Sentences with phrase «place of teacher tenure»

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But many of his proposals — such as toughening up evaluation systems teachers barely agreed to in the first place, firing teachers with bad ratings, tying tenure to evaluations, and increasing the cap on charter schools — are sure to be met with ire from politically powerful state and city teachers union.

Her plan to overhaul the tenure standards in place gets condemned by the seeming villain of the picture, the powerful teachers unions.

The basic claim in this lawsuit is that California's handling of teacher tenure, dismissal, and the like are resulting in grossly ineffective teachers being placed in classrooms; that these teachers are disproportionately affecting low - income and minority students; and that this violates the California Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.

Jason Kamras, deputy to D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee in charge of human capital, talks with Education Next about the new teacher evaluation system put in place in D.C. Beginning this year, teachers in D.C. will be evaluated based on student test scores (when available) and classroom observations (by principals and master educators), and poorly performing teachers may be fired, regardless of tenure.

Perhaps the higher levels of support we observed in 2014 reflected temporary shocks to public opinion stemming from events such as Wisconsin governor Scott Walker's recall election and the landmark Vergara v. California decision that struck down California's teacher evaluation and tenure laws, both of which took place while our survey was in the field.

The Stull, Reed and Vergara lawsuits, all of which have successfully challenged Blob work rules like tenure and seniority and fought to get a realistic teacher evaluation system in place, have seen Republicans and Democrats working together to undo the mess that McLaughlin and his ilk have helped to create.

Because Judge Rolf Treu has placed a stay on his Vergara ruling pending the outcome of the teachers unions» appeal, the tenure, seniority and dismissal statutes are still alive and well in California.

The decision, which was enthusiastically endorsed by Education Secretary Arne Duncan, brings a close to the first chapter of the case, Vergara v. California, in which a group of student plaintiffs backed by a Silicon Valley millionaire argued that state tenure laws had deprived them of a decent education by leaving bad teachers in place.

They have already voted no to across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.

«What we want at the end of the day is to get to a place where there isn't tenure in the traditional sense and we have renewable contracts for teachers based on their evaluations,» said Michael Vrancik, chief lobbyist for the New Jersey School Boards Association.

Another sticking point is the limited use of seniority in determining whether a teacher is laid off or not, as well as ongoing questions about the teacher evaluation system that will be used to determine if a teacher receives tenure in the first place.

In places where the supply of teachers is already limited, districts may need to provide higher teacher salaries or improve working conditions to make up for the diminished job security that accompanies tenure reform.»

These efforts got a boost in October when independent researchers from Stanford University and the University of Virginia looked at a similar teacher tenure and rating system that's been in place for a few years now in Washington DC.

Nevertheless, opponents of teacher tenure have consistently invoked the «bad teacher» argument as pretext to attack not only teachers but also teacher unions, arguing that they place the needs of students second to the protection of underperforming teachers.

Only 27 % of Americans express negative feelings toward «teacher tenure,» while most endorse due process and place a much greater emphasis on improving teacher effectiveness.

As the Christie administration's new regulations for teacher evaluation near a critical juncture, the prime author of the landmark tenure reform law behind the proposed rules said the administration may be moving too aggressively in some places.