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?
Not exact matches
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.
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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.