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Jaime Walker

Breaking down Senate Bill 5 | Cincinnati.com | cincinnati.com - 0 views

news.cincinnati.com/...Breaking-down-Senate-Bill-5

sb5 breaking down bill

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  • Jaime Walker on 15 Sep 11
     
    talks about what the bill means, who and how many it affects, how affects the schools and teachers
  • Ryan Sabin on 04 Oct 11
     
    Maybe some cuts need to made but they should not be made in a way that doesn't allow people to fight for themselves.
Samantha Smith

Is Virtual Schooling a Virtual Reality? - 3 views

www.fno.org/...virtualschool.html

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  • Virtual schools can be divided into three broad categories. These are the independent, collaborative and broadcast models, respectively.
    • Samantha Smith
      Samantha Smith on 22 Sep 11
       
      I think it is a good way to look at virtual schooling and break it down
    • Kayla Geiger
      Kayla Geiger on 22 Sep 11
       
      It is useful to think about the different opportunities that students can have in their virtual schools. Since the author is looking at different categories that is good so we can learn more about how virtual schools function.
  • "it is no longer necessary to learn from a textbook alone or to follow a set schedule of class time...The classroom walls are taken down and learning is possible anytime the student has access to a computer ...and the Internet".
    • Samantha Smith
      Samantha Smith on 22 Sep 11
       
      even though i like being on the computer i would not want to take school on it. and i think reading a text book stimulates the mind
    • Rachel Kennell
      Rachel Kennell on 22 Sep 11
       
      Reading on a computer screen can stimulate the mind also, and virtual schools use textbooks too sometimes.
  • Victoria Zuber on 15 Sep 11
     
    virtual reality
  • Victoria Zuber on 20 Sep 11
     
    At the very top of this site it is stated that everything in this article is the author's opinions so things taken from this sight should be used more lightly than others that provide proven facts and statistics.
  • anonymous on 20 Sep 11
     
    Description: This link covers a mix of things - mainly covering the author's feelings. It talks about the future of schooling, why virtual schools are becoming popular, and so on.
Britni Dunlap

Ohio's Senate Bill 5 will bring dramatic changes | cleveland.com - 3 views

www.cleveland.com/..._senate_bill_5_will_bring.html

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  • a collective-bargaining bill that dramatically reduces the power of some 350,000 unionized public workers, including teachers, police officers and firefighters.
  • Collective bargaining: Restricts collective bargaining to wage issues. Under the former law, public workers had a right to collectively bargain for wages, benefits such as health care and pensions and specific workplace conditions, including staffing levels at fire stations or building assignments for teachers. Under the new law most public workers will be able to bargain only on their pay.
  • Safety equipment: Allows police and fire officials to negotiate for safety equipment. This is an exception to the above provision, which was added by the House. It concerns only equipment directly related to the safety of the officer or firefighter, like bulletproof vests and shields. It does not include other equipment, such as computers in squad cars.
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  • Traffic tickets: Prohibits linking patrol officer evaluations to how many citations they write. Patrol officers in some police agencies and the state highway patrol were evaluated and given pay increases, in part, according to how many traffic violations they issued to motorists. That can no longer be a basis for performance evaluation under the new law.
  • Health care: Requires public workers to pay at least 15 percent of their health care coverage. The goal here is to force unionized workers to pay more for their health care costs and thereby lower that expense for local and state governments. Supporters of the law say that private sector workers on average pay about 23 percent of their health care costs.
  • • Merit-based pay for teachers: Ohio's 146,000 primary and secondary school teachers will be evaluated largely based on how their students did on standardized testing along with other more subjective criteria. By April 1 of each year, teachers would be evaluated based on their students' test scores, their licensure level, whether they had achieved "highly qualified" teaching status, at least two 30-minute or more observations of them by administrators as well as other criteria selected by local school boards. Decisions about which teachers are laid off or fired and what kind of pay they would receive would be based on this evaluation process.
  • Pension pickups: Ohio governments cannot offer so called "pension pickups" where the governmental unit pays a portion of the 10 percent employees are supposed to contribute to their pensions. The law does not raise the employee contributions above the standard 10 percent, nor does it reduce the contribution levels of the state as an employer. However, a pension reform bill being considered in the House does increase contributions levels for pensions for teachers, police officers, firefighters and state highway patrolmen. Once again, it is not a part of SB 5.
  • Binding arbitration: Eliminates binding arbitration and creates an alternative allowing contracts in some cases to go to voters if they cost more. If governmental employees in a union cannot reach an agreement with management on a new contract, a fact-finder must be appointed to make recommendations. If a majority of the union members or management reject the fact-finder's recommendations, the legislative body that oversees the government workers (a city council, for example) must hold a vote within 30 days of the current contract expiring to choose between the "last, best" offers of the union and management. If the legislative body chooses to do nothing, the last best offer of management becomes the new contract. In cases where the higher-cost offer is selected by the legislative body, the chief financial officer of the governmental body determines whether new revenue is needed to fulfill the offer that has been chosen. If so, there is a procedure by which signatures can be collected and both "last best" offers placed on the ballot for voters to chose between.
  • Decertification: Makes it easier to end union representation by lowering the percentage of workers needed to trigger such a move. In the past, a majority of employees was needed to back a petition to decertify a union. Now, a vote by only 30 percent of workers is needed.
  • Payroll deductions: Prohibits any public employer from providing a payroll deduction for contributions to a union political action committee without first having written permission from the employee.
  • Dues: Employees who do not want to join a union -- but nonetheless still receive the same wages and benefits spelled out in the union contract -- no longer have to pay "fair share" dues. Fair-share dues are based only on the cost of bargaining a contract and are less than full dues.
  • Strikes: Prohibits public union workers from striking, though workers who strike illegally will not be subjected to jail time because lawmakers dropped proposed contempt of court penalties from an earlier version of the bill.
  • Holly Walter on 20 Sep 11
     
