Sentences with phrase «tenure process for»

We have a unique opportunity to help our students and our teachers by improving our state's law around the tenure process for teachers.

It created a slower, tougher tenure process for teachers, and would base layoff and recall procedures on teacher evaluations rather than on seniority.

Since 2007, the DOE has extended the tenure process for many teachers and slightly increased the tenure denial rate.

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Eckroth has a reputation for introducing innovative solutions during his tenure at Hertz, where he spearheaded efforts to automate the car rental process, create efficiencies and introduce self - service systems and processes.

«Rather, it begins Wheaton College's established process for employment actions pertaining to tenured faculty members.»

Wheaton College, Larycia Hawkins to «Part Ways» Provost says he asked tenured professor for forgiveness, withdrew termination process.

Teachers union president Michael Mulgrew said the union has been helping teachers to be more prepared for the tenure process.

The need for a robust pan-Nigerian political consensus with the potency and credibility of a doctrine of necessity should not be underrated in moderating the process for the desired objectives to be attained against the background of potential geo - ethnic tensions and tribulations tragically triggered in the past by deviations from agreed power - sharing schedules and denials of entitlements to presidential tenures.

The north must not run the risk of taking its reputed political invincibility in presidential politics for granted but initiate and maintain a proactive engagement process with southern politicians for the formation of a new virile coalition for the salvaging and endorsement of what remains of the northern entitlement tenure in the interest of peace, unity and our democratic dispensation.

If the teacher gets a bad review for three years in a row, even if they have tenure, then the school district is required to begin a termination process.

Tenure means due process for disciplinary action.

Dromm said he understands it takes a while to understand the process and structure of the Community Boards which is why the bill is looking at a possible tenure of 12 years, not the eight years imposed on elected officials (he was quick to reassure he had no intention of changing term limits for elected officials).

A longer tenure would provide stability for the budget process, but also offer more of a leg up if the acting speaker sought to stay in the role permanently.

As a governor who labored hard to persuade voters to vote for you and you got elected, your tenure was cut short by forces beyond your control and not democratic process and so drawing from your own life experience, I am sure APC will play its role of protecting democracy.»

First off, you need a detailed understanding of your institution's tenure process (timelines, procedures, clock - stopping policies, and so on); criteria (the particular balance of the three key criteria — research, teaching, and service — and what counts for which); standards (the performance threshold for each criterion, especially research); and the evidence needed to document your accomplishments (what needs to be in the tenure dossier).

The authors write that institutions should «increase bridge funding for promising faculty who are struggling to fund their research»; «lower the percentage of salary that faculty must cover through grants»; «improve administrative support for the grant submission process»; and «increase the level of formal acknowledgement of research collaboration expressed in the coauthor and coinvestigator status, both in the annual faculty appraisals and in the criteria for promotion and tenure.»

At a press conference following the speech, he told reporters that he would remain as chairman of the commission until a successor had been approved by Congress — a process that could, theoretically, be prolonged for the remaining 13 months of his tenure.

She is currently an associate teaching professor, and in a few years, she will be able to apply for a promotion to full teaching professor in a process somewhat similar to the process of applying for tenure; that process, though, will highlight her teaching accomplishments, not research.

And certain of these review processes — the tenure process, for example — are altogether less exemplary than the grant - review process.

At the president's request, Makovicky and other members of a special museum committee have begun the formal process of declaring «financial exigency» — an emergency status that would allow for layoffs of tenured scientists at the world - class institution.

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During his tenure at the NHMRC, Prof. Anderson renewed the agency's peer review process and introduced new mechanisms for supporting emerging research areas.

During her tenure, HHMI made significant changes to its process for identifying and funding scientists, opening our doors to an ever - increasing pool of applicants.

Other strategies that could stimulate women to stay in science are a) various forms of flexibility with federal - grant funding designed to accommodate women with young children keeping these women in the game; b) increasing the value of teaching, service, and administrative experience in the tenure / promotion evaluation process; c) providing on - campus childcare centres; d) supporting requests from partners for shared tenure lines that enable couples to better balance work and personal / caretaking roles; e) stopping the tenure clock for one year per child due to childbearing demands; f) providing fully - paid leave for giving birth for tenure track women for one semester; g) providing equal opportunity for women and men to lead committees and research groups.

