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UTLA won't accept pay cuts, 'value-added'
The state's largest teachers union Wednesday fired an early salvo in contract negotiations, serving notice that it wouldn't accept pay cuts easily and that it won't consider linking teacher evaluations to student test scores in the Los Angeles Unified...Tags: Employees, Examinations, Teaching and Learning, Layoffs and Downsizing, Unions
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Study supports teacher ratings
For The Record
Teacher scores: A Dec. 11 article in the LATExtra section reported that a preliminary study by education experts had found that teachers whose students said they "taught to the test" scored lower than average on value-added analysis. In...Tags: Teachers Unions, Stanford University, Science and Technology, Human Interest, Teaching and Learning
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Teachers unions' clout in question
Teachers unions have a well-deserved reputation for exercising political clout. With a nearly unparalleled ability to raise cash and organize their ranks, they have elected school boards, influenced legislation and helped set the public school agenda in...Tags: Wages and Pensions, Waiting for Superman (movie), Teachers Unions, Headaches, Gloria Romero
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D.C. schools may hold lesson for L.A.
WASHINGTON -- Roxanne Brummell has thrived in what many consider the toughest new testing ground for teachers in the nation.
The fifth-grade teacher in Washington, D.C., earned a "highly effective" rating under the district's controversial system that...Tags: Adrian Fenty, Vincent Gray, Teachers Unions, Schools, Examinations
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N.Y. union seeks to curb teacher data
The New York City teachers union argued Wednesday before the state Supreme Court that the nation's largest school district should not follow through with its plan to disclose evaluation information about some 12,000 teachers by name, saying it could do...Tags: Schools, Teachers Unions, News Agency, Labor Legislation, Examinations
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Study critical of teacher layoffs
A study of Washington state teachers found that deciding layoffs based solely on who has the least seniority has a significant effect on students' ability to learn. The study comes as tens of thousands of teachers around the country stand to lose their...Tags: Schools, Teachers Unions, Examinations, Human Interest, Teaching and Learning
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U.S. schools chief endorses release of teacher data
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said Monday that parents have a right to know if their children's teachers are effective, endorsing the public release of information about how well individual teachers fare at raising their students' test scores....Tags: Arne Duncan, Teachers Unions, Schools, Labor Legislation, Examinations
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Teachers union agrees to reopen talks on evaluations
The head of the Los Angeles teachers union said Saturday that he has accepted city school district officials' proposal to reopen negotiations over teacher evaluations but stopped short of saying whether a method tying teacher reviews to their students'...Tags: Schools, Teachers Unions, Examinations, Teaching and Learning, Elections
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N.Y. can release data on teachers
The New York City school system can publicly release performance ratings for more than 12,000 teachers based on their students' test scores, a Manhattan judge ruled Monday, in what would be the largest such disclosure in the country. The interests of...Tags: Charleston, Employees, Schools, Teachers Unions, Teaching and Learning
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Teachers blast L.A. Times for releasing effectiveness rankings
National and local teachers unions sharply criticized The Times on Sunday when the newspaper published a database of about 6,000 third- through fifth-grade city school teachers ranked by their effectiveness in raising student test scores. "It is the...Tags: Arne Duncan, Teachers Unions, Schools, Newspaper and Magazine, Examinations
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Union urges Times boycott
The Los Angeles teachers union president said Sunday he was organizing a "massive boycott" of The Times after the newspaper began publishing a series of articles that uses student test scores to estimate the effectiveness of district teachers.
"You're...Tags: Teachers Unions, Examinations, Human Interest, Teaching and Learning, Elections
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Teacher leader opposes database
The head of the American Federation of Teachers said Wednesday that she believed parents have a right to know how well their children's teachers are rated on employee evaluations, but strongly disagreed with The Times' decision to publish data showing how...Tags: Arne Duncan, Teachers Unions, Labor Legislation, Examinations, Teaching and Learning
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