Sentences with phrase «tenure protections»

Two - thirds of voters reported that «removing teacher tenure protections» was important in casting a ballot.

Last year, 3 % of teachers did not receive tenure protection based, in part, on that data.

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

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

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

The details worked out by the governor's council will have to come back to the legislature for approval and teachers with poor evaluations wouldn't be at risk of losing tenure protections until 2015.

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

Brown's lawsuit, Wright v. New York, 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The CTA bargains for stronger tenure protection, a position which many teachers, especially younger teachers, disagree.

The bill would have extended tenure protection to teachers who work in small school districts and certificated employees that work in non-teaching positions.

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.»

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

A Cuomo administration official briefed reporters late Monday on the detailed plan, not only for overhauling teacher evaluations but also for rolling back tenure protections, making it easier to fire educators through a disciplinary process prescribed in state law and implementing a state takeover plan to improve performance in struggling schools.

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 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.

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.

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

In recent years, states across the country have attempted to increase the accountability of public school teachers by implementing rigorous, high - stakes evaluation systems and in some cases repealing teacher tenure protections.

That's because he said an increase in education funding is contingent on lawmakers» approval of an aggressive reform agenda he presented last week, including changes to teacher evaluations and tenure protections.

One by one, Democrats rose to describe their grave concerns about the bill — which creates a new educator evaluation system, rolls back tenure protections and makes it easier to fire teachers.

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.

[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.

Charter schools, which are rarely unionized, have grown in popularity; several states, including Alabama, North Carolina, Michigan, and Kansas, have passed laws forbidding school districts from collecting union dues through payroll deductions; other states, such as Wisconsin, have limited the unions» bargaining rights to wages only; and tenure protections have been attacked through pathbreaking litigation in California (see «Script Doctors,» legal beat, Fall 2014).

Washington's teacher - tenure protections will remain in place, as will collective bargaining agreements, both of which guarantee extensive «due process» rights.