Sentences with phrase «tenure rules»

They include stricter teacher evaluations, tougher tenure rules and expansion of charter schools.

The impact on students of grossly ineffective teachers and current tenure rules «shocks the conscience,» the judge concluded.

In the Vergara case, bankrolled by Silicon Valley elites, a state judge effectively invalidated California's teacher tenure rule as violating the civil rights of poor students, who can not have bad teachers jettisoned from their classrooms.

The criticisms of tenure rules in both the Vergara case and today's New York lawsuit come in roughly three buckets.

Cuomo wants to restructure the state's teacher evaluation system and weaken tenure rules in order for districts to receive extra money.

When Obama took office, unhelpful evaluation systems were just one of several barriers preventing districts from effectively managing their teaching staffs, such as tenure rules and lockstep compensation systems based solely on seniority and graduate degrees.

Now a lawsuit seeks to take away New York teachers» due process rights under tenure rules.

Governors as diverse as George Pataki of New York, Roy Barnes of Georgia, and Gray Davis of California have led the push to strengthen certification requirements, to design innovative recruitment incentives, and even, at least in Barnes» case, to loosen tenure rules.

As a number of commentators have noted, the economic downturn offered school systems the opportunity to alter expensive, outdated practices such as strict salary schedules, protective tenure rules, and bloated pension programs.

The argument that won out was that tenure rules often force school districts to retain their worst teachers.

Teachers are placed in the ATR for disciplinary reasons or lay - offs but still get full pay with benefits because NY's tenure rules bar outright dismissal.

In the San Jose case, the local's parent union, the NEA's California Teachers Association, pushed the state board of education to stall the affiliate's request to modify local tenure rules.

There, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge found similar state laws unconstitutional, ruling that tenure rules disproportionately saddle poor and minority students with «grossly ineffective» teachers, a violation of the right to equality of education spelled out in California's constitution.

... on behalf of eight students from around the state, claims provisions of California's education code — rigid tenure rules, a seniority - based firing system that ignores teacher quality, and a «due - process» system that makes it all but impossible to remove incompetent or criminal teachers — violate student rights.

The standards were supposed to be in effect this school year under a 2011 Republican - backed law that revised teacher tenure rules.

Cuomo has suggested $ 1.1 billion in additional education spending — but only if lawmakers agree to implement tougher tenure rules, teacher evaluations more reliant on student test performance and the authorization of more charter schools.

Others in the party want market - based policies, including teacher evaluations based partly on student test scores, the expansion of charter schools, merit pay, and weakening of tenure rules and seniority protections.

A Staten Island judge is set to hear arguments on two lawsuits today challenging New York's teacher tenure rules.

Teachers unions outworked Cuomo, running vicious ads against him and lobbying legislators to reject more charter schools and tougher teacher evaluations and tenure rules.

New York and California's teacher tenure rules are broadly similar, with some important differences.

A brief stint teaching troubled students at schools in Brooklyn and on Rikers Island convinced Mitchell of the need for strong schools — he advocates longer school days and tougher tenure rules — as well as more jobs and after - school options for youth.

This is why, when plaintiffs sue over school funding or tenure rules, state governments — not districts — are the defendants.

His agenda also includes a bill to reform teacher - tenure rules.

In addition, John E. Deasy, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District and «a staunch opponent of tenure rules and «last in, first out» seniority for teachers,» testified on the side of the plaintiffs, while also noting, however, that «good administrators don't grant due process rights to ineffective teachers.»

After all, the concerns that handed former governor Arnold Schwarzeneggar's first major defeat — the slew of propositions that would have addressed pension reform, budget reform, teacher tenure rules and other issues that would have kept our state on an even economic keel — were thrown asunder by the public sector unions who now OWN this state.

There will probably be some good effects and some bad effects of tenure reform, and much depends exactly on how the tenure rules are changed and how the state, districts, and schools respond.

He went on to say that he believes the tenure rules allow for «grossly ineffective teachers» to remain in the classroom.

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.

Times - Picayune Teachers in Louisiana have all but lost the tenure rules that once protected their jobs.

Teachers in Louisiana have all but lost the tenure rules that once protected their jobs.

As states change their teacher tenure rules, they must take care not to revoke rights they have previously granted.

Changes to tenure rules are legally acceptable, as long as the state honors the rights granted to tenured teachers before the legislation changed.

Before the Vergara ruling, some districts — teachers and management — were talking about extending the time - to - tenure rules and about how to further streamline due process for dismissing bad teachers.

In particular, it changes the tenure rule so that a home seller must have lived in the home for five of the last eight years to claim the exclusion from capital gains.