Sentences with phrase «tenured teachers from their school»

For new teachers, however, the first rung of the career ladder was a one - year probation supervised by two tenured teachers from their school.

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State Legislature bans school districts from using student test scores to decide teachers» eligibility for job tenure.

Sixty - four percent of 5,832 eligible public school teachers were given tenure by the city in the 2014 - 15 school year, up from 60 % the previous year.

As part of the deal, teacher tenure would increase from three to four years and schools will see big increases in state aid.

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.

ALBANY, N.Y. — The state budget included changes to New York's education policies, ranging from making it harder for teachers to obtain tenure, new evaluation criteria and a plan for schools to enter receiverships.

Micah Lasher pushed Mr. Bloomberg's agenda in Albany from 2010 until 2012, when he got the gig heading up the newly formed New York chapter of StudentsFirst, a national organization that advocates expanding charter schools and eliminating teacher tenure.

Receiving harsh criticism from reviewers for failing to raise the charter school cap, eliminate issues with teacher tenure, and also for their plan to use some of the money for an upgrade in furniture.

He called for raising the cap on charter schools, extending tenure from three to five years, putting struggling schools into «receivership» and basing half a teacher's evaluation on student test scores.

The 30 - second United Federation of Teachers spot, which is set to run on major networks across New York through next Monday, criticizes the mayor on everything from school closures to the failed tenure of ex-schools chancellor Cathie Black.

Why did professors and teachers choose to stay away from the classrooms and lectures for months while John Dramani Mahama chose to bastardize schools and colleges during his tenure of office?

Like Hart's 2016 directorial debut «Miss Stevens,» an indie charmer inspired by her tenure as a young high school teacher, the roots of «Fast Color» grew from personal experience — and a frustration with the ways the same characters and stories kept being told within the superhero genre.

Although Commonwealth charters are authorized by BESE and subject to most state laws and regulations governing public schools, they are exempt from certain regulations related to teacher certification and tenure, and they are free from the confines of any preexisting collective - bargaining agreements.

-- the percentage of those giving the schools an «A» or a «B» on the traditional A to F grading scale drops 11 percentage points, from 49 % to 38 %; — support for a proposal to make vouchers available to all families regardless of income jumps 13 percentage points, increasing from 43 % to 56 %, while opposition to the proposal declines from 37 % to 25 %; — support for charter schools shifts upward from 51 % to 58 % when respondents learn the national rank of the local district, while opposition to charters declines from 26 % to 23 %; — opposition to teacher tenure climbs 8 percentage points, from 47 % to 55 %, while support for tenure drops 8 points to 25 %.

The case, North East Independent School District v. Findeisen (Case No. 84 - 1607), stemmed from the August 1981 resignation of a tenured San Antonio - area teacher.

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If courts can strike down teacher tenure laws as a violation of the rights of poor and minority children (see «Script Doctors,» legal beat, Fall 2014), why not use the results from CCSS assessments to go after the drawing of school boundaries in a way that perpetuates economic school segregation and denies children equal opportunity?

Defenders often say that tenure is all that limits principals and school boards from terminating teachers for innumerable bogus motives.

That would allow schools to ensure high standards at tenure time and to protect teachers from favoritism with transparency, rather than lengthy due - process requirements, which end up protecting a lot of ineffective teachers.

During the eight years (2007 to 2014) that the Education Next (EdNext) poll has been administered to a representative sample of American adults (and, in most of these years, to a representative sample of public school teachers), we have seen only minimal changes from one year to the next on such important issues as charter schools, merit pay, teacher tenure, teachers unions, and tax credits that fund private - school scholarships.

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.

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Efforts to overturn public school job protections like tenure, for example, stem from the argument that ineffective teachers can stay in classrooms indefinitely.

But overturning the tenure and seniority laws, he said, «would not prevent administrators from assigning the worst teachers to schools serving poor and minority students.»

Maine's school boards are being urged to eliminate seniority clauses from teachers» contracts as the result of a state high - court decision, handed down this summer, that state law does not protect tenured teachers at the expense of nontenured teachers in layoff decisions.

During her 25 - year tenure in HR, she served as the director of elementary and middle school staffing; special assistant to the chief executive for instruction; and from 1993 until her retirement in October 2004, as the deputy executive director for teacher recruitment, certification, licensing and salary.

Citing a long list of recent laws that many argue will hurt public education, Ravitch anticipated a brain drain for the state thanks to bad policies, said that charters and vouchers do not save kids from failing public schools but instead pave the way for resegregation, and bemoaned the loss of teacher tenure.

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.

According to the last set of federal and state campaign finance reports, Governor Malloy, the champion of the corporate education reform industry and the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers working in the poorest schools has received well over a quarter of a million dollars from leaders and political action committees associated with the national education reform and privatization effort.

