Sentences with phrase «tenure cases»

The highly visible issue that separates the candidates is their individual reactions to a Los Angeles Superior Court's decision in the Vergara vs. California teacher tenure case.

In tenure cases at universities, as in grant submissions, the candidate should be evaluated on the importance of a select set of work, instead of using the number of publications or impact rating of a journal as a surrogate for quality.»

If you want more information, you can read the official state memo covering everything from the exemption of SGP scores from the state's Open Public Records Act and the process for administrators to access data through a centralized information - management system, to corrective action plans for low - rated educators and legal requirements for tenure cases, to the score certification process and accessing official course roster data.

That's why California is the defendant in the Vergara tenure case and why New Jersey is the defendant in the Abbott funding cases.

At least that's the interpretation of an attorney who has summarized and analyzed the approximately 40 tenure cases brought before state arbitrators so far under the Teacher Effectiveness and Accountability for the Children of New Jersey Act (TEACHNJ).

But meanwhile, in most of tenure cases so far under the new law, the arguments have been over typically either individual incidents of alleged misconduct or longer patterns of teachers failing to improve their practices.

But the Newark case before Gregory, a St. John's University law professor and one of 25 arbitrators chosen to hear tenure cases under the new law, was all about the teacher's classroom evaluations and how they were carried out.

Because he had tenure the case went to a union - approved hearing officer, who called Hudson's actions «unacceptable» and «serious misconduct.»

Also included are the cases decided by the panel of permanent arbitrators responsible for deciding TEACHNJ tenure cases and streamline tenure charges in charter schools.

Since my post, «Trouble In Ed Reforn Land,» appeared online yesterday hinting that AG Eric Schneiderman's consolidation motion in the teacher tenure cases wasn't sitting well with Campbell Brown and the heavy hitters behind her... Continue reading →

Negotiations came to a grinding halt in February this year, when the DFA and the university failed to reach an agreement on the key issues of salaries and the number of teaching positions in each faculty, as well as a host of other topics such as parental leave, nondiscrimination, flexible retirement, technology - assisted classes, and peer review in tenure cases.

«My committee used it when presenting my tenure case to the department and the school.

Despite good intentions, universities send mixed messages when they allow pre-tenure faculty to avoid service commitments as they bolster their tenure cases, the report finds.