Sentences with phrase «seniority protections»
The phrase "seniority protections" refers to policies or rules that give preferential treatment or certain advantages to employees based on their length of service or time spent with a company. Full definition
Things really heated up when the budget season began and Mayor Bloomberg decided to use difficult economic times as an excuse for threatening layoffs in order to end seniority protections for teachers.
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In an unusual request, the state Department of Education last week sent a short survey to every district and charter school asking them about their layoffs of teachers technically called «reductions in force» (RIFs) over the past five years, and about the impact of seniority protection on their «ability to manage their personnel.»
Jordan and others also pointed to what they described as a wholesale attack on the teaching profession — through legislation proposing to lower qualifications and to eliminate seniority protections — in explaining the reasons for the statewide walk - out.
In the California case, a state judge in June struck down certain protections for teachers, including tenure after about two years on the job and seniority protections in layoffs.
Some teachers, however, were especially critical of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's push to abolish seniority protection,
The plaintiffs detailed the many ways in which seniority protection placed teacher interests ahead of those of minority students.
In June, a judge declared California's seniority protection laws unconstitutional.
An administrative law judge, Melissa Crowell, reversed the action here and in Sac City because the district did not convince her that the issues at the schools in question warranted overriding seniority protections.
Deborah Gist (class of 2008), Rhode Island Commissioner of Education, has supported the firing of all teachers in Central Falls and more recently in Providence, and is aggressively fighting seniority protections for teachers.
For all its celebration of New Jersey's new teacher tenure law, the Christie administration hasn't hidden its lament for the one provision it couldn't change: seniority protection for tenured teachers in the case of layoffs.
Mr. Cuomo protected New York City teachers, one of the state's most powerful political forces, by blocking Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's proposal this winter to immediately end teacher seniority protections.
He has unfortunately transferred the credibility he's earned on other fronts to a union, embracing its positions on charter schools, a new contract and tenure and seniority protections that are anything but progressive.
He also noted that seniority protections are enshrined in state law and L.A. Unified's collective bargaining agreement.
State Education Commissioner Chris Cerf said this weekend that there wasn't any specific agenda to the survey, only a wish to gain some hard information as to how the seniority protections affect districts.
Others in the party want market - based policies, including teacher evaluations based partly on student test scores, the expansion of charter schools, merit pay, and weakening of tenure rules and seniority protections.
There's no teacher tenure or seniority protection.
He also has tried to limit job and seniority protections and to speed up the dismissal of teachers accused of serious misconduct or ineffectiveness in the classroom.
Jonah Edelman, its founder and the son of children's advocate Marian Wright Edelman, has raised millions of dollars in funds from the Gates and Walton Foundations, as well as many top business executives, and now pursues policies central to the corporate education agenda, including support of charter school expansion, the evaluation of teachers based on test scores and the elimination of their seniority protections.
The court did note that plaintiffs successfully highlighted some inequitable practices regarding tenure and seniority protections, but placed the blame on district administrators — and not state law — for their counterproductive hiring and placement practices.
He argues that the Commonwealth Foundation and Pennsylvania School Boards Association make the case for eliminating the seniority protection «only from an economic angle,» and that firing veteran teachers would cause educational quality to suffer.
Eli Broad has said he «expects to be a major contributor» to Students First, former D.C. Chancellor Michelle Rhee's organization that advocates for the expansion of charters, vouchers, and an end to seniority protections for teachers.