Sentences with phrase «tenure decision point»

But if principals were taking advantage of their pre-tenure freedom to fire at will, we'd expect to see the lower - value - added teachers leaving schools at much higher rates than their higher - value - added counterparts, and an increase in dismissals at the tenure decision point between the fourth and fifth years.

Not exact matches

id like to see him stop with the weirdness that he's been displaying in later years no one can deny what he's achieved for the club in his tenure with us But no one can deny either that some of his decisions have been appalling at some points what's wrong with suggesting that we need three more class players?

Bill Hammond: «Cuomo's powers of persuasion are failing him when it comes to justifying a low point of his tenure thus far: His decision to shut down his own investigation of Albany corruption when it was only half - finished.

If pressed to point out a key decision and experience that allowed me to obtain tenure at the College of William and Mary, it would be choosing my postdoctoral position at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

She pointed out that the California Teachers Association has racked up three wins since spring, with the appellate court's unanimous ruling to overturn Vergara, the Supreme Court's decision this week to decline to review the case and the thwarting of her own bill that would have made changes to teacher tenure and dismissal procedures.

He also tried to undercut the former superintendent's testimony that school administrators had sufficient time to make tenure decisions, pointing out that most of the teachers whom Seymour evaluated were already experienced teachers, which required less time.

«On the problem with extending the tenure beyond two years... It's important that while we want teachers to at some point have due process rights in their career, that that judgment be made relatively soon; and that a floundering teacher who is grossly ineffective is not allowed to continue for many years because a year is a long time in the life of a student... having the two - year mark — which means you're making a decision usually within 19 months of the starting point of that teacher — has the interest of... encouraging districts to make that decision in a reasonable time frame so that students aren't exposed to struggling teachers for long than they might need to be....