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.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that a school district's failure to provide tenured public - school teachers with a hearing prior to dismissal violates the teachers» due - process rights under the 14th Amendment.

For alongside the reforms he implemented, Klein provides a second list just as long of the reforms that just died: less binding teacher tenure, serious increases in teaching time, a streamlined disciplinary process for teachers, and a salary scale that would have allowed for substantial merit pFor alongside the reforms he implemented, Klein provides a second list just as long of the reforms that just died: less binding teacher tenure, serious increases in teaching time, a streamlined disciplinary process for teachers, and a salary scale that would have allowed for substantial merit pfor teachers, and a salary scale that would have allowed for substantial merit pfor substantial merit pay.

In New York State, for example, as of late 2015 only one tenured teacher had been fired through its revamped evaluation and dismissal process.

Colorado enacted the single most important piece of legislation to come out of the RTT process — its remarkable Senate Bill 191 (arduously carried by Mike Johnston) which overhauled teacher evaluation and tenure and introduced a smart statewide framework for gauging teacher performance.

The classroom observation process had occurred formally (if superficially) twice a year for all teachers, irrespective of tenure status, as part of the district — union teacher contract.

There should be reasonable due - process requirements for schools to make layoff decisions even after tenure.

In 2007, New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein sought to change the process for awarding teachers tenure, allowing student data to be factored into that decision.

Moreover, the plaintiffs challenged the due - process requirements for teachers who have been given tenure.

Faculty at private institutions report less clarity on tenure process, criteria, and standards than those at public institutions, and faculty at universities report less clarity than those at colleges about the tenure expectations for teaching, advising, and colleagueship.

On a five - point clarity scale (5 = very clear and 1 = very unclear), standards were rated a 3.2; the body of evidence required for tenure was rated a 3.46; tenure criteria a 3.53; and the tenure process a 3.63.

Instead of only using the survey data as part of your tenure review process, look for specific trends.

A bit more than a year ago a California Superior Court, ruling in Vergara v. California, overturned California statutes guaranteeing due process protections for K - 12 teachers with more than two years experience (so - called «teacher tenure») and layoff by seniority.

The paper makes a number of recommendations for federal and state policy that would reform state tenure laws and district tenure processes:

It recasts tenure as a guarantee of fairness and due process, not as an excuse for managers not to manage and not as a cloak for incompetence.

These proposals have generally sought to do one or more of the following: lengthen the probation period for new teachers, strengthen the teacher evaluation process, streamline the teacher dismissal process, or «end tenure» by moving to renewable contracts.

At Weingarten's direction, the AFT developed a model to transform teacher evaluations from a way of simply rating teachers to a tool for continuous improvement and feedback, and is using this model to align tenure and due process so that tenure serves as a guarantee of fairness, not of a job for life.

Singer and Willett, who navigated a successful joint tenure process at HGSE in 1993, have garnered a host of honors for their research, including the prestigious American Educational Research Association's Raymond B. Cattell Early Career Award for Programmatic Research in 1992 and its 1993 Review of Research Award.

States should improve their teacher licensing processes to ensure that the effectiveness of all teachers is assessed on a regular basis as a condition for the granting and renewal of a state teaching license — regardless of the particular criteria for evaluation and tenure laid out in state tenure laws and collective bargaining contracts

«We have been working with some of them for nearly a decade on making tenure and promotion processes fair and equitable.

That process will allow the lawsuits» supporters to publicize embarrassing facts about incompetent teachers protected by tenure and generate momentum for reform in the legislature.

Assuming policymakers are not willing to trade tenure for an increase in pay for all teachers, the optimal tenure policy would provide due process protections but only to the extent that they are valued by good teachers.

Nor did the application speak to any fair and rigorous process for removing ineffective tenured teachers and principals who have had ample opportunities to improve but haven't.

But the CTA opposed a bill that would have granted this exception to the law on tenure, a shorthand for extending permanent due process rights, to San Jose.

Monday's senate hearing focused on the state's 3020 - a hearing, the process that requires districts to prove their case for terminating a tenured teacher.

In addition, John E. Deasy, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District and «a staunch opponent of tenure rules and «last in, first out» seniority for teachers,» testified on the side of the plaintiffs, while also noting, however, that «good administrators don't grant due process rights to ineffective teachers.»