Sentences with phrase «teacher seniority system»

Does a recent court ruling in Los Angeles really signal the beginning of the end of an unjust teacher seniority system?

The announcement came as the New York State Senate geared up for a vote on a bill that would end the teacher seniority system and allow the city to conduct layoffs based on merit.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

For example, in a seniority - based system, black students are far more likely than other students to have been in a classroom of a teacher who received a RIF notice.

The authors next look at what would happen if the existing seniority - driven system of layoffs were replaced by an effectiveness - based layoff policy, in which teachers are ranked according to their value - added scores and districts lay off their least effective teachers.

A final way in which seniority - based systems may have consequences for student achievement is that strict adherence to seniority would require at least some districts to lay off teachers in subject areas with teacher shortages, such as math and special education.

With a seniority - based layoff policy, school systems may be forced to cut some of their most promising new talent rather than dismiss more - senior teachers, who may not be terribly effective in raising student achievement.

Most teachers, he said, are opposed to being judged based on student test scores and believe that the current seniority system is fair and necessary.

We calculate that districts would only have to lay off 132 teachers under an effectiveness - based system in order to achieve the same budgetary savings they would achieve with 145 layoff notices under today's seniority - driven system, a difference of about 10 percent.

In the current system, teachers unions tend to compress wages within a school district so that teachers with the same seniority and the same degree are likely to receive similar (if not identical) salaries.

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.

The agreement sought to reward top - performing teachers with more pay, replacing the traditional «step and lane» system of pay increases based on seniority and levels of education.

If you are forced by an outdated seniority system to pay some teachers more than they are worth or could get in private industry, or accept less effort, resources are being expended based on what is good for the union and teachers and not what is best for kids.

Existing teachers could opt to stay in the seniority - based system or have the ability to earn more money by shifting to annual contracts.

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.

Villaraigosa praised Melvoin's role in the Reed v. California lawsuit, which challenged the L.A. district's system of laying off teachers based on seniority.

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.

He argued that the union's seniority system for layoffs meant the neediest children got the worst teachers, as measured by his earlier «value - added» analysis of student test scores.

Ironically, the polar opposite is the reality: when California's economic woes required laying off teachers over the last few years, teachers were pink - slipped according to seniority only, and because those who have been in the system for fewer years are lesser - paid, i.e. the newer, younger teachers, many more of them had to be laid off to save the required amount.

Or teacher quality, of course that's taboo to talk about even though LA's results showed some teachers are far better than others and some young teachers provide over double the value of teachers earning more than them by our outdated and ineffective seniority - based pay system.

The 2010 law requires districts to reimagine their talent - management and educator - support systems by requiring annual performance evaluations, ensuring tenure is earned and not the guarantee of lifetime employment, and ending both seniority - based layoffs and the forced placement of teachers into schools where they neither want to be nor fit well.

Our member educators are in agreement that the current tenure system is not working and teachers should not be fired solely based on seniority.

And with a system that holds to reverse seniority in times of layoffs, more experienced teachers have greater latitude in using their own teaching techniques, she said.

The perfect evaluation system doesn't exist yet, but we do have access to measures of teacher performance that are far better than seniority: teacher ratings, classroom management, teacher attendance, specific licensure, peer or principal review, value - added student data.

Starting next year, Florida teachers will be given the option of joining a new merit - pay system or the older but safer system tied to seniority.

After Tuck took over some of LA's most troubled schools as CEO of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, «about half of his teachers received layoff notices because of the system's seniority based layoff system, which protects older teachers regardless of job performance.»

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.

The California Supreme Court will decide this summer whether to take up an appeal by nine students in the historic Vergara vs. California case challenging our unusually protective teacher tenure laws, as well as a seniority - based layoff system that often keeps ineffective teachers in district classrooms while letting more talented but less senior teachers go.

Her «robbing students» claim is based on the fact that the governor is tying a funding infusion to the elimination of the archaic, child - unfriendly, and industrial - style seniority system, in addition to a mandate to hold teachers accountable for student learning.

Another sticking point is the limited use of seniority in determining whether a teacher is laid off or not, as well as ongoing questions about the teacher evaluation system that will be used to determine if a teacher receives tenure in the first place.

Rothner then asked Fraisse whether a system that determines teacher layoffs based on effectiveness was preferable to one based on seniority.

(1) The Vergara Decision: This case pits nine Oakland public school students against the State of California, arguing that (a) granting tenure after less than two years, (b) retaining teachers during layoffs based on seniority instead of merit, and (c) the near impossibility of dismissing incompetent teachers, is harming California's overall system of public education, and is disproportionately harming public education in low income communities.

That the traditional teacher compensation system, focused on rewarding teachers based on seniority and degree attainment, is ineffective in spurring student achievement fails to reward good - to - great teachers and keeps laggards in classrooms to continue educational malpractice.

Korn said seniority is «the fairest, most objective way of laying off teachers» and noted that other public - sector unions, such as those representing firefighters and police, often use similar systems.

A teacher with 25 years seniority in the system, however, would make $ 85,000.

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.

In some cases the Gates Foundation is immediately engaged in financing educators to offering direct challenges to teacher unions on such issues as the seniority system and and the use of student test scores to evaluate teachers.

More controversial were his decisions to exempt teachers at certain low performing schools from seniority - based layoffs and to adopt a federal No Child Left Behind waiver that requires the adoption of a new teacher evaluation system.

Appointed in 2002 by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Klein transformed the city's public - school system by promoting privately managed charter schools to replace regular public schools, by increasing the consequences for principals and teachers of standardized tests, and by attacking union - sponsored due process and seniority provisions for teachers.

And Rhee exercised unique powers granted to a D.C. chancellor to impose a teacher evaluation system based partly on student outcomes and to lay off teachers based on a lack of merit rather than a lack of seniority.

Three widespread practices in particular are in need of major revision: teacher evaluation and tenure systems that do not distinguish effective teachers from ineffective ones; forced placement, where teachers are assigned to schools based on seniority rather than the match of teacher skills to school preferences and needs; and LIFO (last in first out), by which teacher lay - offs are based entirely on seniority rather than teacher effectiveness.

Indiana passed laws that created an expansive voucher system, made teacher tenure contingent on effectiveness, limited collective bargaining, ended the process of firing teachers in order of seniority and required teacher evaluations to be «significantly informed» by student performance on standardized exams.

Most of the districts looking to switch from a seniority - to performance evaluation - based system for teachers are millions of dollars in debt.

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

Her bill no longer included provisions to create a new teacher evaluation system, to require teachers with poor performance reviews to be laid off before those with less seniority, and to remove many of the dismissal rules that administrators found frustrating.

Following the original Vergara decision, Republican lawmakers introduced a package of three bills to extend the time it would take a teacher to earn tenure, to repeal the «last - in, first - out» statute that makes layoff decisions based on seniority, and to establish an annual teacher evaluation system.

For example, the judge wrote that the state's teacher evaluation system is «little more than cotton candy in a rainstorm» since «[s] tate standards are leaving teachers with uselessly perfect evaluations and pay that follows only seniority and degrees instead of reflecting need and good teaching.»

To win the contest, the states had to present new laws, contracts and data systems making teachers individually responsible for what their students achieve, and demonstrating, for example, that budget - forced teacher layoffs will be based on the quality of the teacher, not simply on seniority.

In Detroit Public Schools, the Detroit Federation of Teachers threatened to strike when the emergency financial manager called for teacher merit pay and an end to the seniority system.