Sentences with phrase «revamp of teacher tenure»
The legislature is now considering a revamp of teacher tenure that would hinge on the new evaluation system.
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In New York State, for example, as of late 2015 only one tenured teacher had been fired through its revamped evaluation and dismissal process.
Gov. Chris Christie repeatedly has said education reform will be his top priority of the lame duck session, including proposals for revamping how teacher tenure is granted and retained.
The Republican governor supports the teacher - tenure initiative as part of a broader «reform agenda» that calls for revamping...
Revamping the tenure system will rid Connecticut schools of ineffective teachers.
NEW YORK — Since the Republican takeover of state legislatures around the country, states have been passing loudly - trumpeted laws that revamp teacher evaluations and tenure, tying performance reviews to standardized test scores.
In his «historic» call for «education reform», an end to teacher tenure and a disproportionate transfer of public dollars to charter schools the Governor failed to point out that (1) Connecticut already has one of the longest probationary periods for teachers in the country — four years — which gives school administrators more opportunity to judge a teacher's capability than do those in most other states and that (2) in 2010 the Legislature adopted major revisions to the teacher evaluation process that already gives Malloy's Department of Education the power to revamp how teachers are evaluated and require school administrators to actually conduct appropriate evaluations.
As a number of states begin to revamp their tenure - granting policies, the idea that high - stakes personnel decisions need to be linked to direct measures of teacher effectiveness is gaining traction among education policymakers.
After all, the efforts of centrist Democrats to implement objective teacher evaluations and revamp tenure have the same effect as efforts by conservative reformers and Republican governors to abolish collective bargaining and end the privilege of unions to force teachers to pay dues into their coffers.