Sentences with phrase «protecting teacher seniority»

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Mr. Cuomo protected New York City teachers, one of the state's most powerful political forces, by blocking Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's proposal this winter to immediately end teacher seniority protections.

Quality - blind layoffs are just one vestige of seniority rules introduced decades ago to promote fairness and protect teachers from capricious administrators.

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.

But unless newly hired teachers are protected from the rigid seniority policies of states and school districts, many of these improvement efforts will fail, and the money will be wasted.

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.

They said these additional resources will work in conjunction with existing seniority regulations to give teachers more training and other benefits that will better protect new teachers from any future budget - based layoffs.

In 2011, the court issued a ruling in the case, protecting 45 low - income schools from budget - based layoffs, a direct challenge to the existing practice of basing teacher layoffs solely on seniority.

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

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.

The median age of the crowd looks to be about 28, and with Mayor Bloomberg predicting thousands of layoffs, these young teachers are particularly vulnerable under existing regulations that protect seniority.

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.»

The ruling in that case last year protected hundreds of teachers in high - poverty, low - performing schools who were receiving pink slips based solely on their lack of seniority.

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

That will be cold comfort for teachers, as those five sections, according to a statement released by the California Teachers Association, «grant permanent status to teachers, provide due process in teacher dismissal proceedings and protect seniority as a component of the layoff teachers, as those five sections, according to a statement released by the California Teachers Association, «grant permanent status to teachers, provide due process in teacher dismissal proceedings and protect seniority as a component of the layoff Teachers Association, «grant permanent status to teachers, provide due process in teacher dismissal proceedings and protect seniority as a component of the layoff teachers, provide due process in teacher dismissal proceedings and protect seniority as a component of the layoff process.

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.

While adamant about protecting seniority, the teachers unions and their fellow travelers have only bromides and falsehoods to bolster their position.

Yesterday, the Governor of Pennsylvania vetoed the «Protecting Excellent Teachers Act» bill that would lessen the role of seniority for teachers throughout thTeachers Act» bill that would lessen the role of seniority for teachers throughout thteachers throughout the state.

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.

Her focus is on education, where the teachers unions have blocked meaningful reforms for years; protecting bad teachers from being terminated, promoting based on seniority instead of merit, taking over local school boards with hand - picked, union - financed candidates, attacking charter schools, prioritizing teacher compensation and job security over student achievement, and pushing a social agenda in front of academic fundamentals.