Sentences with phrase «tenure reform efforts»

The independent commission of education experts was created by Governor Rick Snyder and the legislature in 2011 as part of the state's teacher tenure reform efforts.

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

The tenure reform effort was not nearly as sweeping as measures passed in some GOP - dominated states, where, for example, principals and superintendents have been given direct control over personnel decisions.

Not exact matches

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.

«During my tenure in the House, I can't remember a more sweeping reform effort undertaken by this or any other committee,» said Rep. Bill Goodling, R - Pa., the panel's chairman.

The past few years have seen a raft of efforts to reform teacher evaluation, pay, and tenure.

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.

The political opposition and technical challenges around tenure reform have historically prevented these efforts from advancing very far in state legislatures, but both have decreased in recent years.

Duncan drew praise from Republicans like Newt Gingrich and Jeb Bush early in his tenure for his aggressive efforts to promote school reform.

Does this mean that efforts to reform tenure laws are a waste of time?

Few analyses have been conducted on past state efforts to overhaul teacher - tenure policies, concludes a report that recommends ways states, districts, and unions might approach the issue of tenure reform in the future.

In the bubble of optimism that came with the dawn of former schools chief Al Davis» tenure, all seven of the city's universities and colleges joined with the Orleans Parish School Board to work with some of the district's most academically troubled public schools by training teachers and nurturing reform efforts.

According to the last set of federal and state campaign finance reports, Governor Malloy, the champion of the corporate education reform industry and the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers working in the poorest schools has received well over a quarter of a million dollars from leaders and political action committees associated with the national education reform and privatization effort.

Requiring that college students have higher grade point averages in order to become teachers, eliminating teacher tenure and linking a teacher's evaluation and their job status to statistical changes in Connecticut's standardized tests is not Education Reform — nor are the expanding efforts to «privatize» our Constitutionally mandated public education system.

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.

When it came to California's absurd system of granting teachers tenure after, effectively, just 18 months on the job, Thurmond sided with the unions and undermined meaningful legislative reform efforts.

With a new twist coming out of the state Assembly, Democratic legislators continued this week to fine tune language and negotiate compromises in an effort to come up with a teacher tenure reform bill by the end of June.

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.

Union acquiescence may have taken the wind out of the sails of the reform effort, but it is now rejuvenated by the targeting of tenure itself through the courts in California.

Only one candidate, City Controller Wendy Greuel, fully embraces a Parent Power agenda and would likely attempt the same kind of reform efforts Villaraigosa pushed during his tenure.

In addition to making huge amount of money, TFA is about advocating and lobbying for «education reforms» that include a variety of anti-teacher positions including the excessive use of standardized testing, the expansion of charter schools and efforts to end tenure and seniority.

The champions of corporate education reform insist that efforts to strip teachers of the procedural guarantees of due process embedded in tenure are somehow an extension of the Civil Rights Movement.

A 2010 analysis of Chicago schools by the University of Chicago concluded that after 20 years of reform efforts, which included Mr. Duncan's tenure, the gap between poor and rich areas had widened.

Efforts by reformers along with reform - minded (and, in many cases, budget - conscious) governors to make it harder to attain tenure or abolish near - lifetime employment altogether, along with moves to subject teachers to performance - based evaluations, means that they would lose the benefits for which they have long worked.