Sentences with phrase «tenure reform as»

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These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to vote freely (as opposed to voting according to the Party's preferences); restricting the tenure of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.

However, as the President's tenure commenced, hopes for a quick reform began to fade and the price differential collapsed.

Following a tenure as the founding CEO ofAbu Dhabi's agribusiness reform, David led the scale - up and roll - out of thelargest and most advanced fresh food market in the Middle East.

* He grades his tenure as county executive with a B - minus, citing mistakes that plunged the county into financial crisis while planting the seeds of reform.

From January 1996 to May 2007, he served as the Chief Administrative Judge of all New York State Courts — the longest tenured person ever to serve in that position — and played a central role in many far - reaching reforms of the Judiciary and legal profession.

«During my tenure as Governor, I have held the line on the rate of cost escalation for health care providers and managed care plans; implemented reimbursement reforms to right - size hospital inpatient reimbursement; made investments in critically needed, less costly outpatient and primary care services; and implemented measures to make New York Medicaid a smarter purchaser of prescription drugs and transportation services for patients.

«I was privileged to work with Ken, first in his capacity as a gifted courtroom advocate, and subsequently during his too - brief tenure as a public servant committed to advancing public safety and justice reform for the People of Kings County,» said Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance.

Those groups would like to scrap the Common Core as part of a reform agenda that would also target teacher tenure and boost charter schools and voucher systems.

JCOPE, which was formed last year as a result of the reform deal reached early in Cuomo's tenure, has been under fire almost since its inception.

Although, the governor was represented by the Chairman, Ekiti State House of Assembly Committee on Information, Dr Samuel Omotoso pointed out that «The only time this country made an attempt at a reliable electoral reform was during the tenure of President Umaru Yar» Adua who appointed retired Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mohammed Uwais as the chairman.

Mark - Viverito said she sought to make the Council more equitable and function as more of a collective body during her tenure, with a commitment to immigration and criminal justice reform.

«New York City is now known as the safest city in America, in no small part due to the reforms that he instituted during his initial tenure and the more recent moves he has spearheaded toward creating an NYPD that is focused on community policing and neighborhood engagement,» Adams said.

Education reform groups like StudentsFirstNY and the New Teacher Project say a lawsuit against New York State inspired by the Vergara case could change local tenure laws and present a long - awaited opportunity to legally assess long - term sticking points with the unions, such as merit pay and seniority rules.

«In the course of the late Malu's eventful tenure as the country's Chief of Army Staff from 1999 to 2001, he doggedly canvassed and undertook reforms aimed at establishing a truly national army with a deep sense of purpose.

Reforms being sought by Cuomo include changes to teacher evaluation, tenure certification and preparation processes, and giving the state more authority to rescue schools evaluated by the state as «failing.»

Regarding Duncan's legacy: First, his tenure will be known for a law that, as one analyst noted, coincided with «perhaps the sharpest reversal of federal ambitions since the welfare - reform act of 1996.»

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 pay.

Public support remains as high as ever for federally mandated testing, charter schools, tax credits to support private school choice, merit pay for teachers, and teacher tenure reform.

A better means of driving reform would be to reward states and districts based not on unenforceable promises but on specific, concrete steps to overhaul anachronistic policies like teacher tenure, now granted in most states as a matter of course after just a couple of years in the classroom.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

I would go into a state, talk up reform, and as soon as I left, the union attorney would come in and say, - We've got a great tenure law, let's keep it.»»

Her tenure as superintendent was marked not only by reforms but also by battles with school board members.

The original plan combined tax changes aimed at generating almost $ 500 million in new state revenue with school reforms in such areas as teacher tenure.

As our country embraces long overdue reforms in teacher hiring, evaluation, tenure, compensation, and school choice, we must not neglect teacher development.

Uh, maybe because the only possible way to create sufficient pressure for something as «radioactive» (Mike's word) as tenure reform is the «competitive effects» created by choice?

Meanwhile, teacher unions were allowed to scuttle meaningful reforms such as merit pay, tenure reform and the curtailing of seniority rights, which leave inner city schools bereft of experienced teachers.

This report provides an overview of state teacher tenure reform in the United States as well as case studies of reform efforts in a sample of six states — Georgia, California, Florida, Wisconsin, New York, and Ohio — and the District of Columbia.

During his tenure in the district, the high school was described by the United States Department of Education as «the most recognized and celebrated school in America,» won four Blue Ribbon awards from the United States Department of Education, and was one of the first comprehensive schools designated by the DOE as a New America High School for being a model of successful school reform.

