Sentences with phrase «schools firing teachers»

[24] He finds some evidence of an increased likelihood of schools firing teachers with frequent absences and / or lower value - added scores.

In the latest turn, the Houston public schools fired a teacher and reprimanded two principals this month after the state education agency raised concerns about possible test - tampering in the district — the state's largest — and 10 other districts.

It will be a long time before Indiana's Hanover Central High School fires a teacher again without good cause.

Not exact matches

«Since the tragedy in Parkland, Florida, a number of companies have decided to sever their relationship with the NRA, in an effort to punish our members who are doctors, farmers, law enforcement officers, fire fighters, nurses, shop owners and school teachers that live in every American community,» the NRA said in a statement.

Jesse Randal Davidson, a popular teacher at Dalton high school, is accused of firing shots in class, prompting debate on arming educators

«Their idea was that if you fire thousands of teachers, teachers» aides, school support workers, nurses, nurses» aides and people that work in the hospitals that somehow the price of oil would go back up,» she told a Unifor convention in Ottawa this week.

As Krugman would argue, money to the states to prevent firing school teachers, police, and fireman are an easy win.

The school district where a student opened fire two years ago, shooting two students, is now allowing teachers and other staff members to bring guns into classrooms.

-- A Georgia high school teacher brought a gun to school and fired a shot, testing Trump's theory on the safety of arming teachers.

Cruz fires at least five rounds through windows in the teachers» lounge, targeting those running away from the school below him.

The average Chicago property tax bill is going up about 10 percent this year following City Hall and Chicago Public Schools tax hikes to pay for police, fire and teacher pensions, according to calculations released Tuesday by the Cook County clerk's office.

Gerald... the difference is that the schools did not coverup the abuse, and teachers are fired and jailed as this comes to light... Your group felt they were above mans laws..

Many public school teachers that are Christians have been fired because of their beliefs, especially around Christmas and Easter time, when they merely mention the reasons behind the seasons and don't advocate Santa Claus and the Easter bunny with its colored eggs (funny how the different colors of eggs represent the rainbow's colors).

Michelle Rhee is the former Chancellor of DC Schools (despite not ever managing schools before) who fired a bunch of DC teachers and was on the newsSchools (despite not ever managing schools before) who fired a bunch of DC teachers and was on the newsschools before) who fired a bunch of DC teachers and was on the news a lot.

(CNN)- A teacher at a Catholic school in Indiana is suing the diocese where she worked after being fired because the in vitro fertilization treatments she received were considered against church teachings.

On the same day, the newspaper published an article accusing the Archdiocese of complicity in the firing of a married lesbian teacher from a parochial school.

But the school still fired both teachers who were in the room at the time.

While it's unlikely that a tenured teacher can be fired, he can be taken out of the classroom and transferred to a non-teaching position within the school district.

A teacher at Fox River Grove Middle School who was fired after officials complained that he had turned his art classes into lectures on veganism filed an appeal Wednesday with the Illinois State Board of Education.

An e-mail that some city school principals interpreted as an order to identify two tenured teachers for removal has educators wondering whether the district has set a firing quota.

I don't want the endorsement of a mayor shutting down schools and firing teachers.

An armed Social Studies teacher holed up in a classroom and fired off a round inside a Georgia high school.

Albany, New York — The push to change teacher hiring rules to end the policy of last hired first fired got a boost when Governor Andrew Cuomo introduced a bill to extend the proposal to all schools in the state.

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and City Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras (D - East Elmhurst) visited Corona's PS 19 last week and collected about 100 signatures from parents and students within an hour imploring Mayor Michael Bloomberg not to fire 4,100 teachers from city schools.

He has picked up a long list of labor endorsements, including the Communication Workers of America District 1, Council of School Supervisors and Administrators Local 1, 1199 / SEIU, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1500, Teamsters Local 808, Uniformed Fire Officers Association, United Federation of Teachers, Working Families Party and 32BJ.

They should consider provisions under which the state makes school districts whole for their legal costs related to firing teachers.

The Regents were set to vote to delay the effects of Common Core on high school seniors for five more years, until 2022, and to offer teachers some protections if they are fired during the next two years.