It was difficult for the city school district to justify hiring from the outside when it had tenured teachers without placements and a budget shortfall.

Currently based in Denver, Colorado, she has consulted with school districts and related education agencies for 17 years in 20 states and internationally, also serving 13 years in higher education as associate professor (tenured), associate dean, literacy and leadership academic program director and chair, vice president's faculty fellow, reading specialist, counseling coordinator, and director of national center for students with learning and attention challenges, having taught 132 course sections from developmental education to teacher education, counseling, and leadership at four universities (Baldwin Wallace University, the University of Arizona, Kent State University, and the University of Akron).

Missing from the convention agenda, however, was that the prior week a judge heard initial arguments in a lawsuit aimed at dismantling Minnesota's union - orchestrated tenure and seniority «protections» for public school teachers.

Teachers hoping to hold on to their tenure rights tend to leave for more stable work environments if they can find them, and parents who have the means tend to pull their kids from the ASD charter schools in search of alternative options, leaving even larger concentrations of low - income, at - risk youth in the ASD schools.

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As you may recall from a September LA School Report post, only about 4 percent of LAUSD teachers don't receive tenure — a determination made in large part through annual teacher evaluations.

Kelle Stewart, an elementary school teacher from Tennessee, said the heavy focus on tenure keeps the education debate from focusing on real issues that significantly affect public schools.

Ultra-conservative Grover Nordquist just said that he's not worried about the national election because his party added new governors: «Our strength is state by state,» Norquist said, adding that it is there that Republicans would enact the policies — ending teacher tenure, reining in public employee pensions, promoting school choice — that would invigorate the national party from the bottom up.»

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.

Meetings and presentations from public school leaders to the Gates Foundation have brainstormed various ideas, including»... focus on teacher training, putting the best teachers in the most challenging classrooms, giving the best teachers new roles as mentors and coaches while keeping them in front of children, making tenure a meaningful milestone, getting rid of ineffective teachers, and using money to motivate people and schools to move toward these goals.»

Among other things, the package would dramatically curtail tenure protections for new teachers and make it easier to fire existing ones; shift hiring and firing power from school boards to superintendents; pave the way for a significant increase in public charter schools; and create a program that uses the public school financing formula to pay private school tuition for certain low - income students.

Attorneys Theodore Boutrous, far right, and Marcellus McRae, second from right, represent nine California public school students who are suing the state to abolish its laws on teacher tenure, seniority and other protections.

But a review of the best evidence on teachers» sentiments shows that educators are not unhappy because they resent the new emphasis on teacher evaluations, a key element of President Obama's Race to the Top program; in fact, according to a separate survey of 10,000 public school teachers from Scholastic and the Gates Foundation, the majority support using measures of student learning to assess teachers, and the mean number of years teachers believe they should devote to the classroom before being assessed for tenure is 5.4, a significant increase from the current national average of 3.1 years.

Union officials said hundreds of tenured teachers have been removed from their positions and the school district is using the law to circumvent established procedures for dismissing many educators with good evaluations.

Three widespread practices in particular are in need of major revision: teacher evaluation and tenure systems that do not distinguish effective teachers from ineffective ones; forced placement, where teachers are assigned to schools based on seniority rather than the match of teacher skills to school preferences and needs; and LIFO (last in first out), by which teacher lay - offs are based entirely on seniority rather than teacher effectiveness.

I think it's also possible that — having watched a lot of school districts over the years — not having a moment at which you have to make a tenure decision could allow districts to just keep fairly mediocre teachers along, without doing the due diligence of making a decision in the early years that would protect kids from teachers just kind of hanging on.

Michigan's Public Act 4 is the most extreme example, but lawmakers from New York to California are seeking ways to circumvent or eliminate public school teacher tenure, pushing for staffing decisions to be made based on merit rather than seniority.

Education reform in K - 12 schools has become politically fraught, dividing teachers unions, one of which endorsed Clinton during her 2008 presidential run, from Democrats in the Obama administration over issues such as teacher tenure, performance evaluations and school accountability.

Teacher tenure is «really a red herring» in the sense that debating tenure ultimately misleads and distracts others from the more relevant and important issues at hand (e.g., recruiting strong teachers into such schools).

Among the influential members of NAACP's 64 member board: Hazel Dukes, whose long (and often infamous) tenure as head of its Empire State affiliate included teaming up with the AFT's United Federation of Teachers in an unsuccessful effort to stop the Big Apple from renting space in half - empty traditional school buildings to charter schools.

No amount of political spin coming from Malloy or his education reform industry allies will disguise the fact that by introducing a bill to do away with teacher tenure and repeal collective bargaining rights for teachers in «turnaround schools,» Malloy became the most anti-teacher, anti-public education Democratic governor in the nation.