Sentences with phrase «teacher layoff notices»

In response, the administration delivered an ultimatum and 120 non-tenured teacher layoff notices — at a time when the town is poised to save millions and fill a new position — that of an assistant superintendent — with a six - figure salary.

In order to provide a more detailed picture of the factors that are associated with teacher layoff notices, we then examine the effects of each of these various factors on the probability that a teacher received a layoff notice, while controlling for the others.

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Buffalo Teachers Federation President Phil Rumore says he knows of 63 contract and probationary teachers who have received layoff Teachers Federation President Phil Rumore says he knows of 63 contract and probationary teachers who have received layoff teachers who have received layoff notices.

The authors find that if the RIF - notified teachers made the average salary in their district, it would only be necessary to lay off 1,349 teachers in order to attain the same budgetary savings, or roughly 20 percent less than the actual number of teachers who received layoff notices.

In a new study, researchers find that seniority - based layoff policies — the norm in public schools — lead to higher numbers of teacher layoffs than would be necessary if administrators were allowed to make effectiveness the determining factor in issuing layoff notices, rather than length of service.

Confirming the disproportionate impact of current RIF systems on new teachers, the study finds that approximately 60 percent of teachers receiving layoff notices in 2008 - 10 had two or fewer years of experience, and approximately 80 percent had two or fewer years of seniority within their current district.

Teachers who received RIF notices were less likely to hold an advanced degree and their salaries were approximately $ 15,000 lower than those of teachers who did not receive layoff Teachers who received RIF notices were less likely to hold an advanced degree and their salaries were approximately $ 15,000 lower than those of teachers who did not receive layoff teachers who did not receive layoff notices.

The authors» analysis is based on a sample of 1,717 teachers who received a layoff notice in 2008 - 09 and 407 teachers who received one in 2009 - 10.

The effectiveness - based layoffs result in fewer layoff notices and are much more equitably distributed across student subgroups; black students in particular are only marginally more likely to have been in a classroom with a teacher who received a layoff notice under this system.

It is interesting to note, however, that some teachers who receive layoff notices are well into their careers, implying that at least some districts in the state are making judgments about which teachers should be laid off based on criteria other than seniority.

For the subset of teachers who can be linked to student - level data, we consider the characteristics of the students whose teachers received a layoff notice under the actual system and in our simulation.

Had all 1,717 teachers who received layoff notices in 2008 — 09 actually been laid off, the salary savings in the state would have been $ 5,521,238.

There is some evidence to suggest that school districts are choosing to retain teachers in subject areas with teacher shortages, with 13.3 percent of teachers that received layoff notices falling into such a category compared to 15.1 percent of teachers who did not receive a notice.

However, we are confident that, despite the nonexperimental nature of this study, its findings nonetheless provide an accurate picture of the causal impact of, for instance, a teacher's credential on the likelihood of receiving a layoff notice.

Newly available data on «reduction - in - force» (RIF) notices received by teachers in Washington State shed light on the consequences of existing layoff policies for student achievement as well as the consequences of adopting alternatives.

For the subset of teachers who can be linked to their students, we find that teachers who received a layoff notice are more likely to be teaching poor, non-white, and lower - scoring students than other teachers.

This difference is statistically significant, but it pales in comparison to the difference in probability for a first - year teacher compared to a teacher with 12 or more years of seniority: The estimated probability of a teacher with 12 or more years of seniority receiving a layoff notice is less than one - quarter of 1 percent for every endorsement area (see Figure 1).

The overlap between the subgroup of teachers who received a layoff notice and the subgroup of teachers who received one in our simulation is relatively small — only 23 teachers (or 16 percent of the teachers for whom we could estimate value - added who received a layoff notice).

Our final sample includes 1,717 teachers who received a layoff notice in 2008 — 09 and 407 teachers who received one in 2009 — 10, with 130 teachers who received a layoff notice in both school years.

Teachers who received layoff notices are also far less likely to hold an advanced degree.

In other words, the fact that teachers who received layoff notices were, on average, somewhat less effective than their peers is an artifact of the relationship between effectiveness and seniority.

We still focus on all RIF notices because they indicate the teachers who were targeted for layoffs, and thus tell us about the likely effects of the system that governs layoffs.

Goldhaber and Theobald analyze data on 1,717 Washington teachers who were sent layoff notices in 2009 and 2010 to see which teacher and school characteristics influenced the likelihood of a teacher receiving a layoff notice.