    Explains provisions of SB5
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  • Britni Dunlap on 30 Sep 11
     
    I find it unfair for public workers to pay at least 15% of their heath care just to lower that expense for local and state governments. Teachers will be paid depending on how well their students do on standardized testing. What happens if you have students who are differently abled in your classroom? What if there are students included in your section that you don't even teach? How can you be held accountable for the scores of students who you don't even teach? How can we be paid depending on student test scores when not all students are good test takers? I think a test/assessment does not show everything that a child has learned. I feel this is unfair to teachers. Yes, there are other aspects to deciding on pay but this is a huge part of it.
  • Holly Walter on 01 Oct 11
     
    I completely agree that the practice of assessments is an unfair way to evaluate teacher performance. The only problem is, how can their performances be evaluated? I'm glad that we're making an effort to evaluate teachers, particularly because I questioned the ability of many of my teachers throughout primary and secondary school. How can they be tested on their content knowledge and their effectiveness as teachers? And is it really fair for some teachers to have tenure? I had this teacher in high school that was absolutely terrible, and in no way deserved her position. She did not have respect of her students, she didn't respect her students, and we took nothing away from any of her classes. She did not teach. I don't think it's fair to automatically shut down an effort to evaluate teachers, because teachers do need to be evaluated. I don't think this is a career for everyone, and I don't think just anyone should be allowed to teach. Let's remember what's best for the students - high quality education, and thus, engaging teachers. And couldn't these evaluations motivate teachers to strive for excellence? If they work harder to produce higher test scores, students will have learned more, and teachers will earn the pay they deserve. Perhaps this is something to think about.
  • Amanda Jerwers on 04 Oct 11
     
    Most future teachers find it unfair to figure health care benefits based on student's standardized tests but also do not know how else to assess teachers to judge their performance.
  • Ryan Sabin on 04 Oct 11
     
    This is the only way to measure. There are clear standards and based on results it is black and white if the teacher meet them or not.
  • Jaime Walker on 04 Oct 11
     
    Repo Man; What is being talked about here is how the pay is based off of test scores of the students in the grade, whether you teach them or not. Even though most would say this is unfair, there is really no other way to "evaluate teachers." It is also talking about how teachers do need to have some type of evaluation even after they have taught for several years and have received tenure.
Amanda Jerwers

Analysis of SB5-PDF file - 2 views

www.lsc.state.oh.us/...11-sb5-129.pdf

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  • Holly Walter on 20 Sep 11
     
    An in-depth analysis of SB5
  • Amanda Jerwers on 20 Sep 11
     
    cannot be highlighted-has good information broken down into sections
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