Sentences with phrase «without teacher approval»

Lewis, who has rejected the district's offer to serve on an advisory committee for instituting a lengthened school day next fall, when the district can do so without teacher approval, held her position Monday.

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Attorneys representing teachers and school administrators said the governor overstepped his constitutional authority by delaying the payments on Dec. 15 without legislative approval.

For example, contrary to expectations that Louisiana would use the definitive data it has been collecting from its value - added examination of teacher - preparation programs for over a decade, it has yet to withhold approval from any program, believing instead that programs will choose to improve on their own without the state's interference.

Violence perpetrated by teachers and other school staff, with or without the overt or tacit approval of education ministries and other authorities that oversee schools, includes corporal punishment, cruel and humiliating forms of psychological punishment, sexual and gender - based violence, and bullying.

A group of educators and state legislators have filed suit against Hanna Skandera, the secretary - designate of the New Mexico Public Education Department, seeking to invalidate the department's teacher evaluation policies that Skandera enacted without legislative approval.

While all new teachers would begin their teaching careers without the highly qualified label, they could quickly earn it, indicating to families, schools, and districts, a national stamp of approval.

Among them, Utah asserts its «absolute and exclusive right» to modify Utah Core Standards, SAGE assessments, the Utah Comprehensive Accountability System, and its own teacher and principal evaluations systems without approval from or sanction by the U.S. Department of Education.

TCTA testified at the hearing, pointing out that since the law requires that a local district innovation plan can not be adopted without the approval of the majority of the district - level decision - making committee, it was critical for the rules to make clear that the law requires the professional staff in a school district to nominate and elect professional staff representatives on the committee, with at least two - thirds of the elected representatives being classroom teachers.

The provision allowed school districts to hire uncertified teachers for non-academic CTE courses on school district teaching permits without needing approval from the commissioner of education.

The state's governor, Bobby Jindal, is looking to further burnish the state's efforts on the teacher quality front this week with his proposal to eliminate near - lifetime employment for laggard teachers with unsatisfactory ratings on the state's new teacher evaluation system, while pushing further on expanding charters by allowing successful charter operators to expand without having to go through the current approval process, and allowing the state education department to authorize charters throughout the state (and thus, ending efforts by traditional districts to restrict school choice within their boundaries).

State Appointed Administrator of Inglewood School District Steps Down Kent Taylor, the state administrator in charge of the financially troubled Inglewood School District, resigned from the position Friday after the Department of Education learned of a tentative agreement he made with the local teachers union without approval from the state.

LAUSD Board Confirms Its Union - Occupied Status When I heard that the Los Angeles Unified school board had passed a resolution barring its superintendent from seeking grants without board approval, I was 10,000 percent certain it was because John Deasy had sought funding that had strings attached related to teacher performance.

Luna's Students Come First plan, embodied in SB1184 (2011) and several other laws, emphasized a technology - driven agenda that included a one - to - one laptop initiative for all students and teachers in the state, a review and approval process for online courses, and greater student choice to enroll in online courses without district approval.