Sentences with phrase «veteran city teachers»

The proposal came shortly after the State Senate passed a bill backed by Bloomberg that would reverse a rule protecting veteran city teachers from layoffs regardless of their effectiveness.

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District 25 (Jackson Heights, East Elmhurst, Elmhurst, LeFrak City, Corona): Danny Dromm is a veteran teacher, Democratic district leader and head of the Queens Pride Committee.

A veteran lawmaker close to the city and state teachers» unions and Mr. de Blasio, Ms. Nolan is the shrewd Cuomo antagonist the liberals in the body would want.

«There isn't one teacher I know who doesn't say they would leave if they could,» says Norman Scott, a 35 - year veteran classroom teacher and publisher of an independent newsletter for city teachers.

Rountree already is planning weekly dinners for the new teachers with parents, veteran teachers, and city officials.

After months of intense opposition to his plan for overhauling the way New York City funds its schools, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has agreed to retool a piece of his proposal that, in part, sought to put more veteran teachers in schools that serve the most disadvantaged students.

Being calm and paying attention are actual skills you can teach in the classroom, says Linda Lantieri, a twenty - three - year veteran of bringing social and emotional learning to New York City schools and a teacher for forty years.

Additionally, the city of Hartford pays teachers» health insurance; offers a myriad of teaching options, including experimental programs and charter and magnet schools; and grants veteran teachers $ 100 annual bonuses for every year served.

Icahn also works with the New York City Mathematics Project, a program sponsored by Lehman College through which veteran retired math teachers offer in - class support and serve as consultants.

The New York City - based Educators 4 Excellence said nearly 200 Los Angeles teachers had joined the group and signed a declaration calling for linking teacher evaluations to student test scores and ending policies that allow the least veteran teachers to be laid off first.

For a long time now, major urban city districts have used «rubber rooms» to oust veteran teachers, minority teachers, political rascals who won't keep their mouths shut about the districts (at both the local / school and central office level.

Teachers — many of whom are veterans of the city's smaller, existing preschool program — have been asked to change their classrooms and step - up their teaching to improve the overall caliber of the program.

But that decision created a pool of floating veteran teachers who received full salaries without a permanent position, costing the city tens of millions of dollars annually.

Nationally, the average starting teacher salary is $ 39,000, and veteran teachers in some cities or suburbs can make more than $ 100,000 a year.

They reached teenagers and seniors, inner - city gang members and teachers as well as veterans, ranchers and others, fostering an appreciation for literature.

Historically (and as researchers from Stanford University recently documented in one city, echoing findings from many previous studies), school systems have tended to assign teachers with the least experience to work with the students who need the most help, while assigning the most well - regarded veterans to work with the strongest students.