Sentences with phrase «city teachers recently»

New York City teachers recently balked at a proposal to include student test data in the evaluations.

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The city's Palmer Park Preparatory Academy was recently on the cover of Education Week for becoming a teacher led school in which teachers take over administrative duties.

Bullied and bludgeoned by weeks of intense public debate over a longer school day, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis fought back Friday by filing an unfair labor practices complaint against Chicago Public Schools leadership and accusing Emanuel of trying to intimidate her in a profanity - filled tirade recently at City Hall.

King recently expressed extreme frustration with the teachers union and school administrators in several large cities downstate and upstate, over what he said was a failure to come up with a teacher evaluation plan by a December 31 deadline, to meet requirements for the federal Race to the Top grant awards.

Recently, Ms. Moskowitz and a charter lobbying organization with which she is closely associated, Families for Excellent Schools, have criticized the Education Department as not doing more to address violence and physical abuse by teachers in the city's regular public schools.

Moreover, as recently as January, the New York City teacher pension fund divested holdings in five publicly traded firearms manufacturers, for investments valued at $ 13.5 million.

The couple recently had bought an $ 800,000 home in Westchester County at about the time Lisa Toscano - Percoco gave up her job as a New York City public school teacher.

Governor Cuomo recently wrapped up a rocky end of the legislative session, and has been feuding with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as well as the teachers union.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Union leaders with the Buffalo Teachers Federation recently announced they've agreed on an arbitrator in its dispute over City Honors with the Buffalo Public School District.

Buffalo Public School teachers recently received a letter directly from the city school board outlining the latest contract offer from the District.

«The tax refunds that Paulson and Singer would stand to receive through the refusal to extend the millionaires tax would be pocket change to them, but they could provide the New York City school district with the money to rehire dozens of recently - fired teachers aides.

The city recently announced a similar agreement to raise the minimum wage of all city workers to $ 15 per hour — including pre-K teachers, custodial workers and crossing guards.

Cuomo recently wrapped up a rocky end of the legislative session, and has been feuding with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as well as the teachers union.

His projects include the Urban Yogis, which provides yoga and meditation access to inner - city youth, and trains them to be yoga teachers; Breathe, Move, Rest, a public education health and wellness non-profit; and most recently, The Breathing App, a free app that teaches resonance breathing for stress and anxiety reduction.

Recently, the New York City Department of Education (DOE) conducted a policy experiment to test whether merit pay given to all teachers at an effective school could increase student achievement.

One of the lessons taught by Learning Lab staff teacher Lucilla Ralfa when I visited recently was about erosion: After a lesson about the concept, the students, inner city children in grades 4 - 6, were given dirt, sand, pebbles and rocks to make a model of a mountain that would stand up to a hurricane.

The floodgates of a longstanding debate were reopened recently when a group of New York City parents raised $ 46,000 to pay the salary of a laid off teacher.

Ed Next recently published an evaluation of the impact of a merit pay plan in New York City that awarded bonuses to all teachers in schools that met performance targets.

(Recently, the New York City teachers union won an arbitration decision mandating that «lesson plans are for the personal use of the teacher» and that supervisors may not «mandate specific elements of lesson plans.»)

In Indianapolis, the local nonprofit The Mind Trust recently analyzed projected teacher needs across the city's charter sector and plans to use the data to inform the way it supports schools of all kinds.

Until recently, this eBay for educational philanthropy was available only to teachers in the New York City school system, where it has channeled more than $ 2 million (more than 60 percent of which came from outside the Big Apple) into over 1,400 classrooms.

It is now possible to provide some answers to these questions by exploring the relative effectiveness of recently hired New York City public school teachers who entered the profession through alternate routes.

Brookings Institution scholar Diane Ravitch and United Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, both of whom supported mayoral control, wrote recently in the New York Times that Bloomberg's powers are «unchecked» and the city's education department operates in secrecy, denying «the right of the public to have a say in important decisions.»

Motivated to enter politics after a «life - shattering, perspective - shattering» experience as a Baltimore City Schools teacher, Bill's time in the classroom continues to inform his legislative efforts, most recently his leadership on the passage of an unprecedented $ 1 billion initiative to renovate and rebuild 35 city schoCity Schools teacher, Bill's time in the classroom continues to inform his legislative efforts, most recently his leadership on the passage of an unprecedented $ 1 billion initiative to renovate and rebuild 35 city schocity schools.