But many of his proposals — such as toughening up evaluation systems teachers barely agreed to in the first place, firing teachers with bad ratings, tying tenure to evaluations, and increasing the cap on charter schools — are sure to be met with ire from politically powerful state and city teachers union.

A Bronx charter school dedicated to educating students about social justice and the law fired 11 of its 15 teachers with no notice last month — including eight who were trying to bargain a union contract with management.

• No new faith school allowed to discriminate in its admissions • No existing faith school allowed to discriminate in admissions in the future • No faith school allowed to discriminate against teachers (including hiring, firing, and refusing promotion) on religious grounds

The Alliance for Quality Education is firing back at Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who this morning accused school districts of playing politics when they say his proposed funding cuts would force teachers to lose their jobs, hurting kids in the process.

In a statement, Stewart - Cousins criticized Cuomo for «demonizing» teachers in his effort to create a more stringent teacher - evaluation system and make it easier for schools to fire educators deemed low performing.

Here's Sen. John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican, explaining his bill that would essentially do away with the last in, first out requirement for firing public school teachers approved by the Senate Education Committee this morning and could come up for a vote by the full Senate this afternoon.

De Blasio's school discipline overhaul is drawing fire from the teachers union and parents who say the city hasn't done enough to back up the new policies that prompted a huge drop in student suspensions.

The new ability of New York charter schools to set aside seats for employees» children drew fire from the United Federation of Teachers, which said such «nepotism» defied charters» stated goals of serving the neediest children.

Since he made those comments during an interview with the Daily News editorial board, Cuomo has reiterated his intentions to battle unions over education reforms, most recently with a letter he sent to state education officials outlining what appeared to be his second - term schools agenda, including questions about firing teachers, extending the probationary period before tenure and boosting the charter school sector.

It is just one of the many ways that public school teachers have found to teach the Triangle fire to their students.

WHITE PLAINS — Former New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton told some 300 people at a School Safety Symposium at Purchase College Wednesday parents, teachers, police, fire and other first responders need to work together to help stave off incidents of violence like the Newtown, CT tragedy.

The chancellor also blasted Mr. Cuomo's call for the firing of any teacher whose students fail to meet test standards after two years as an intrusion on the internal workings of schools.

Buffalo Teachers Federation President Phil Rumore said never in his 30 years in the union post has he seen a school board expect the superintendent to jump when told to jump or be fired.

At Columbia High School in East Greenbush, where 14 years ago a student fired a gun into a hallway, striking a teacher in the leg, students organized an event called «We Rise.»

Klein also said he had streamlined legal procedures to make it easier to fire teachers and end the «dance of the lemons,» the shuffling of bad teachers from school to school.

«The tax refunds that Paulson and Singer would stand to receive through the refusal to extend the millionaires tax would be pocket change to them, but they could provide the New York City school district with the money to rehire dozens of recently - fired teachers aides.

Furious teachers at scandal - plagued Renewal school DeWitt Clinton HS claim administrators are changing student grades — and putting the instructors in the line of fire.

Last year, police officers and fire fighters employed by the city, and teachers who worked for the city school district, were offered a 10 percent discount if they bought one of the land bank properties.

Looks like Mayor Bloomberg will indeed find a sympathetic ear in Gov. Andrew Cuomo on the issue of the «last in, first out» requirement for firing public school teachers, although the governor so far isn't willing to publicly commit to the full repeal the mayor is seeking.

Among other details, the governor has proposed tougher teacher evaluations that would make it easier to fire underperforming teachers, and fewer limits on charter schools.

In 2004, Jon Romano opened fire at Columbia High School outside Albany and shot a teacher in the leg before the assistant principal John Sawchuk tackled him to the ground.

Cuomo and the teacher unions have been at war over the governor's proposed education - reform package that would revamp the teacher tenure and evaluation programs, make it easier to fire bad and lecherous instructors, and expand charter schools.

A Manhattan high school history teacher, who resigned under fire after taking students on a spring - break «Club Red» field trip to Cuba three years ago, is a self - proclaimed Communist who...