Sentences with phrase «rather than seniority»

Our shareholders are compensated, to a significant extent, according to performance rather than seniority.

Arlington educators now recognize that leadership roles are earned based on instructional expertise and demonstrated leadership skills rather than seniority alone.

Schools were now required to cancel contracts on the basis of performance rather than seniority (i.e., tenure).

It rewards teachers for their performance and continued training rather than seniority.

Michigan's Public Act 4 is the most extreme example, but lawmakers from New York to California are seeking ways to circumvent or eliminate public school teacher tenure, pushing for staffing decisions to be made based on merit rather than seniority.

The school code also includes language that allows «economic reasons» as reason to cut teachers and requires teacher furloughs to be based on performance evaluations rather than seniority.

Beginning in 2014, the proposed bill mandates that teachers and administrators would be dismissed based first and foremost on school needs and then according to effectiveness rather than the seniority that now determines layoffs.

Next we examine the implications of employing an effectiveness - based layoff policy rather than the seniority - driven system currently in place.

However, were districts to adopt policies that allowed administrators to dismiss teachers according to their effectiveness rather than their seniority, they could lay off fewer teachers, achieve the same budgetary savings, and increase the overall efficacy of their teaching force.

But Joy Chik, 40, one of the execs in the room, says it's a sign that the company is spending a lot more time trying to use data rather than seniority or force of personality to make decisions about product fixes or features.

Not exact matches

And rather than granting requests by seniority, he has a lottery to let about a fifth of his staff leave at noon on either Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve.

I really think that Wenger will only choose Koscielny for his seniority rather than his leadership skills, which is not what we need at all.

Williams questioned what his rivals — including Rangel — had delivered in recent years, and positioned himself as a results - oriented problem - solver, focused on getting tangible results, rather than racking up seniority.

Coupled with a compensation scale that rewards seniority rather than performance, certification may well make the profession more attractive to graduates seeking a less demanding line of work.

In a new study, researchers find that seniority - based layoff policies — the norm in public schools — lead to higher numbers of teacher layoffs than would be necessary if administrators were allowed to make effectiveness the determining factor in issuing layoff notices, rather than length of service.

In other words, at least 16 percent of the total Stuyvesant staff was composed of teachers who received their jobs because of seniority (or race and ethnicity) rather than professional accomplishments.

With a seniority - based layoff policy, school systems may be forced to cut some of their most promising new talent rather than dismiss more - senior teachers, who may not be terribly effective in raising student achievement.

In April, the California Court of Appeal overturned the trial court's ruling in Vergara v. California [i], in which a group of families had challenged the constitutionality of state laws governing teacher tenure [ii](California state law automatically grants tenure to teachers after sixteen months, provides extra due process protections to teachers over and above those available to other state workers, and requires schools to use seniority rather than competency in layoff decisions.)

It created a slower, tougher tenure process for teachers, and would base layoff and recall procedures on teacher evaluations rather than on seniority.

Or take «last in, first out» policies — i.e., basing layoffs on seniority rather than effectiveness.

Individual teachers» pay and benefits could be based on the scarcity of their skills and their individual performance rather than on seniority.

(California state law automatically grants tenure to teachers after sixteen months, provides extra due process protections to teachers over and above those available to other state workers, and requires schools to use seniority rather than competency in layoff decisions.)

Moreover, collectively bargained contracts placed a premium on characteristics such as seniority and credentials rather than performance, further depressing the opportunities for the high - aptitude teacher.

He also points out that collective - bargaining districts focus on seniority, protecting various benefits associated with longevity rather than pushing for higher pay.

It also shows that student achievement improves when principals are allowed to hire school staff according to quality and fit, rather than restricted by seniority.

With layoffs based solely on seniority rather than success in the classroom, good teachers are losing their jobs.

First, we have created a culture in which actions speak loudest and leadership roles — such as chairing a department, serving on a hiring committee, or leading a professional development effort — are earned rather than inherited based on seniority.

So is more freedom for principals to hire and assign teachers in ways they think best, rather than following outdated seniority rules.

Under California state law, teachers with the least experience must be the first to go during budget - based layoffs, meaning seniority — rather than classroom performance, or a school's needs — dictates who stays and who goes.

The fact is that public charter schools, with the freedom to not unionize their staffs and focus on children's academic progress rather than just seniority in teacher evaluations, have resulted in long waiting lists for children to gain entrance into good public charter schools.

The unions also proposed that evaluations be clearly tied to a teacher obtaining due process rights, usually known as «teacher tenure» and that decisions about layoffs in times of fiscal crisis include performance evaluations rather than a system based solely on seniority.

And Rhee exercised unique powers granted to a D.C. chancellor to impose a teacher evaluation system based partly on student outcomes and to lay off teachers based on a lack of merit rather than a lack of seniority.

Three widespread practices in particular are in need of major revision: teacher evaluation and tenure systems that do not distinguish effective teachers from ineffective ones; forced placement, where teachers are assigned to schools based on seniority rather than the match of teacher skills to school preferences and needs; and LIFO (last in first out), by which teacher lay - offs are based entirely on seniority rather than teacher effectiveness.

There has been ongoing litigation about the disproportionate impact of teacher layoffs on the state's most impoverished schools, some of which face losing most of their teachers if layoffs are based on seniority rather than performance.

In New York, the E4E group pushed to base layoffs in the city on three criteria, rather than the reverse - seniority provisions in state law.

National Education Association board member Sam Talarico unsurprisingly takes strong exception to the idea of furloughing teachers on the basis of performance, rather than the current Pennsylvania practice of doing so on seniority alone.

Public schools are asked to be competitive and act more like private entities, but there is little comparison to the flexibility of the private sector in forcing public schools to furlough teachers based on seniority rather than performance or other important educational considerations.

The PSEA also works against the best interest of its teachers by supporting «last - in, first - out,» a policy that lays off teachers based on seniority rather than good performance.

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn today signed into law a sweeping measure that has the potential to significantly reshape the teaching profession in his state by linking educators» tenure, hiring, and job security to performance, rather than to seniority.

On April 7, 53 percent of Wisconsin voters approved a proposed constitutional amendment that will allow the members of the state supreme court to select its chief justice, rather than the chief justice being determined by seniority.

The two firms currently operate pure locksteps, the traditional compensation system employed by U.K. law firms under which an equity partner's profit share automatically rises each year based on seniority, rather than on merit.