Sentences with phrase «when firing teachers»

The second bill (SB1530), sponsored by Sen. Alex Padilla (D - Pacoima), would give school boards more authority when firing teachers.

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One teacher said she was on her way out of the building after the fire alarm when another staff member told her the situation was code red — an active shooter.

Many public school teachers that are Christians have been fired because of their beliefs, especially around Christmas and Easter time, when they merely mention the reasons behind the seasons and don't advocate Santa Claus and the Easter bunny with its colored eggs (funny how the different colors of eggs represent the rainbow's colors).

Both coach and students denied that any cheating had taken place until a week later, when the students confessed and the teacher was fired.

When a student learns math from a human teacher, the fire of love for the teacher is limited by whatever the nature of the relationship is, and the fire of love for the subject may well be limited by intelligence.

Albany, New York — The push to change teacher hiring rules to end the policy of last hired first fired got a boost when Governor Andrew Cuomo introduced a bill to extend the proposal to all schools in the state.

The Alliance for Quality Education is firing back at Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who this morning accused school districts of playing politics when they say his proposed funding cuts would force teachers to lose their jobs, hurting kids in the process.

Unqualified teachers «should not be in the classroom» said Labour's education spokesman when asked if his party would fire them.

Buffalo Teachers Federation President Phil Rumore said never in his 30 years in the union post has he seen a school board expect the superintendent to jump when told to jump or be fired.

But Bloomberg drew glares from United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew when he suggested that the city could save money by firing higher paid, longer - serving teachers and keeping on lower paid, newer tTeachers President Michael Mulgrew when he suggested that the city could save money by firing higher paid, longer - serving teachers and keeping on lower paid, newer tteachers and keeping on lower paid, newer teachersteachers.

(CNN)- A surrogate for Mitt Romney's campaign said Monday the presumptive GOP nominee was taken out of context when he argued against the idea of hiring more fire fighters, police and teachers on the taxpayer dime.

When 7,000 teachers were fired in the wake of a devastating flood in Louisiana, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said, «I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina.»

When the teachers on my staff announced to their employers that they intended to teach at my studio, in most cases they were fired immediately.

But things go from bad to worse when Campbell crosses the school's toughest and most feared teacher, Ron Strickland (Ice Cube), causing Strickland to be fired.

SYNOPSIS: When one school teacher gets the other fired, he is challenged to an after - school fight.

Notably, the effects of a minimally effective rating on retention and performance occurred at the end of IMPACT's second year, when the political credibility of the reform had been affirmed by the appointment of Kaya Henderson as chancellor and by the first instance in which teachers (roughly 140) were fired for having two consecutive «minimally effective» ratings.

'» It is nonetheless quite disconcerting that he — and those who rely on his work — say that she was engaged in «large - scale firing» and «mass dismissals» when in fact she released in 2010 just 241 teachers for low performance.

«We know when we get our primary - age children fired up about reading, they stay readers all the way through middle school, and the Accelerated Reader program helps teachers do that,» Ingram explained.

The NCTQ authors write, «State law dictates how often teachers must be evaluated, when teachers can earn tenure, the benefits they'll receive, and even the rules for firing a teacher.»

But Lam was fired when teachers engineered the election of her sworn enemies, and the Memphis school board abandoned House's initiatives soon after she resigned, voluntarily, to lead a national school reform group.

And it's fair to say, when it comes to managing a classroom, most of what we learn as new teachers is trial by fire.

Many teachers have been intimidated, fired, or threatened with dismissal when they sought to bargain collectively, it claims.

A cooler - headed Esquith later explained the book's theme on National Public Radio: «If I could care so much I didn't even know my hair was on fire, I was moving in the right direction as a teacher — when I realized that you have to ignore all the crap, and the children are the only thing that matter.»

Another student adds that new teachers frequently worry too much about being nice to students, when in fact, «they're setting fires in the bathroom.»

Failure to pay is the only instance when the union will allow a school district to summarily fire a teacher.