Our analysis of multiple factors indicates that, as expected, seniority plays an important role in determining whether teachers receive a layoff notice.

We find that the probability that students in a particular subgroup have a teacher who received a layoff notice varies considerably from one subgroup to the next.

In particular, black students are far more likely than other students to have been in a classroom of a teacher who received a layoff notice.

Finally, starting with the least effective teachers in each district and moving up the effectiveness ladder, enough teachers are assigned to a hypothetical layoff pool to achieve a budgetary savings for each district that is at least as great as the budgetary savings each district would have seen had all the teachers who received a layoff notice in 2008 — 09 actually been laid off.

Conversely, teachers with endorsements in health, physical education, or the arts are far more likely to receive a layoff notice.

This result is not surprising given that teachers who received layoff notices included many first - and second - year teachers, and numerous studies show that, on average, effectiveness improves substantially over a teacher's first few years of teaching.

We calculate that districts would only have to lay off 132 teachers under an effectiveness - based system in order to achieve the same budgetary savings they would achieve with 145 layoff notices under today's seniority - driven system, a difference of about 10 percent.

However, it is a rare education reporter, teacher who receives a layoff notice (however unlikely to be acted upon), or parent who was expecting to have the highly regarded but layoff - vulnerable Ms. Jones for her 3rd - grade child in the fall, who sees the matter in historical perspective or with objectivity.

As many as 15,000 teachers could receive layoff notices.

In Milwaukee, 482 teachers have received layoff notices, but the school board says nearly all of those jobs could be saved if the teachers union would agree to switch to a less expensive health care plan.

Districts filled 1,688 open positions by either recalling teachers who had been served layoff notices earlier in the year or by hiring younger educators who commanded smaller salaries.

While it wouldn't be enough to reach the spending levels of 2010 — 11, it would give Milwaukee some flexibility in recalling the 519 teachers who had been served with layoff notices.

The Detroit public schools, facing a $ 198 million shortfall in a $ 1.5 billion annual budget, sent out more than 300 layoff notices to teachers on Dec. 23.

Both San Diego Unified and Montebello Unified failed to tighten their belts earlier and now are facing austerity: San Diego gave layoff notices to 850 teachers this month and still faces a deficit in 2018 - 19, while Montebello Unified, amid instability and complaints about its chief business officer, gave layoff notices to 333 teachers.

Friction with the Sacramento City Teachers Association started early, during tense negotiations in response to state - forced budget cuts, over higher class sizes, furlough days, pay cuts and hundreds of preliminary layoff notices.

And then, on May 15, 2009, 5,618 LAUSD teachers received layoff notices.

Despite reports of layoff notices, the shortage of qualified teachers in the Golden State persists.

Layoff notices, or «pink slips,» were to be distributed to thousands of young teachers because there simply was not enough money to pay their salaries.

By state law, districts must send preliminary layoff notices for the following school year to teachers by March 15.

The circumstances of those layoffs rubbed salt in the wound, plaintiffs said: Notices were delivered to teachers» old addresses, sometimes to houses that no longer existed, and they directed teachers wanting to appeal the layoff to come to the School Board's building, which Katrina had destroyed.

After Tuck took over some of LA's most troubled schools as CEO of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, «about half of his teachers received layoff notices because of the system's seniority based layoff system, which protects older teachers regardless of job performance.»

Despite Increase in Funding, School Districts Still Sending Layoff Notices to Teachers Year after year, March 15th has been a date of dread for California public school tTeachers Year after year, March 15th has been a date of dread for California public school teachersteachers.

Los Angeles Unified parent Lauren Campbell has a child plaintiff in the case and said that even though efforts are underway to overhaul the evaluation system in the district, it won't do much to protect effective, less - senior teachers who she says she has seen get layoff notices year after year at Lanai Road Elementary School in Encino.

As a young teacher I received layoff notices the first three years I worked during a recession and period of declining enrollment common to many districts in the mid-1970s.

These teachers were disproportionately concentrated at low - performing schools: at three middle schools in LAUSD, between half to two - thirds of the teachers received layoff notices.

«When you're rehired after a layoff notice most likely you could be transferred to a different grade level or different school site,» said Nash, of the Pasadena teacher's union.

Some teachers who received layoff notices agreed to stay on as long - term substitutes, working without the benefits we'd received the previous year.