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Paul Bonham says he was forced to resign. Catawba County Schools says he wasn't extended tenure. The only thing his students know is that he won't be at Catawba Valley ...
Since being named interim superintendent in May 2011, Vargas has denied tenure to 12 of the 87 administrators who came before him, a denial rate of 14 percent. All 12 of those denials came since ...
Longtime Norwalk teacher Danita Coverson was fired from the district in March for allegedly making "antisemitic and unprofessional comments" while giving a lesson on the Holocaust, officials say.
First, the relevant faculty member goes under an internal departmental review. During this review, the executive committee (consisting of professors of the faculty member’s school), the dean of the ...
The university’s contingent teachers unionized in the spring. Before they sign their first agreement, they want administrators to stop limiting their contract renewals. In Harvard University’s ...
Nearly 40 percent of teachers who responded to an Education Week LinkedIn survey in 2022 said they write more than 10 letters of recommendation every year. And 10 percent said they write more than 30.
Each recommendation letter can take up to an hour or longer to complete, some teachers have estimated . That means some teachers could spend up to 30 hours or more knocking out recommendations.
Connecticut teacher tenure laws • To be tenured, teachers hired since July 1, 1996, must complete 40 school months of continuous full-time employment for the same board of education provided the ...
“our qualification comes from God, who has indeed qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit.” (2 Cor 3:5-6) The season for letters of recommendation is upon us.
Expectations that Berkeley High School, or BHS, teachers write large numbers of letters of recommendation for students has given them an increasingly overwhelming workload, as first reported by ...
Opinion Guest opinion: Alabama teacher tenure law vital now Published: May. 03, 2022, 6:55 a.m. By Jean Lufkin Bouler This is a guest opinion column ...