Sentences with phrase «to protect teachers»

On the other hand, those in favor argue that unions protect teachers from arbitrary administrative decisions and politically influenced teacher appointments.

And how about the teachers unions that protect teachers who teach what the want to teach instead of teaching their curriculum.

Some say that tenure protects teachers from being fired for arbitrary reasons.

In this way, tenure actually helped protect some teachers from unfairly being dismissed from their jobs in the wake of integration.

I believe it strikes the right balance between protecting teacher privacy and a parent's right to know.

Their primary goal is to protect teacher rights and to ensure that their members are getting treated fairly.

We do so in order to protect teachers when they tackle challenging topics.

While defenders of tenure claim that it merely protects teachers from arbitrary dismissal, critics contend that tenure now makes it extremely difficult to remove poorly performing teachers from the classroom.

The unions argue that the rules protecting teachers are needed for school districts to attract and retain good teachers and to ensure that employees are not fired for arbitrary or unfair reasons.

«These videos highlight that there may be weaknesses in teacher disciplinary procedures that unethical insiders can exploit to protect teachers accused of wrongdoing,» the letter says.

They have been listed anonymously to protect the teachers involved.

Such a change would protect any teachers who left, regardless of reason, while still providing sufficient benefits to those who choose to stay for a full career.

And yes, tenure protects teachers from being unfairly punished for controversial political views (although that protection is probably more aptly applied to college professors).

But the real question is: Are these due - process requirements necessary to protect the teachers from arbitrary managerial decisions?

Recently, the Victorian State Government released guidelines designed to help protect teacher's reputations online.

Instead of distorting facts to blame laws protecting teachers for inequitable education, why aren't Smith and other «reformers» more concerned that districts like Oakland lose so many good teachers each year because of difficult working conditions, large class sizes, lack of support services, low salaries, and poor administration?

Supporters of HB 805 call this bill the «Protect Excellent Teachers Act,» but, in fact, this bill does not protect our teachers.

Back to Bad Schools in the Bayou March 18, 2016 If Democrats are so committed to equality and fairness, why do the party's politicians protect teachers unions over minority students looking for a good education?

Conference endorses the work of the National Executive in continuing to campaign to: (i) challenge the stigma associated with teachers» mental health; (ii) support teachers to maintain their careers; (iii) promote mental health first aid training in schools; (iv) challenge discriminatory employment practices and (v) ensure governments and administrations maintain the provisions of the Equality Act following Brexit to protect teachers with mental health problems.

Laws protecting teacher seniority «do not inevitably lead to the assignment of more inexperienced teachers to schools serving poor and minority children,» wrote Presiding Justice Roger Boren.

«It's a means for protecting teachers from unfair dismissals,» Ellis said of career status.

A nearly $ 6 billion infusion from Proposition 30 and a Democratic supermajority in the Legislature are a welcome pre-holiday gift to public education from voters, but it also could set the stage for battles between those laboring for education reform and suddenly fortified unions protecting teacher interests.

Today, through due process requirements, tenure still protects teachers from arbitrary dismissal, and also provides some protection from political, ideological, or other pressures from administrators, school boards, or parents.

All LCPS should need to do to protect teachers against nefarious outsiders seeking to attack them based on such narrow and misleading criteria is to include them somehow in the evaluation process.

The teachers union has proclaimed three main spending priorities for Prop. 30 revenue: It wants to protect and restore teacher jobs, to lower class sizes (which will also protect teacher jobs threatened by declining student enrollment in district schools), and to implement pay raises.

If Democrats are so committed to equality and fairness, why do the party's politicians protect teachers unions over minority students looking for a good education?

Teacher pensions protect teachers from certain risks.

Though they do protect all teachers from discrimination, pay decreases, and unwarranted attacks via the US government, it also tenures ineffective and sometimes negligent teachers into positions that they should not be holding.

Their exchange largely focused on the recent decision by Brown, as a loser in Vergara vs. California, to appeal the ruling, which struck down laws protecting teacher employment rights.

Over the last two years, the school I'm thrilled to be a part of has been able to create a laser - like focus that enables student achievement while protecting teacher autonomy in the classroom.

The full exercise of this right requires that trustees and administrators protect teachers and students against pressures from outside in favor of certain methods and conclusions of inquiry, and that support for teaching and research be kept as free as possible from exerting a controlling influence on academic pursuits.

Advocates have argued Cuomo's plan strikes the right balance, by protecting teachers» privacy, while still providing information to parents.

This is the very point we have argued against all the corporate reformers who say that poverty is not a factor, that only incompetent and inappropriately protected teachers result in bad educational outcomes.

Provisions about how teachers will be hired, tenured, and distributed among schools and how they are assigned work have profound budgetary consequences, as do measures like salary cost averaging that districts adopt in order to protect teacher placement rights.

Since the imposition of performance related pay progression for all teachers, National Education Union members have worked successfully in many schools and academies to secure school pay policies which protect teachers.

A shared understanding will also help protect teacher leaders» roles by ensuring that additional responsibilities (e.g., serving as substitute teachers) aren't added on, detracting from the intended purpose of their work.

Cambridge teachers can download a much wider selection of syllabus materials from our password - protected Teacher Support website.

about NSBA leads education groups urging Supreme Court to protect teachers required to report child abuse

We believe the First Amendment protects teachers like Ryan Yohn to decide for themselves which education policies they want to support.

James Noble - Rogers (pictured right), executive director of the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers, said: «The government must do more to protect the teacher education supply base by allocating training places to universities in a way that will allow them to plan strategically over a number of years.

Last spring, Vergara v. California found that the state's tenure statutes protected teacher incompetence, disproportionately impacting students in less affluent school districts and denying them access to an equal education.

Such a system would provide no room for a principal to protect a teacher known locally as both effective and valued by the community, as Principal Burris relates in the story of a teacher from Great Neck who would fall victim to Dr. Tisch and Governor Cuomo.

Today, in a CTMirror article entitled, Fact check: Who really protected teacher pension funding?

Tenure also unapologetically protects teachers not only from arbitrary firing, but from being replaced by less experienced and therefore less expensive teachers as well as potential cronyism.

Many protect teachers» principal so they don't lose the money they put in, and annuities guarantee an income for life at retirement.