Sentences with phrase «report firing teachers»

But, again the cuts are too deep, and districts report firing teachers, including teachers of basic academic subjects.

Following the work on teacher absence, Muralidharan realized that low accountability — only one out of 3,000 schools reported firing a teacher for repeated absence — and the complete lack of differentiation between teachers on the basis of performance, were part of a systematic problem.

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and if cases are reported they are dealt with and investigated by the authorities and folks go to jail, or teachers fired... you are still trying to deflect the appalling actions of the so called church of christ to protect its own image.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has threatened to fire up to half of the teachers at struggling institutions in all five boroughs, reports CBS 2's Marcia Kramer.

The New Teacher Project report cited above found just four tenured teachers out of 70,000 fired for poor performance in the five districts studied.

The 52,000 - student district requested the report on schools» capacity to handle students with mental and behavior needs after a 14 - year - old opened fire at a school last August, wounding two teachers and two other students before killing himself.

As the Washington Post's savvy Nick Anderson reported,» Faulty calculations of the «value» that D.C. teachers added to student achievement in the last school year resulted in erroneous performance evaluations for 44 teachers, including one who was fired because of a low rating.»

Though the Orleans Parish School Board would still maintain control over the budget and the hiring and firing of teachers, A&M would report directly to the state superintendent and have the authority to appoint the district's top financial officers.

The report is certain to add fuel to the fire in the ongoing debate in California and elsewhere over how to measure teacher quality and the effort or resistance of some government bodies to tie teacher evaluations to standardized test scores.

The report argues that better teacher preparation should be considered among other reforms, such as linking teacher evaluations to student test scores, lengthening the tenure period and finding ways to fire ineffective teachers.

The district fired some 7500 teachers and new teachers in the RSD report to charter operators.

Superintendent Beverly Hall promised to fire principals who failed to meet test - score targets, and principals passed that pressure on to teachers, a state investigative report said.

The report's authors ask for six very significant steps including asking the U.S. Department of Education to replace its four required punitive school turnaround models (that feature firing teachers, closing schools and privatizing schools) with a «Sustainable School Success» model that would support and improve struggling schools.

Some officials also say principals have grown gun - shy from fierce battles with permanent teachers — who are rarely fired and even then, can spend years on the payroll as their cases wind through a byzantine appeals process, as The Times reported in May.

In particular, they don't want restrictions on whom they can hire and fire and certain certification requirements for teachers, the report said.

The ways in which a strong middle class leads to better educational outcomes, such as middle - class parents putting pressure on administrators to fire or transfer bad teachers, are described more completely in our companion report, «The Middle Class Is Key to a Better - Educated Nation.»

The report paints a vivid picture of a culture where teachers were publicly humiliated or fired for underperformance, and whistleblowers faced more consternation than cheaters.

School officials have held numerous town halls to answer to public outrage, told teachers named in the report that they would have to resign or be fired, and hired an outside testing company to administer future standardized tests.

The report comes as congress works to reauthorize and overhaul No Child Left Behind, and as states countrywide pass laws that link the hiring and firing of teachers to their students» performance on standardized tests.

A Maryland teacher was fired and taken in for a psych evaluation as result (it was reported) of a pair of self - published works of science fiction he published in 2011 about school shootings.

«Ohio court hearing arguments in school Bible case»: The Associated Press has a report that begins, «Attorneys for a fired public school science teacher who kept a Bible on his desk plan to argue before the Ohio Supreme Court that the teacher's dismissal was unconstitutional.»

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Established a safe play environment for the children.Created and implemented developmentally - appropriate curriculum that addressed all learning styles.Supervised children on field trips to local parks, fire stations and zoos.Distributed quarterly educational assessments, similar to report cards, to each parent.Maintained a child - friendly environment with access to outdoor activities.Developed professional relationships with parents, teachers, directors and therapists.