Sentences with phrase «teachers of the law came»

One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating.

So the Pharisees and teachers of the law come to hear Jesus, but they don't come to learn from Him.

Matthew 15 Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked, 2 «Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders?

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But along with this large crowd of people, there came these Pharisees and teachers of the law from every town of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem.

Now it happened on a certain day, as He was teaching, that there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every town of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem.

Jesus is the eschatological Teacher, who upon the foundation of the sacred Jewish Law but with special commandments (relating to poverty and obedience) and with divine power leads his followers to the gates of the Kingdom of God; he is now exalted at the right hand of God, and is soon to come on the clouds of heaven» as the judge of all mankind.

Even the term «parent - teacher conference» can raise anxiety in the heart of any dad, particularly when your own mom and dad came home from such conferences with a need to «lay down the law.»

There is no mention of changing the state's teacher evaluation law when it comes to assessing teachers under Common Core related tests.

In the Times story, Malatras tellingly dismisses the strategy of asking the Legislature to change the language of the law when it comes to setting the percentage and makeup of test scores counting for teacher evaluations.

It came after a cascade of dissent from parents and teachers, steadily growing since tests aligned with the Common Core academic standards were introduced into classrooms in the 2012 - 13 school year and since the state toughened its evaluation laws, with an increasing amount of educators» job ratings linked to student performance on exams.

The heightened level of concern with events in the capital comes amid shakeups in state leadership, important legislation on the negotiating table with deadlines looming, and recently passed controversial state teacher evaluation laws.

Professionally, I'm consultant also a contractor who works with the laws of love / truth, teacher, astrologer, writer, i also wanna - be author who loves helping people unravel the misconceptions of their souls; discovering how they have organized parts of their lives around false beliefs that betray the best of who they are and the gifts they have come to give.

In studying the simple and immensely practical question of how charter schools handle teacher retirement when state law allows them to opt out of the state's pension system, Podgursky and Olberg examine just how much rethinking charters are doing when it comes to the familiar, expensive, and binding routines of schooling — and what lessons that holds for schools more broadly.

Nevertheless, teachers earn the same pension benefits in all of those years based on a formula written into law, and governments are legally obligated to pay when the bill comes due.

Fifty of the nation's 56 state teachers of the year for 2007 have come up with a list of 10 changes they would like to see in the law, which is due for reauthorization this year.

Often even the most dedicated teachers and principals are hampered by severe limitations on spending and programmatic decisions by ineffective state regulations, constraints such as those that come with categorical funding, and a variety of state and local laws and contractual arrangements.

In short, when it comes to the teacher - tenure laws in most states, less than half of teachers and fewer than 1 in 10 Americans prefer the status quo.

Importantly, with the recognition of the importance of teacher quality has come a new interest in how labor laws and teacher contracts affect student outcomes.

Alabama also enacted tuition grant state laws permitting students to use vouchers at private schools in the mid-1950s, while also enacting nullification statutes against court desegregation mandates and altering its teacher tenure laws to allow the firing of teachers who supported desegregation.50 Alabama's tuition grant laws would also come before the court, with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama declaring in Lee v. Macon County Board of Education vouchers to be «nothing more than a sham established for the purpose of financing with state funds a white school system.»

The first came under fire from the institutions, most of which didn't directly participate, for inaccuracies and questions about methodology, but it's clear states are enacting changes to laws designed to ensure teachers are ready for their jobs.

Because communities nationwide face such a variety of needs when it comes to teacher quality, the law gives schools and districts flexibility in how the money is spent.

The proposal by Educators 4 Excellence, whose L.A. chapter of 900 teachers was launched last November, came one day after a Los Angeles Superior Court judge found that the Los Angeles Unified School District had violated a state law requiring the use of such student achievement measures in its instructor evaluations.

That debate came to the fore in NJ Spotlight's Roundtable on Saturday during discussion of New Jersey's new teacher - tenure law and the development of a statewide teacher - evaluation system.

The new law says part of every teacher's effectiveness rating must come from test score data.

And considering the low - quality of subjective classroom observations that are the norm for traditional teacher evaluation systems, the state laws and collective bargaining agreements governing teacher performance management discourage school leaders from providing more - ample feedback, and that the use of objective student test score growth data is just coming into play, few teachers have gotten the kind of feedback needed to build such expertise in the first place.

The district had hoped to tie teacher compensation to student scores on standardized tests; the union says only 30 % of teachers» evaluations will come from student test scores, the minimum under Illinois state law.

The evaluation and compensation changes in Indiana came during a contentious 2011 legislative session in which hundreds of teachers protested laws restricting their collective bargaining rights, making it easier for charter schools to expand and introducing an expansive private school voucher system.

In the meantime, nearly 30 cases have already been decided by the arbitration system set up by the law, the latest coming down this week against a Cumberland County vocational high school teacher accused of shoving a student.

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.

Not to be outdone, Malloy's Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor told the superintendents that despite what he and Malloy had said in the past and despite federal and state laws to the contrary, he was authorizing greater flexibility when it came to the amount of testing during the coming school year and whether school districts had to include test results in their teacher evaluation program.

From opposing the expansion of high - quality charter schools and other school choice options, to its opposition to Parent Trigger laws and efforts of Parent Power activists in places such as Connecticut and California, to efforts to eviscerate accountability measures that hold districts and school operators to heel for serving Black and Brown children well, even to their historic disdain for Black families and condoning of Jim Crow discrimination against Black teachers, both unions have proven no better than outright White Supremacists when it comes to addressing the legacies of bigotry in which American public education is the nexus.

American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten came out with a press release after the Wisconsin right - to - work law was passed that transcended hysteria.

This development comes despite a state law that requires an inclusive «turnaround» process in which parents, teachers, school officials and community members are supposed to play the primary role in deciding the future of their local school.

The report comes as congress works to reauthorize and overhaul No Child Left Behind, and as states countrywide pass laws that link the hiring and firing of teachers to their students» performance on standardized tests.

In all fairness, however, Deasy is «providing fodder» for both sides, including testimony for the defense about the district's current labor laws and how firing «ineffective» teachers really «comes down to the choices and competence of management, not the constitutionality of current regulations.»

If that seems like something out of the ancient past in an age of hundred - million - dollar lawsuits over your phone's bezel design, students can also come to see that education retains an «exceptional» status within intellectual property law that promotes learning through fair use rights (copyright), experimental exceptions (patents), and an academic exception that recognizes the special contribution of teachers and scholars in creating intellectual property that does not simply and automatically belong to their employer (both).

In June 2013 the CBA, the voice of more than 37,000 lawyers, law teachers, and law students from across Canada, launches the second phase: consulting with lawyers, clients and other stakeholders both about what they see coming and about what they think should be done about it.

One of the great pleasures of learning the law when I did was that I came into contact with a very special set of teachers who had escaped from Germany in the Thirties and had come to England or North America to continue the teaching of law.

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon called for the state legislature to repeal the provisions of the law concerning student - teacher communications and come up with a better alternative.