Sentences with phrase «teachers hired since»

I have seen more than a dozen K - 8 teachers hired since then.

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.

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As a result, the DOE has frozen hiring and not replaced 400 teachers since January, Walcott testified, and «there is some pain that's going to be felt in our schools» next year.

In several cases, say the Gaulds, they were blocked by hostile teacher unions, since they demanded the right to hire their own faculty.

There is a clear economic rationale for deferred compensation, since it allows employers to recoup the investments made in hiring and training skilled employees, such as teachers.

Also, you are not hiring these teachers forever, since they can complete the eLearning course and go back to their schools to go on with their regular jobs.

Fortunately, since eLearning instructors are not physically constrained in supervising a single classroom at a time, they can handle way more learners than an old school (pun intended) teacher ever could — which means you don't have to hire as many.

Last year, the caucus helped 85 of its members get elected to the 350 - member union House of Representatives and promoted the election a union president who appears to be amenable to reforms; the union has since agreed to grant individual schools flexibility over the school calendar, hiring and assignment of teachers.

The numbers have shifted a bit since 2008, partly in response to a fall in teacher hiring in the wake of the last recession, but there are still far more new teachers in the classroom than there were two decades ago.

Since bilingual teachers were in short supply, schools often hired aides to teach in Spanish or imported teachers from Spanish - speaking countries who spoke little English.

It wouldn't cost the DOE anything extra, since the children would be taking up the same amount of space in public school buildings and would not require hiring any extra teachers.

The Parent Teacher Organization invested $ 600, mostly for pots and pans, since the kitchen had been mostly reheating prepared foods, The program was so successful that increased sales allowed the hiring of more staff, making it sustainable after Connolly stopped cooking.

Teaching fellows represent the vast majority of all AC teachers signed on in New York City since 1999 Between the 1999 — 2000 and 2004 — 05 school years, some 9,000 teaching fellows were hired.

The strategy appears to be working: Since last August, 1,200 new teachers have been hired.

In Indiana, almost half of STEM teachers hired in Indiana each year since the establishment of the program are fellows.

Houston hires approximately 350 new elementary - and middle - school teachers a year; since TFA began supplying teachers to the district, its proportion of new teachers has ranged between 5 and 10 percent (see Figure 1).

Since 1970, the public school workforce has roughly doubled — to 6.4 million from 3.3 million — and two - thirds of those new hires are teachers or teachers» aides.

But, states and school districts determine that quality since they control teacher certification, hiring, and other teacher - related practices.

While NPR's Westervelt criticizes Kane for making a «pretty scathing and strong indictment» of America's education system, what Kane does not understand writ large is that the very solutions for which Kane advocates — using VAM - based measurements to fire and hire bad and good teachers, respectively — are really no different than the «stronger accountability» measures upon which we have relied for the last 40 years (since the minimum competency testing era) within this alleged «echo chamber.»

Teacher tenure and dismissal laws are probably most polarizing, a status that has only grown since Los Angeles County Judge Rolf M. Treu issued his 16 - page ruling striking down state laws that govern the hiring and firing of classroom educators.

Applications are dropping and costs are up as independent schools wage a facilities arms race and try to deal with escalating technology and staffing costs — at Catholic schools, because the number of nuns is down 72 percent since the mid 1960s, and they have gone from comprising most of the teachers to fewer than 2 percent of them, requiring the hiring of higher - paid lay teachers.

Verona School District has used TeacherMatch's programs to hire teachers since last year, said human resources director Jason Olson.

They have done this repeatedly since 2011 — the first time the Los Angeles Times hired external contractors to calculate LAUSD teachers» value - added scores, so that they could publish the teachers» value - added scores on their Los Angeles Teacher Ratings website.

When the LA Unified Board of Education meets on Tuesday, the first gathering time since the summer break, Superintendent John Deasy and his staff will present options for hiring more teachers, counselors and other employees — complete with price tags.

However, D'Amico thinks that the results of the latest study are problematic for both black and white students, since most black teachers were hired in minority schools.

Since the teachers went public with their campaign, Paul's administration added teachers to both the charter's CEO hiring committee and the high school's principal hiring committee.

Since teacher unions have vociferously opposed the use of test scores in evaluations, saying they are too unreliable for decisions on hiring and firing, the bill would probably weaken the movement to do so.

About 80,000 teachers — those hired since 2013, who constitute about 1 in 5 teachers in the state — would be affected.»

Since our inception, we have worked with over 1,500 schools in 46 states and 26 countries internationally, and we have facilitated over 32,000 teacher and administrator hires.

Since the beginning of the school year 359 ATR teachers were hired with the understanding that, tenure or not, they'd lose their jobs if they didn't receive good evaluations (and, presumably, go back the ATR); of those, 113 were hired permanently, with their salaries subsidized by the DOE.

In 1996 - 97, when the NCTAF report was released, California embarked on an ambitious effort to reduce class sizes, and, since smaller class sizes translate to more classes overall, this meant the state had to hire tens of thousands of additional teachers.

Since 2007, the first year of Hartford's partnership with Teach For America, the district has hired 1,477 new teachers, 14 percent of whom are TFA recruits, said Jennifer Allen, the school system's chief talent officer.

Sid Salazar, San Diego's assistant superintendent for instructional support services, said «it would be hypocritical of us to turn around and say, «That teacher went online, so we're not going to hire [him or her],»» particularly since the district has its own virtual high school.

Since Malloy introduced his «Education Reform» agenda, the charter school industry and the corporate funded «education reform» advocacy groups have hired dozens of lobbyists and spent nearly $ 7 million, or more, to «persuade» Connecticut officials to adopt policies that are diametrically opposed to what is in the best interests of Connecticut students, parents, teachers and public school system.

Since the 2014 - 15 fiscal year, the General Assembly has provided school districts with approximately $ 120 million per year to hire additional teachers and modestly decrease class sizes in grades K - 3 effective this current 2017 - 18 school year.

The good news: There's an uptick in the hiring of new teachers since the pink - slip frenzy in the wake of the Great Recession.

Since Montessori programs are designed to provide children with initial education and to make them ready for real school, it is important to hire teachers... Read More»

Caring Friends Daycare Ministry is hiring full time summer teacher to work with schoolagers in summer camp ages 6 years old to 10 years in a Christian based Level 3 Paths to Quality early childhood program that has been providing quality care since 1991.