Sentences with phrase «water down teacher»

In a letter to Liu, it mentioned «Offering unions this power affords them the opportunity and incentive to water down teacher evaluations.»

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The young man struggled and kicked, but still the teacher held him down until at last he drew him coughing and gasping out of the water.

But there are teachers who aren't afraid to say «I love you» to their students and friends who say «good job» when you mess up on your part and parents who love the best they can and principals who sing solos and somewhere there is a new crop of parents with bewildered babies in the public pool, bouncing up and down in the water, and in that moment at least every one is singing.

Watering down their collective bargaining rights by putting into state law the mandatory dismissal of teacher's who are rated ineffective.

Certainly he's been against the tax cap and with the teacher's union staunchly behind him, he'll surely support watering down the tax cap to get rid the «or the rate of inflation whichever is less» part of the law,, not to mention that Sen. Latimer has introduced many new and higher taxes / fees.

«Whilst the «fire at will» proposal has been watered down, the remaining proposals represent an unprecedented and unacceptable attack on the employment rights of teachers and other ordinary working people.

The suit claims that the new standards, which allow SUNY - authorized charters to certify their own teachers, will water down the quality of educators in charters.

The so - called «gang of seven,» a group of Regents heavily influenced by the state teachers» union, tried to significantly water down the new teacher evaluation law.

«Most teachers would do well on any evaluation system, but the union seems intent on watering down our new system to safeguard its lowest performing members, no matter the costs to students.

DiBrango said the SUNY proposal is a «watering down» of teacher requirements.

Cuomo did win an ethics reform package, in a slightly watered down version, and he succeeded in a new teacher evaluation plan, though it will not be designed to his specifications.

That has meant a steady watering down of tests and scoring systems that might expose incompetent teachers — even doing away with time limits on exams.

The UFT and NYSUT filed a lawsuit on Oct. 12 to prevent the weakening of teacher certification standards after the SUNY Board of Trustees Charter Schools Committee voted the previous day to allow some charter schools to create their own in - house teacher certification programs with watered - down standards.

Gross says he's not watering down the math, just making it more user - friendly for teachers who may have deliberately avoided mathematics as undergraduates.

Teachers told me that most NovaNET courses are comparable to textbook - based courses in length and content — a comeback to critics who talk of watered - down curricula at alternative schools — but that many students move through them more quickly, and often finish high school a semester early.

Despite some high - profile incidents — like the teacher «sick - out» which shut down 53 of Detroit's 235 schools last spring — strikes by teachers have become increasingly rare since 1975, a high - water mark, when there were 241 nationwide.

«The teachers who participated had a water conservation project as part of their environment unit that was very similar to the Down the Drain project but was done just within the school.

A recent Atlantic article called «The First Year of Teaching Can Feel Like a Fraternity Hazing» talks about how new teachers often skip meals and whittle their personal lives down to nearly nothing in an effort to stay above water, and yet many still struggle with effectiveness.

To keep the students» interest during the longer period, teachers may be tempted to eliminate or water down content.

Parents and teachers complained — with some legitimacy — that the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) era set loose an avalanche of weak fill - in - the - bubble tests to assess student mastery of watered - down state academic standards.

Or, with the right algorithm, that first - year teacher (me, many years ago) treading water in the trenches, could find a lifeline just down the hall...

He criticized low admissions standards; curriculums that «lack coherence and connections to the work that's actually done in the field»; clinical programs devoted to mere shadowing of practitioners, whether they are successful or not; «watered - down» dissertations with little connection to practice; and a pervasive race among teachers to acquire credit for leadership courses, and thus boost their salaries, without any interest in actually assuming positions of greater authority.

In the 1960s, the California legislature decided that aspiring teachers would have to major in an academic area other than education, which they believed to be a watered - down degree.

Formerly significant issues like school accountability and teacher evaluations have been watered down or ignored.

To my surprise, though many «old school» history teachers have lately chosen retirement over delivering the watered down, devoid - of - hard - facts, PowerPoint - driven lectures that are the hallmarks of what some educators call «socialist studies departments,» U.S. student performance has stayed the same.

Some teachers, administrators, and parents believe that an inclusive intervention will water down teaching and lower the achievement of all students.

The announcement this morning has prompted claims from school leaders that the government is further watering down its requirements of new teachers, after Gibb wrote to teacher training providers urging them to change their entry criteria.

His teacher pay differential plan, which will provide additional dollars to districts in order to lu while all he succeeded in doing is passing a watered down charter school expansion bill.

Watered down and gutted beyond recognition, the new AB 934 preserves the unconstitutional and unjustifiable disparities in students» access to effective teachers caused by the current laws.

Then earlier this year, the teachers unions got behind AB 375, a watered - down, poorly written dismissal bill that, though it would have made some things even worse, was nevertheless passed by both houses of the California legislature.

This is yet another reason the UK is having great difficulty recruiting teachers.The govt seems to want to water teaching down and let people in who should not be getting through the door.No other country does this and in fact some demand that their teachers have degrees at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.They can then boast their systems are among the best in the world.Perhaps the UK govt should try this with training doctors and see the reaction within the country.

This would help prevent districts from undermining the integrity of the teacher evaluation process by watering down standards.

Parents are outraged over news that a lobbyist for the American Federation of Teachers bragged about watering down an education - reform bill at the AFT's national conference last month.

That means teachers can still try to water down the new system, if they feel a bad process is being forced on them.

Once adjustments were made to the interim testing system that addressed those concerns, O'Donnell's bill was watered down to simply require that the assessments be designed to provide timely feedback for teachers.

Zimmer and Cortines convinced the LAUSD board to water down Flores» language to read simply that campuses and teachers will be judged on «student growth over time.»

Forty percent of teachers said that programs for high - achieving students are «too often watered down and lacking in rigor» (p. 10).

Likewise, high - quality residency and induction programs must also demonstrate how they are different from the watered - down induction and new teacher supports that districts typically provide.

Initially, the bill would allowed all school employees including teachers in classrooms to carry weapons, but the bill was watered down after protests from law enforcement, educators and students.

Democrats didn't like the idea of letting teachers carry guns, even if the bill was amended to water down that proposed program.

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