Seniority

Joy Resmovits

Charters, Choice, Teacher Quality: What The American Public Wants In Its Schools

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Education News, American Federation of Teachers, Arne Duncan, Teacher Trust, Vouchers, Randi Weingarten, Teachers Unions, Standardized Tests, Gallup, Politics, Teacher Tenure, Education, Test Scores, Charter Schools, Merit Pay, Education Sector, School Choice, Pdk, Teachers, Seniority, Education News

During a year of turmoil, layoffs and wrangling over the hiring and firing of teachers, American appreciation for teachers reached an all-time high --...

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Joy Resmovits

States Take Different Approaches To Education Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Education News, Collective Bargaining, Education, Teacher Evaluations, Nevada Teachers, Brian Sandoval, Tenure, Standardized Tests, Teachers Union, Last in First Out, Education Reform, Tennessee Teachers, Tennessee Education Association, Seniority, Education News

Nevada could soon join Tennessee in becoming the latest in a long line of states to pass laws that drastically alter the teaching profession. In N...

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New York State Teachers Fight Back

Alan Singer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bloomberg, Wisconsin Unions, Teachers Union, Teachers, Nysut, Michigan, Budget Cuts, Seniority, New York News
Alan Singer

Teachers' unions now face decertification and an end to collective bargaining in Wisconsin and Michigan. In Wisconsin, the governor and legislature pa...

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Mayor Bloomberg Booed and Excoriated for his Proposed Teacher Layoffs and Attacks on Seniority Protections

Leonie Haimson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Teacher Layoffs, Class Size, Booed, Alan Krueger, Mayor Bloomberg, Lifo, St. Patrick's Day Parade, Seniority, New York, Education News
Leonie Haimson

Mayor Bloomberg was roundly booed at the annual Queens St. Patrick's Day parade on Saturday for threatening to lay off of over 4,000 teachers and his attack on their seniority rights.

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The Need to Eliminate Seniority-Based Layoff Policies

Whitney Tilson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Teacher Layoffs, Seniority, Education News
Whitney Tilson

The idea that there are indisputably horrible teachers, doing harm to children, in our schools right now, protected by their union, is unconscionable.

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Should Teachers Be Laid Off By Seniority?

Richard Whitmire | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michelle Rhee, Randi Weingarten, Michael Bloomberg, Dennis Van Roekel, Teacher Layoffs, Teachers, Teacher-Seniority, Seniority, Education News
Richard Whitmire

Are the freshest-hired teachers on this list at their neighborhood schools really the ones you want to see disappear?

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The Affluent, Failing, Public School: Does It Really Exist?

Martha Infante | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sanctions, California, Budget Cuts, Ineffective Teachers, Arne Duncan, Homeless Students, Utla, Teachers Unions, Students of Poverty, Failing Schools, South Central Los Angeles, Central Falls, Teacher Quality, Waiting for Superman, Lausd, Charter Schools, Value Added Measurement, Merit Pay, Parent Participation, Great Schools, Turnaround, Martha Infante, Nclb, Seniority, Rtt, California Teachers Association, The Affluent, Failing, Public School: Does It Really Exist?, Education News
Martha Infante

If bad teachers are everywhere, then failing schools must be everywhere too. Thus I began my search for affluent, failing schools with the information available on the world wide web.

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Join in Demanding Accountability in the Senate: "Vote for Cloture or Lose Seniority"

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harry Reid, Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, Patty Murray, Seniority, Dick Durbin, Cloture, Politics News
Paul Abrams

Democrats in the Senate are considering holding colleagues accountable for halting Republican filibusters by stripping seniority and chairmanships from those who do not vote for cloture. Let us demand it.

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