Sentences with phrase «teacher job security»

Roughly 9 percentage points, or about one - fifth, of the 52 percent compensation advantage R & B claim is due to their estimated value of greater teacher job security.

The most telling example may be in New York, where the simultaneous effort to change testing and accountability fueled intense concerns about how the tests would affect teacher job security, engendering fierce backlash and strong teachers union support for the «opt - out» movement.

There is now a small group of teacher union leaders and disgruntled teachers that want to return to the days when teacher job security was guaranteed regardless of classroom effectiveness.

Moreover, Sustar said, it «turned heads in the Washington headquarters of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)» — the CTU's parent union — where «AFT President Randi Weingarten has collaborated with Race to the Top and other White House education initiatives, even at the cost of retreating from the union's opposition to merit pay and defense of tenure as the basis for teacher job security.»

Proponents believe linking teacher job security to student performance will cull the worst teachers and help others become better at their jobs, thus reversing years of lagging student achievement.

If she were responsible for student achievement instead of teacher job security, Brill suggests, the labor leader would be forced to push union members harder to prioritize instructional excellence and embrace tenure reform.

Moreover, it is far from clear that teacher job security is so special.