Sentences with phrase «use of seniority in»

It would also ban the use of seniority in such decisions.

Another sticking point is the limited use of seniority in determining whether a teacher is laid off or not, as well as ongoing questions about the teacher evaluation system that will be used to determine if a teacher receives tenure in the first place.

And the Los Angeles Unified School District recently agreed to limit the use of seniority in layoff determinations as part of a settlement in a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

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But Joy Chik, 40, one of the execs in the room, says it's a sign that the company is spending a lot more time trying to use data rather than seniority or force of personality to make decisions about product fixes or features.

«It is too early to make any sort of comment on his tenure, but we do suspect that Chairman Powell will be a little more willing to ruffle feathers on the Committee and use the power of his seniority to impose policy on other members,» said Michael Shaoul, chairman and CEO of Marketfield Asset Management, in a note.

Whether it's for education, defense or agriculture, I will continue to use my seniority in the United States Senate to help bring home funding on behalf of the hard working people of Kentucky.

Among the most important of these provisions were those defining the hours of work, using seniority to determine who could transfer to jobs within the system as they opened up, and the order in which people would be laid off when staff size was reduced.

As noted earlier, one of the prevailing critiques of seniority - based layoffs is that it is necessary to lay off more teachers in order to attain a specified budget objective than it would be if districts used alternative criteria.

All of the 75 largest school districts in the nation use seniority as a factor in layoff decisions, and seniority is the sole factor determining the order of layoffs in more than 70 percent of these districts.

In April, the California Court of Appeal overturned the trial court's ruling in Vergara v. California [i], in which a group of families had challenged the constitutionality of state laws governing teacher tenure [ii](California state law automatically grants tenure to teachers after sixteen months, provides extra due process protections to teachers over and above those available to other state workers, and requires schools to use seniority rather than competency in layoff decisionsIn April, the California Court of Appeal overturned the trial court's ruling in Vergara v. California [i], in which a group of families had challenged the constitutionality of state laws governing teacher tenure [ii](California state law automatically grants tenure to teachers after sixteen months, provides extra due process protections to teachers over and above those available to other state workers, and requires schools to use seniority rather than competency in layoff decisionsin Vergara v. California [i], in which a group of families had challenged the constitutionality of state laws governing teacher tenure [ii](California state law automatically grants tenure to teachers after sixteen months, provides extra due process protections to teachers over and above those available to other state workers, and requires schools to use seniority rather than competency in layoff decisionsin which a group of families had challenged the constitutionality of state laws governing teacher tenure [ii](California state law automatically grants tenure to teachers after sixteen months, provides extra due process protections to teachers over and above those available to other state workers, and requires schools to use seniority rather than competency in layoff decisionsin layoff decisions.)

Then, to defend the last - in, first - out laws, they had to make an about - face and argue that districts knew nothing about effectiveness after tenure, that using seniority was the only way to ensure that favoritism was not the basis of retention decisions.

And with a system that holds to reverse seniority in times of layoffs, more experienced teachers have greater latitude in using their own teaching techniques, she said.

There has been a lot of pressure exerted from a variety of reform groups to use the money to leverage states to eliminate seniority as the primary consideration in teacher layoffs — the so - called «last hired — first fired» provisions.

In some cases the Gates Foundation is immediately engaged in financing educators to offering direct challenges to teacher unions on such issues as the seniority system and and the use of student test scores to evaluate teacherIn some cases the Gates Foundation is immediately engaged in financing educators to offering direct challenges to teacher unions on such issues as the seniority system and and the use of student test scores to evaluate teacherin financing educators to offering direct challenges to teacher unions on such issues as the seniority system and and the use of student test scores to evaluate teachers.

Over the last quarter century, the teachers unions have clearly been the most powerful force in American education, and they have clearly been using their extraordinary power — in collective bargaining at the local level, in the political process at the state and national levels — to undermine major reform and to burden the schools (via seniority provisions, the protection of bad teachers, and all the rest) with ineffective forms of organization.

In addition to making huge amount of money, TFA is about advocating and lobbying for «education reforms» that include a variety of anti-teacher positions including the excessive use of standardized testing, the expansion of charter schools and efforts to end tenure and seniority.

Rothstein also argued in favor of using seniority to handle layoffs, which he says is a less costly, subjective, and controversial method than using annual performance evaluations.

Suburban districts, after all, also have to deal with quality - blind seniority - based privileges such as reverse - seniority layoff rules, pay scales that favor seat time over performance, and restrictions on the use of objective student test score growth data from use in teacher evaluations.

(h) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, it shall not be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to apply different standards of compensation, or different terms, conditions, or privileges of employment pursuant to a bona fide seniority or merit system, or a system which measures earnings by quantity or quality of production or to employees who work in different locations, provided that such differences are not the result of an intention to discriminate because of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, nor shall it be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to give and to act upon the results of any professionally developed ability test provided that such test, its administration or action upon the results is not designed, intended or used to discriminate because of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

A review of high - yield debt investments should cover: (1) analysis of the industry, including growth rates, special risks and leading companies; (2) analysis of the bond issuer, including the company's position in its industry; new products; management stability; the outlook for growth in revenues and cash flow as captured in Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization, also called EBITDA; value of corporate assets and the debt maturity schedule; and (3) analysis of the issue, including special provisions in the «bond indenture,» covenants protecting the bondholder, use of the money raised in bond offerings, debt seniority, secondary market liquidity and call provisions.

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