Sentences with phrase «with teacher layoffs»

One study simulating a reduction in force with teacher layoffs based on three methodologies — principal evaluations, pure seniority, and results of value - added measures — found that the scenario utilizing value - added measures identified less effective teachers better than either principal evaluations or seniority.

With teacher layoffs unavoidable in countless districts, the seniority question will be front and center in the coming weeks, as final budget totals determine how many people must go.

In order to provide a more detailed picture of the factors that are associated with teacher layoff notices, we then examine the effects of each of these various factors on the probability that a teacher received a layoff notice, while controlling for the others.

Not exact matches

Police and firemen struggle with teachers and social workers over who will get the layoffs.

«The massive number of teacher layoffs, school closings, cuts to academic programs and extracurricular activities could have been worse had districts not tapped into reserve funds or worked hard to negotiate contract concessions with their employee unions.»

«If Albany moves forward with the school aid cuts proposed by the Governor, New York City may have to lay off 6,400 teachers — the first teacher layoffs in New York City since the 1970s,» the letter reads.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Against the backdrop of city and state budget - cutting teacher layoffs, Rep. Michael Grimm weighed in on LIFO with Schools Chancellor Cathie Black, calling it «unacceptable» during a meeting with her in his Washington office.

ALBANY - Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Cuomo's war over the law governing teacher layoffs went nuclear on Wednesday with verbal bombs dropping from New York City to Albany.

United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew said he was hopeful that layoffs can be avoided through negotiations with the city.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's accusation this morning that school districts and their allies are playing politics with kids by using the threat of teacher layoffs to try to scare lawmakers — and the public — into opposing the governor's education funding cuts hasn't stopped them from doing... well... just that.

And his decision not to fully back Mayor Bloomberg's push to do away with the last in, first out layoff system for teachers is credited with keeping the city teachers union quiet on his proposed education cuts.

«The Council has serious concerns about 4,200 teacher layoffs, losing nearly 17,000 unfunded childcare slots and the closure of 20 fire companies,» she said in a joint statement with Council Finance Chairman Domenic Recchia (D - Brooklyn).

But now AFL - CIO President Denis Hughes is suggesting that the administration might actually cross that bridge if it supports a bill proposed by Sen. John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican, that would do away with the «last in, first out» rule of public school teacher layoffs.

With so many other cuts under consideration, including thousands of teacher layoffs, it's unclear whether this will become a priority at the City Council.

But with Cuomo pushing — should Bloomberg choose to cooperate — New York might yet see sanity in the teacher - layoff system.

Launched on May 22, the 30 - second TV spot paints a bleak picture of city public schools with «class sizes up, after - school programs gone» and «great teachers threatened by layoffs.»

With the threat of 4,200 teacher layoffs still looming as the school year draws to a close, an angry Michael Mulgrew called on the delegates to be prepared to hit the streets this summer in the event that even one teacher receives a pink slip.

The new timeline is a win for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has spent recent months vigorously lobbying to replace the state's «Last in, first out» seniority - based teacher firing policy with one based on merit ahead of a massive layoff plan.

The money is supposed to be used to prevent teacher layoffs, although some districts already managed to avoid that with salary freezes and other give - back agreements with unionized employees.

With New York City schools planning for up to 8,500 layoffs, new teachers like Mr. Borock, and half a dozen others at his school, could be some of the ones most likely to be let go.

School districts faced with declining enrollments could avoid layoffs by using a popular Canadian program that allows teachers to defer part of their annual salaries to fund a year off with pay.

The effectiveness - based layoffs result in fewer layoff notices and are much more equitably distributed across student subgroups; black students in particular are only marginally more likely to have been in a classroom with a teacher who received a layoff notice under this system.

There is some evidence to suggest that school districts are choosing to retain teachers in subject areas with teacher shortages, with 13.3 percent of teachers that received layoff notices falling into such a category compared to 15.1 percent of teachers who did not receive a notice.

This difference is statistically significant, but it pales in comparison to the difference in probability for a first - year teacher compared to a teacher with 12 or more years of seniority: The estimated probability of a teacher with 12 or more years of seniority receiving a layoff notice is less than one - quarter of 1 percent for every endorsement area (see Figure 1).

Our final sample includes 1,717 teachers who received a layoff notice in 2008 — 09 and 407 teachers who received one in 2009 — 10, with 130 teachers who received a layoff notice in both school years.

With a seniority - based layoff policy, school systems may be forced to cut some of their most promising new talent rather than dismiss more - senior teachers, who may not be terribly effective in raising student achievement.

