Sentences with phrase «teacher hiring rules»

June Jordan, under some special regulations that SFUSD adopted when small schools were the miracle fad du jour a few years ago, is exempt from many teacher hiring rules, so that the administrators have far more control over who teaches there than at other high schools.

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.

Not exact matches

Schools Chancellor Joel Klein said in a memo to principals that because of seniority rules, the city would be forced to lay off most of the elementary school teachers hired since 2007.

Earlier this week, Bloomberg warned that unless teacher seniority rules are changed so good, newer teachers could be retained over more senior but weaker instructors, the city could have to lay off nearly every teacher hired in the last five years.

Established practices in negotiating teachers» compensation and the rules governing hiring, termination, and work routines need to come of age.

The district's decision to hire teachers for summer school — part of the retention plan — outside of union hiring rules created another furor.

Charter Schools: publicly funded, privately managed schools that operate semi-autonomously, meaning they're free from some rules applicable to other public schools (such as around teacher hiring, budgets, and other operations).

A citywide teaching shortage had caused the Board of Education to relax the hiring rules, enabling Stuyvesant's principal to hire unlicensed teachers like Simion.

This suggests another criteria for the school leader to be including as he hires teachers: looking for people who have had experience in uncertain situations where there were not firm rules to follow — and they had to create and establish new processes and tweak them as they went along.

School administrators who hire substitute teachers are concerned that rules published last year by the federal Immigration and Naturalization Service may burden them with a mountain of new paperwork.

She had been able to institute changes in teacher hiring and evaluation, for instance, scrapping the «last - in - first - out» rule, but what guaranteed their survival in the coming administration?

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.

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.

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.

So is more freedom for principals to hire and assign teachers in ways they think best, rather than following outdated seniority rules.

According to the Las Vegas Sun, the district will replace about 1,000 teachers who are expected to resign or retire and hire 700 teachers for new positions and another 300 to expand preschool and kindergarten, with the help of $ 38.6 million saved in an arbitration ruling following a contract dispute with the teachers» union.

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.

Now, she worries the new rules will increase the quantity, not quality, of hiring pools for teacher jobs.

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.

Another sign of the shifting sands: the ruling this week in Vergara v. California striking down laws governing the hiring and firing of teachers.

Lubben said, ideally, all of the school's teachers will be certified, but that the academy won't rule out hiring an uncertified dance or figure skating instructor, for example.

Because current rules let teachers with seniority select from the district» sopen positions at those schools, those school leaders are unable to ensure that new hires will be the best fit for an open role.

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.

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.»

Under common «transfer and excess» rules, school leaders are expected to hire senior teachers from other schools that want to transfer in or teachers whose positions at other schools have been eliminated — even if these teachers are not the most qualified or the right fit.

The new rule applies to all Florida teachers hired after January 1, 2018.

While the ruling does protect students at the lowest 45 performing schools, students at the rest of the 750 LAUSD campuses will still lose some excellent teachers only because they were the last hired.