Sentences with phrase «tenure system as»

But instead of discussing those, we're witnessing a coordinated effort to mislead Connecticut's citizens about what tenure is and a rush to throw out the valid, important and historic tenure system as way to pander to those who blame teachers for the incredibly difficult challenges that face our society, especially those in our inner cities.

I can not in good conscience support Minnesota's teacher tenure system as it's currently constituted, but that doesn't make the * idea * of tenure unworkable or somehow a bad thing.

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During his tenure as leader of the chain's retail pharmacy business, he directly managed all aspects of our retail pharmacy business and partnered on key innovations including the ScriptPath prescription management system, the Rx Savings Finder, medication adherence programs and home delivery.

During his tenure, Ballmer held positions as vice president of marketing, vice president of systems software, and executive vice president of sales and support, and was often referred to as «the numbers guy.»

Over her ten - year tenure, she was responsible for all management & accounting functions, as well as design and implementation of operational systems and control procedures.

So, as we've said in the past, we've got a long - tenured franchise system, many of those folks have the succession plans in place and are looking to monetize and exit the system; that gives us an opportunity to drive that stream.

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.

Cain's tenure as warden came on the heels of The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act passed in 1994, which made prisoners ineligible for Pell Grants and devastated education within the penal system.

In addition to his roles as Executive Vice President at Ali Group North America and his Presidency at Scotsman Ice Systems, where he achieved exceptional results, his experience includes an 11 - year tenure at ITW Corporation, where he most recently served as President of ITW Food Equipment Group as well as Hobart North America.

A croft is often referred to jovially as a piece of land surrounded by red tape, but it is a system of subsistence land - holding created by the 1886 Crofting Act to give security of tenure to those in the areas where the Highland Clearances had been savage.

Cuomo pushed successfully this year for a new teacher evaluation system more closely linking state testing to performance as well as teacher tenure.

Nevertheless, Cuomo was successful this year in forming a new teacher evaluation system as well as making it harder for teachers to obtain tenure — a move that state lawmakers felt they had no choice but to accept given the policy's linkage to an increase in school aid.

«During Diana Jones Ritter's tenure, she moved the agency and its system forward as a national benchmark of excellence in service to people with developmental disabilities,» the governor said.

But in recent weeks, Cuomo has indicated he will begin to emphasize a new direction in education after a legislative session that saw yet more changes to the state's teacher evaluation system that linked performance reviews to tenure as well as student test scores and in - classroom observation.

Former President John Mahama has been lauded by the Director General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova for his contibution to the introduction of the Progressive free Educational System during his tenure as President.

Changes to the immigration system during Theresa May's tenure as home secretary clamped down on people living in the UK illegally.

Cameron is seen as ready to trade the security of his Downing Street tenure for changes to the electoral system that will make it harder for the Conservative Party to ever govern alone again.

But many of his proposals — such as toughening up evaluation systems teachers barely agreed to in the first place, firing teachers with bad ratings, tying tenure to evaluations, and increasing the cap on charter schools — are sure to be met with ire from politically powerful state and city teachers union.

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.

It was a depressing spectacle in inaction as the effects of his tenure as secretary of state tear apart the British prison system.

She spoke with host Gary Axelbank about her abstention in the vote on mayoral control, the concept of mayoral control, charter schools, how the system mgiht be run to maximum effiency, lessons learned from her tenure as president at Hostos CC, and numerous other topics.

The troubles and scrutiny only accelerated in the final months of Shola Olatoye's tenure as chairwoman of the nation's largest public housing system.

Lippman described his own tenure as the «proactive pursuit of justice» and cited his top accomplishment as the creation of a statewide system of legal services for civil defendants, who are not afforded the same constitutional right to counsel as criminal defendants.

«During her seven - year tenure with the State University of New York, Nancy Zimpher has transformed SUNY and lifted our system up as the national model of higher education for the 21st century,» said H. Carl McCall, chairman of the SUNY board.

