Sentences with phrase «way teacher seniority»

Sedlis said a potential legal complaint would likely focus on lengthening New York's probationary teaching period and changing the way teacher seniority is used.

Not exact matches

The plaintiffs detailed the many ways in which seniority protection placed teacher interests ahead of those of minority students.

A final way in which seniority - based systems may have consequences for student achievement is that strict adherence to seniority would require at least some districts to lay off teachers in subject areas with teacher shortages, such as math and special education.

Moreover, the two premises represent a tautology — student test score growth is the most important measure, and we have to choose other teacher evaluation measures based on their correlation with student test score growth because student test score growth is the most important measure... This point, by the way, has already been made about the Gates study, as well as about seniority - based layoffs and about test - based policies in general.

But again, the real problem isn't in the way we allocate seniority, it's that teachers don't enjoy their work in the original schools.

The California Federation of Teachers website claims that «Seniority is the only fair, transparent way to administer layoffs.

So is more freedom for principals to hire and assign teachers in ways they think best, rather than following outdated seniority rules.

Attempting to maintain support among the very teachers it is supposed to represent — and looking to show that it cares about elevating the teaching profession it debases through its defense of quality - blind seniority - based privileges and reverse - seniority layoff rules — the NEA gave $ 73,500 to the National Network of State Teachers of the Year; that the selection of teachers of the year is usually more of a popularity contest than one based on objective measures of teacher performance is often conveniently ignored by all but the most thoughtful of observers, and thus, serves as a good way to spend unioteachers it is supposed to represent — and looking to show that it cares about elevating the teaching profession it debases through its defense of quality - blind seniority - based privileges and reverse - seniority layoff rules — the NEA gave $ 73,500 to the National Network of State Teachers of the Year; that the selection of teachers of the year is usually more of a popularity contest than one based on objective measures of teacher performance is often conveniently ignored by all but the most thoughtful of observers, and thus, serves as a good way to spend unioTeachers of the Year; that the selection of teachers of the year is usually more of a popularity contest than one based on objective measures of teacher performance is often conveniently ignored by all but the most thoughtful of observers, and thus, serves as a good way to spend unioteachers of the year is usually more of a popularity contest than one based on objective measures of teacher performance is often conveniently ignored by all but the most thoughtful of observers, and thus, serves as a good way to spend union funds.

Korn said seniority is «the fairest, most objective way of laying off teachers» and noted that other public - sector unions, such as those representing firefighters and police, often use similar systems.

Arne Duncan, the federal secretary of education, urged state and local authorities to avoid short - sighted decisions as they cut school budgets, and said laying off teachers based solely on seniority was «a wrong way to cut spending.»

But Utah Education Association President Sharon Gallagher - Fishbaugh has said basing layoffs on seniority is an objective way to reduce staff when a school is filled with quality teachers, and she has said it should be a locally - decided issue.

Michigan's Public Act 4 is the most extreme example, but lawmakers from New York to California are seeking ways to circumvent or eliminate public school teacher tenure, pushing for staffing decisions to be made based on merit rather than seniority.

In effect, tenure and seniority work together to give employers the flexibility to lay people off when economic circumstances require it, but in a way that protects teachers from being arbitrarily targeted, or targeted because they were paid more than more junior faculty.

Continuing the «experience trumps all» line of thought, the California Federation of Teachers website proclaims, «Seniority is the only fair, transparent way to administer layoffs.