Sentences with phrase «teacher seniority rights»

Still, he has fallen short on other measures that might have given the state better grades by Rhee's standards, including his stalled proposal for a school - voucher program and his failed bid to end teacher seniority rights under the new tenure law.

Yet the major sticking points are Mr. Corbett's school reforms that would eliminate teacher seniority rights and base future pay increases on more rigorous evaluations that include student learning.

The salty speech came on a day when union officials discussed hot - button issues such as teacher seniority rights and charter schools.

Not exact matches

The lawsuits argue that teachers» due - process rights and layoff by seniority contravene the state's constitutional guarantee of a «sound, basic» education for all students.

The Department of Education on March 16 directed its employees to get students and parents involved in the all - out war that Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the chancellor have been mounting in Albany against teachers» seniority rights.

The UFT is appealing a state judge's ruling that allowed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of teacher tenure and seniority rights to proceed.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew issued a statement in response to news that California millionaire David Welch's advocacy group, Student Matters, will fund and coordinate the lawsuit by the New York City Parents Union that seeks to invalidate due process and seniority rights for teachers.

To support the California Teachers Union in its fight to preserve due process and seniority rights in a lawsuit brought against it by an organization funded by a billionaire conservative activist;

Courts have yet to reach a final verdict on teacher tenure and seniority rights, but the court of public opinion has already made a clear determination.

Seniority rights are a big deal right now because older teachers have a lot to lose: higher salaries that they've reached after a lifetime of anemic ones; and significant pension wealth if they make it to retirement.

• The state could prohibit collective bargaining agreements which elevate seniority over competency in layoffs and which facilitate the «Dance of the Lemons» (such as when senior teachers are granted «bumping rights» over less senior teachers working at other schools).

Iron - clad seniority and tenure rights codified in state laws and collective bargaining agreements make it nearly impossible for boards to remove ineffective teachers.

States and districts can establish a policy of «mutual consent» that gives principals the right to choose their own teachers... States and districts can eliminate seniority - based layoffs, which should consider effectiveness instead, and make it easier to transfer or remove ineffective teachers who can not improve.»

Seventeen years into his tenure but just a few months before retirement, Peter McWalters took on that state's famously strong union, voiding teachers» seniority rights in the troubled Providence school district.

This is so senior teachers can choose the schools they believe are the best workplaces — most often schools in nicer neighborhoods with students from higher - income families — while newer teachers with no seniority rights and fewer choices tend to work in more disadvantaged schools serving poorer students.

Meanwhile, teacher unions were allowed to scuttle meaningful reforms such as merit pay, tenure reform and the curtailing of seniority rights, which leave inner city schools bereft of experienced teachers.

The full implementation of Judge Treu's striking down five laws that set rules for teacher dismissal, seniority rights and tenure will likely not take effect for years — or not at all if the state wins on appeal.

Klein railed against what he called the three biggest problems contained in the contract and the culture the contract produces: lockstep pay for teachers, regardless of their skills or assignment; lifetime tenure, making it difficult to get rid of incompetent or abusive teachers; and seniority rights that dictate assignments based solely on a teacher's longevity in the system.

Seniority, tenure, bumping rights, LIFO — all of these policies make it easier for teachers to choose (and remain in) the schools they want and harder for administrators to assign them — especially the most senior and likely most effective among them — to schools where they might do more good in classrooms with more challenging (but needier) kids.

And they, especially teachers, are the ones whose value - added scores have been calculated, who've been hired under alternative certifications, whose seniority rights have come under fire, and who've been singled out for merit pay.

Villeda and others said they felt threatened by such efforts to take over campuses, attack their seniority rights in lawsuits and displace teachers.

In addition, John E. Deasy, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District and «a staunch opponent of tenure rules and «last in, first out» seniority for teachers,» testified on the side of the plaintiffs, while also noting, however, that «good administrators don't grant due process rights to ineffective teachers.»

One thing Wisconsin has done right is reduce or eliminate seniority restrictions that make it harder for districts to hire and recruit minority teachers.

DeBose and Vergara are among nine students challenging state laws on teacher dismissal, seniority and tenure that they say violate their right to an effective education.

Coutinho said key amendments would be filed on Monday, including possibly those dealing with seniority rights and with the dismissal process of ineffective teachers.

While Republicans are aiming to weaken teachers unions through such policies as private - school vouchers and legal battles over dues collection, the unions are colliding with Democrats who are challenging bedrock labor rights, such as seniority and teacher tenure.

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.

State Sen. Teresa Ruiz (D - Essex), the architect of the new law, initially proposed allowing teachers who had tenure before the effective date of the bill to keep seniority rights.

«If this is our one shot at reform, this is a terrible disappointment,» Cerf told a panel of lawmakers before the bill passed, lamenting that nothing would be done to address seniority rights that guard the longest - serving teachers from layoffs.

If it is successful, the Vergara case will eliminate some teacher tenure protections, limit seniority, and diminish collective bargaining rights.

The unions also proposed that evaluations be clearly tied to a teacher obtaining due process rights, usually known as «teacher tenure» and that decisions about layoffs in times of fiscal crisis include performance evaluations rather than a system based solely on seniority.

Attorneys Theodore Boutrous, far right, and Marcellus McRae, second from right, represent nine California public school students who are suing the state to abolish its laws on teacher tenure, seniority and other protections.

Citing the constitutional rights of its public school student plaintiffs, the suit seeks to overturn state laws that schedule tenure consideration after two years of teaching, dictate the use of seniority when budget cuts force layoffs, and impose due process rules on teachers» terminations.

In addition to seniority rights for teachers, the debate in Detroit hinges on the question of how school systems should be run.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction candidate Marshall Tuck this week launched a petition calling on his opponent, incumbent Superintendent Tom Torlakson, not to appeal a lawsuit ruling that struck down statutes giving California teachers firing protections and rights to tenure and seniority.

The four bills would increase the probationary period — the length of time before a teacher is up for tenure — from four to five years; end the practice of laying teachers off predominately based on seniority; put teachers evaluated as ineffective back on probation; make it easier to fire teachers for a broader slew of offenses; and limit collective - bargaining rights, barring unions from negotiating areas such as teacher evaluations.

While this brief focuses on Act 10's impact on Wisconsin teachers based on the data available, the same forces driving changes in the teaching workforce can also affect the broader public sector.3 Proponents of Act 10 insisted that reducing collective bargaining rights for teachers would improve education by eliminating job protections such as tenure and seniority - based salary increases.

The principal at Holiday, for example, skillfully used his expanded authority under Chicago's school reform to hire new teachers of his own choosing without regard to seniority or bumping rights.

While their involvement was once intricately linked to teacher professionalism and school success, today they are locked in a mindset that is focused almost entirely on protecting collective bargaining rights and ensuring that tenure, seniority and uniform pay scales dictate who gets paid what, and who stays and goes in the classroom.

In the landmark case, Vergara vs. California, nine student - plaintiffs, are arguing that the California teachers» seniority, tenure and dismissal laws violate their fundamental, constitutional right to a quality education.