have due process protections — for reasons other than competence.

That agreement, which took two and a half years and a mediator's help to negotiate, gave teachers a 21 percent raise over five years while weakening seniority and other job protections.

Tenure and other protections may make the overall compensation package teachers get more valuable at no obvious added financial cost to taxpayers.

Professional and Student Membership in the Arkansas State Teachers Association includes $ 2,000,000 Professional Liability Insurance coverage — more protection than other teacher associations provide for a much lower price.

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