Sentences with phrase «teacher layoffs in»

McRae then underscored the point that the professor hadn't published anything on teacher layoffs in California.

Although school districts control major operations on affiliated charters including employment decisions, the school gains access to the charter categorical block grant, which expands spending flexibility and can be used to reduce teacher layoffs in a given year.

After many years of teacher layoffs in California, school districts around the state are hiring again.

While the district withdrew as a defendant in the case before the trial started, she was called by the defense in an effort to impeach the testimony of a plaintiffs» witness, Nicholas Melvoin, a former LA Unified teacher at Markham Middle School in Watts, who had testified last month that teacher layoffs in 2009 resulted in effective teachers being dismissed and morale at the school eroded.

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.

Teacher layoffs in New Jersey are governed by a rigid quality - blind mandate, often referred to as the «last in, first out» policy, which forces schools to fire teachers based on district seniority alone.

Just 17 percent said California should continue to conduct teacher layoffs in order of seniority....

After many years of teacher layoffs in California, school districts are using an influx of new k — 12 funding to hire again.

A study published in Education Next examined teacher layoffs in Washington state during the same time period.

Education is a labor - intensive industry, and because most districts devote well over half of all spending to teacher compensation, budget cuts have already led to the most substantial teacher layoffs in recent memory.

(For some opinions on this, you can listen to Ed Next's Paul Peterson and Checker Finn discussing the teacher layoffs in their podcast, which was also posted this morning on the Ed Next website.)

But United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew disputed the necessity of teacher layoffs in light of the $ 200 million in extra state aid.

Mulgrew forecast a difficult year ahead: although teacher layoffs in New York City were narrowly averted last June, school budgets were axed for the third year in a row, leaving schools pared to the bone.

Manhattan Institute senior fellow Stephen Eide in a new study finds that a flat rent of $ 2,400 per student, as recommended by the Independent Budget Office, would have resulted in 71 % of charters running deficits and potentially 577 teacher layoffs in 2011.

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

BTF Pesident Phil Rumore is blasting the timing of the teacher layoffs in the Buffalo School District.

«If Albany moves forward with the school aid cuts proposed by the Governor, New York City may have to lay off 6,400 teachers — the first teacher layoffs in New York City since the 1970s,» the letter reads.

Not exact matches

For our public schools beleaguered by budget cuts, teacher layoffs, scandals, it seems like another nail in the coffin.

Asked if an override was possible about his thoughts on the bill, Silver responded, «I'm not going to be responsbile for losing a billion dollars in teacher layoffs or police and firefighter layoffs.»

Key reforms include fostering more effective charter schools, merit pay for teachers, more aid to parochial schools and the elimination of stultifying laws such as «Last in first out» for teacher layoffs.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Against the backdrop of city and state budget - cutting teacher layoffs, Rep. Michael Grimm weighed in on LIFO with Schools Chancellor Cathie Black, calling it «unacceptable» during a meeting with her in his Washington office.

«There's a simple test that we're going to apply to anything that he does... any proposal, and it is this: does it repeal the Last In, First Out law that would allow the city to layoff teachers based on merit this year?»

The two have appeared to be on a collison course in this budget season, however, on the topic of control of teacher layoffs.

By an overwhelming majority, (85 - 12), voters support the repeal of the «last in, first out» rule governing teacher layoffs, agreeing that the decision governing who loses a teaching job should be based on performance and not seniority.

And while many in the crowd did applaud and cheer as the mayor passed, others expressed their resentment about the comments as well as recent cutbacks, including threats of thousands of teacher layoffs.

Mulgrew called the attacks on pensions, the threat of teacher layoffs, the fight to change seniority layoff rules, the targeting of teachers in the Absent Teacher Reserve pool, and the record number of proposed school closings «part of the mayor's strategy to throw everything at us at once.teacher layoffs, the fight to change seniority layoff rules, the targeting of teachers in the Absent Teacher Reserve pool, and the record number of proposed school closings «part of the mayor's strategy to throw everything at us at once.Teacher Reserve pool, and the record number of proposed school closings «part of the mayor's strategy to throw everything at us at once.»

There's been a five percent decline in government jobs, mostly due to teacher layoffs.

Reynolds said three teachers were excessed from the school in February and he expects they will lose two more if there are layoffs.

Let me give you an example of how merging school districts in one Erie County town could result in millions of dollars in savings without the closing of one school or the layoff of a single teacher, teacher's aide, janitor or other direct educator to children.

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.

And his decision not to fully back Mayor Bloomberg's push to do away with the last in, first out layoff system for teachers is credited with keeping the city teachers union quiet on his proposed education cuts.

«The Council has serious concerns about 4,200 teacher layoffs, losing nearly 17,000 unfunded childcare slots and the closure of 20 fire companies,» she said in a joint statement with Council Finance Chairman Domenic Recchia (D - Brooklyn).

Make no mistake, we will do everything in our power to prevent teacher layoffs.»

In a joint statement, Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Finance Chairman Domenic Recchia identified teacher layoffs, the child care cuts, a 29 percent cut to libraries and fire companies as their top priorities.

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.

According to Kearns, in New York City mayoral control has led to higher costs and teacher layoffs.

At a news conference, the mayor said that Gov. Cuomo's bill does not rid the state of its seniority - based layoff system in time for his plan to lay off 4,600 teachers this year.

But with Cuomo pushing — should Bloomberg choose to cooperate — New York might yet see sanity in the teacher - layoff system.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Finance Chair Domenic Recchia Jr. said in a statement that they have «grave concerns» about teacher layoffs and would recommend alternative cuts to those proposed by the mayor.

De Blasio went on to admit that he believes Mayor Bloomberg's plan to layoff thousands of teachers is just a ploy to help push through a bill on Last In, First Out.

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?

The legislature must let school boards use teacher performance, not seniority, in making layoff decisions.

In addition to preventing teacher layoffs, the June budget deal also saved 20 fire companies and numerous seniors» centers that have repeatedly been pegged for closure.

On August 10, Reid voted in favor of a bill that provided emergency funding to prevent teacher layoffs; President Obama signed the bill on August 11.

Bing said he got involved in the issue during last year's budget process when his community school district seemed about to lose 19 percent of its teachers because of layoffs.

Earlier this week, the New York State United Teachers union refused a request by Democratic Assemblyman Sam Hoyt of Buffalo to consider voluntarily postponing their raises and automatic step increases in pay this year to avoid layoffs and save $ 1 billion.

We're losing millions in maintaining an empty building and lost tax revenue while we layoff teachers and cops, close firehouses, and can't even find the money to fix the damn potholes.

«We have grave concerns about a budget that allows for teacher layoffs, which would be immensely damaging to our education system and children's opportunities for a quality education,» City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Council Finance Chair Domenic Recchia, Jr. said in a statement.

Those layoffs would be felt heavily in the city's poorest neighborhoods, where schools tend to have the newest teachers,» Bloomberg testified at a state budget hearing this week.

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.»