Tenure laws, for example, are so strong, she said, that rather than try to remove ineffective teachers, administrators often just try to place them "where they can do the least amount of harm".
They can't use it to close down schools or remove ineffective teachers and administrators for failing to meet some arbitrary target that may or may not be an indicator of learning.
With the departure of the city's often ineffective and sometimes corrupt Portuguese administrators, the local police have cracked down.
But the unionization effort raises questions about whether unions will strengthen the charter movement by stabilizing its young, often transient teaching force, or weaken it by preventing administrators from firing ineffective teachers and imposing changes they say help raise achievement, like an extended school year.
Policy makers and social administrators of the ineffective provinces across Canada may find benefit in selecting one of the effective provinces as a benchmark for improving their own performance based on similar size and structure of population, size of the budget for social programs, and traditions with administering particular types of social programs.
He appears to have had no independent directors to turn to for advice when he needed it and ultimately has come out of the entire affair looking weak, ineffective and nothing more than an administrator in the News Corp empire.
By overreacting to Virginia Tech, not only are college administrators instituting security measures that may well prove ineffective, but they are also undermining the carefree atmosphere of campus life.
The American Federation of Teachers endorsed a sweeping law in Colorado last year that lets administrators remove even tenured teachers who are consistently rated as ineffective.
Mr. Bloomberg has successfully lobbied the Legislature for a new teacher evaluation system that, among other changes, gives school administrators more power to dismiss teachers who are repeatedly rated ineffective.
A group of campaign watchdogs, calling the Federal Election Commission a "failed agency" designed by Congress to be ineffective, proposed replacing it with an independent agency headed by a single administrator.
