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

Unlike Torlakson, who has been endorsed by California's two main teachers unions and the state Democratic Party, Tuck opposes California's generous teacher tenure system, has challenged the law that bases teacher layoffs on seniority and believes strongly that student's standardized test scores should be a factor in teacher evaluations.

Changes would make it easier to fire workers and base teacher layoffs on performance instead of seniority.

Not exact matches

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.»

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.

City Hall says Cuomo's plan would simply expedite an already - underway process by the state Education Department to create guidelines for evaluating teachers but leave intact the legal language mandating layoffs be implemented based on seniority.

Almost the entire Queens political delegation joined close to 1,000 chanting UFT members on the steps of Queens Borough Hall for an April 14 rally against budget cuts and teacher layoffs organized by the UFT's Queens office.

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.»

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.

Bloomberg warned of more harsh cuts, but said he was «optimistic» about a deal on merit - based teacher layoffs.

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.

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.

Bloomberg also pushed his plan to reform teacher hiring practices so that layoffs can be based on performance, not just how long a teacher has taught.

A radio ad thanking parents, teachers, elected officials and community leaders for fighting back against the threat of teacher layoffs started airing on June 30.

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The mayor's assault on schools and teachers reached a new low on March 1 when he convinced the New York State Senate to pass a bill that ended seniority rules that guarantee impartiality in layoffs.

Launched on May 22, the 30 - second TV spot paints a bleak picture of city public schools with «class sizes up, after - school programs gone» and «great teachers threatened by layoffs.»

Layoffs of thousands of teachers, which would do irreparable harm to our children and devastate our own families, are still on the table.

With the threat of 4,200 teacher layoffs still looming as the school year draws to a close, an angry Michael Mulgrew called on the delegates to be prepared to hit the streets this summer in the event that even one teacher receives a pink slip.

Cuomo also said he'll focus on how to handle teacher layoffs so that performance, not just seniority, determines who keeps their job.

Speaking at the last public hearing before the City Council and City Hall finalize next year's budget by the June 30 deadline, Mulgrew said the UFT has repeatedly brought ideas to the table on how to close the city's projected budget gap without teacher layoffs, such as cutting back on outside contractors at the Department of Education or using a portion of the city's rainy - day fund.

Despite the good news on teacher layoffs, school budgets for next year were not spared.

The Bronx UFT office hosted NAACP President Beverly Roberts, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and dozens of educators at a press conference on March 10 to denounce the threat of teacher layoffs and budget cuts.

Teacher layoffs would come on top of the mayor's proposal to slash child care subsidies for low - income families, which would put even more children at risk, Mulgrew said.

In a rousing speech that had the 2,000 attendees of the UFT's May 7 Spring Education Conference on their feet clapping and joining in chants of «Enough is enough,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew laid out a plan to bring teachers, parents and community members out on the streets to fight teacher layoffs.

Though teacher layoffs were averted — a huge victory in the current fiscal climate — and the City Council restored some funding on the chopping block, Teacher's Choice was suspended for the coming school year in the final budget voted on Jteacher layoffs were averted — a huge victory in the current fiscal climate — and the City Council restored some funding on the chopping block, Teacher's Choice was suspended for the coming school year in the final budget voted on JTeacher's Choice was suspended for the coming school year in the final budget voted on June 29.

The delays in the process, the Daily News reported a few weeks ago, has the greatest effect on the same high - quality new recruits whose jobs Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he wanted to save during this year's fight over how to determine teacher layoffs.

The message to the mayor from the more than 600 UFT members, parents, students and supporters at Brooklyn Borough Hall on May 5 was clear: he has the money to prevent teacher layoffs and child care cuts.

The new timeline is a win for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has spent recent months vigorously lobbying to replace the state's «Last in, first out» seniority - based teacher firing policy with one based on merit ahead of a massive layoff plan.

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.

In an impressive display of unity and grassroots outrage, several thousand UFT members, parents and students came out on May 5 at four simultaneous rallies across the city to say no to teacher layoffs and child care cuts.

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.

And, when layoffs are required, a final law requires that decisions can not take into account a teacher's effectiveness but must be based entirely on seniority.

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.

Even if Rhee was objectively justified in removing over two hundred teachers, her actions reinforced the fears of many teachers that linking teacher evaluations to student performance will result in wholesale layoffs that are based on scant data viewed by many as suspect.

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.

Beyond the effects of seniority - based layoffs on the teacher workforce as a whole are potential distributional consequences.

(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.)

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.

A new study by Dan Goldhaber and Roddy Theobald from the University of Washington looks at the characteristics of teachers who were targeted for layoffs in Washington state, and at the impact of LIFO provisions on student achievement.

Yet according to the National Council on Teacher Quality, as of 2014, only eighteen states required performance to be considered in making layoff decisions.

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.