Sentences with phrase «tenure for teachers»

The state did not close poorly performing schools, eliminate tenure for teachers or add merit pay.

In the early years of the reform movement, teachers unions dug in to protect tenure for all teachers, regardless of job performance.

Retroactively abolishing tenure for teachers, Hobgood said, violates the contract clause in the U.S. Constitution and «amounts to an unconstitutional taking of plaintiffs» property rights in their existing contract,» which violates the state constitution.

«That bill did away with tenure for all teachers in Connecticut and it repealed collective bargaining for teacher's in turnaround schools.»

In the published presentation of results, the question about teacher tenure asks: «Do you support or oppose tenure for teachers, the practice of guaranteeing teachers lifetime job security after they have worked for a certain amount of time?»

Legislation passed in 2013 would have eliminated tenure for all teachers by 2018, but the courts rolled back part of that that law last year, saying it violated the state constitution.

Kyrillos, managing partner in a real estate firm, also introduced a bill to end tenure for teachers and set up a merit pay system.

This past Monday I was in Sacramento, California's state capital, talking with members of the legislature about recommendations for reimagining permanent status as tenure for teachers.

Interestingly, Wisconsin is the only state in which districts are not statutorily required to provide tenure for teachers, although all districts currently do so.

Instead of eliminating tenure for all teachers, regardless of performance, Colorado's focused on the teachers» fitness.

Specifically, Time asked, «Do you support or oppose tenure for teachers, the practice of guaranteeing teachers lifetime job security after they have worked for a certain amount of time?»

Cumberland County Schools and Charlotte - Mecklenburg schools are among the latest to reject the law, which is meant to phase out tenure for all teachers by 2018.

Because the Governor still wants to end tenure for teachers and still wants teacher salaries attached to the results of the absurd Connecticut Mastery Tests and still wants more money for charter schools...

This week, the North Carolina Supreme Court overturned a legislative reform that abolished tenure for all teachers, holding it could only apply to new hires.

On these issues Democrats were markedly more supportive of increased spending, tenure for teachers, and the role teachers» unions play in their local communities.

Tenure for teachers would be nothing more than a bad joke if it didn't destroy the education experience for tens of thousands of children who are subjected to incompetent / cruel / perverted people on a daily basis.

Tenure for all teachers will be gone by 2018.

Eliminating tenure for teachers is the new education reform.