Sentence examples for from seniority from inspiring English sources

In fact, some of the issues that have been most contentious in the Chicago contract negotiations — test-score-driven teacher evaluations, more freedom for principals to make hiring decisions separate from seniority rules, and longer school days — originated in charter schools.

Stockdale was the highest-ranking Navy P.O.W., but his authority derived less from seniority than from that rare blend of virtues that enables a small minority of men to thrive in what the Prussian military philosopher Karl von Clausewitz called the province of danger.

By the 1970's, with the security that comes from seniority, he could vote against the popular opinion in his home state, as he did when he cast a vote to ratify the treaty giving up United States control over the Panama Canal.

(The real reason airlines laid off the attendants was that the practice prevented the women from gaining seniority, and kept wages low).

The arbitrator ruled on April 27 that the move violated a labor agreement requiring United to use flight attendants from a seniority list.

She hoped Christie would grant her a waiver from the seniority law, allowing her to lay off the lowest-rated teachers, a move that both the legislature and the national teachers' union promised to fight.

To shift from a seniority to a merit system, Schundler wants to kick the state into the information age, using data to help decide which teachers get tenure, bonuses, promotions or the boot.

Now that there's more concrete evidence than ever beFare that it is possible to give our nation's most disadvantaged children an excellent education, we have a moral imperative to step up, immerse ourselves in the lessons from their scorning and act on them with urgency.

As noted by the Washington Post, while there is good to come from disregarding seniority and promoting younger people, there is also a downside: It can set up dynamics between colleagues that are not only uncomfortable for some, but can be detrimental to productivity if not well managed.

He has assumed a dominant role on the Court not only from his seniority, but through the force of opinion-writing and his ability -- as a Republican appointee, and the Court's only remaining WWII veteran -- to bridge the Court's ideological divide.

Alphabetically, the roster this time runs from Roberto Alagna to Deborah Voigt, by seniority, from the newcomer Aleksandrs Antonenko, a tenor from Latvia, to the veteran tenor Plácido Domingo.