Sentences with phrase «tenure system for»

The court noted that the state could make changes to the tenure system for new teachers as they came into the workforce, but it could not unilaterally revoke teachers» contract rights retroactively.

SB310 — Sen. Trip Pittman's Teacher Tenure Law and Fair Dismissal Act: Reforms the state's tenure system for teachers in order to improve the quality of education in Alabama.

The plaintiffs in the case, Vergara v. California, argued that the tenure system for public school teachers in California verges on the absurd, and that those laws disproportionately harm poor and minority students.

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«Andrea's tenure has been underscored by a deep commitment to our representatives,» a company spokeswoman wrote in an email, noting that Jung pushed a new incentive system for reps and made it easier for them to do business online.

Yet after a fact - finding mission that launched his tenure, McDonald also believes wholesale privatization of the VA would spell disaster for veterans and the American medical system broadly.

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.

Eckroth has a reputation for introducing innovative solutions during his tenure at Hertz, where he spearheaded efforts to automate the car rental process, create efficiencies and introduce self - service systems and processes.

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.

During her tenure with Firebird, Anne has built a strong team that ensures operational clarity, financial transparency and a map for improved performance of the company's systems, financials and people.

But the wisdom of switching to a system that Brighton haven't used from the start this season, and possibly at all in Hughton's entire three - year tenure at the club, for the visit of the defending champions, was questionable at best.

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.

The biggest sticking points for the union: Changes to the teacher evaluation system, tenure and the 3020A proceedings which make it easier for districts to fire poorly performing teachers.

Conversely, PEF is heavily composed of state employees and UUP members in the SUNY system have educational demographics that are way above CSEA's and generally so above NYSUT's and even PEF's (PEF has a big range between bachelor's degree and below to doctoral level and NYSUT generally requires a master's degree for tenure while UUP is generally a doctorate, at least at the four year institutions and above).

The familiar criticisms of Whitehall are also aired — that ministerial reshuffles are too frequent and tenure too short, compared, for example, with Germany's political system.

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.

Cuomo has proposed an extra $ 1 billion in school aid, but only if lawmakers agree to revamp the state's new teacher evaluation system and require more experience for teachers to qualify for tenure.

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.

Many have criticized Cuomo for making teacher tenure more difficult and changing the teacher evaluation system.

The move comes after NYSUT pushed back this year against efforts by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to overhaul the state's teacher evaluation system, with the performance evaluations linked to both standardized test results and in - classroom observation, while also making it more difficult for teachers to obtain and keep tenure.

For young members resentful of the seniority system Mr. Silver cultivated — for those with 20 or 40 - year tenures, life was good, while the newly - elected had little clout — Mr. Lentol could represent more of the saFor young members resentful of the seniority system Mr. Silver cultivated — for those with 20 or 40 - year tenures, life was good, while the newly - elected had little clout — Mr. Lentol could represent more of the safor those with 20 or 40 - year tenures, life was good, while the newly - elected had little clout — Mr. Lentol could represent more of the same.

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.

Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor said that in examining options for Connecticut's tenure system, state officials looked at states where tenure had been abolished, at other states where old - fashioned versions of tenure remain and at the 31 states where tenure has been reformed since 2009.

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.

The leaders of the state's teachers unions aren't happy with how Gov.Dannel P. Malloydescribed the current tenure system in his State of the State address Wednesday — «the only thing you have to do is show up for four years» — but they say they are willing to work with him on his proposed reform.

Reforms being sought by Cuomo include changing the system for teacher evaluation, tenure certification and preparation, and giving the state more authority to save schools considered to be «failing» under state evaluations.

Fariña said the system promoted brief tenures for chancellors, meaning the school leaders could not do their work effectively.

«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.

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

Included among the proposed reforms is a teacher evaluation system based half on student test scores, an increase in the length of time before a teacher is eligible for tenure and allowing the state to take over failing schools and districts.

Whereas most conventional scientists focus on a single system or disease, Butte earned tenure recently with a dossier of advances in diabetes, obesity, and transplant rejection, and the discovery of new drugs for lung cancer and other diseases.

Some barriers still remain that will require political action — there is no equivalent to the American tenure system in Germany, which is a harsh limitation for the independence of young scientists, and the need for a further round of scientific qualification after the Ph.D., the so called habilitation, does not really stimulate didactic enthusiasm.

The funding is modest, but it should allow the universities to become more in sync with international norms by revamping tenure systems, for example, and overhauling curricula.

«The current system (with its big churn factor) creates its own demand for a constant supply of post doctorates into academia, and more tenure track positions will probably have the effect of reducing the number of [postdoctoral] positions available.»

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.

Especially in the typical absence of formal academic reward systems for online outreach (nobody is getting tenure yet for their science blogging or Instagramming), I think it's incredibly important to understand science bloggers» and Instagrammers» motivations.

If you want more information, you can read the official state memo covering everything from the exemption of SGP scores from the state's Open Public Records Act and the process for administrators to access data through a centralized information - management system, to corrective action plans for low - rated educators and legal requirements for tenure cases, to the score certification process and accessing official course roster data.

Only in this way can we hope to truly professionalize the teaching profession and pave the way for needed changes in tenure, performance - based pay, and other policies that contribute to the transparency in the system that Koret envisions.

For those who already had tenure, such protection would be eliminated in July 2018 and replaced with the same system of multi-year contracts.

Ending tenure without ending the current pension system would create some impossible pressures; teachers nearing certain vesting thresholds, for instance, would have a target on their backs.

• Limit districts» practice of making long - term commitments that they may not be able to fulfill by, for example, encouraging them to shift to defined - contribution pension programs and modifying tenure systems to allow for staffing adaptations.

She taught in middle schools with minority and low - income children in Atlanta and Boston for eight years (she notes in passing that she was tenured in the Boston school system), after majoring in philosophy at Yale and receiving a doctorate from Oxford.

Teacher tenure, and the related onerous and costly requirements for dismissing an ineffective teacher, have evolved into a system that almost completely insulates teachers from review, evaluation, or personnel decisions that would threaten their lifetime employment.

Tenure systems might be modified to allow for more fiscal flexibility, perhaps by including provisions for declining enrollment, or limiting the portion of the staff that can be tenured.

At minimum — in the one - size - fits - all No Child Left Behind era — her tenure reminds us of the real genius of the federal system, the opportunity to try many different approaches to a shared objective: increased academic achievement for all students.

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.

Even if 1 in every 10 of these graduates entered teaching for two years (average tenure at KIPP - like No Excuses charter schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school systems).

Coverage of areas specially conserved for biodiversity and ecosystem functions should be increased (at least to the Aichi Target 11 of 17 % terrestrial and 10 % marine area), with systems of conservation being democratized and based on integration of rights and responsibilities; in all kinds of land / water uses, activities that are ecologically damaging need to be modified or replaced; high priority should also be given to the regeneration and restoration of degraded ecosystems and the revival of populations of threatened species; equitable access (including through territorial and resource tenure) must be accorded to natural resources, with special focus on populations with high and direct dependence on such resources for their survival and livelihoods.