Sentences with phrase «support job protection for teachers»

According to this TNTP guide, the original Vergara ruling from June 2014 sheds light on how existing laws support job protection for teachers and make it virtually impossible for districts to replace low - performing ones.

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Almost all of this firepower is employed to the benefit of Democrats, whose constituencies already incline them to favor policies the teacher unions want - more spending, higher taxes, higher public employment, more regulations, more job protections, more restrictions on competition, more collective bargaining - and who, with union backing and pressure, can usually be counted on for support.

Teachers» unions ought to be supporting efforts to raise the standards for tenure because it makes the job protections following tenure more legitimate.

The tight budgetary environment played a big supporting role in the D.C. contract, in which teachers got a 21.6 % salary boost and a bucket of bonus dollars in return for substantial concessions on job protections, seniority, and merit pay.

Under Colorado's law, passed with bipartisan support and signed by Gov. Bill Ritter Jr. on Thursday, even tenured teachers who are found to be «ineffective» for two consecutive years could lose job protections, and possibly their jobs.

The call for Duncan to quit originated with the California Teachers Association, which was particularly outraged at Duncan's support of a recent court that struck down job protections in the state that are fiercely protected by the unions.

So, Mr. Cunningham, thanks again for all that you and Education Post do to «honor teachers for the work they do every day as professionals», and shining the bright reformer spotlight on the serious problems in public education today — by attacking unions, working to eliminate teacher tenure and job protections, and supporting the proliferation of for - profit charter schools (under the guise of «school choice») that under - perform and siphon money away from public schools.