Sentences with phrase «teacher protections»

Teacher unions think this law is just another strike against teacher protections.

In a stunning defeat for California's public school teachers unions, a state superior court today ruled in favor of students challenging teacher protection laws in Vergara v California.

The Vergara ruling, which is likely to be appealed, struck down key teacher protections in California and is expected to have reverberations across the nation.

Emboldened by the California decision, reformers are challenging teacher protection laws in other states.

The Regents were set to vote to delay the effects of Common Core on high school seniors for five more years, until 2022, and to offer teachers some protections if they are fired during the next two years.

However, Buffalo Teachers Federation President Phil Rumore tells WBFO News there wasn't a lot of teacher protection within the Common Core learning standards to begin with.

The Regents were set to vote to delay the effects of Common Core on high school seniors for five more years, until 2022, and to offer teachers some protections if they are fired during the next two years.

The Act contains the Paul D. Coverdell Teacher Protection Act of 2001, Sections 2361 through 2368 of the ESEA.

«The public wants public schools,» Mulgrew said, adding that he believes reform groups are trying to denigrate traditional public education, partially by changing teacher protections.

In the wake of last week's Vergara v. California ruling, New York's teachers unions and education reform groups are preparing to battle over expected legal action seeking to change the state's tenure laws and possibly many other teacher protections.

«It's surprising that the court, which used its bully pulpit when it came to criticizing teacher protections, did not spend one second discussing funding inequities, school segregation, high poverty or any other out - of - school or in - school factors that are proven to affect student achievement and our children.

What's more, Treu added, evidence at trial showed that teacher protections embedded in California law disproportionately hurt black and Hispanic students, who are far more likely than their peers to be assigned truly bad teachers.

Represented by Los Angeles law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, the plaintiffs allege teacher protections such as tenure, seniority rules in layoffs and other teacher dismissal statutes disparately keep ineffective teachers in the classroom in violation of the state constitution's equal protection clause.

(District of Columbia) In a stinging evaluation of policies and standards governing classroom educators in California, the National Council on Teacher Quality put yet another spotlight on teacher protection laws.

In the last decade, when so - called education reformers secured abilities to remove teacher protections in places like New Orleans and Washington, D.C., black women suffered more job losses than anyone else.

While Democratic Party centrists in Clinton's mold have been some of the most enthusiastic cheerleaders for charter schools, Clinton's comments come as many within the Democratic Party are pushing back against so - called education reformers who want to dismantle teacher protections and increase the number of charter schools.

As I wrote last week, Florida has long been at the forefront of the «reform movement» championing charter schools and doing away with teacher protections, in favor of merit pay and more comprehensive evaluations.

This past April, the California Court of Appeals unanimously struck down the controversial Vergara v. California decision, in which a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ruled that five longstanding teacher protections — including a two - year probationary period for new teachers and a layoff system based on how many years one's been teaching — violated students» constitutional right to an equal education.

Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt (R - Fond du Lac) chairs the Assembly Education Committee — and his office is responsible for a bill that just started making the rounds for signatures at the State Capitol last week, titled the «Teacher Protection Act.»

Despite such problems, the system in California provides teachers protections that go beyond what they receive in many other states.

More than two months ago LA Unified Superintendent John Deasy took the stand as the first witness for the plaintiffs in Vergara v California, a lawsuit challenging teacher protections.

Among the minority of charter schools that are unionized, some, such as Amber Charter School in New York City and Springfield Ball Charter School in Springfield, Illinois, have developed relationships between the teachers union and the school administration that offer teachers protection and input while maintaining the flexibility key to the charter school model.

Just two days after the resolution squeaked through last week, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan made it clear that antiquated notions of teacher protection will not pass muster with the Obama administration.

California's short probationary time was one of five teacher protection laws challenged in the Vergara v. California lawsuit brought by the advocacy organization Students Matter.

Would still argue that teacher protections in CA are too stringent.

«There weren't any teacher protections, hardly, to begin with anyway.

A California judge's recent ruling that the state's teacher protection laws are unconstitutional breathed new life into a national conversation about the future of the hiring and firing of teachers.

The presence of Democrats in the reform movement has led to a deepening rift within the party over the role of unions in education and teacher protections, particularly as the reform movement has so far failed to deliver on its promised outcomes.

Makes no sense to do that unless the teacher protections, dismissal proceedings, etc. have just gone too far despite the highest - in - the - nation per pupil spending of $ 19,552.

Edwards» appointees appear to be interested in finding common ground on controversial issues, such as charter school compensation and teacher protection.

Before Vergara shifted the public's attention to teacher protection laws, it was Robles - Wong and a companion case, Campaign for Quality Education v. California, that made headlines as the big education cases in California.

«Charter schools, most of which are non-union, aren't bound by the teacher protections at issue in Vergara, he said, and that system «functions pretty darn well.

(District of Columbia) In a stinging evaluation of policies and standards governing classroom educators in California, the National Council on Teacher Quality has put yet another spotlight on the state's teacher protection laws.

The California teachers NPR Ed talked to last month agreed that teacher protections are important but that it should also be easier to get rid of lower - performing colleagues.