Sentences with phrase «teacher tenure system»

The plaintiffs in the case, minority students in California, had argued that California's teacher tenure system violates the equal protection clause because it protects teachers who are ineffective, and poor and minority students are more likely to be assigned these ineffective teachers.
But this will be done, as evidenced here and elsewhere (largely in the research literature), in highly arbitrary, inconsistent, invalid, unfair, idiosyncratic, and prejudiced ways, particularly as teachers will no longer be protected under such teacher tenure systems, losing as well their due process rights to (often rightfully) defend themselves against unfair human capital decisions based on such systems.
We need more teachers who are passionate about closing achievement gaps, but current teacher tenure systems deter «our best and brightest,» writes E4E -...
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.
I can not in good conscience support Minnesota's teacher tenure system as it's currently constituted, but that doesn't make the * idea * of tenure unworkable or somehow a bad thing.
Oh, and lastly, Governor Malloy wants to get rid of the existing teacher tenure system.
Parents and teachers must join together to eliminate teacher tenure systems that protect bad teachers and that divert our best teachers away from many of the students who could benefit most from their skills and experience.
Opponents of the current K - 12 teacher tenure system in California often say the process is too easy, and that, unlike at the university level, it is no longer a professional benchmark that rewards hard work and success in the classroom.
And it includes an increase in the charter school cap plus changes to the teacher tenure system.
The provision radically changes the teacher tenure system.
Since its June courtroom setback over the state's teacher tenure system, the single most powerful union in the state has invested heavily in Democratic candidates that toe the union line.
The teachers union, considered by many to be «the most powerful interest group in the Capitol,» has stepped up its political giving in the wake of Vergara v. California, a landmark court ruling that could ultimately throw out California's teacher tenure system.
The members of the state legislature who I met with welcomed a new idea for creating a teacher tenure system.
In his latest Hartford Courant column, Rick Green suggests that the solution to getting the Governor's «Education Reform» bill passed is to drop his effort to repeal the teacher tenure system in return for the Democratic legislators giving in to his demand that Stefan Pryor, Malloy's education commissioner, be given the power to take over some local schools so they can be turned over to some new company or entity.
George Norcross, a south Jersey Democratic power broker and insurance executive, called for more charter schools, a change to the teacher tenure system and corporate sponsorship for public schools at a forum tonight.
In January, the three - judge appeals court panel heard arguments for and against the dismantling of North Carolina's teacher tenure system.
He said he believes in merit pay to «reward excellence,» that he would like to see incremental changes to the teacher tenure system and that school days should be longer.
E4E - Los Angeles member Phylis Hoffman discusses ways to reinvigorate the teacher tenure system that would attract graduates into the profession, retain great...
Recall from a recent post that currently in the state of California nine public school students are challenging California's teacher tenure system, arguing that their right to a good education is being violated by job protections that protect ineffective teachers, but do not protect the students from being instructed by said teachers.
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