Sentences with phrase «post on teacher tenure»

Similarly, Mike Petrilli shows signs of Reformer's Disease in his post on teacher tenure reform.

Not exact matches

The District of Columbia's 4,000 teachers will be asked to vote next month on a tentative contract that would offer those willing to forgo tenure protections the opportunity to earn up to $ 131,000 by next school year if their students post significant learning gains.

The Huffington Post started by asking respondents about their views on labor unions, as teachers» unions generally work to protect practices like tenure.

In collaboration with YouGov, The Huffington Post conducted a poll last week on Americans» views about teachers unions and teacher tenure.

According to the fact sheet posted on the website of an organization supporting the lawsuit, Students Matter, a favorable ruling would fundamentally change policies with respect to teacher tenure, dismissals, seniority, and evaluations, all areas where union work - rules have prevented effective management of public schools.

Clearly, this book is to prove very relevant given the ongoing court cases across the country (see a prior post on these cases here) regarding teachers and the systems being used to evaluate them when especially (or extremely) reliant upon VAM - based estimates for consequential decision - making purposes (e.g., teacher tenure, pay, and termination).

So, Mr. Cunningham, thanks again for all that you and Education Post do to «honor teachers for the work they do every day as professionals», and shining the bright reformer spotlight on the serious problems in public education today — by attacking unions, working to eliminate teacher tenure and job protections, and supporting the proliferation of for - profit charter schools (under the guise of «school choice») that under - perform and siphon money away from public schools.

In my experience, this is a pretty common pattern: A person who works for a well - funded, anti-public education organization, whose full - time job it is to seek out social media articles and blog posts on specific topics (i.e., charter schools, teacher tenure, teacher evaluation systems) and then respond with forceful and negative responses, engages in a back - and - forth about a particular topic or issue.