The teachers union recently accused City Hall of giving the Success Academy charter schools I run favorable treatment — a charge echoed by all the Democratic candidates present at a Tuesday mayoral debate...

Most recently, she served as director of performance - based assessment design, where she led initiatives focused on performance assessment development and implemented a professional development program for 60 teachers across New York City focused on Common Core rollout.

Most recently, he worked as a Teacher Fellow for New York City's CSforAll initiative, where he trained pre - and in - service teachers and collaborated with industry professionals on the expansion of CS programs to all students in New York City.

In New York City, it was recently reported that $ 100 million has been spent on professional development yet there is no indication of whether it has had any impact on our teachers.

Seven music teachers from the Syracuse City School District were recently recognized in the magazine Teaching Music for their initiative to save the strings program in the district.

New York City's school system, the largest in the United States, recently layered on top of NCLB a system of sanctions (up to and including removing principals from their jobs) and financial rewards for both schools and their principals; this system gives teachers and principals alike strong incentives to care about the quality of the teaching in their classrooms.

Justin has 9 years of teaching experience, most recently as a secondary math teacher in the Dodge City School District.

Adams 14 (Commerce City) teachers recently took a Saturday to ask parents how they could do better.

I was excited to see how a bunch of teachers from across the city came together and decided the policy focus for an organization I had only recently joined.

T he teachers union recently accused City Hall of giving the Success Academy charter schools I run favorable treatment — a charge echoed by all the Democratic candidates present at a Tuesday mayoral debate.

Philadelphia's state - appointed school board (called the School Reform Commission) recently suspended the expired contract that city's local of Randi Weingarten's American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has been working under for two years.

The New York City Department of Education recently won a federal Teacher and School Leader Incentive Program grant for a suite of programs to elevate and modernize teaching in the Bronx.

Part of the winning proposal emphasized an oft - stated priority of recently retired schools chancellor Carmen Fariña — to implement «Future Teacher» clubs and courses in high schools across the city.

NEW YORK — StudentsFirstNY called on the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board to investigate disturbing questions about a potential conflict of interest during the recently completed teachers» contract negotiations.

Attacking Ravitch has become almost reflexive for Tilson; he recently wrote a post on his blog defending Joel Klein against a piece I published on my blog by a New York City teacher, but started it by saying that it sounded like Ravitch had written it.

Gov. Cuomo recently struck a deal with the state teachers union for an evaluation system that resembles the city's teacher ratings scheme.

The same is true of the information in the Teacher Data Reports recently released in New York City.

The Research Alliance for New York City Schools recently shared its findings of the «robust relationships» between school climate, teacher retention, and student achievement.

The number was so high because inner - city schools like ours tend to have a disproportionate share of teachers just starting their careers, and in last year's layoffs, the most recently hired were the first to receive pink slips.

Historically (and as researchers from Stanford University recently documented in one city, echoing findings from many previous studies), school systems have tended to assign teachers with the least experience to work with the students who need the most help, while assigning the most well - regarded veterans to work with the strongest students.

The Baltimore City school administrators who never raised a cent on their own and could never claim «I built that» even if it came to a teachers» lounge, recently wasted over $ 500,000 in public funds (that's taxpayer money) on expensive local hotel suites, lavish dinners and even wings at Hooters for students «because that was what they wanted,» and The Sun was so outraged by their indefensible waste of taxpayer money that it was called a «distraction» in an editorial.

The state education commissioner of New York, John King, recently imposed a teacher evaluation system on New York City after years of disagreement between the city and the teacher's unCity after years of disagreement between the city and the teacher's uncity and the teacher's union.

's most recent post, about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's $ 45 million worth of bogus Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) studies that were recently honored with a 2013 Bunkum (i.e., meaningless, irrelevant, junk) Award by the National Education Policy Center (NEPC), it seems that the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation are, once - again, «strong - arming states [and in this case a large city district] into adoption of policies tying teacher evaluation to measures of students» growth.»

This effect of administration is consistent for first - year teachers and the full sample of teachers and is confirmed by a survey of teachers who have recently left teaching in New York City.

PROVO — Teachers and administrators at Provo City Schools are excited about the possibilities the recently announced «Google Fiber» could bring to their students.

As Ocean City High School's Teacher of the Year, Amy T. Andersen was featured in the New Jersey School Board Association's School Leader and was recently honored by the National Liberty Museum with the Teacher as Hero: Exceptional Teacher Award.