Sentences with phrase «significant teacher rights»

David's initiative seeks many of the same objectives as Vergara v. California, the state's most significant teacher rights case in two decades, which recently concluded the testimony phase in California State Superior Court.

Lawyers from both sides in Vergara v California — the state's most significant teacher rights case in two decades — unleashed their final arguments today, in a last attempt to amplify their own case and destroy their opponent's.

Not exact matches

Seniority rights are a big deal right now because older teachers have a lot to lose: higher salaries that they've reached after a lifetime of anemic ones; and significant pension wealth if they make it to retirement.

Retention of Teachers — Recruiting the right personality for your school plays a significant part in creating an ethos for success and ensuring a harmonious working environment, which in turn improves staff turnover.

Keep it significant: Teachers want the nuts and bolts right away.

Parents, business leaders, civil rights groups and many teachers have reached their breaking point in hearing the continued excuses of national and state teacher unions that use their power to fight for the status quo and block significant reforms to our broken system.

Sir Kevan Collins, chief executive of the EEF (right), said: «Teachers and school leaders now have access to a significant and growing body of academic research with enormous potential to improve pupil attainment and save schools money.

«This feels like a really significant... step in the right direction of respecting teachers» priorities, knowledge, and capacity to make serious evaluative judgments about their own work,» he said.

The state is on the right track by requiring job performance to be a significant factor in compensation, but the language is too vague to ensure that performance will be prioritized over other factors that are not connected with teacher effectiveness.

We are currently consulting extensively across the education sector to ensure that we get the programme structure right, and then we can feel confident it will have a significant impact on teachers» professional learning, and on pupil outcomes.

When it comes to the Common Core SBAC testing mania, a number of parents from across the state — along with students and teachers — have identified a significant number of school districts that are engaged in immoral, unethical and quite likely illegal efforts to undermine parental rights and bully and abuse children who have been opted out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory SBAC testing scheme.

In the bill that allowed towns to «phase - in» the state's new teacher evaluation system over the next two years, rather than forcing all of the changes this year, the legislature added two significant restrictions to a town's right to develop their own system.