Tenure
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CAP Releases New Tenure Report
The perspective it offers is going to be challenging for pretty much everyone who's got skin in this particular game.
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Teacher Effectiveness Debate in L.A. Heats Up
and the removal of ineffective teachers in Los Angeles are , following this weekend's Los Angeles Times .
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L.A. Board Takes on Tenure
The Los Angeles Daily News has up about the school board's efforts to take a look at tenure, evaluation, and seniority-based bumping.
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UPDATED: NY State Quashes Tenure Discussion
Remember that big hullabaloo in New York City last year when chancellor Joel I. Klein wanted to tie teacher-tenure decisions to student test-score growth? The union successfully lobbied the state legislature to prohibit the policy for two years while a study could be done on this data and its appropriateness for being included in these types of decisions.
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Is the Tenure Conversation Changing?
The always thoughtful Sherman Dorn in . I disagree.
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States Take Up Tenure Reform
Think performance pay is the biggest teacher-policy controversy going on right now? Hold on to your hats, because it looks like the issue of teacher tenure is poised to leap onto the national scene, with at least three states considering changes to their systems for granting tenure, which grants certain "due process" rights to teachers before they can be dismissed.
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Student-Achievement Data in Tenure Decisions
The fine folks over at the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research have an interesting up on the use of student test-score data in tenure decisions.
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CAP Releases Tenure Primer
Feeling the need for some R & R? Well, the dynamic duo of Robin Chait and Raegen Miller over at the Center for American Progress have written what amounts to a on the issue of teacher tenure, the job protection granted to teachers who fulfill the terms of a probationary period.
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Tenure or Not
In this era of accountability, teacher tenure has been one of the most discussed topics. Schools chiefs like Michelle Rhee in Washington, D.C., are trying to limit it and last week the president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, said she was willing to discuss tenure reform.
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Ala. Lawmakers Reach Deal On Principal Tenure, Teacher Salaries
Alabama Gov. Donald Siegelman claimed victory last week as the state legislature hammered out an 11th-hour deal to gradually increase teacher salaries to the national average and to end tenure for new principals. He is expected to sign the measures into law this week.
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Colorado Lawmakers OK School Rating Plan
Colorado schools will be assigned letter grades based on their state test results, under a bill that Gov. Bill Owens is poised to sign into law this week.
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Plan for Grading Schools Sharply Debated in Colorado
Colorado schools would receive two letter grades鈥攐ne based on their state test scores and the other on their safety records鈥攗nder an education improvement measure working its way through the legislature.
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Georgia Legislators Pass Accountability Plan
Georgia has passed legislation based on the sweeping education proposals Gov. Roy E. Barnes outlined earlier this year, setting itself up to join such states as North Carolina and Texas in placing accountability at the center of its school improvement efforts.
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Georgia Governor's Broad Education Plans Stir Debate
Gov. Roy Barnes' plan for improving the Georgia education system is being called bold and far-reaching. But some education leaders and associations are having trouble swallowing some of the details of the package.