Sentences with phrase «uncertified teachers with»

In addition to under - paying and overloading uncertified teachers with huge student case loads, K12 Inc inflated enrollment numbers by counting attendance merely by the number of students who logged in rather than the amount of time they spent online.

It also defines «experienced» as a teacher who has completed a charter school program approved by the SUNY Institute, an UNCERTIFIED teacher with three year of «satisfactory» experience, or a teacher who completes Teach For America or a similar program.

Not exact matches

The little - known certification fight has been a top legislative priority for Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz, whose legion of local charters is largely staffed with uncertified teachers.

New York City's charter school sector appears to have secured a significant victory in the 11th hour of the Legislative session Wednesday night, with a set of regulations that will make it much easier for large charter networks to hire more uncertified teachers.

Indeed, the city's fiscal disadvantage in 1993 was clear to everyone: its schoolchildren received some 12 percent fewer dollars than their counterparts elsewhere in the state; 11.8 percent of the city's teachers were uncertified, compared with 7.3 percent statewide; the city's students had 1 computer for every 19 students, compared with 1 for every 13 students statewide; there was 1 guidance counselor for every 700 city students, compared with 1 per 350 students in the rest of the state; there were 16.5 library books per pupil in the state, but only 10.4 in the city.

Yet research on the impact of licensure on student outcomes is inconclusive, with some studies finding little, if any, difference among traditionally certified and uncertified teachers and others finding substantially higher student test scores among traditionally certified teachers.

Faced with difficulties recruiting enough certified teachers, many school districts hired large numbers of uncertified teachers.

With this rich array of data, we compared the effectiveness of recently hired alternatively certified (AC) and uncertified teachers to that of their traditionally certified counterparts in improving student learning in math and reading during grades 4 through 8.

The two populations — uncertified and AC teachers — differ in a number of ways: AC teachers are less likely to be black or Hispanic, tend to be several years younger when hired, and attended colleges with substantially higher median SAT scores (see Figure 1).

Uncertified teachers, teaching fellows, and TFA corps members all tend to teach in schools that, relative to those employing more certified teachers, have a higher percentage of minority students; more low - income, ESL, and special - education students; and students with lower achievement levels.

The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning environment based upon a combination of factors affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable building health and safety standards, high rates of teacher and administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to alternative high school and high school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified teachers or teachers in subject areas other than those for which they possess certification.

For instance, the authors refer to «the reform» case as though it were monolithic and uncontested, and cite, for example, arguments that certified teachers are no more effective than uncertified, with no indication that this finding is disputed in the literature.

Second, we didn't just compare TFA teachers with the Houston district's other new hires, a fair share of whom are uncertified and didn't attend a traditional education school (though not nearly as many as NCTAF claims).

Can we excuse the fact that kids are twice as likely to be assigned to inexperienced or uncertified teachers in schools with large enrollments of poor and minority students?

I agree with the arguments that charter schools are not necessarily more effective than the traditional public schools, and the fact that charter schools hire uncertified and less experienced teachers to teach.

Although, I can somewhat agree with Jason Engerman, to clear up this broken formula is changing the standards of just hiring inexperienced or uncertified teachers to something more purposeful for the success of students.

Right now, a major teacher shortage across Utah is leaving classrooms with unqualified, uncertified stand - ins.

They did so by hiring inexperienced and uncertified teachers, with the result that one - quarter of the black students in high - poverty schools had a first - or second - year teacher, and nearly 30 % had a teacher who was not fully certified.

RSD Charter schools use these tests for the PR propaganda and national recognition to dupe the public AND qualify for cash prizes for uncertified teachers, like the chick who was recently recognized with some prestigious national award and received $ 25,000.

on Connecticut charter schools violate state law with use of uncertified teachers and administrators

It seems these exemptions are claimed in DOI plans mainly in an effort to reduce paperwork filed with the state, increase class sizes in lower grades, and make it easy for districts to hire uncertified teachers without notifying parents that the district hired an uncertified teacher to teach their children.

If we don't value ourselves as dedicated, committed, well - educated professionals with deep subject matter expertise and rich pedagogical abilities and understandings, then why be surprised when the reformers suggest that veteran teachers can be replaced with uncertified, unqualified Teach for America recruits bolstered by a mere 5 week summer boot camp's worth of «training»?

In order to fill the growing teacher shortage in Oklahoma many schools are filling school librarian positions with uncertified personnel.