Sentences with phrase «teacher collective bargaining agreements»

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In the event the City and its collective bargaining units fail to reach agreement on a teacher evaluation system by the end of May, an expedited arbitration process, led by the Commissioner of Education, will occur.

The agreement marks the end of the often tense negotiations to replace a teacher contract that expired 12 years ago - the longest contract stalemate in the history of public sector collective bargaining...

If the majority of staff vote for affiliation with a statewide labor union called the New York State United Teachers, the library's board and management must begin negotiating a collective bargaining agreement.

In addition to enacting the voucher program, the conservative - led board ended the district's collective bargaining agreement with the local teachers union and set up a performance - based salary schedule for teachers.

The agreement marks the end of the often tense negotiations to replace a teacher contract that expired 12 years ago - the longest contract stalemate in the history of public sector collective bargaining in New York, according to the New York State United Teachers, the parent union of the Buffalo Teachers Federation.

Collective bargaining agreements also typically restrict the amount of time that teachers may be required to spend working with students, the number of students a teacher will instruct, and the number of lesson plans a teacher will prepare.

Virtually all teachers» collective bargaining agreements establish salary schedules based strictly on years of experience and accumulated graduate credits.

The «new unionists» point to the 1996 formation of the Teacher Union Reform Network and to widely touted collective bargaining agreements in Dade County, Florida; in Seattle; and in Cincinnati and Toledo, Ohio.

The 199 collective bargaining agreements for teachers on file at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in January 2005 averaged 105 pages in length.

Legally, they typically remained part of the school district; often their teachers continued to be covered by the district's collective - bargaining agreement.

Kronholz cites findings from the National Council on Teacher Quality's database on collective - bargaining agreements in 113 large school districts, which show that district contracts give their teachers an average of 13.5 days of sick and personal leave per school year.

Although Commonwealth charters are authorized by BESE and subject to most state laws and regulations governing public schools, they are exempt from certain regulations related to teacher certification and tenure, and they are free from the confines of any preexisting collective - bargaining agreements.

The root of this difficulty is that both sides in public - employee negotiations find it in their interest to reduce the wage portion of the overall collective bargaining agreement — which, in the case of the Chicago public school teachers, is quite high at over $ 75,000 per year — in favor of larger pension benefits under a «defined benefits» plan.

State laws often bog charter conversions down with excess baggage, such as keeping the school under the district's collective bargaining agreement, or requiring that it have a higher percentage of certified teachers than other charters.

Specifically, the district has been pretending that it can avoid compliance with the Stull Act by making collective - bargaining agreements with the teachers» union that overrule a statute (the Stull Act) passed by the state legislature.

Cambridge, MA — When current U.S. education secretary, Arne Duncan, headed the Chicago Public Schools in 2004 - 05, the city implemented a new collective bargaining agreement that covered teacher dismissal policy: principals were given more flexibility to dismiss non-tenured teachers.

Our analysis of these data provides strong evidence that seniority plays an outsized role in determining which teachers are targeted for layoffs, likely in part because collective bargaining agreements ordinarily require that the teachers last hired are the first to be fired.

So are the proscriptions in most states against hiring uncertified teachers, and, in some states, against exempting charter school teachers from local collective - bargaining agreements.

This contrasts with a typical school district, where teachers are observed once or twice a year, usually with plenty of advance warning, which is often required by the collective - bargaining agreement.

Elementary - school teachers who are covered by collective - bargaining agreements spend less time instructing students in the classroom than do their peers who are not covered by contracts, but they devote more time to classroom preparation and administrative tasks, a new study by two University of Oregon researchers has found.

One needs to consider the impact of restrictive collective bargaining agreements that prevent rewarding good teachers and removing ineffective ones, intrusive court interventions, and useless teacher certification laws.

The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), which maintains a database on collective - bargaining agreements in 113 large school districts, reports that the contracts give their teachers, on average, 13.5 days of sick and personal leave per school year.

• The state could prohibit collective bargaining agreements which elevate seniority over competency in layoffs and which facilitate the «Dance of the Lemons» (such as when senior teachers are granted «bumping rights» over less senior teachers working at other schools).

Iron - clad seniority and tenure rights codified in state laws and collective bargaining agreements make it nearly impossible for boards to remove ineffective teachers.

