Sentences with phrase «city teachers union argued»

Reporting from New York — The New York City teachers union argued Wednesday before the state Supreme Court that the nation's largest school district should not follow through with its plan to disclose evaluation information about some 12,000 teachers by name, saying it could do serious harm.

Not exact matches

Ari Paul argues that police unions deserve not solidarity from other city unions, but rather, healthy antagonism — public sector workers like teachers should take a forceful stance against police brutality.

Union leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo have argued that the city has enough money to prevent teacher layoffs altogether.

Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, will argue for a «no» vote, and Dick Dadey, the executive director of Citizens Union of New York City, will present the opposite view.

During the 1990s, however, the city's teacher union, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), argued that forcing teachers to supervise homeroom was unprofeTeachers (UFT), argued that forcing teachers to supervise homeroom was unprofeteachers to supervise homeroom was unprofessional.

Union City, Kirp argues, is successful because it fosters a culture of continuous improvement of existing staff and schools, utilizes bilingual instruction, and guarantees high quality pre-school — eschewing high stakes accountability, Teach for America teachers, and school choice.

That prompted a lawsuit by the teachers union, which argued the city had agreed to keep that information private.

Teaching, at least in major cities, is also a profession in which minorities are heavily represented; when reformers argue that we need to take down teachers unions to give more opportunity to minority youth, the argument veers perilously close to «We need to destroy the black middle class in order to save it.»

The Chicago Teachers Union was depriving the city's children of their right to an education not just during the strike, editorialists argued, but also every day — by refusing to bow down to standardized tests.

«Kumbaya, that's your word,» Emanuel said with a laugh as he returned to the scrum of TV cameras and made a case for the common interests he has been arguing for months that the teachers union and the city share in their fight with Rauner to help close a $ 480 million budget gap driven by pension costs.