Sentences with phrase «teacher seniority rules»

The California State Board of Education moved forward on regulations Wednesday that would change teacher seniority rules statewide despite heavy resistance from statewide teacher unions.

Earlier this week, Bloomberg warned that unless teacher seniority rules are changed so good, newer teachers could be retained over more senior but weaker instructors, the city could have to lay off nearly every teacher hired in the last five years.

Not exact matches

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.

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.»

Schools Chancellor Joel Klein said in a memo to principals that because of seniority rules, the city would be forced to lay off most of the elementary school teachers hired since 2007.

School Chancellor Joel I. Klein is in a high - stakes battle with the teachers» union over seniority rules.

In other areas, such as a proposal to change seniority rules for school teachers or allocate $ 500 million next year in competitive school aid grants, a column titled «Compromise (if any)» is left blank, suggesting more distance between the three leaders at the time the memo was prepared.

Education reform groups like StudentsFirstNY and the New Teacher Project say a lawsuit against New York State inspired by the Vergara case could change local tenure laws and present a long - awaited opportunity to legally assess long - term sticking points with the unions, such as merit pay and seniority rules.

The Big Dog, however, was willing to end welfare as we know it, infuriating the left; Cuomo has passed up the chance to challenge Democratic orthodoxy and tell the teachers unions that seniority protections need to end because the archaic rules are damaging the unions» credibility even more than they're hampering what goes on in the classroom.

By repeatedly saying the seniority rules would force the Department of Education to fire many outstanding teachers, some teachers and education advocates think the mayor is implying that senior teachers are inferior to newcomers.

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.

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

But United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew said that the seniority rules are in place for a reason.

Teachers who entered the profession under these rules and patiently served their time, waiting for the rewards of seniority, are understandably resistant to measures that would significantly alter pay scales, job protections, or work rules.

Perullo supported the goal of bringing in more minority teachers, but she bridled at the fact that the process was corrupted by the seniority rule.

Like every other public school in the city, Stuyvesant is plagued by bureaucratic regulations and corrosive work rules that favor seniority and paper credentials over a teacher's knowledge and skill in the classroom.

This is primarily because seniority rules strongly discourage teachers» changing employers, which means they can't use the threat of resigning to curtail management abuse.

He also pressed for reform of the onerous work rules in the teachers» contract, including eliminating the seniority provisions, making it easier to fire incompetents, and establishing a system of merit pay.

In April, the California Court of Appeal overturned the trial court's ruling in Vergara v. California [i], in which a group of families had challenged the constitutionality of state laws governing teacher tenure [ii](California state law automatically grants tenure to teachers after sixteen months, provides extra due process protections to teachers over and above those available to other state workers, and requires schools to use seniority rather than competency in layoff decisions.)

The state's hard - and - fast seniority rule — last hired, first fired — provided Cleveland school officials with little wiggle room for deciding which teachers had to go.

Consider one such nearly universal rule: the highest wages must go to teachers with advanced education degrees and seniority.

A bit more than a year ago a California Superior Court, ruling in Vergara v. California, overturned California statutes guaranteeing due process protections for K - 12 teachers with more than two years experience (so - called «teacher tenure») and layoff by seniority.

Quality - blind layoffs are just one vestige of seniority rules introduced decades ago to promote fairness and protect teachers from capricious administrators.

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.

In his 2014 ruling, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu said the tenure and seniority laws make it prohibitively time - consuming and expensive to remove incompetent teachers.

Fordham's Mike Petrilli and AEI's Mike McShane discuss the spread of legal challenges to state laws governing teacher tenure, dismissal, and seniority in the wake of the Vergara v. California ruling, in which a court struck down California's laws governing teacher employment as unconstitutional.

The superintendent's HR office does most of the vetting and placing, but it is shackled by the contract, by state licensure practices (which may be set by an «independent» — and probably union and ed - school dominated — professional - standards board), by seniority rules that are probably enshrined in both contract and state law, and by uniform salary schedules that mean the new teacher (assuming similar «credentials») will be paid the same fixed amount whether the subject most needed at Lincoln is math or music.

Also, archaic seniority rules punish good new teachers — no matter how effective they are in the classroom, they will be the first to go when money gets tight.

The Stull, Reed and Vergara lawsuits, all of which have successfully challenged Blob work rules like tenure and seniority and fought to get a realistic teacher evaluation system in place, have seen Republicans and Democrats working together to undo the mess that McLaughlin and his ilk have helped to create.

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.»

These tenure and seniority «benefits,» which clearly are unfair to good teachers and their students, are what Judge Rolf Treu was referring to in his recent Vergara ruling when he said.

Because Judge Rolf Treu has placed a stay on his Vergara ruling pending the outcome of the teachers unions» appeal, the tenure, seniority and dismissal statutes are still alive and well in California.

In a historic ruling yesterday, a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge declared California's laws around teacher tenure, seniority and related policies to be unconstitutional.

Those are the same rules from which charter schools are exempt, a policy supporters say allows charters to flourish with longer school days, a focus on teacher merit instead of seniority, and other innovations.

But judging from the media reports of the Vergara ruling — almost all of which prominently use «seniority» and «tenure» — they will have an uphill battle altering the public perception of protecting bad teachers.

By flagging the problems caused by seniority - driven «bumping» rules, the New Teacher Project has played a crucial role in altering teacher assignment policies in New York and elsTeacher Project has played a crucial role in altering teacher assignment policies in New York and elsteacher assignment policies in New York and elsewhere.

So is more freedom for principals to hire and assign teachers in ways they think best, rather than following outdated seniority rules.

In 2011, the court issued a ruling in the case, protecting 45 low - income schools from budget - based layoffs, a direct challenge to the existing practice of basing teacher layoffs solely on seniority.

He again told the story of Megan Sampson, who was laid off because of union seniority rules after being named a top first - year English teacher in the state.

In an economic layoff for declining enrollment or district mismanagement, seniority rules are the only barrier to unfairly laying off the more senior teachers who are making higher salaries than newer teachers costing less.

Teachers unions are fighting back against a California ruling that gutted two things they hold sacred: tenure laws and seniority provisions.

Teachers union critics say the tenure and seniority laws that were hobbled by the June ruling protect longtime educators who are ineffective while more proficient ones with less experience face layoffs first.

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.

In response, state legislatures across the country are pushing to reform tenure and seniority rules, sparking battles with powerful teachers unions.

The ruling in that case last year protected hundreds of teachers in high - poverty, low - performing schools who were receiving pink slips based solely on their lack of seniority.

The other big item on Cuomo's agenda was the elimination of rules that force school administrators to lay off teachers in order of seniority, regardless of student need.

They aren't a part of teacher - unionized America where hideous seniority and tenure rules and hopelessly arcane dismissal statutes are the norm.

Given that defined - benefit pensions (along with near - free healthcare benefits, near - lifetime employment rules in the form of tenure, and seniority - and degree - based pay scales) have been proven to be ineffective in either spurring improvements in student achievement, are a disincentive in rewarding high - quality work by teachers (who get the same levels of compensation as laggard colleagues), and actually serve as a disincentive to luring math and science collegians into teaching, it is high time to scrap this and other aspects of traditional teacher compensation.

As you would expect, the suit demands that New York State's tenure, teacher dismissal, and reverse - seniority layoff rules be struck down because they violate the Empire State constitution's provision that all kids are provided sound basic education.

Voters rejected the notion that teachers should be laid off based on seniority, a practice that was struck down as unconstitutional in last June's Vergara v. California ruling.