Sentences with phrase «own staffing decisions»

Several defensive assistants were under the impression they'd be retained if Marrone got the job, but that changed with Coughlin carrying the hammer; he's had big input on staffing decisions.

Registered nurses at Albany Medical Center have voted to unionize after calling for a voice in staffing decisions, fair wages and improved benefit plans.

«It's counterproductive to have the old chancellor making significant staffing decisions before the new chancellor steps in the door,» said David Bloomfield, a Brooklyn College and CUNY Grad Center education professor.

«After careful consideration, we have determined that reform can provide greater transparency, increased Member participation, changes in leadership selection, reform in staffing decisions and staff authority,» the Assembly members wrote.

The first lady's influential presence at city hall and her input in staffing decisions has left both de Blasio adversaries and allies questioning the source of her authority.

Give principals the tools they need to succeed: Give principals control over school budgets and staffing decisions — and hold them accountable for success.

He and his staff could offer only the excuse of «deference to individual members» and their right to make their own staffing decisions.

Just as the final staffing decision was due to be made, photos were released that showed the former governor, who resigned years ago after admitting to soliciting prostitutes, sneaking in and out of Smith's apartment in December.

«It's simply not right for outside interests to be involved in the staffing decisions of the governor's office.»

But a federal judge dismissed Ms. Vazquez's complaint against Mr. Astorino and terminated him as a defendant in the lawsuit July 18, after he argued he had legislative immunity over staffing decisions as county executive and that Ms. Vazquez had not proven he was personally involved in the matter.

Allow more leverage in staffing decisions.

Responding to the report, a spokesman for the Department for Education said: «Supply teachers provide a valuable role for schools, and schools themselves are best placed to make staffing decisions to reflect their individual needs.

To the extent that the most important staffing decisions involve sanctioning incompetent teachers and rewarding the very best teachers, a principal - based assessment system may affect achievement as positively as a merit - pay system based solely on student test results.

Country - level variables included in the analysis were per capita GDP, teacher salary levels, average expenditure per student, external exit exams, school autonomy in budget and staffing decisions, the share of privately operated schools, and the portion of government funding for schools.

Boren said the trial revealed some «deplorable staffing decisions by local administrators.»

This November, voters will likely decide a ballot initiative that aims to make teacher effectiveness a key component of school - staffing decisions.

It may also require districts to systematically measure parent and student satisfaction and use that data when making staffing decisions.

But the unions oppose tying the evaluations to key staffing decisions.

For example, Victorian public schools have power over most of their own budget — including staff hiring - while other states, such as New South Wales, make large budget and staffing decisions centrally, leaving schools with minimal autonomy.

Its purpose was to promote the usage of students» test scores to grade and pay teachers annual bonuses (i.e., «supplements») as per their performance, and «provide a procedure for observing and evaluating teachers» to help make other «significant differentiation [s] in pay, retention, promotion, dismissals, and other staffing decisions, including transfers, placements, and preferences in the event of reductions in force, [as] primarily [based] on evaluation results.»

Districts throughout Michigan were now able to tie student achievement, school improvement, professional development, and staffing decisions to the outcome of teacher evaluations.

For example, seniority dictated staffing decisions.

Give principals the tools they need to succeed: Give principals control over school budgets and staffing decisions — and hold them accountable for success.

First, lawmakers killed a bill that would have given school districts the ability to make teacher staffing decisions based on performance evaluations.

Last in, first out (LIFO) is the law of the land in California and is a terrible way to make staffing decisions.

It's around this point during the summer break that local school districts must make staffing decisions for the upcoming year based on how the state has decided to fund the classroom.

Both Howland and Bahnam agree that the best part about being a Pilot school is the freedom to hire staff and make staffing decisions.

In 2008, Washington, D.C., Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee dusted off a decade - old statute permitting principals to weigh other factors alongside seniority when making staffing decisions.

Staffing Decisions in the Middle Grades: Balancing Quality Instruction and Teacher / Student Relations.

That's because teacher reviews affect a range of other issues, including student achievement, professional development and staffing decisions, she said.

The monitor would have immense authority over the district's special education practices for at least three school years, and the state would oversee CPS special education budgets and staffing decisions for the coming academic term.

But the vast majority of states will use the scores only as one measure in a web of other factors when making staffing decisions.

Topics to be explored include how organizational culture influences such things as making staffing decisions, using data driven professional development, understanding the barriers to organizational reform, managing and changing culture, understanding governance structures for public and private schools and other organizations, and creating principles of equity, diversity, inclusivity, accountability as well as researching future educational visions.

Rather than serve as a conduit for flowing district policy to school principals, who are then expected to act on those centralized decisions, Ms. Allen and her team in the 20,000 - student district help principals learn how to best exercise autonomy in their schools, from making staffing decisions to figuring out instructional priorities to determining if there's enough money in the school's budget to buy a van for after - school activities.

Michigan's Public Act 4 is the most extreme example, but lawmakers from New York to California are seeking ways to circumvent or eliminate public school teacher tenure, pushing for staffing decisions to be made based on merit rather than seniority.

Option # 2: The length of time in the classroom is the most important factor in teacher development, therefore awarding tenure, promotions, and making other staffing decisions based solely on the length of time teaching is most fair.

Option # 1: «It doesn't make sense to award teachers tenure, promotions, and make other staffing decisions unless they have a proven track record of effectively increasing student growth.

The contracts should include significant compensation and other incentives, including significant authority over staffing decisions, finances, and other operational areas.

Unlike now, teacher performance — and not seniority — becomes the new touchstone for reassignments, transfers, and other staffing decisions.

District officials can then use the information for staffing decisions, such as where to send specialists.

Observations serve several purposes, including to provide actionable feedback to teachers and to provide a summative rating that can be used in staffing decisions.

Are all staffing decisions taken with an understanding of the cost in future years?

Most funding decisions happen miles away from the neighborhood school, especially staffing decisions, like having enrollment thresholds for allocations of assistant principals (AP).

The authors examine how staffing decisions can strengthen professional learning communities.

Related, Alabama districts may no longer use teachers» «seniority, degrees, or credentials as a basis for determining pay or making the retention, promotion, dismissal, and staffing decisions.»

More specifically, the bill is to «provide a procedure for observing and evaluating teachers» to help make «significant differentiation [s] in pay, retention, promotion, dismissals, and other staffing decisions, including transfers, placements, and preferences in the event of reductions in force, [as] primarily [based] on evaluation results.»

Others claimed that it was the beginning of the end of seniority as a method of making staffing decisions.

Hall said individual franchisees make staffing decisions, but the goal of the app is to drive sales, which should result in more employment opportunities.

Get the right person leading the charge and every other staffing decision will fall into place.

Then they can propose a fee structure, present a plan for achieving the client's desired outcomes, and explain the reasons for proposed courses of action or staffing decisions if their value is not readily apparent to the client.