Sentences with phrase «tenure protections make»

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

Not exact matches

The governor has proposed making it harder for teachers to get the job protection of tenure and easier to remove educators who are incompetent or engaged in misconduct.

Such a lawsuit could pressure districts to make efforts to attract and retain talented pedagogues as well as to dismantle excessive protections that can make it prohibitively expensive to fire tenured, yet ineffective teachers.

Teachers» unions ought to be supporting efforts to raise the standards for tenure because it makes the job protections following tenure more legitimate.

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

Legislated and bargained contractual protections make the process of dismissing an ineffective teacher with tenure prohibitively lengthy and expensive in most states, and teacher tenure evaluation processes remain largely disconnected from teachers» performance in the classroom or student achievement.

Tenure reform should balance the benefits of using this protection to attract and retain good teachers with the costs it imposes by making it more difficult to eliminate bad teachers.

As per a recent article in the New York Times, «nine public school students [emphasis added as I use students loosely] are challenging California's ironclad tenure system, arguing that their right to a good education is violated by job protections that make it too difficult to fire bad instructors.

February 16, 2015 (New York)-- As school districts, education leaders and New York's courts debate the future of teacher tenure, Educators 4 Excellence — New York (E4E) members today issued a series of recommendations to preserve job protections but make tenure designations more meaningful.

The article summarizes, or I should say celebrates, the Vergara v. California trial, the case in which nine public school students (emphasis added as these were not necessarily these students» ideas) challenged California's «ironclad tenure system,» arguing that their rights to a good education had been violated by state - level job protections making it «too difficult» to fire bad teachers.

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.

I agree that some of the tenure language should be changed to make it easier to dismiss teachers who are not doing their jobs, yet this lawsuit was an attempt to gut teacher union protections without really solving the problems of educational inequities.

Since 1971, North Carolina teachers who made it beyond the first four years of a probationary period were granted tenure, which gave them certain protections, including the right to a hearing in the event of dismissal.

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.

Tenure and other protections may make the overall compensation package teachers get more valuable at no obvious added financial cost to taxpayers.

Those observations make me feel grateful for having the job protection of tenure.

Think about what Campos is doing: if you were able to make a very nice salary in 40 hours a week while enjoying the protections of tenure, would you bite the hand that feeds you?

ULIP policy holders can make use of features such as top - up facilities, switching between various funds during the tenure of the policy, reduce or increase the level of protection, options to surrender, additional riders to enhance coverage and returns as well as tax benefits.