Sentences with phrase «teacher time guarantee»

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Instead, the centerpiece of the teachers union's interaction with Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration is paid parental leave, in which teachers would be guaranteed pay for a certain number of days each year if they have to take time off to care for children.

About to open Students, teachers and parents at Neston High Building will be pleased following the announcement that the building of the new school building will be guaranteed to be on time.

Substitute costs are in addition to the financial burden of guaranteed leave time: teachers typically are given a lump sum payment for any unused leave when they retire.

«This important piece of legislation is good news for pupils and parents as it will guarantee equity of provision across the country and will also ensure that teachers» jobs and pupils» learning time are protected.»

At the very least, we'll see a transition to cash - balance plans, which keep the government on the hook for a guaranteed payout but allow teachers to «cash out» at any time without losing their pension wealth.

They have more time to address their needs for reducing class sizes over the four school years, and they have a guarantee that significant funding will be committed to the program enhancements teachers.

Within 60 days, Superintendent Huppenthal and the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) must: (1) finalize its teacher and principal evaluation guidelines; (2) give sufficient weighting to student growth so as to differentiate between teachers / principals who have contributed to more / less growth in student learning and achievement; (3) ensure that shared attribution of growth does not mask high or low performing teachers as measured by growth; and (4) guarantee that all of this is done in time for schools to be prepared to implement for the 2014 - 2015 school year.

In the published presentation of results, the question about teacher tenure asks: «Do you support or oppose tenure for teachers, the practice of guaranteeing teachers lifetime job security after they have worked for a certain amount of time?»

This much we know: Mayor de Blasio gave in to the union's demands for sizable raises but got very little in return - no premium sharing of health - care costs, no higher co-pays, no guaranteed dismissals for ineffective teachers who don't even teach full time, no changes to the rigid seniority - based salary schedule, nothing.

The problem is, tenure does not guarantee teachers a job, does not offer any lifetime employment security, and, regardless of the implication of Time's question, does not just happen after a «certain amount of time.&raTime's question, does not just happen after a «certain amount of time.&ratime.»

Both moves have guaranteed that the two unions have gotten their way on nearly every educational issue — including the passage of a law last year that bans districts from laying off teachers at the expense of fewer days in school for children in need of more time in classrooms, and Brown's decision to cancel funding for the CalTIDES teacher data system (effectively ending efforts to overhaul teacher evaluations).

Some charter schools, like City Neighbors Charter School in Baltimore, Maryland, include teachers on the governing board, have a school schedule with guaranteed time for teacher - administrator collaboration, and use hiring protocols that rely on teacher input.

My point is, can we find a compromise which guarantees none of the above 6 proposals will become the practice, but at the same time guarantee truly bad teachers who last for decades no longer do so, that it is possible to fire bad teachers as much as most professions, engineers, programmers, marketing, sales.

To ensure that the experience is meaningful, Oregon should guarantee that induction includes strategies such as intensive mentoring, seminars appropriate to grade level or subject area and a reduced teaching load and / or frequent release time to observe other teachers.

To ensure that the experience is meaningful, Hawaii should guarantee that induction includes strategies such as intensive mentoring, seminars appropriate to grade level or subject area and a reduced teaching load and / or frequent release time to observe other teachers.

At the time of this reporting, CPS has not provided Substance with information on how to contact the «Faith Based Community» that paid for the expensive catering at a time when CPS claims it is facing an austerity budget which required it to refuse to pay the four percent raise guaranteed by union contracts to members of the Chicago Teachers Union and other unions representing CPS workers.

To ensure that the experience is meaningful, the state should guarantee that induction includes strategies such as intensive mentoring, seminars appropriate to grade level or subject area and a reduced teaching loan and / or frequent release time to observe other teachers.

To ensure that the experience is meaningful, Louisiana should guarantee that induction includes strategies such as intensive mentoring, seminars appropriate to grade level or subject area and a reduced teaching load and / or frequent release time to observe other teachers.

Assigning arbitrary, pre-determined amounts of time to specific learning outcomes guarantees that students who need additional time to learn will be left in the wake as the teacher races to cover the material.

Over time, teachers tend to get very comfortable with all the perks that unions provide, even though they're bad for kids — collective bargaining, seniority, tenure, a job that is virtually guaranteed for life, etc. (In Special Interest, Moe's excellent new book about teachers unions, Chapter 3 and Appendix C deal with young teachers.)

This is why the administrator / managers are trying so hard to convince a guillible public to end teacher tenure by falsely tying tenure to life - time job guarantees.

What responsibility do administrators have for guaranteeing that PLC time is spent impacting teacher and student learning?

NTR Residents receive initial licensure at the successful completion of their residency year and are guaranteed full - time employment as a teacher at one of our partner schools.

Classes are generally pretty small, too, with a student - to - teacher ratio of 10 to one, so you're guaranteed quality time with your peers and professors.

In that time, teachers unions have gained tremendous political power, Democrats have laundered millions of public money through union dues to the Democrat's campaigns, and public school teachers have gotten massive unfunded pensions that are bankrupting states, but guarantee their efforts on election day in getting more progressives elected.