Sentences with phrase «teacher layoffs»

Contract talks have been going on for more than a year and for much of that time district held out the threat of teacher layoffs because of its poor financial situation.

If enacted, the move would be the first significant teacher layoffs in the city in decades.

The state has a policy for teacher layoffs based on their performance but no such policy for dismissal.

But it was in the middle of a severe recession with massive teacher layoffs, particularly in the poorest communities.

Along with teacher layoffs, closings are regarded as among the most emotionally charged options that districts can consider.

We're all hearing stories about teacher layoffs and shrinking education budgets.

The highly publicized teacher layoffs during the budget downturn left a mark on the public psyche, including individuals who might have been considering a teaching career.

The speech follows a year of widespread teacher layoffs and education cuts that sparked concerns about sacrificing educational quality for short - term financial stability.

With vast teacher layoffs looming, now is the time to end a practice that blatantly ignores our students.

Because it is destined to lead to significant teacher layoffs in the near future.

One consequence of the Great Recession is that teacher layoffs occurred at a scale previously unseen.

The confidential responses from districts indicate how schools are likely to be different next year as a result of these cuts, which are expected to include teacher layoffs.

Highly publicized teacher layoffs during the budget downturn left a mark on the public psyche, including that of individuals who might have been considering a teaching career.

Those revenues could help offset teacher layoffs and even restore some environmental funding cuts.

As a result, we believe teacher layoffs should not be necessary.

Then, too, districts set fairly low standards for their subs, although the weak economy and teacher layoffs seem to be bringing more certified teachers into the sub pool.

For me, 2011 started — as it did in many school districts across the country — with the announcement of teacher layoffs for the fourth year in a row.

His plan will cause massive teacher layoffs, school closings and the elimination of all but the most basic core courses.

Today I am proud to announce that Governor Cuomo heard our call, and at a press conference today at Yonkers City Hall, the Governor and I announced new State funding that will save all programs, including art, music and sports, restore full - day pre-k, and prevent teacher layoffs at Yonkers Public Schools.

The Superior Court concluded that «notwithstanding any contractual or statutory seniority - based layoff provisions,» the State of California and LAUSD should be restrained and enjoined «from implementing any budget - based layoffs of teachers» at three LAUSD middle schools that have been devastated by teacher layoffs in 2009.

There has been ongoing litigation about the disproportionate impact of teacher layoffs on the state's most impoverished schools, some of which face losing most of their teachers if layoffs are based on seniority rather than performance.

The suit led to a settlement that abolishes the use of seniority in determining teacher layoffs at L.A. Unified's worst failure mills.

«Albany's budget cuts threaten teacher layoffs,» the voice says, as the screen displays black - and - white photos of frustrated - looking teachers.

In 2009, only Arizona prohibited school districts from basing teacher layoffs on seniority.

In coordinated actions in districts across the city, members asked their Council representatives to make averting teacher layoffs their top priority in budget talks and urged them also to restore the child care funding that the mayor wants to cut.

Washington (CNN)- President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed into law a $ 26 billion measure to help avoid teacher layoffs - a move Democrats claim is necessary in the wake of state and local government cutbacks.

Teachers and parents in Jackson Heights voiced their concerns over teacher layoffs at a town hall meeting hosted by Councilman Danny Dromm (D - Jackson Heights) and United Federation of Teachers Queens District 30 Representative Barbara Mylite on Monday.

ALBANY - Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Cuomo's war over the law governing teacher layoffs went nuclear on Wednesday with verbal bombs dropping from New York City to Albany.

Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool said in December that CPS can get through the year without teacher layoffs if the union buys into a district contract proposal.

Rothner then asked Fraisse whether a system that determines teacher layoffs based on effectiveness was preferable to one based on seniority.

A busload of UFT retirees met with legislators in Albany on March 8, urging them to extend the millionaire's tax to protect city schools from teacher layoffs and exploding class size.

State law now forces teacher layoffs to be made strictly in order of reverse seniority — last hired, first fired — with absolutely no consideration of a teacher's effectiveness in the classroom.

Under the current teacher layoff law in New Jersey, four times as many Newark schools will lose a significant number of effective and highly - effective teachers, as compared to a policy that would allow school administrators to consider classroom effectiveness.

Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who has vowed to fight teacher layoffs, called it «sound fiscal management» to fund the pension system.

District officials do not expect teacher layoffs in the «immediate future» though, said Randy Pridgeon, LCS divisional director of secondary schools, since many students may opt to take both electives.

Union leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo have argued that the city has enough money to prevent teacher layoffs altogether.

«Then you will see family's struggle, you'll see teacher layoffs, school aid reduced, programs eliminated, and you'll see more money going to the New York City school system.»

But now AFL - CIO President Denis Hughes is suggesting that the administration might actually cross that bridge if it supports a bill proposed by Sen. John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican, that would do away with the «last in, first out» rule of public school teacher layoffs.

Are school district reserves high enough to cover state cuts, and efficiencies in management available that would make teacher cuts unnecessary, as Cuomo administration staffers maintain, or are these areas so thin that the scale of reduced state aid made teacher layoffs unavoidable, as school advocates claim?

With teacher layoffs unavoidable in countless districts, the seniority question will be front and center in the coming weeks, as final budget totals determine how many people must go.

At an early - morning briefing for City Council members on March 23, the UFT called on the city's elected leaders to oppose teacher layoffs, restore day care slots and ensure school safety as they negotiate amendments to the mayor's 2012 budget.

Mayor Bloomberg In his Feb. 17 budget address threatened nearly 5,000 teacher layoffs come September — the largest since the 1970s fiscal crisis — even as he called education his «number one priority.»

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.

A major class - action settlement that gives LAUSD teachers layoff protection at several dozen schools in high - poverty areas has been invalidated by the California 2nd District Court of Appeal.

When filed by attorneys on behalf of students at three Los Angeles Unified middle schools in 2010, the lawsuit challenged the state law mandating teacher layoffs based on seniority.

Under the terms of that settlement, L.A. Unified agreed that its practice of conducting teacher layoffs according to strict seniority created a hardship for students in the most disadvantaged schools so severe that it amounts to a deprivation of rights.

The purpose of the education funding is twofold: to help states address their budget deficits — education is one of the largest expenditures — and to forestall teacher layoffs at the local level.

If teacher layoffs happened tomorrow, teachers would be laid off in order of reverse seniority — the most recently hired would be the first to go.

Darling - Hammond said some of the enrollment declines are related to years of teacher layoffs due to the state's budget crisis.

The lawsuit targeted the devastating impact of massive and disproportionate teacher layoffs on students» right to equal educational opportunity under the California Constitution.