Sentences with phrase «protect teacher tenure»

But unions want to protect teacher tenure and pay all teachers the same, regardless of effectiveness.

Not exact matches

Magee said Brown «has got it all wrong» on teacher tenure, arguing that it protects students and teachers alike.

«Tenure prevents high teacher turnover and protects New Yorkers against the politics of personal bias, favoritism, and cronyism in our schools.

Only tenured teachers are protected by unions.

Tenure laws that protect grossly ineffective teachers actually harm better teachers, who are unfairly tarnished by association with unquestionably bad teachers.

The policy analysis showed that in districts across the United States, tenure continues to protect ineffective veteran teachers from performance - based dismissal, the shortest possible timeline for dismissing such a teacher is unreasonably protracted, and dismissal is vulnerable to challenge.

Shanker supported tenure protections for teachers after a three - or four - year probationary period because he believed that it was an important tool for attracting high - quality teachers and protecting academic freedom.

But he argued that tenure should not protect bad teachers and that unions should be at the forefront of «removing those who are incompetent, with due process.»

That would allow schools to ensure high standards at tenure time and to protect teachers from favoritism with transparency, rather than lengthy due - process requirements, which end up protecting a lot of ineffective teachers.

While defenders of tenure claim that it merely protects teachers from arbitrary dismissal, critics contend that tenure now makes it extremely difficult to remove poorly performing teachers from the classroom.

Tenure protects teachers, but they should still be held accountable.

Provisions about how teachers will be hired, tenured, and distributed among schools and how they are assigned work have profound budgetary consequences, as do measures like salary cost averaging that districts adopt in order to protect teacher placement rights.

Overwhelming majorities agree that tenure should be based on teacher performance, should not protect ineffective teachers, and should be periodically re-evaluated.

Maine's school boards are being urged to eliminate seniority clauses from teachers» contracts as the result of a state high - court decision, handed down this summer, that state law does not protect tenured teachers at the expense of nontenured teachers in layoff decisions.

The principal argument against reforming tenure laws is that they protect good teachers from unfair dismissal.

The plaintiffs in the case, minority students in California, had argued that California's teacher tenure system violates the equal protection clause because it protects teachers who are ineffective, and poor and minority students are more likely to be assigned these ineffective teachers.

That process will allow the lawsuits» supporters to publicize embarrassing facts about incompetent teachers protected by tenure and generate momentum for reform in the legislature.

«We are proud of the steps New York City has taken in recent years to strengthen tenure but we also recognize that we still don't have a fully fair, efficient system that protects teachers and students,» said April Rose, a fourth grade teacher in Queens, N.Y. «Our vision for tenure is to set a high bar and a clear process, and in doing so, allow district and school leaders to focus on more pressing concerns like reducing attrition among educators in their first few years and creating safe, supportive school environments.»

But judging from the media reports of the Vergara ruling — almost all of which prominently use «seniority» and «tenure» — they will have an uphill battle altering the public perception of protecting bad teachers.

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

As for tenure: 89 % of teachers agree that tenure should reflect evaluations of teacher effectiveness, 92 % say tenure should not protect ineffective teachers, and 80 % say that tenure should be periodically re-evaluated.

Though they do protect all teachers from discrimination, pay decreases, and unwarranted attacks via the US government, it also tenures ineffective and sometimes negligent teachers into positions that they should not be holding.

This week, on February 17, 2015, Educators 4 Excellence - Los Angeles published a policy paper on teacher tenure titled, Reimagining Tenure Protecting Our Students and Our Ftenure titled, Reimagining Tenure Protecting Our Students and Our FTenure Protecting Our Students and Our Future.

And yes, tenure protects teachers from being unfairly punished for controversial political views (although that protection is probably more aptly applied to college professors).

These teachers, the plaintiffs say, are protected by the current laws governing tenure, seniority and dismissal.

Some models do add new costs, for such things as purchasing technology; making facilities and furniture changes in existing schools; transitioning pay discrepancies for some tenured or contract - protected teachers; or obtaining design assistance to choose and tailor reach models.

Nichols, a former teacher, told the court that she believed the dismissal and tenure statutes protected her rights as a teacher.

Granted there are many issues with seniority / tenure protecting bad teachers that must be changed, maybe as a condition, but pay is too low.

Teachers union critics say the tenure and seniority laws that were hobbled by the June ruling protect longtime educators who are ineffective while more proficient ones with less experience face layoffs first.

Buncombe County explores how it can protect career status for all of its eligible teachers, in spite of a state mandate requiring that 25 percent of teachers give up tenure rights this fall.

Analysts at the Fordham Foundation created a rubric for gauging the difficulty of firing ineffective teachers based on these three metrics: Does tenure protect veteran teachers from performance - based dismissal?

In the end, tenure only protects bad teachers.

They have called for basing teacher tenure on student performance and abolishing «last - in, first - out,» which protects senior teachers in layoffs.

Teachers in Louisiana have all but lost the tenure rules that once protected their jobs.

Dare any reformer mention how tenure protects laggard and criminally - abusive teachers from being sacked from classrooms and you will see NEA and AFT bosses, along with traditionalists in their amen corner, accusing that person of hating teachers and not respecting their hard work.

In recent years, a number of states have enacted tenure reforms, thereby potentially transforming the landscape and traditionally protected structure of the teacher labor market.

In this way, tenure actually helped protect some teachers from unfairly being dismissed from their jobs in the wake of integration.

Where administrators are careful to maintain the documentation they should be anyway, incompetent teachers are not protected by tenure or seniority in any contract.

On Tuesday, the judge in that case tossed out tenure protection rules saying tenure protects teachers at the expense of students.

I think it's also possible that — having watched a lot of school districts over the years — not having a moment at which you have to make a tenure decision could allow districts to just keep fairly mediocre teachers along, without doing the due diligence of making a decision in the early years that would protect kids from teachers just kind of hanging on.

In my opinion, folks need to converge on their state assembly - persons and let them know in no uncertain terms that constitutionally protected property rights such as K - 12 teacher tenure is one of the issues we elect them to safeguard.

Originally enacted to protect against potential evils in state and local employment systems, such as nepotism, arbitrary dismissal, and political favoritism, tenure has become a common expectation of teacher employment.

Tenure is intended to protect teachers with demonstrated teaching skills against arbitrary or capricious dismissal.

The court noted that the U.S. Supreme Court had long ago decided that the Indiana teacher tenure statute created contractual rights that are protected by the federal Impairment of Contracts Clause.

And the press loves to highlight outrageous stories such as New York City's rubber room, where ineffective teachers, protected by tenure, spend years being paid to do nothing.

Yes, schools need to get rid of bad teachers and the tenure that protects them.

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In effect, tenure and seniority work together to give employers the flexibility to lay people off when economic circumstances require it, but in a way that protects teachers from being arbitrarily targeted, or targeted because they were paid more than more junior faculty.

In mid-April, Mulgrew agreed with Klein to streamline the teacher - discipline process in a way that, by the end of the year, will close New York's so - called rubber rooms, the infamous «reassignment centers» where the New York City teachers charged with the most extreme incompetence or misconduct (currently 600 out of 80,000) are sent to do nothing while they await tenure - protected arbitration hearings.

While their involvement was once intricately linked to teacher professionalism and school success, today they are locked in a mindset that is focused almost entirely on protecting collective bargaining rights and ensuring that tenure, seniority and uniform pay scales dictate who gets paid what, and who stays and goes in the classroom.