Kaloyeros is trying to take advantage of a bumping - rights system that would allow him to retreat to an earlier tenured position as a member of faculty.

The support of the CEA board is considered key for Malloy, who alienated some teachers with his proposal to overhaul the tenure system, his support of charter schools and his selection of Stefan Pryor as state education commissioner.

When we started our polluter phase system, we gave out some sub metro to the Zoomlion company, such as the Ayawaso West Wuogon and some other areas which we are working at, however the president's call that Accra should be the cleanest city by the end of his tenure, is an enormous task given to us.

The major change under the new system is that many more teachers are having their tenure decision delayed, or, as the UFT puts it, their probation period extended.

David Albert, director communications at the New York State School Boards Association, says the board is encouraged by the academic gains Elia sparked in Florida's Hillsborough County school system during her tenure as a teacher and administrator.

«During her seven - year tenure with the State University of New York, Nancy Zimpher has transformed SUNY and lifted our system up as the national model of higher education for the 21st century,» said McCall.

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly have a long standing relationship with the Zoomlion company When we started our polluter phase system, we gave out some sub metro to the Zoomlion company, such as the Ayawaso West Wuogon and some other areas which we are working at, however the president's call that Accra should be the cleanest city by the end of his tenure, is an enormous task given to us.

University tenure systems grew up that provided strong disincentives to public outreach, and scientists came to view civics and political involvement as a professional liability.

«What strikes me is that the outcomes of those without tenure are more focused on individual achievements and the kinds of outcomes that are recognised and rewarded by the system in the form of employment security,» such as presenting at conferences and publishing papers.

The tenure evaluation system in Canada, as in the United States, is based on the supposition that individuals» performance in the pretenure years provides a reasonable predictor of their subsequent productivity.

For example, grant and tenure success depends on researchers» ability to publish in top journals, but as Wu observes, «translational research deals with patients, and patients aren't a model system.

She holds a joint appointment as a tenure - track assistant professor in the Department of Systems Biology at Columbia University.

During Waldorf's five - year tenure as CEO, the company expanded substantially with new investments in its proprietary matching systems as well as its global growth initiatives.

Ravitch found that during Klein's five - year tenure academic gains have been smaller than during the previous five years and that the reading scores of cohorts of students are actually declining as they progress through the system.

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 there, we actually had major national newspapers trying to convince our printer to read them our front pages, as we had broken a major story regarding the Honor system and a big - dollar - donor parent trying to keep his son from being expelled.

The lawsuit is the first of what many analysts expect will be numerous legal challenges around the country following a landmark decision in June by a California Superior Court judge who struck down the tenure system there as unconstitutional under state law, saying it unfairly saddled students in high - needs schools with low - performing teachers.

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

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 instructorAs 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 instructoras 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.

As a reminder, plaintiffs included nine public school students (backed by some serious corporate reformer funds as per Students Matter) who challenged five California state statutes that supported the state's «ironclad [teacher] tenure system.&raquAs a reminder, plaintiffs included nine public school students (backed by some serious corporate reformer funds as per Students Matter) who challenged five California state statutes that supported the state's «ironclad [teacher] tenure system.&raquas per Students Matter) who challenged five California state statutes that supported the state's «ironclad [teacher] tenure system.»

Even in cases where a principal «s tenure extends over a period of several years, teachers may remain alienated when principal turnover is the result of a district leadership rotation policy.208 Teachers may become cynical and resistant to change because of the «revolving door syndrome» — the uncertainty and instability turnover causes, and the perception of the new leader as a «servant to the system.

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.»

Teacher tenure, formally known as «career status,» was enacted in North Carolina in 1971, under «An Act to Establish an Orderly System of Employment and Dismissal of Public School Personnel.»

Teachers would tie tenure decisions to evaluation and support systems, as a natural outcome earned through exceptional performance and growth in the first three to five years.

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.

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.