Sentences with phrase «district teachers rallied»

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New York, NY — More than 500 district school parents rallied outside City Hall today to demand answers from Mayor de Blasio about the Absent Teacher Reserve (ATR).

parents, students, teachers and other district workers rallied Tuesday morning to counter the U.S. education secretary's recent testimony about public schools.Local teachers union president Annie Irvine...

Mr. Rodriguez, the representative of the district where the rally took place, argued that the Assembly had given a great deal to teachers unions and public education advocates by proposing a $ 1.8 billion outlay for schools in the budget.

The rally was co-sponsored by members of the Let NY Vote coalition, which includes over thirty organizations, nonprofits, and labor unions, including Common Cause / NY, Public Citizen, New York State United Teachers, SEIU 32BJ, RWDSU, CWA District 1, as well as the statewide NAACP and the National Action Network, grassroots organizations, faith groups, civil liberties, reproductive and immigrant rights, criminal justice and re-entry groups, New American, and the LGBTQ community.

Teachers in the Ithaca City School District are holding a rally and march today to demand better pay and benefits.

The Buffalo Parent - Teacher Organization rallied parents Wednesday behind Kaleida's school nurses, who were disqualified from retaining the district's nursing contract because Kaleida returned its proposal 16 minutes late.

All of this helps to explain why «teacher accountability» is now the reformer's primary rallying cry — and why the battle is primarily being fought at the state, rather than district, level.

parents, students, teachers and other district workers rallied Tuesday morning to counter the U.S. education secretary's recent testimony about public schools.Local teachers union president Annie Irvine...

District 6 (East Valley) candidate Monica Ratliff was spotted outside at the UTLA rally to hire more teachers / reduce class size.

New York, NY — More than 500 district school parents rallied outside City Hall today to demand answers from Mayor de Blasio about the Absent Teacher Reserve (ATR).

At the time, nearly a dozen school districts had announced they were closing due to the teacher rally, and Johnson said he hoped no others would follow.

CNN reports that dozens of public school districts throughout Kentucky have canceled Friday's classes to allow teachers and school personnel to attend the rally.

Hundreds of parents, teachers and activists rallied Tuesday morning in support of L.A. schools chief John Deasy ahead of his meeting with the Board of Education to discuss his performance and his future with the district.

Madison Teachers Inc. urged its members to call in sick last Wednesday to attend rallies at the Capitol, which resulted in the district canceling school.

Faced with a $ 4 million budget deficit, school officials got a reminder of their financial troubles on Tuesday when a couple hundred teachers rallied outside the district offices before a board meeting demanding more than the 1 percent pay raise the district is offering.

Our City Our Schools (OCOS) and the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT) organized a celebratory rally outside district headquarters just before the meeting.

Two more counties in Eastern North Carolina have joined the growing list of school districts that plan to close on Wednesday when thousands of teachers from across the state are expected to rally for increased funding for public education.

I hope that this critique of the Common Core is part of the 2016 rallying cry for parents to opt their children out of tests on those inadequate standards, a rallying cry for school districts to not design curricula based on the intellectually bankrupt Common Core, and a rallying cry for good teachers everywhere to speak up about what learning really is and to make sure that real learning, not test prep, is what they foster in their classrooms.

Students, teachers, and anti-charter activists rallied outside the School District of Philadelphia headquarters to call for the disbanding of the School Reform Commission, Oct. 13, 2016.

Community members rallied around the school, pushed against a district plan to allow a charter operator to run it, and helped choose partner Johns Hopkins - affiliate Talent Development Secondary to work with teachers and school staff to strengthen academics.

While it would be a mistake to assume that what was on display at Daley Plaza reflected the opinions of all teachers in the Chicago district, it was interesting to observe the crowd that was attracted to the union's rally.

This week in #nced: 26 Districts and Counting Close As Teachers Rally for Public School Support; Gov. Roy Cooper Wants to Give Teachers and State Workers a Big Raise

So far, 26 school districts across North Carolina have canceled classes next Wednesday as anywhere from 10,000 to 15,000 teachers plan to march to the Legislative Building then rally on Bicentennial Plaza.

About 200 parents, students and teachers rallied Wednesday morning outside Castelar Street Elementary School in Chinatown as part of a «walk - in» calling for lower class sizes at LA Unified, increased staffing and more accountability for Prop. 39, the law that gives charter schools the right to use empty class space at district schools through a process called «co-location.»

On Wednesday, June 21, 2017, more than 150 teachers, education workers, parents, and other concerned community members rallied on the steps of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) office to call on Board officials and Trustees to address the growing concern of inequitable Full - Day Kindergarten (FDK) class sizes.