Sentences with phrase «tenure laws there»

He said Tuesday that he needed to do further research on a court ruling in California that struck down teacher tenure laws there, but he was cautiously supportive.

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Flanagan argues there are other ways to find savings, including keeping state spending increases at the 2 % level Cuomo has called for during his tenure, a requirement the Senate GOP would like to put into law.

But June next year is likely to coincide with the fasting period and Salah, and since the law says that we should conduct the election at least 30 days to the end of the tenure (of the incumbent), we shifted it to July when there is no festival or examination.

«Sensing that PDP is in the throes of death, he is contemplating dumping the party for APC, but there is no place for him in APC as he is only looking for an escape route from prosecution for his various infractions on the law since his first aborted tenure as governor,» he explained.

The lawsuit is the first of what many analysts expect will be numerous legal challenges around the country following a landmark decision in June by a California Superior Court judge who struck down the tenure system there as unconstitutional under state law, saying it unfairly saddled students in high - needs schools with low - performing teachers.

There isn't a progressive state where a teacher evaluation framework, tenure reform law, equitable funding formula, charter, or choice program passed without the support of both Democrats and Republicans.

To the extent that tenure laws make it too difficult and expensive to fire the most incompetent teachers, there is no doubt they should be relaxed.

But he said there has also been significant progress made in many districts, and that the state is sticking to its deadlines, many of which were written into the new tenure law.

While tenure laws have been in effect just about everywhere in the country for far too long, there is some good news.

But, even so, he said there are a host of initiatives coming down on schools with changes in tenure laws, new accountability measures and strained state funding.

Yet there has been next to no empirical research on just how alterations in tenure laws affect student achievement.

«Within current tenure laws, there's quite a bit of flexibility that districts aren't using in order to improve their workforce.

While it is true that the bill includes significant changes to Connecticut's teacher tenure and evaluation laws, there are still many people — including many legislators — who apparently don't know or don't understand the ramifications of some of the other incredible policy changes that have been packed deep into Malloy's bill.

In addition, there are also higher teacher turnover rates in such schools, and oftentimes such schools become «dumping grounds» for teachers who can not be terminated due to many of the tenure laws currently at focus and under fire across the nation.

Assuming there is no state law making tenure mandatory, and you were able to put in any system you wished with test scores paramount, which would you choose?

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There, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge found similar state laws unconstitutional, ruling that tenure rules disproportionately saddle poor and minority students with «grossly ineffective» teachers, a violation of the right to equality of education spelled out in California's constitution.

There is no extra money to help districts implement the new tenure law, for instance, which includes an evaluation and professional development system for teachers and principals that must be in place by next fall.

What we do know from the research literature is that, indeed, there are higher turnover rates in such schools, and oftentimes such schools become «dumping grounds» for teachers who can not be terminated due to such tenure laws — this is certainly a problem.

«There has been a lot of concern about the effects of the new evaluation procedures and changes in the tenure law: Would lots of teachers get fired?»

And because they still effectively help professors gain tenure — «publish or perish» is here to stay — there is little incentive to innovate,» said Michael Montaño, the Stanford Law School student who led the website's development.

«There would be a lot of focus on the evaluation of the reserve, the land tenure, the licences, the royalties and the statuses of the joint ventures, permitting, environmental compliance and then the assessment of all the liabilities, whether they're accrued or contingent,» says Philippe Tardif, a business law partner in the Toronto office of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP.

«It has come to the attention of your anonymous Editor that some lawyers, law students, and law professors would like to be contributors to Blawg Review, but are worried about losing clients, getting hard - marked, or jeopardizing tenure... To enable everyone to be a contributor to Blawg Review, without fear or favor, there is now a convenient submission form created by blogcarnival.com for Blawg Review, so you don't have to use your regular email, if you like the new form.

During her 17 - year tenure as editor - in - chief of Law Technology News (now rebranded as Legaltech News), there was one word Monica Bay would not tolerate in articles or press releases: «solution.»

(1) There is no evidence that the «Socratic Method» is a particularly effective pedagogical method; (2) Unlike other disciplines, the vast majority of law professors have no experience teaching, nor any education on how to effectively teach, prior to becoming law professors; (3) Using final essay exams for 100 % of a students mark, then distributing the grades on a curve, is, to be charitable, not the best way of accurately assessing and representing to future employers students» grasp of the subject matter; (4)» Teaching students to think like a lawyer», to the extent anyone even knows what that is supposed to mean, is made difficult by the fact that most tenured law professors have little if any real experience in the practice of law themselves.

«Women are being admitted to law schools in large numbers, and there's not apparent bias in those schools because we have female tenured professors, women writing substantive course books, and the case law students study involves women as plaintiffs and defendants,» says Bellows.

They might be unknown to many of my younger colleagues, so I'll take the liberty of naming a few (without details of their distinguished careers): McGill's Marianne Scott had just recently been appointed National Librarian of Canada; Diana Priestly was just finishing her tenure as founding Law Librarian at the University of Victoria; Balfour Halévy, Osgoode's founding Chief Law Librarian, was still in charge at Osgoode and leading the charge nationally; Tom Shorthouse was centre - stage at the University of British Columbia (and wherever there was a piano); Edmonton was doubly - blessed with Lillian MacPherson (passionate about both women's studies and Iceland) at the University of Alberta and Shi - Sheng Hu (reluctant to discard superseded loose - leaf supplements) at the courthouse; the dynamic duo of Denis Marshall (at Queen's University, always so kind and supportive) and Denis Le May (at Laval, always so full of spritely humour) was in full swing; Ann Crocker was hard at work at the University of New Brunswick (though she hadn't yet been awarded the Order of Canada) as was Guy Tanguay at Sherbrooke; while Vicki Whitmell was re-inventing the law firm library at OslLaw Librarian at the University of Victoria; Balfour Halévy, Osgoode's founding Chief Law Librarian, was still in charge at Osgoode and leading the charge nationally; Tom Shorthouse was centre - stage at the University of British Columbia (and wherever there was a piano); Edmonton was doubly - blessed with Lillian MacPherson (passionate about both women's studies and Iceland) at the University of Alberta and Shi - Sheng Hu (reluctant to discard superseded loose - leaf supplements) at the courthouse; the dynamic duo of Denis Marshall (at Queen's University, always so kind and supportive) and Denis Le May (at Laval, always so full of spritely humour) was in full swing; Ann Crocker was hard at work at the University of New Brunswick (though she hadn't yet been awarded the Order of Canada) as was Guy Tanguay at Sherbrooke; while Vicki Whitmell was re-inventing the law firm library at OslLaw Librarian, was still in charge at Osgoode and leading the charge nationally; Tom Shorthouse was centre - stage at the University of British Columbia (and wherever there was a piano); Edmonton was doubly - blessed with Lillian MacPherson (passionate about both women's studies and Iceland) at the University of Alberta and Shi - Sheng Hu (reluctant to discard superseded loose - leaf supplements) at the courthouse; the dynamic duo of Denis Marshall (at Queen's University, always so kind and supportive) and Denis Le May (at Laval, always so full of spritely humour) was in full swing; Ann Crocker was hard at work at the University of New Brunswick (though she hadn't yet been awarded the Order of Canada) as was Guy Tanguay at Sherbrooke; while Vicki Whitmell was re-inventing the law firm library at Osllaw firm library at Osler.

Implicit in their Honours reasoning is that because there is no equivalent of Indigenous relationships to land within the common law system of tenure, the recognition of these unique relationships within the common law can not resemble or bear any equivalence to the common law.