Calls to reform teacher layoff policies have begun to appear with regularity in newspaper editorials, policy briefs, and statehouses — and for good reason.

Before that, a group of 11 teachers affiliated with E4E developed a proposal for an alternative to seniority in determining who would be let go in the event of layoffs.

Finally, starting with the least effective teachers in each district and moving up the effectiveness ladder, enough teachers are assigned to a hypothetical layoff pool to achieve a budgetary savings for each district that is at least as great as the budgetary savings each district would have seen had all the teachers who received a layoff notice in 2008 — 09 actually been laid off.

Conversely, teachers with endorsements in health, physical education, or the arts are far more likely to receive a layoff notice.

We calculate that districts would only have to lay off 132 teachers under an effectiveness - based system in order to achieve the same budgetary savings they would achieve with 145 layoff notices under today's seniority - driven system, a difference of about 10 percent.

The chants of «teachers, not technology» and «laptops for layoffs» increasingly appear to be relics of the past, but more and more people seem to agree that digital learning in K — 12 classrooms works best when it is used with the oversight of a teacher.

However, it is a rare education reporter, teacher who receives a layoff notice (however unlikely to be acted upon), or parent who was expecting to have the highly regarded but layoff - vulnerable Ms. Jones for her 3rd - grade child in the fall, who sees the matter in historical perspective or with objectivity.

Budgetary shortfalls, school district bankruptcies, teacher and administrator layoffs, hiring and salary freezes, pension system defaults, shorter school years, ever - larger classes, faculty furloughs, fewer course electives, reduced field trips, foregone or curtailed athletics, outdated textbooks, teachers having to make do with fewer supplies, cuts in school maintenance, and other tales of fiscal woe inevitably captivate the news media, particularly during the late - spring and summer budget and appropriations seasons.

Third, there's a revolution underway in teacher evaluation and many of the HR practices associated with it, including retention, tenure, compensation, promotions, and layoffs.

A veteran teacher with tenure receives preferential treatment over newer teachers in school assignments and with respect to layoffs and dismissal procedures.

While it wouldn't be enough to reach the spending levels of 2010 — 11, it would give Milwaukee some flexibility in recalling the 519 teachers who had been served with layoff notices.

With schools throughout the country facing leaner budgets, the threat of layoffs, and increasingly demanding accountability measures, teachers are experiencing new and varied workplace pressures.

A bit more than a year ago a California Superior Court, ruling in Vergara v. California, overturned California statutes guaranteeing due process protections for K - 12 teachers with more than two years experience (so - called «teacher tenure») and layoff by seniority.

Using national examples from districts including LAUSD, the report also includes information about how seniority - based layoffs exacerbate the number of people who lose their jobs because districts have to layoff more teachers with low salaries to meet budgetary demands.

The Disproportionate Impact of Seniority - Based Layoffs on Poor, Minority Students Looking at the 15 largest districts in California authors Cristina Sepe and Marguerite Roza, demonstrate that teachers at risk of layoff are concentrated in schools with more poor and minority students, concluding that «last in, first out» policies disproportionately affect...

The suit also challenged the «last hired, first fired» laws that require districts to follow seniority during layoffs and dismiss the least - senior teachers first, with exceptions for those with needed and specialized skills.

Such changes are controversial because the idea of measuring a teacher's contributions to student learning contests the predominant labor management model in education: salaries and benefits that increase with experience, and layoffs based on reverse order of seniority.

In papers filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the teachers claimed that the layoff clause in their contract violated their equal - protection and due - process rights under the 14th Amendment and their right to protection from racial discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Sections 1981 and 1983 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871.

Nevada school superintendents pleaded with state lawmakers Thursday for flexibility from educational mandates to try to meet a 10 percent budget reduction that could mean thousands of teacher layoffs statewide.

In a landmark decision, a Superior Court judge ruled that Priority Schools qualified for protection, along with teachers in areas of shortage, under the teacher layoff statute because Priority Schools teachers received specialized training.

Friction with the Sacramento City Teachers Association started early, during tense negotiations in response to state - forced budget cuts, over higher class sizes, furlough days, pay cuts and hundreds of preliminary layoff notices.

Following years of teacher layoffs, the welcome arrival of new funding has collided with a sharp decline in the pipeline of new teachers.

But the settlement reached with the District at that time did not bring the necessary resources and it resulted in teacher layoffs at non-Reed Schools?

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.