Sentences with phrase «teacher firings»

The data also only runs through 2013, largely before the local hiring push, so it remains unclear of teachers fired after Katrina have benefited from that nascant emphasis.

But the researchers found that white teachers fired after Katrina were more likely to be hired by charter schools than black teachers were.

On the other hand, though, one wonders whether he'll leave a trail of teachers fired for their students» failed bubble tests in his embrace of the imperfect.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been vigorously lobbying for the quick adoption of the evaluations as a cornerstone of his push to end the state's «Last in, First Out» seniority - based teacher firing policy ahead of a massive layoff plan.

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.

The new timeline is a win for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has spent recent months vigorously lobbying to replace the state's «Last in, first out» seniority - based teacher firing policy with one based on merit ahead of a massive layoff plan.

The legislation would give the city the power to base teacher firings on factors other than seniority, including chronic absenteeism and poor student test scores.

In the view of school officials, Wysocki, one of 206 D.C. teachers fired for poor performance in 2011, was appropriately judged by the same standards as her peers.

Inconvenient Student Voice can be students graffitting on lockers at school, bullying, texting test answers back and forth, joining gangs, or protesting teacher firings and bad cafeteria food.

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.

The Shorr, Johnson and Magnus Strategic Media - produced ad comes as the mayor and UFT continue to spar over a new teacher evaluation system, which will eventually be used in teacher firing decisions.

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.

There were lies about her personal accomplishments (those fantasy - land «miraculous» test scores in Baltimore), and there were lies about her policies (the budget «shortfall» and teacher firings even as she hired hundreds of brand - new teachers).

Others see teacher firings and polarization as a necessary price for student progress (Rotherham, 2010).

In this article written for ASCD Express, she shares five ways school leaders can keep teachers fired up, without burning the candle at both ends.

Jane Arnold Lincove, a professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the study's lead author, says that the study suggests that the prospects for those veteran teachers fired after Katrina only got worse over the years, as more schools went charter and those schools embraced younger teachers recruited through programs like Teach for America.

If today's agreement becomes our actual teacher evaluation system, then there will more than likely be massive teacher firings beginning in 2014.

The problem with the approach that Friedman and others advocate is that it assumes we have all these wonderful, high - quality teachers just waiting in the wings to take over the jobs of the bad teachers we fire.

California Legislator Vows to Reintroduce Bill to Speed Teacher Firing for Abuse A California state senator said he plans to reintroduce a bill Monday that would make it easier to fire a teacher accused of sexually abusing a student.

One reason teachers and their unions elsewhere may be embracing the new evaluations is that the results so far haven't resulted in the mass teacher firings that many feared — an outcome that has led to criticisms given how much time and money is being invested in the new systems.

The very first case involved a Vineland teacher fired after being arrested for running naked through an apartment complex parking lot.

Read more about firing policies by visiting our Hawaii teacher firing topic page.

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.

* Push the state Legislature to eliminate the Commission on Professional Competence, a statewide group that has final say over disputed teacher firings.

Eller added that Pennsylvania teachers fired for cheating lose their teaching certification.

Now they are threatening everything from teacher firings to school closure.

In 2009, eighty - five - year - old art professor Ludka Zeilonka gets drawn into a political firestorm when her grandson, Tommy, is among a group of gay Massachusetts teachers fired for allegedly silencing Christian kids in high school classrooms.

To date, there are class action lawsuits pending in areas of teacher firings and unions, and an onslaught of new charter school openings that have left many wondering whether New Orleans schools have truly seen improvement.

I agree with what Diane Ravitch has to say about the wrong - headedness of organizing the public school experience around testing, as well as the inappropriateness of basing school funding decisions and teacher firings on test results.

Inconvenient student voice can be graffitting on lockers, texting test answers back and forth, bullying, or protesting teacher firings.

The Senate's version of the bill includes a proposal to modify the «last in, first out» teacher firing policy as well as $ 280 million in additional school aid — about 9 percent more than Cuomo's proposed budget, State Sen. Liz Krueger said.

MANHATTAN — The showdown between the mayor and the governor over overhauling the state's teacher firing rules escalated Wednesday, as the mayor urged the governor to support legislation passed by the senate, despite the governor having introduced his own, competing plan.

In the fall of 2007, about a third of the 4,300 teachers fired after Katrina were working in New Orleans public schools again.

and if cases are reported they are dealt with and investigated by the authorities and folks go to jail, or teachers fired... you are still trying to deflect the appalling actions of the so called church of christ to protect its own image.

These relationships are counter to the teachers job and will likely get a teacher fired.

participants went head - to - head debating issues like academic achievement, special education, teacher firings and unions, and governance.

Working with HGSE students, she has developed case studies focusing on particular dilemmas of justice in schools and school districts like ethics of grade inflation, eighth - grade promotion and retention policies, lottery - based school assignment, disciplining socially fragile children, and teacher firings.

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Recently, a teacher fired a gun while barricaded in a classroom, and last week alone there have been several accidental gun discharges at schools, including by a school resource officer at a middle school and by a teacher, the latter resulting in injury to a student.

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A new study from the Education Research Alliance at Tulane University shows that half of the teachers fired never worked in Louisiana public schools again.

Nearly a third of the teachers fired in 2006 were already eligible for full retirement benefits.

Under these programs, teacher firings have increased, but in a way that many teachers accept as fair.

In the past decade, for example, the Los Angeles Unified School District has only been able to fire four teachers out of 33,000; statewide, only 20 percent of teacher firings have anything to do with classroom performance.

Padilla said one of his main goals was to speed up resolution of teacher firings.

As for the types of offenses that have gotten a teacher fired, 14 were fired for incompetence in 2013, meaning multiple years of «unsatisfactory» ratings, Aiello reported.

What shouldn't be overlooked in the attention focused on the number of teachers fired is that most of the system's 4,100 teachers and staff members are doing a good job.

Of the 206 teachers fired this year, 65 were rated ineffective and 141 were judged minimally effective for the second consecutive year.