Sentences with phrase «teacher contract system»

Kidd, who is on the task force, pushed back on a merit pay plan already enacted last year by lawmakers — the teacher contract system.

Adding an element of competition to the classroom will be good for boosting academic achievement, say lawmakers who have pushed for the new teacher contract system.

Some traditional public schools are already looking to exclude themselves from the teacher contract system.

Not exact matches

The government's method was to offer private schools four options: (1) continued independence with no aid, (2) integration into the public school system, (3) a permanent «contract of partnership» in which the classes under contract would be taught according to public school schedules by teachers under contract to the state, and (4) a «simple contract» of limited duration in which the designated classes would be taught by teachers hired by the school but certified by the state.

Progressive Redesign Opportunity Schools of Excellence (PROSE), created under the new UFT - DOE contract, gives schools flexibility in designing their schedules, programming, teacher evaluation systems and other aspects of their school environments so that they are able to implement innovative school improvement strategies.

It may have taken more than 12 years, but a teacher contract is finally in place in the Buffalo Public School system.

The Buffalo Public School system is constantly negotiating union contracts with some organization, with the recent contract with the Buffalo Teachers Federation establishing a framework.

He noted that nearly 100 of those teachers were encouraged to leave the system by giving them severance pay, under an agreement in last year's contract.

Catsimatidis also admitted that he considers himself a union guy, from his days as a member, and said that, if he were mayor, he would have been able to reach deals with the teachers» and bus drivers» union on a teacher evaluation system and new contracts to avert the school bus strike.

The decade - long fight between Buffalo's school system and the Buffalo Teachers Federation over a contract surfaced at Wednesday's Buffalo Board of Education meeting where hundreds of teachers prTeachers Federation over a contract surfaced at Wednesday's Buffalo Board of Education meeting where hundreds of teachers prteachers protested.

And the new contract makes it easier for the school system to dismiss displaced teachers.

Her testimony followed that of Buffalo Schools Superintendent Kriner Cash, who testified earlier Monday that settling the teacher contract was necessary to execute his plan for turning around the struggling school system.

Accounting systems make it impossible to track how much is spent on a particular child or school, and hide the costs of programs and teacher contracts.

States should give each teacher the right to choose an alternative contract that contains terms and benefits consistent with those in the private sector (e.g., an at - will contract with standard health - care benefits, 401k, etc.), and sits outside of the existing teacher pension system.

Teachers can help their students develop a positive mobile mental health in the first weeks of school by discussing their ideas on cell phone use, setting up a stoplight management system, and establishing a class contract.

Or it can mean a yearlong campaign that targets the best education schools, courts top students, and doesn't let up until a hundred newly minted teachers have signed contracts and been matched to the neediest schools in the system.

Within the span of one year, all public - school employees were fired, the teacher contract expired and was not replaced, and the state took control of almost all public schools, dramatically reshaping the teacher workforce and providing the first direct test of an alternative to the U.S.'s century - old system of school governance.

Public - school teachers in Oakland, Calif., working without a contract since July, last week struck the city's 51,000 - student school system in a pay dispute.

With contract talks going nowhere in the spring of 2009, she wrote a Washington Post op - ed in which she insisted that «[t] hose who categorically blame teachers for the failures of our system are simply wrong.»

The district has been a flash point in Colorado, where the system's difficult relationship with its local teachers union led to the expiration of its contract with the Douglas County Federation of Teachers (DCFT)-- a remarkable outcome when one considers how unthinkable that would be even in big cities with contentious district - union relatiteachers union led to the expiration of its contract with the Douglas County Federation of Teachers (DCFT)-- a remarkable outcome when one considers how unthinkable that would be even in big cities with contentious district - union relatiTeachers (DCFT)-- a remarkable outcome when one considers how unthinkable that would be even in big cities with contentious district - union relationships.

But the chickens have come home to roost: if teachers are the most important part of the process, and we have been rewarding them nicely, signing on to 100 - page employment contracts, dishing out wonderful lifetime benefits, why has our education system gotten so bad?

Even worse, the administration's authoritarian attempts to impose a single instructional approach throughout the system have so demoralized and frightened rank - and - file teachers that it is now virtually impossible for the city to get much - needed reforms of work rules in the next teachers» contract.

After an all - night negotiating session, the Chicago Teachers Union and the board of education reached agreement last week on a new contract that narrowly averted a strike in the nation's third - largest school system.

A federal district judge has ruled that the Maryland legislature had a right to reform the public employees» retirement system, despite allegations by the Maryland State Teachers» Association and other unions that in doing so the state violated a contract agreement.

He also pressed for reform of the onerous work rules in the teachers» contract, including eliminating the seniority provisions, making it easier to fire incompetents, and establishing a system of merit pay.

And whether your instrumental tuition programme is run through a system of self - employed individual teachers, or is contracted through a Music Education Hub, make sure you allow for the management of this within the music leader's timetable.

