Sentences with phrase «tenure reform policies»

While this can make it appear that secure tenure and tenure reform policies are the same thing, or have the same aims, this is often not the case.

Yet, this approach is not reflected in tenure reform policies.

The development of tenure reform policies has been accompanied by a new policy of identifying priority communities.

The Australian Government first implemented its tenure reform policies in the Northern Territory, initially through township leases and then as part of the Northern Territory Emergency Response.

TEACHNJ, with its new evaluation system and tenure reform policies, passed the state legisature unanimously.

Despite its central role, the Australian Government is yet to provide a clear statement that sets out the aims and parameters of its tenure reform policy and provides Indigenous people with a clearer sense of where they stand.

The Australian Government is yet to publish a comprehensive statement of its tenure reform policy.

Township leasing, which was introduced in 2006, remains important as the first changes made by the Australian Government as part of its Indigenous land tenure reform policy.

In this section, I piece together extracts of statements to provide a picture of what the Australian Government's tenure reform policy entails.

While the Australian Government appears to have both a tenure reform policy and a secure tenure policy, it is clear that its main focus has been obtaining secure tenure.

Not exact matches

«While there's still more to do this session on charters and the education investment tax credit, and more to ensure every child has access to great schools, Governor Cuomo fought hard to make meaningful reforms to tenure, arbitration policies and teacher evaluation criteria and his vision and hard work paid off.»

«Every year of Senator Dilan's tenure in the Senate he has stood with our members and been a dedicated advocate for everything from the $ 15 minimum wage, paid family leave and healthcare, to greater environmental protections and election reforms,» said Helen Schaub, 1199SEIU vice president for policy and legislation.

Among them, he added, were key reforms that defined Mr. Thompson's tenure: a warrant amnesty program, a policy not to prosecute some low - level marijuana offenses and a special unit devoted to wrongful convictions.

A high - school English teacher in her ninth year, Keigan and other fellows have been involved in shaping the details of SB 191, the Colorado reform bill that made major changes to teacher - related policies, including evaluations and tenure.

This insight has put human resource and compensation policies, including performance pay, tenure, alternative route recruitment, and mentoring, at center stage in school reform debates.

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.

Also in this issue: six recommendations to fix Detroit's broken school system, three expert opinions on whether high schools should offer two - tiered diplomas, and a piece on the Vergara v. California case that considers whether litigation is the best approach to reforming teacher tenure policies.

Whether this is because of a lack of will or a lack of better candidates, this chronic mismanagement isn't something that policy change — even tenure reform — alone can fix.

Backers outnumber opponents of Common Core State Standards (CCSS), school choice, merit pay and teacher tenure reform, but support for these policies declined modestly from 2014.

George W. Bush Institute.This report analyzes findings from the Alliance to Reform Education Leadership's Principal Policy State Survey on policies that affect principal preparation, licensure, tenure and data collection.

The paper makes a number of recommendations for federal and state policy that would reform state tenure laws and district tenure processes:

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.

The reform changed two key components of the tenure policy.

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.»

The reality is that for all the talk from the NEA and AFT about how they represent teachers, the reality is that their defense of seniority - and degree - based pay scales, reverse - seniority layoff policies, and near - lifetime employment privileges through tenure do little for the younger, more reform - minded teachers who realize the damage these policies do to their profession and, ultimately, to the children in their care.

Education policy would let him play up his focus on bipartisan cooperation, at least on issues like tenure reform, while maintaining his image of being tough on the teacher unions and low performing school districts.

Bush is a major figure in the conservative education reform movement, and now heads the Foundation for Excellence in Education, a think - tank seeking to overhaul the country's educational systems through policies like ending teacher tenure, expanding the use of charter schools and school vouchers, and the increased use of virtual education.

California Schools Flunk Education Group's Ratings California is sorely lacking when it comes to school reform, failing to adopt policies to limit teacher tenure and use student test scores in teacher evaluations, according to a rating of states issued Monday by a high - profile education advocacy group.

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.

Although Malloy is the only Democratic Governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers in «turnaround» schools, the announcement that Stefan Pryor will be leaving his position at the end of this year was seen by some as a signal that Malloy was going to shift away from his corporate education reform industry and privatization policies and would use a second term to provide more support for Connecticut's real public education system.

According to the National Council on Teacher Quality, which advocates on teacher policy reforms, 20 states now require school districts to consider student performance when deciding whether to grant teachers tenure.

In Wisconsin and nationally, we've seen policy discussions related to tenure reform and teacher accountability reforms.

Little empirical research to date has directly informed whether, in the wake of reform, tenure policies make a difference within the K - 12 teaching profession.

For the second year in a row, Republican lawmakers are seeking major reforms to state education policies, including tenure reform, teacher evaluation and alternative licensure.

By exploiting the sharp performance cutoffs that determine tenure status as well as the longitudinal nature of available data before and after the legislated changes in tenure policy, this dissertation seeks to quantify the effects of tenure reforms on performance and retention outcomes for teachers in Tennessee.

After reviewing shows on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox, Media Matter found that segments covered substantial education policy issues — school reform, teacher tenure, the Common Core State Standards, school choice, early childhood education and guns in schools — but typically failed to include educator input.

Duncan, who stands at a lean 6» 5», defined himself early in his tenure as a persistent yet compromising free - marketer, part of an education reform movement that stresses the use of data and competition to improve schools — a departure from traditional Democratic education policy, which unquestionably supported teachers unions.

The District, which initiated major school reforms in 2007, has served as a test case for often controversial policies — such as expanding school choice, eliminating teacher tenure and tying evaluations to test scores — which have since been adopted by a growing number of states.

A topic of major contention between liberals and conservatives education policy debates today revolves around the idea of teacher tenure and whether it is helping or hindering education reform.

We examine the effect of Michigan's 2011 reforms to teacher evaluation and tenure policies on teacher retention.

The Rights and Resources Initiative is a global coalition to advance forest tenure, policy and market reforms.

To a significant extent, reforms to state law are being driven by policies of the Australian Government, particularly its secure tenure requirements under the Remote Indigenous Housing Agreement.

This housing management reform is being implemented through its secure tenure policy.

It is important to make clear the distinction between tenure reform and secure tenure policies.

Although there is no comprehensive federal policy document on tenure reform, several themes have emerged from government statements, including:

First, we are working to establish the policy foundations required in relation to land tenure and housing reform; and second, we have made unprecedented financial commitments directed to changing the face of Indigenous housing across the nation within a decade.

In these states, there has been a combination of tenure reform and the introduction of secure tenure policies.

The Northern Territory Government has also connected the growth town policy to tenure reform, stating: