Sentences with phrase «tenure systems in»

Negotiations demanding decentralization and equity in resource distribution may lead to changes in land tenure systems in which communities and official organizations will increasingly agree to collaboration and joint management in which civil societies participate.

NYSUT is pledging to defend New York's teacher tenure system in the face of a legal challenge backed by former CNN anchor Campbell Brown's education reform organization.

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.

Mr. Bukari bemoaned the existing the land acquisition and land tenure system in the region, adding that,...

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.

Opponents of the current K - 12 teacher tenure system in California often say the process is too easy, and that, unlike at the university level, it is no longer a professional benchmark that rewards hard work and success in the classroom.

In a recent article for Time, Andrew Rotherham explored the tenure system in higher education.

I don't think we see those same forces playing out or advancing against the tenure system in academia simply because of the belief that in academia there is supposedly a more objective measure of what quality is, as measured by the existing tenure process linked to the meritocracy.

the abandonment of communal tenure system in favour of freehold title and subdivision of the commons

Not exact matches

«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.

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.

During his tenure at Treasury, Dr. Levitt played a central role in efforts to protect the U.S. financial system from abuse and to deny terrorists, weapons proliferators, and other rogue actors the ability to finance threats to U.S. national security.

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.

It's a system that Roy Hodgson has perfected over his many years of management, but particularly in his run to the Europa League final with un-fancied Fulham, and his tenure at West Bromwich Albion, two teams that arguably over-achieved during Hodgson's reign.

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.

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.

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.

Government will initiate an inducement pacakge to take care of bottlenecks in the customary land tenure system.

The system has seen dramatic improvements in test scores and a record - high graduation rates under his tenure.

And it includes an increase in the charter school cap plus changes to the teacher tenure system.

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).

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.

During her tenure, the county became the first in the city to implement a jury duty call - in system.

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.

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

But the governor's plan would effectively give him ownership of the state's massive public school system, and would be among the most ambitious changes he's pursued in his governorship, a tenure that so far has included legalizing same - sex marriage, strengthening gun control, creating a statewide property - tax cap and reforming the state pension system.

All three men have been critical of de Blasio's tenure, with Stringer conducting stinging audits of the city's shelter system, Kelly making an unfounded accusation that the city was cooking crime statistics and Diaz questioning the mayor's management and leadership during a deadly outbreak of Legionnaire's disease in The Bronx.

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.

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

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.

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.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has long criticized the almost automatic granting of lifetime tenure to teachers in the New York City school system.

The most significant legislation that's been enacted in this area during his tenure created a new enforcement counsel at the state Board of Elections and a temporary public financing system that was enacted so late into the 2014 cycle that nobody participated in it.

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.

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.

The teachers union, considered by many to be «the most powerful interest group in the Capitol,» has stepped up its political giving in the wake of Vergara v. California, a landmark court ruling that could ultimately throw out California's teacher tenure system.

The embattled head of New York City's Housing Authority, the nation's largest system of public housing stock, is resigning amid increasing public scrutiny of her tenure and twin crises over lead paint and a lack of heat in city - run apartments.

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.

Referring to the board's claims that the percentage of tenured faculty is «too high» in the Massachusetts system, Markunas replies, «They have created a problem.»

When asked by Next Wave if he could provide an example of a specific instance when tenured faculty members could not respond to needed changes in the educational system, Koplik allowed that he could not.

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.

«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.

«Even if the supply of jobs wasn't fixed and the tenure system wasn't in place, the fact of the matter is that the leaders of the field couldn't really have consumed all this new stuff.

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.