Sentences with phrase «system than seniority»

Fraisse's response: «I have not seen a better or more objective system than seniority.»

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For example, in a seniority - based system, black students are far more likely than other students to have been in a classroom of a teacher who received a RIF notice.

Next we examine the implications of employing an effectiveness - based layoff policy rather than the seniority - driven system currently in place.

With a seniority - based layoff policy, school systems may be forced to cut some of their most promising new talent rather than dismiss more - senior teachers, who may not be terribly effective in raising student achievement.

If you are forced by an outdated seniority system to pay some teachers more than they are worth or could get in private industry, or accept less effort, resources are being expended based on what is good for the union and teachers and not what is best for kids.

Or teacher quality, of course that's taboo to talk about even though LA's results showed some teachers are far better than others and some young teachers provide over double the value of teachers earning more than them by our outdated and ineffective seniority - based pay system.

The perfect evaluation system doesn't exist yet, but we do have access to measures of teacher performance that are far better than seniority: teacher ratings, classroom management, teacher attendance, specific licensure, peer or principal review, value - added student data.

(1) The Vergara Decision: This case pits nine Oakland public school students against the State of California, arguing that (a) granting tenure after less than two years, (b) retaining teachers during layoffs based on seniority instead of merit, and (c) the near impossibility of dismissing incompetent teachers, is harming California's overall system of public education, and is disproportionately harming public education in low income communities.

The unions also proposed that evaluations be clearly tied to a teacher obtaining due process rights, usually known as «teacher tenure» and that decisions about layoffs in times of fiscal crisis include performance evaluations rather than a system based solely on seniority.

And Rhee exercised unique powers granted to a D.C. chancellor to impose a teacher evaluation system based partly on student outcomes and to lay off teachers based on a lack of merit rather than a lack of seniority.

Three widespread practices in particular are in need of major revision: teacher evaluation and tenure systems that do not distinguish effective teachers from ineffective ones; forced placement, where teachers are assigned to schools based on seniority rather than the match of teacher skills to school preferences and needs; and LIFO (last in first out), by which teacher lay - offs are based entirely on seniority rather than teacher effectiveness.

For example, the judge wrote that the state's teacher evaluation system is «little more than cotton candy in a rainstorm» since «[s] tate standards are leaving teachers with uselessly perfect evaluations and pay that follows only seniority and degrees instead of reflecting need and good teaching.»

unsatisfactory business operations, including difficulty for teachers and administrators getting the basic necessities to operate schools and classrooms, and traditions of promotion based more on seniority and politics than on evidence of skill and commitment to system efforts to improving education quality

Because once such a system is in place, some teachers will be found to be better than others, which could lead to ditching an arbitrary seniority system should layoffs be a necessity.

to take any action otherwise prohibited under subsections (a), (b), (c), or (e) of this section where age is a bona fide occupational qualification reasonably necessary to the normal operation of the particular business, or where differentiation is based on reasonable factors other than age; to observe the terms of a bona fide seniority system or any bona fide employee benefit plan such as a retirement, pension, or insurance plan, which is not a subterfuge to evade the purposes of this Act, except that no such employee benefit plan shall excuse the failure to hire any individual; or to discharge or otherwise discipline an individual for good cause

The two firms currently operate pure locksteps, the traditional compensation system employed by U.K. law firms under which an equity partner's profit share automatically rises each year based on seniority, rather than on merit.

Exceptions apply for seniority or merit systems, systems measuring earnings by quantity or quality of production, or factors other than sex or employment status.