Sentences with phrase «tenure protection»

One is that seniors with younger spouses are required to purchase tenure protection for them, whether they need it or not.

On Tuesday, the judge in that case tossed out tenure protection rules saying tenure protects teachers at the expense of students.

CTA always manages to settle for absolute tenure protection, big classes, and raises for its members beyond annual step - and - column.

He struck down teacher tenure protection, seniority - based job protection and existing disciplinary policy on the grounds that they were unconstitutional and harmed students.

Teachers ranked in the two lowest categories for two consecutive years are subject to losing their tenure protection and, potentially, their jobs.

For tenured teachers, evaluation scores determine eligibility for some promotions or additional tenure protection, or, in the case of very low scores, placement in a peer assistance program with a small risk of termination.

The charters can also operate outside of rigid work rules and tenure protection enjoyed by unionized teachers across the nation.

[This could] lead to higher turnover rates because people would look to those positions as short - term moneymakers If schools are looking for highly qualified, professional people, they would pay the increased amount and continue to provide the tenure protection as well.

At the same time they were pursuing tougher evaluations, reformers looked to the courts to loosen the city's teacher tenure protections.

Cuomo proposed a series of reform proposals that would have been anathema for the unions, and a lawsuit seeking to overturn the state's teacher tenure protections was working its way through the courts.

Because of «last hired, first fired» laws and tenure protections, they will lay off thousands of young teachers, regardless of their effectiveness.

If tenure protections were reserved only for accomplished teachers, just imagine how different our schools would be.

Shanker supported tenure protections for teachers after a three - or four - year probationary period because he believed that it was an important tool for attracting high - quality teachers and protecting academic freedom.

Throw in the erosion of tenure protections and a variety of recession - induced budget cuts, and you've got the makings of a crisis.

The District of Columbia's 4,000 teachers will be asked to vote next month on a tentative contract that would offer those willing to forgo tenure protections the opportunity to earn up to $ 131,000 by next school year if their students post significant learning gains.

Brookings, 4/23/15 «If tenure protections were reserved only for accomplished teachers, just imagine how different our schools would be.»

Instead, the plaintiffs only showed that the teacher - tenure protections potentially harmed all students.

It follows then that tenure protections must be earned and only awarded to teachers who have proven to be effective in the classroom.

Scott Smith, a third - year English teacher at Seneca Valley High School in Germantown, said the tenure protections that he won last year eliminated a source of stress.

The evaluations are used, in part, to determine which teachers are granted tenure protections.

I'm not opposed, in principle, to carefully paring back tenure protections for teachers in exchange for higher salaries or other benefits.

Alexandria, VA — In a sweeping victory for education reformers in California, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled yesterday that state laws governing teacher tenure protections are unconstitutional.

When a California judge earlier last week struck down teacher tenure protections, his reasoning was that poor students were being harmed when bad teachers with seniority were retained while younger, better teachers were either not hired or let go in layoffs.

Opponents of the nation's teacher unions won a landmark victory last year in a California lawsuit that challenged tenure protections, a case that became the beginning of a national effort to roll back teacher tenure laws in state courts.

Throw in the erosion of tenure protections and a dash of recession induced budget cuts in some states and you've got the makings of a real crisis.

The Senate budget would offer teachers an eye watering 11 percent raise on average — but only if teachers relinquish their tenure protections immediately.

Nearly 4 of 5 Tuck supporters, 79 percent, said they wanted to eliminate teacher tenure protections while 69 percent of Torlakson voters said preserving due process protection was a higher priority.

Similar legislation emphasizing teacher performance over job security is pending in Louisiana and Minnesota, and bills overhauling tenure protections and / or evaluation systems have already passed in Maryland, Connecticut, Washington, Tennessee and Michigan.

It was timely, then, when in 2014 Campbell Brown and the Partnership for Educational Justice brought a suit called Wright v. New York that «was inspired by a California court decision a few months earlier, when a judge ruled the state's tenure protections denied California's students their constitutional right to a sound and basic education.»

that «was inspired by a California court decision a few months earlier, when a judge ruled the state's tenure protections denied California's students their constitutional right to a sound and basic education.»

In too many schools, teachers receive their third or fourth contract without serious evaluation, meaning that they drift into tenure protections.

If it is successful, the Vergara case will eliminate some teacher tenure protections, limit seniority, and diminish collective bargaining rights.

Colorado teachers who receive a bad evaluation two years in a row will now lose their tenure protections.

State lawmakers in the Senate have released their budget plan, which includes the finer details of how they would pay for an 11 percent salary increase for teachers who agree to forego tenure protections.

A bill before the Legislature would use the ratings as a major factor in determining which teachers receive or lose lifetime tenure protections and who would be the first to go in the case of layoffs.

Among other things, the package would dramatically curtail tenure protections for new teachers and make it easier to fire existing ones; shift hiring and firing power from school boards to superintendents; pave the way for a significant increase in public charter schools; and create a program that uses the public school financing formula to pay private school tuition for certain low - income students.

California's tenure protections make it difficult and costly to fire a teacher.

The New Jersey Education Association, the state's largest teachers union, says that about 40 percent of starting teachers don't begin their fourth year in the same district — and do not receive tenure protections.

ARS 15 - 503 removed tenure protections and prohibits LEAs from providing retention priority based on seniority.

As per a recent article by Chalkbeat Colorado, «Denver Public Schools [is] Set to Strip Nearly 50 Teachers of Tenure Protections after [two - years of consecutive] Poor Evaluations.»

That the bill would create a mechanism for teachers to lose tenure protections if they are found to be ineffective is «a big deal,» Cerf said.

Christie has touted the bill's potential to directly tie tenure protections to whether teachers consistently draw positive evaluations.

Warhaftig, who spoke with NPR member station KPCC, is very clear: He wants tenure protections for teachers — especially against dismissals that could be political or capricious.

Indeed, Pam Benigno, director of the Education Policy Center at the Independence Institute, called it a «landmark day in Colorado,» saying the bill «will align evaluated teacher and principal effectiveness more closely with student academic growth and weaken tenure protections for consistently ineffective teachers.»

Nevertheless, three - quarters of teachers surveyed by the Rutgers team said they were not worried that the new evaluations — including those newly tied to student performance would have a negative impact on their tenure protections.

At the same time, Florida legislators have focused on giving the governor greater discretion in selecting members of the state's nominating commissions by eliminating tenure protections.

Not exact matches

Indeed, the liberating fantasies of transgression now have the protections of tenure and the emoluments of endowed chairs.

Surveying a legislator's scores over the course of his / her tenure in office may produce a more comprehensive view of his / her commitment to environmental protection.

Major accomplishments during his tenure (1959 - 1980) were passage of Massachusetts wetlands protection legislation in the 1960s and 1970s (first state wetlands laws in the nation) and the milestone in 1976 of 10,000 acres of open space acquired.

Backers of teacher tenure lost another battle to defend the job - protection practice when a Brooklyn court refused to toss a lawsuit challenging it.