Notable recently were the Gates Foundation's call for a two - year moratorium on tying results from assessments aligned to the Common Core to consequences for teachers or students; Florida's legislation to eliminate consequences for schools that receive low grades on the state's pioneering A-F school grading system; the teetering of the multi-state Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessment consortium (down from 24 to 15 members, and with its contract with Pearson to deliver the assessments in limbo because of a lawsuit that alleges bid - rigging); and the groundswell of opposition from parents, teachers, and political groups to the content of the Common Core.

Its policies, practices, habits, systems, contracts, and so much more conspire to stymie great teachers and principals.

From observing conditions there and in other cities, we believe that bargaining and related union activity have not only hampered urban public schools with such things as cumbersome contracts, but have introduced practices into the education system that are counterproductive, fomenting a demoralizing pattern of acrimony between teachers and administrators that is fundamentally at odds with effective education.

The single greatest expenditure from the almost $ 200 million that was raised for Newark's school system went to a new teachers» contract.

Existing teachers could opt to stay in the seniority - based system or have the ability to earn more money by shifting to annual contracts.

In a letter sent on behalf of some families Wednesday to L.A. Unified Superintendent John Deasy and the school board — and just before the district begins negotiations with the American Federation of Teachers» City of Angels unit over a new contract — Barnes & Thornburg's Kyle Kirwan demanded that the district «implement a comprehensive system» of evaluating teachers that ties «pupil progress» data to teacher evalTeachers» City of Angels unit over a new contract — Barnes & Thornburg's Kyle Kirwan demanded that the district «implement a comprehensive system» of evaluating teachers that ties «pupil progress» data to teacher evalteachers that ties «pupil progress» data to teacher evaluations.

New rules in the Boston teachers» contract have helped the city's schools move toward the ideal of finding the best person for the job, but school administrators still have a way to go before they take full advantage of the system's expanded capacity to hire teachers from outside the district, a report concludes.

Union contracts that block reform of the system and make it harder to employ top - notch teachers and principals.

A tentative contract in Seattle may give teachers there a greater hand in running their schools than any previous agreement involving a big - city school system, both union and school officials say.

Klein railed against what he called the three biggest problems contained in the contract and the culture the contract produces: lockstep pay for teachers, regardless of their skills or assignment; lifetime tenure, making it difficult to get rid of incompetent or abusive teachers; and seniority rights that dictate assignments based solely on a teacher's longevity in the system.

A new performance - based teacher evaluation system and reduced sick leave are the key issues preventing the Hawaii State Teachers Association from agreeing to a new contract with the state, union leaders and educators said.

Not knowing enough about the new teacher evaluation system was one of the reasons teachers rejected the January contract offer, Okabe said.

The performance - bonus system, initially funded through the support of several private foundations, began a year later, the product of contract negotiations with the Washington Teachers» Union.

Under a state - appointed superintendent, the district pursued a wide - ranging reform agenda, including a major new teacher contract and evaluation system intended to retain and reward the district's effective teachers and remove ineffective teachers from the classroom.

There is a new contract, a new evaluation system, new principals, a much better rubric for principals to guide teachers in the classroom — the kinds of internal things that change the way schools are run.

However, HPS will create room for TFA's by continuing it's unethical practices of squeezing well qualified certified staff by creating hostile work conditions and using the teacher evaluation system as a tool to non-renew their contracts.

San Jose Teachers Association President Jennifer Thomas and Superintendent Vincent Matthews relax after the school board unanimously approved the contract with teachers, with the new evaluation system, ThursdaTeachers Association President Jennifer Thomas and Superintendent Vincent Matthews relax after the school board unanimously approved the contract with teachers, with the new evaluation system, Thursdateachers, with the new evaluation system, Thursday night.

Last weekend, the rank - and - file of United Teachers Los Angeles overwhelmingly approved new contract terms for a teacher evaluation system — and unlike in the past, both sides agreed the talks had gone smoothly.

In place of career status, lawmakers have devised a system that puts teachers on 1 -, 2 - or 4 - year temporary contracts.

Remember, the contract isn't permanent (I didn't see in the article what was the length of the contract), and if the system doesn't work or the district is using it to be deceitful, the teachers will certainly go back to old ways with the next contract.

Beth Carter, a teacher at Cape Fear Center for Inquiry, K - 8 charter school in Wilmington, says she's happy her school is excluded from the contract system.

But Sen. Phil Berger, a key proponent of the new contract system, said tenure made it too difficult to get rid of bad teachers.

An innovative teachers contract designed to tie pay to performance has given Baltimore's teachers some of the best salaries in the state — but it's also expensive for the city school system.

We are paid using the same antiquated system established four decades ago: incremental salary increases with every new contract, automatic raises for time in the classroom regardless of our success, and rewards for graduate school classes that are required by law but have shown no correlation with teacher effectiveness.