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Wednesday, despite opposition from city and state teachers unions, the Illinois state House's education committee unanimously greenlighted a measure that would ease teacher firing rules, making student achievement a factor in doling out tenure.
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Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis called the idea of a quota «morally repugnant,» especially with a federal judge ruling last month that CPS's recent firing of hundreds of tenured teachers was misTeachers Union president Karen Lewis called the idea of a quota «morally repugnant,» especially with a federal judge ruling last month that CPS's recent firing of hundreds of tenured teachers was misteachers was mishandled.
Albany, New York — The push to change teacher hiring rules to end the policy of last hired first fired got a boost when Governor Andrew Cuomo introduced a bill to extend the proposal to all schools in the state.
In June, Cuomo and legislative leaders announce agreement on a two - year moratorium on state rules that teachers would be fired based on «ineffective» ratings due to test scores.
In a precedent - setting decision, a Staten Island judge ruled last week that the Department of Education took illegal shortcuts in firing a tenured teacher.
Mayor Bloomberg just released a carefully - worded response to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal for revising the Board of Regents teacher evaluation standards — an issue that has become something of a sticking point as the mayor is threatening to fire thousands of NYC teachers and pushing for the repeal of the last - in, first - out rule.
MANHATTAN — Mayor Michael Bloomberg painted a bleak economic picture in his annual State of the City address Wednesday as he outlined a series of contentious reforms to overhaul the pension system and rules governing teacher firing to save the city money.
By repeatedly saying the seniority rules would force the Department of Education to fire many outstanding teachers, some teachers and education advocates think the mayor is implying that senior teachers are inferior to newcomers.
Finally, the Brooklyn - bred Democrat pointed to cases in which Gorsuch had ruled against individuals who had sued employers for firing them, including a teacher suffering from cancer and a truck driver who abandoned his load in a winter storm after his brakes failed.
Bloomberg also defended a controversial proposal to change the rules for firing teachers.
«Are rules about firing teachers the kinds of issues that courts should decide, while questions about funding schools are ones that should be left to the legislature — or is it the other way around?»
The Fire brigades Union (FBU), National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) have urged Greening to ditch proposals they believe will make fire safety rules less effective - especially in regard to the installation of sprinklers in schoFire brigades Union (FBU), National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) have urged Greening to ditch proposals they believe will make fire safety rules less effective - especially in regard to the installation of sprinklers in schofire safety rules less effective - especially in regard to the installation of sprinklers in schools.
The NCTQ authors write, «State law dictates how often teachers must be evaluated, when teachers can earn tenure, the benefits they'll receive, and even the rules for firing a teacher.»
Most obviously, union contracts and civil service rules make it next to impossible to fire low - performers, whether they be central office bureaucrats, principals, teachers, or aides.
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.
One group of local citizens — teachers and other employees of the school district — has an intense interest in everything the district does: how much money it spends, how the money is allocated, how hiring and firing are handled, what work rules are adopted, how the curriculum is determined, which schools are to be opened and closed, and much more.
The state's hard - and - fast seniority rule — last hired, first fired — provided Cleveland school officials with little wiggle room for deciding which teachers had to go.
In a landmark ruling, a Los Angeles superior court judge on Tuesday struck down key elements of California's teacher tenure statutes after finding that the near inability to fire ineffective teachers disproportionately hurts poor and minority students.
Two years ago, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu ruled that tenure laws were unconstitutional because they made it virtually impossible to fire incompetent teachers, and that especially hurt students in poor neighborhoods.
An independent arbitrator ruled that the District of Columbia must rehire 75 teachers who Chancellor Rhee fired during their probationary period in 2008.
Last year, when photos were found of a Los Angeles elementary school teacher blindfolding and feeding students his sperm (I'm not making this up), the rules around teacher firing were so ridiculous that LAUSD ended up PAYING HIM to leave.
How schools hire and fire teachers is another flashpoint, with unions favoring rules that benefit senior teachers and their adversaries saying teacher assignments should be based on students» needs.
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge tentatively approved significant changes to the «last hired, first fired» rules that govern teacher layoffs to keep campuses with young staffs from bearing the brunt of budgetary cutbacks in the nation's second - largest school district.
Teacher tenure and dismissal laws are probably most polarizing, a status that has only grown since Los Angeles County Judge Rolf M. Treu issued his 16 - page ruling striking down state laws that govern the hiring and firing of classroom educators.
The bipartisan effort to dramatically change the rules around the hiring and firing of teachers is nothing new.
A Los Angeles County judge's ruling last month that tenure and several other state laws governing the hiring and firing of teachers run afoul of the state constitution was a step in the right direction.
What also has not helped, she said, has been the push in recent years, as evidenced by the Vergara v. California ruling, to make it more difficult for teachers to get tenure, and making it easier to fire them, along with a national drive to link teacher evaluations to student test scores.
Another sign of the shifting sands: the ruling this week in Vergara v. California striking down laws governing the hiring and firing of teachers.
The plaintiffs are challenging the state's tenure and layoff rules as well as dismissal procedures they say make it too costly and difficult to fire teachers for cause.
The unions argue that the rules protecting teachers are needed for school districts to attract and retain good teachers and to ensure that employees are not fired for arbitrary or unfair reasons.
The budget repeals all residency rules for teachers and other workers for all local units of governments with the exception of police, fire or emergency personnel, who would have to live within 15 miles of the boundaries of their jurisdictions.
The new rules, which were supported by the powerful state teachers union and hailed by Christie, speed up the process used to fire a tenured teacher.
Because charter schools are free from district control and often from teacher unions, they have the power to hire and fire, choose the curriculum, and set student rules.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction candidate Marshall Tuck this week launched a petition calling on his opponent, incumbent Superintendent Tom Torlakson, not to appeal a lawsuit ruling that struck down statutes giving California teachers firing protections and rights to tenure and seniority.
The judge, who ultimately sided with the students in a ruling last year, wrote that state laws on teacher hiring and firing disproportionately harm poor and minority students.
Yet despite the reams of evidence debunking the use of student growth scores in evaluating teachers, and despite these two court rulings, Judge Moukawsher insisted that rating teachers on student «growth» scores would satisfy his demand that Connecticut's system for hiring, firing, evaluating and compensating teachers be «rational» and «verifiable.»
In an era in which female teachers were routinely fired for getting married or wearing pants, teachers needed protection from paternalistic employment laws, unfair rules, and arbitrary decisions by administrators.
According to the ruling, tenure affects minority students adversely and unequally by making it difficult to fire ineffective teachers, who predominantly teach low - income, minority students.
«It's an incredibly difficult job, one of the most difficult jobs there is, but union rules often make it impossible to fire bad teachers, and that means disadvantaged kids are sometimes taught by the least qualified.
A bill passed the California Legislature days after the Vergara ruling that reduces the time it takes to fire abusive teachers from up to two years to seven months.
In Los Angeles, seniority rules forced principals to fire teachers who had been brought in to turn around schools — and left them relying on a succession of substitutes.