The Republican governor supports the teacher - tenure initiative as part of a broader «reform agenda» that calls for revamping...

Teacher tenure and the mediocrity the tenure system Merrow rightly identifies as a significant hindrance to genuine reform.

This 2008 report by Ann Duffett, Steve Farkas, Andrew J. Rotherham, and Elena Silva and sponsored by Education Sector and the Joyce Foundation analyzes a survey completed by 1,010 teachers about their feelings in regard to various educational reforms such as accountability measures, tenure, differential pay, and workplace environment.

MCEE was created in June 2011 as part of Michigan's bipartisan teacher tenure reform efforts (PA 102 of 2011).

Pavlov said he fears what the MCEE is pitching is a «direct attack on tenure reform,» which he sees as a «transformational reform that is working across the state.»

One of the hottest tickets was a session led by Charlotte Danielson, the architect of a teacher - evaluation model being used in a majority of New Jersey school districts as part of the state's new tenure - reform law, which aims to hold teachers more accountable for student performance.

As teachers, parents and public school advocates know, the corporate education reform industry has been putting out inaccurate and misleading statements, along with outright lies, to persuade the public that teacher tenure is bad.

Loeb, Miller, and Wyckoff are continuing their study of the NYC tenure reform to better understand principals» and teachers» reactions to the reform as well as the reform's implications for teacher performance and student achievement.

As part of Michigan's teacher tenure reform law, the Michigan Council of Educator Effectiveness was established by the Legislature in June 2011 with the charge of creating a «fair, transparent and feasible evaluation system for teachers and administrators.»

In the study, published as a working paper on the Teacher Policy Research website, researchers from the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia and the Stanford University Graduate School of Education used data for New York City public schools to examine a reform initiated in 2009 that altered the process by which teachers are granted tenure following their third year of teaching.

If you think about it, we made significant changes to public policy in education in 2010 as a part of our First to the Top agenda proposed by Gov Bredesen — a Democrat, followed by nightmarish changes to the teachers» environment in 2011 by eliminating collective bargaining, tenure, and removing TEA from their seat at the table, all in the name of «reform.»

SGOs are one of three measures used to judge teacher effectiveness as part of the teacher tenure reform law that went into effect last year.

The state Department of Education last week released a mostly positive report on the initial year of the system as dictated under the TEACHNJ tenure reform law, citing some challenges but praising the progress in meeting requirements for additional observations and goal setting for teachers.

Save for a few instances, such as the initial efforts of Southern governors (including Alexander during his tenure as Tennessee's governor) and chambers of commerce during the 1970s that spurred what became the modern school reform movement, it has been the federal government that has been the driving force in coaxing states to take full responsibility for the districts they control as part of their constitutional provisions requiring them to provide education.

The tests would still be rolled out as planned if the legislation passed but the results would not count toward teacher evaluations, the centerpiece of the teacher tenure reform law signed by Christie in 2012.

This was one of the key lessons learned early on by EPAC and led to the recommendation to delay full implementation of the evaluation system by a year: 2012 - 2013 was scheduled in the tenure reform law as a capacity - building year for districts to choose, train in, and practice using a teacher practice instrument.

The effort, in turn, builds upon the decades - long efforts of standards and accountability activists within the school reform movement — including conservative outfits such as the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and its president, Checker Finn — to improve the quality of curricula in schools; this began in the 1970s with the work of southern governors and chambers of commerce, accelerated during the Eighties with the Reagan administration's release of A Nation at Risk, and supported by Ronald Reagan's successor, George Bush, during his tenure as president.

During Henderson's five - year tenure, test scores have improved, schools have beefed up academic and extracurricular offerings and the system — once considered among the most dysfunctional in the nation — has been hailed by President Obama as an example of promising reform.

This alignment of goals contributed to the rash of statehouses that reformed teacher tenure and evaluation laws from 2010 to 2014, with prominent Democrats such as New Jersey Sen. Corey Booker, Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo championing the cause.

As the education world continues to reverberate from the Vegera vs. California teacher tenure ruling, Eric Westervelt at NPR reports that some teachers in California are recognizing that tenure needs to be reformed, but they want to fix it, not nix it.

The group advocates for the elimination of teacher tenure; teacher evaluations that include test results as a factor; results - based teacher pay; parental choice that includes charters and vouchers; and pension reform.

The recriminations over the excesses, perceived and otherwise, of George W. Bush's tenure as president (as well as the defeat of Republican nominee John McCain by Obama seven years ago) even extend to education policy as movement conservatives otherwise unconcerned with education policy are accusing conservative reform outfits such as the Thomas B. Fordham Institute of being apostates.