It's why charter schools can and do fire ineffective teachers, why they can turn on a dime when an instructional approach isn't working, why they can spend their money on the classroom instead of the bureaucracy, and why they can put the needs of students first, every day, all day.

Paul Peterson and Chester Finn discuss Brian Jacob's study examining what happened when some Chicago principals were given the power to choose which teachers to keep and which to fire.

Lessons to Leave Behind When You Go Away Every teacher has the responsibility to provide a sure - fire, successful plan for the substitute who will bravely step into his or her shoes.

What happened when a city full of teachers, most of them black, was fired hechingerreport.org/happened-city -...

Teachers are inspired when their students are «on fire» about learning.

Central Falls High School When 93 teachers and staffers were fired from Rhode Island's Central Falls High School in 2010, it fueled a nationwide debate over...

But when the IMPACT plan was rolled out, some teachers, and the local teachers» union, saw it as overly punitive — more focused on firing teachers than helping them improve.

Jeremiah's guard went up when his old teachers were fired and new ones hired with the turnaround.

Jason Kamras, deputy to D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee in charge of human capital, talks with Education Next about the new teacher evaluation system put in place in D.C. Beginning this year, teachers in D.C. will be evaluated based on student test scores (when available) and classroom observations (by principals and master educators), and poorly performing teachers may be fired, regardless of tenure.

Last year, when photos were found of a Los Angeles elementary school teacher blindfolding and feeding students his sperm (I'm not making this up), the rules around teacher firing were so ridiculous that LAUSD ended up PAYING HIM to leave.

Federal law now provides those protections to everyone, yet the unions have continued to fight for ever - stronger job protections uniquely for teachers to the point where now, in 2014, it is nearly impossible to fire any teacher without spending thousands of dollars and hours in legal battles, even when there is proof of student abuse!

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.

Even when teachers are fired, it's seldom because of their classroom performance: A 2009 expose by this newspaper found that only 20 % of successful dismissals in the state had anything to do with teaching ability.

Unqualified teachers «should not be in the classroom» said Labour's education spokesman when asked if his party would fire them.

This was particularly made clear in the 1968 when mostly - black families overseeing the Ocean Hill - Brownsville school board dared to fire 13 teachers (along with administrators).

We need to allow principals to actually act like bosses — hiring, training and, when needed, firing their own staffs, and we need teachers to be treated like professionals: given feedback on performance, training when needed, and rewards for excellence.

He articulated many of the same challenges that all teachers go through, and reminded me of my challenges when I first started teaching (what I like to call baptism by fire).

As a parent, it concerns me that you have required states to expand charter schools, increase standardized testing overall, tie teacher jobs to test scores, and turn around schools by firing half or more of the staff, when the overwhelming body of evidence — including that of the research arms of the federal government — is clear that these strategies do not improve academics overall and can have serious negative effects on children and their education.

The Department's attempts to fire teachers in the ATR pool when Joel Klein was chancellor fell short, as did efforts to end the last - in - first - out policy that governs which teachers principals can ask to leave schools.

Given the current federal policies I guess when the child you refer to fails a 4th grade reading test, the school system will be justified in firing all her teachers from kindergarten to the 4th grade.

When the district board and the superintendent fired Ballona High School principal Harriet Alonzo, it must have stunned anyone who had witnessed how her leadership had turned the school around.1 In just three years, from 2003 to 2006, with coaching from UCLA's School Management Program, Alonzo fashioned a leadership team of teachers who worked with her to transform Ballona High School from an academic failure to a smashing success.

Now, their main tasks revolve around making teacher tenure decisions, conducting «Quality Reviews» of school's internal organizational structures, attending public hearings about schools in their districts, and putting out fires when they arise.

Unqualified teachers «should not be in the classroom», says Tristram Hunt when asked if his party would fire them.

The Senators» reticence to take a position might seem like an unwise political choice, given the backlash some State Assemblymembers received last year when they abstained from voting on a bill that proposed streamlining the firing process for teachers accused of sexual and physical abuse.

No one was surprised last week when the California Assembly passed Assembly Bill 375, which, allegedly, makes it easier to discipline and fire teachers accused of misconduct.