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Limited contracts for new teachers?
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:12:51 -0800
RICHMOND --A House of Delegates committee has approved legislation to limit the length of teacher contracts. The bill has changed since Gov. Bob McDonnell first proposed doing away with the "continuing contracts" teachers receive after making it through a probationary period. McDonnell wanted to shift to one-year teacher contracts and to apply a more stringent evaluation process....
Teacher contract bill headed to full House
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:05:38 -0800
The measure has undergone substantial alterations from the original proposal to institute annual contracts and evaluations, to a plan that would allow teachers currently on continuing contracts to keep them.
Malloy calls for tougher standards for teacher education
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:30:21 -0800
NEW BRITAIN -- To put the best teachers in Connecticut classrooms, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced plans Tuesday to toughen standards for university students who want to go into teaching and will offer up to ,000 in loan forgiveness for those who commit to working in troubled school districts.
Teachers union offers competing education revamp
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:38:47 -0800
BATON ROUGE, La. ( AP ) -- One of the most vocal critics of Gov. Bobby Jindal's education proposals, the Louisiana Association of Educators, offered its suggestions Friday on how to improve teacher quality and boost performance at failing schools, saying Jindal's ideas are flawed and demoralizing to teachers. The LAE offered a counter-proposal that would require 0 million or more in new ...
Bill preserves teachers' contracts - www.roanoke.com
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:00:29 -0800
New teachers who aren't up for continuing contracts would get a three-year one. RICHMOND — The sponsor of a bill to do away with a de facto tenure system for public schoolteachers has revised it to allow those with existing continuing contracts to keep them. New teachers — anyone who isn't up for a continuing contract by July 1, 2013 — would get a three-year contract instead. The House Education ...
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