Teachers unions are mobilizing to block charter expansion in state legislatures and through collective bargaining agreements with local districts.

Teachers at more than 170 early - childhood - education centers in New Zealand are on their way to earning the same pay as regular school teachers, under a new collective - bargaining agreement reached between the Ministry of Education and the New Zealand Educational Institute Te Riu RoTeachers at more than 170 early - childhood - education centers in New Zealand are on their way to earning the same pay as regular school teachers, under a new collective - bargaining agreement reached between the Ministry of Education and the New Zealand Educational Institute Te Riu Roteachers, under a new collective - bargaining agreement reached between the Ministry of Education and the New Zealand Educational Institute Te Riu Roa union.

Through local collective bargaining agreements, teachers have a say in district salary schedules, the number and type of sick and personal leave, the length and timing of the school day and year, the number of students per classroom, the amount and type of support services offered to students, and the professional development provided for teachers.

He demonstrates how collective bargaining for teachers has produced labor agreements that stifle innovation and risk taking.

Education Next's Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. discuss the week's education news, including an announcement that a charter school in Massachusetts has signed a collective bargaining agreement with its teachers, an agreement that includes merit pay.

Ironically, current collective - bargaining agreements already give district leaders the flexibility to terminate ineffective teachers during their first two or three years on the job.

Podcast: Education Next's Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. discuss the week's education news, including an announcement that a charter school in Massachusetts has signed a collective bargaining agreement with its teachers, an agreement that includes merit pay.

Moreover, Shanker believed that teachers had a lot of good ideas that could be incorporated into collective bargaining agreements, such as teacher peer review, suggestions for the types of curricula that work best in the classroom, and what sorts of programs would lure teachers into high - poverty schools.

In communities like Dallas and San Francisco, Edison Schools has been the victim of political campaigns orchestrated in large part by the teacher unions, and the firm» s moves to manage district schools have been hobbled by stifling provisions in collective bargaining agreements.

Driven by their collective bargaining agreements, the vast majority of big school districts ignore between - school differences in teacher salaries.

Management had to operate within the framework of the district's collective bargaining agreements with its union employees, and teachers were allowed to transfer to other schools within the district if they wished.

Delve into the NCTQ Teacher Contract Database and find out what is inside collective bargaining agreements and state policies for more than 145 of the largest school districts from all 50 states.

Allocating quality: Collective bargaining agreements and administrative discretion over teacher assignment.

These differences may originate in collective bargaining agreements that make it relatively expensive for pilot schools to expand instructional hours and staffing and that favor teacher seniority over classroom effectiveness.

Koppich argues, however, that teacher interests can be protected via reform - oriented collective bargaining agreements that put student performance first by promoting flexibility and collaborative problem solving at the school level.

Are teachers unions and existing collective - bargaining agreements an impediment to school quality?

Preface to the collective - bargaining agreement between the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers and the Cincinnati Board of Education.

In order to realize those goals, the NSTA supports the forging of collective bargaining agreements designed to guarantee substitute teachers development and training programs, improved wages and health benefits, a fair evaluation and grievance process, and the right to full unbiased consideration for contractual employment.

Whether the measure is graduation rates, improved instructional quality, last year's improvement in the lowest - performing schools targeted for special intervention, a nation - leading new collective - bargaining agreement, the addition of many new high - quality public schools, increased parental choice, or a material increase in the proportion of effective teachers, the arrow is pointed decidedly up in Newark.

She also raised concerns that teachers at the school are not protected by a collective bargaining agreement and that the takeover would usher in privatization of public schools.

Rigid collective bargaining agreements create so many procedural hurdles that it is almost impossible to remove a weak teacher.

A fundamental problem is that the law gives DCPS the total authority to design the teacher evaluation system — it is outside the collective bargaining agreement.

Unlike most charters, Green Dot is unionized, but teachers at Clay, who work under a different collective - bargaining agreement, would not be entitled to remain.

They are subject to the same measures of accountability and standards as traditional public schools, as well as the collective bargaining agreements made with teachers unions.

Collective bargaining agreements inhibit creativity and treat teachers as interchangeable widgets.

Now coming from the leader of a union that has made the one - size - fits - every - teacher - and - student collective bargaining agreement the Bible of every school district unfortunate enough to be organized with an industrial - style union, that is hubris of the highest order.