Sentences with phrase «over teacher layoffs»

Teachers and parents in Jackson Heights voiced their concerns over teacher layoffs at a town hall meeting hosted by Councilman Danny Dromm (D - Jackson Heights) and United Federation of Teachers Queens District 30 Representative Barbara Mylite on Monday.

The 2.5 million - member AFL - CIO has backed Gregg Lundahl, a UFT member primarying Democratic Assemblyman Jonathan Bing, who has angered the teachers union by introducing a bill that would give principals authority over teacher layoffs.

Not exact matches

Police and firemen struggle with teachers and social workers over who will get the layoffs.

Topics include: Education funding and teacher layoff «propaganda», ethics reform, a property tax cap and the battle over naming an official state vegetable.

They've clashed over city contracts, teacher layoffs, and pension costs, and Bloomberg's team thinks that Liu is basically using City Hall as a foil to make himself look good for a 2013 mayoral run.

ALBANY - Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Cuomo's war over the law governing teacher layoffs went nuclear on Wednesday with verbal bombs dropping from New York City to Albany.

Over the years, a lack of funding at the district level has led to layoffs of staff, teachers, social workers and deans.

The Bloomberg administration and NYC unions are still wrangling over a deal to avert teacher layoffs.

Looming over this is the question of teacher layoffs.

The delays in the process, the Daily News reported a few weeks ago, has the greatest effect on the same high - quality new recruits whose jobs Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he wanted to save during this year's fight over how to determine teacher layoffs.

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a day after their public clash over a teacher evaluation system to determine layoffs, said Thursday they are now working together.

Cambridge, MA — Most school districts devote well over half of all spending to teacher compensation, and strained budgets are forcing layoffs of teachers.

The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers has vowed to fight any layoffs of its members and said it may strike over the issue.

Even if Rhee was objectively justified in removing over two hundred teachers, her actions reinforced the fears of many teachers that linking teacher evaluations to student performance will result in wholesale layoffs that are based on scant data viewed by many as suspect.

Education is a labor - intensive industry, and because most districts devote well over half of all spending to teacher compensation, budget cuts have already led to the most substantial teacher layoffs in recent memory.

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.

This result is not surprising given that teachers who received layoff notices included many first - and second - year teachers, and numerous studies show that, on average, effectiveness improves substantially over a teacher's first few years of teaching.

• The state could prohibit collective bargaining agreements which elevate seniority over competency in layoffs and which facilitate the «Dance of the Lemons» (such as when senior teachers are granted «bumping rights» over less senior teachers working at other schools).

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 sharp division between the Obama administration and key congressional Democrats over education policy and priorities may never have been more clear than it was Thursday night when the U.S. House of Representatives voted to cut $ 800 million from key administration initiatives to help pay for an effort to avert teacher layoffs.

A veteran teacher with tenure receives preferential treatment over newer teachers in school assignments and with respect to layoffs and dismissal procedures.

(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.)

Friction with the Sacramento City Teachers Association started early, during tense negotiations in response to state - forced budget cuts, over higher class sizes, furlough days, pay cuts and hundreds of preliminary layoff notices.

By my best estimate, under 10 percent of New York City's teachers participated in any kind of protest or public action over last year's threatened teacher layoffs.

And when we talk about improving public education, and the very real and increasing threat that is coming from the corporate «education reform» types, who want to layoff teachers, ban or reduce collective bargaining rights, take - over public schools and transfer the care and control of our public schools to various third parties... let's not forget that many districts do not fund enough IA positions and every district fails to fairly compensate IAs for the incredible work they do.

Tiffini was stunned to find out that this teacher was laid off due to «last - in, first - out» (LIFO) dismissal policies, which prioritize seniority over teacher quality when a school district conducts budgetary layoffs.

The district's contract proposal phased out the district's longstanding practice of picking up the bulk of teacher pension contributions and increased union insurance premiums in exchange for a series of pay hikes over four years and a promise of no economic layoffs.

In an unusual request, the state Department of Education last week sent a short survey to every district and charter school asking them about their layoffs of teachers technically called «reductions in force» (RIFs) over the past five years, and about the impact of seniority protection on their «ability to manage their personnel.»

The Chicago Teachers Union has been locked in a struggle with the city over pay, layoffs, and other sundry issues.

Colorado's debate over the same themes was just as passionate, partly because thousands of teacher layoffs are on the horizon here, and teacher effectiveness will be considered before seniority in deciding who gets pink slips once the new law takes effect in 2014.

After Tuck took over some of LA's most troubled schools as CEO of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, «about half of his teachers received layoff notices because of the system's seniority based layoff system, which protects older teachers regardless of job performance.»

In a review of California's «last in, first out» process conducted over four years ago, the state's own Legislative Analyst Office concluded that seniority - based layoffs lead «to lower quality of the overall teacher workforce» and recommended that «the state explore alternatives that could provide districts with the discretion to do what is in the best interest of their students.»

Vergara argues that lifetime tenure — awarded after less than two years in the classroom, dismissal procedures that make it nearly impossible to fire incompetent teachers, and «last in first out» layoff policies that reward seniority over merit, have harmed California's children.

Over the past five years, the teaching profession in California has been devastated by layoffs; some 26,000 teachers lost their jobs as a result of the state's budget crisis.

City schools CEO Gregory Thornton has faced backlash over staffing issues this year, following the departure of high - profile principals — including the principals who led schools in neighborhoods affected by the Freddie Gray unrest — and school layoffs that included the depletion of a surplus pool of teachers.

In the past year, a lawsuit challenging state laws on teacher tenure, dismissals and layoffs by seniority has consumed much of the debate over education in California.

During the campaign, Tuck criticized the unions» influence over the Legislature and brought attention to Vergara v. the State of California, the lawsuit challenging current teacher employment laws, including teacher tenure after two years, a lengthy dismissal process and layoffs based on seniority.

Suburban districts, after all, also have to deal with quality - blind seniority - based privileges such as reverse - seniority layoff rules, pay scales that favor seat time over performance, and restrictions on the use of objective student test score growth data from use in teacher evaluations.

Robert Bobb (class of 2005), the Emergency Financial Manager of the Detroit Public Schools, recently sent layoff notices to every one of the district's 5,466 salaried employees, including all its teachers, and said that nearly a third of the district's schools would be closed or turned over to private charter operators.

The proposed layoffs come as negotiators for the school system and Chicago Teachers Union continue to bargain over a contract to replace one that expired June 30.