Sentences with phrase «protection placed teacher»

The plaintiffs detailed the many ways in which seniority protection placed teacher interests ahead of those of minority students.

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Are courts the best place to address issues about teacher job protection like in Vergara case?

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.

In the last decade, when so - called education reformers secured abilities to remove teacher protections in places like New Orleans and Washington, D.C., black women suffered more job losses than anyone else.

And I think if we end up in a place... where we have no protection against firing for reasons other than competence, teaching — which is already a fairly unattractive occupation because of all the teacher - bashing that's going on — will become an even more unattractive occupation.

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.

David Hinojosa, J.D., director of the federally - funded IDRA South Central Collaborative for Equity, gives an overview of the civil rights protections that are in place, the negative impact of many school discipline practices and points to resources available to schools and teachers.

Reformer Michelle Rhee has noted that while there should be protections in place so that teachers can't be fired for arbitrary reasons, she doesn't think we need to reform tenure; she doesn't see any need for it at all.