Sentences with phrase «teacher tenure requirements»
If elected, Mr. Altschuler pledges to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act, work for the Republican plan for Medicare and Social Security reform, reform teacher tenure requirements and support school voucher programs.
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-- A solid majority of voters surveyed — 62 percent — said they agreed with Cuomo's proposal to make public school teachers eligible for tenure after five years, instead of the current three - year requirement.
Cuomo, in this budget address, asked for stricter requirements for teacher tenure.
Similarly rejected were statutes that make requirements for removing a tenured teacher so onerous and costly that it is seldom attempted.
Overall, they remain bullish on charters, negative on teacher tenure, opposed to «agency fees» (whereby teachers are forced to pay the union to negotiate even if they decline to join the union themselves), and hostile to federal requirements that restrict schools» ability to suspend disruptive students.
Teacher tenure, and the related onerous and costly requirements for dismissing an ineffective teacher, have evolved into a system that almost completely insulates teachers from review, evaluation, or personnel decisions that would threaten their lifetime emplTeacher tenure, and the related onerous and costly requirements for dismissing an ineffective teacher, have evolved into a system that almost completely insulates teachers from review, evaluation, or personnel decisions that would threaten their lifetime emplteacher, have evolved into a system that almost completely insulates teachers from review, evaluation, or personnel decisions that would threaten their lifetime employment.
They are responsible for everything from teacher - certification, seat - time, and graduation requirements to rules on facilities, transportation, and tenure.
Moreover, the plaintiffs challenged the due - process requirements for teachers who have been given tenure.
That would allow schools to ensure high standards at tenure time and to protect teachers from favoritism with transparency, rather than lengthy due - process requirements, which end up protecting a lot of ineffective teachers.
They contended that California's brief 18 - month window for awarding tenure, onerous teacher - dismissal policies, and last - in, first - out requirements adversely affected minority students.
In 2011, Michigan's State Board of Education, Governor and Legislature, supported and passed teacher quality improvement and tenure reform legislation, significantly altering, and enhancing the rigor and requirements for teachers and...
Our average lead teacher tenure exceeds 10 years, and our child / teacher ratios typically exceed New Jersey state requirements.
Even the union's chief lobbyist, Ginger Gold Schnitzer, said the challenges couldn't be steeper for the 190,000 - member union, with rollbacks in teacher pensions and benefits, and new requirements for teacher tenure and evaluation.
The state Department of Education last week released a mostly positive report on the initial year of the system as dictated under the TEACHNJ tenure reform law, citing some challenges but praising the progress in meeting requirements for additional observations and goal setting for teachers.
Increasingly, state legislatures have been working to weaken or even abolish the practice of teacher tenure, including the requirement to use teacher evaluation data in the decision to grant tenure.
One week before the bill was slated for a vote in the Senate Education Committee, however, the bill was stripped of several key provisions, including a requirement that teacher tenure be based partly on performance evaluations rather than just length of service.
Unlike the controversial changes in tenure and TEACH - NJ, the landmark bill setting new requirements for teacher evaluations, there appears to be accord concerning the two initiatives.
Even retention for tenured teachers is subject to job performance requirements.
Ruiz's Teacher Effectiveness and Accountability for the Children of New Jersey Act (TEACHNJ) has transformed teacher evaluation, instituting new requirements on how and when teachers are assessed and laying out a system of grades that can grant them tenure or potentially removTeacher Effectiveness and Accountability for the Children of New Jersey Act (TEACHNJ) has transformed teacher evaluation, instituting new requirements on how and when teachers are assessed and laying out a system of grades that can grant them tenure or potentially removteacher evaluation, instituting new requirements on how and when teachers are assessed and laying out a system of grades that can grant them tenure or potentially remove them.
They come on the heels of the state's new teacher tenure law, which reinforced the requirements for mentors of first - year teachers, as well as those new to a school.
Tenure could guard against dismissal of more experienced, higher paid teachers during periods of tight budgets when school leaders may be more focused on reducing costs while meeting class size requirements than they are on student learning.
This 2011 report surveys recently passed teacher evaluation policies in five states and rates each on the law's strengths and weaknesses in teacher evaluation design requirements, transparency and public reporting of evaluation data, principal autonomy over teacher hiring and placement, and the extent to which the law links teacher evaluation results to key personnel decisions, including tenure, reductions in force, dismissal of underperforming teachers, and retention.
With an assist from LEE, the organization has nearly doubled its investment recently with respect to its lobbying efforts, spending almost $ 2 million since 2010 on attacking unions, weakening teacher tenure, supporting more and earlier standardized testing, reducing certification requirements, and encouraging the use of VAM in teacher evaluation systems.
The teachers were drawn from more than two dozen districts — from Alexandria Township in exurban Hunterdon County to urban Elizabeth that took part in the two - year pilot from 2011 - 13, leading up to the statewide adoption of the system this school year to meet the requirements of the state's new teacher - tenure law, TEACHNJ.