Sentences with phrase «veteran teachers fired»

Jane Arnold Lincove, a professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the study's lead author, says that the study suggests that the prospects for those veteran teachers fired after Katrina only got worse over the years, as more schools went charter and those schools embraced younger teachers recruited through programs like Teach for America.

Not exact matches

Sources said Mulgrew announced at the convention that the union will run a Democratic primary fight against Manhattan Assemblyman Jonathan Bing, who has proposed a bill to curb the «last hired, first fired» provision that protects veteran teachers from layoffs.

Gabriel is a veteran teacher who ignites the fire of aspiration not only to your asana practice, but to our spiritual life as well.

Unfortunately, once a veteran teacher earns «tenure,» state and local policy make it complicated and cumbersome to fire him, even if he has demonstrated time and again that he is a poor educator.

One veteran teacher, Jane Roth, says she's never seen so many students displaced by house fires as in Lawrence.

Rhee, a veteran of the reform - minded Teach for America organization, became both demonized and lionized as she fired hundreds of teachers and convinced the local teachers» union to agree to merit pay based on student test scores.

It is good to see that so many folks posting here have done such extensive research and have interviewed each and every single principal, teacher and staff member fired or forced out by Chancellor Rhee and have determined that each and every single one of them was truly incompetent, as are every other single union member in America, and every single veteran teacher of every single low - performing, low - income student.

In the days following Katrina, the plan was to get schools reopened for children, but I'm not sure how effective that plan was by the powers that be when they fired the best thing New Orleans schools had going, its veteran teacher core.

In the days that followed, Patty, along with the other veteran teachers in the room, taught me how to light a fire in kids.

Twenty - year veteran teacher Gregg Lundahl says he entered the Democratic primary because East Side Assemblyman Jonathan Bing introduced a bill this year to get rid of the «last hired, first fired» policy in the event of teacher layoffs.

Analysts at the Fordham Foundation created a rubric for gauging the difficulty of firing ineffective teachers based on these three metrics: Does tenure protect veteran teachers from performance - based dismissal?

He argues that the Commonwealth Foundation and Pennsylvania School Boards Association make the case for eliminating the seniority protection «only from an economic angle,» and that firing veteran teachers would cause educational quality to suffer.

For all the veteran classroom teachers who have seen a revolving door of «best practices» curriculum come and go every few years as of recent and don't jump for joy as a literacy or math coach or government - sponsored consultant comes into their classroom... «cheerlead» coaching the «latest and sure - fire successful» model...

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