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Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

The CEO of the Northeast Charter Schools Network on Wednesday released an open letter to the presidents of the state's two teachers unions that criticizes their opposition to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's education policy proposals.

This, according to the Universities and College Union (UCU), suggests the government's higher education policies are failing.

Assembly Democrats in April begrudgingly approved an spending spending plan that linked a boost in school aid to the adoption of education policy changes opposed by teachers unions.

Cuomo «has charted his own course on education policy between two powerful forces: labor unions and a movement claiming the mantle of reform,» write Jacob Gershman and Lisa Fleischer.

Cuomo, at the same time, will be pushing education policy goals that are likely to favor charter schools and anger the state's teachers unions.

Earlier this year, the conference approved a package of education policy changes opposed by the state's teachers unions, but linked to a spike in school aid funding for the new year.

The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, has launched an advertising campaign aimed at parents and the public, highlighting the impact of the Conservative - driven Government education policy on children and young people.

Cuomo has come under fire for his education policies from the state's teachers unions and state lawmakers reluctantly approved the changes in part because they were tied to a boost in state education aid.

Elia's selection comes at a crucial time for education policy in New York: State lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo approved a new teacher evaluation measure in the 2015 - 16 state budget last month, a move that was deeply opposed by the state's teachers unions for its weakening of tenure.

NASUWT is the largest, by far the strongest and the only teachers» union with policies and strategies to win the fight to protect state education for generations to come.

The statewide teachers union filed a federal lawsuit late Wednesday over the state Department of Education's policy of requiring teachers to sign confidentiality agreements before scoring tests based on the Common Core standards.

Tax records from 2013 show Common Cause got $ 50,000 and Citizens Union received $ 15,000 in «sub-grants» from an Albany nonprofit called Public Policy Education Fund of New York.

He ticked off a list of school governance reforms the union is pushing for in Albany: don't allow the citywide Panel for Educational Policy to be controlled by one person; give Community Education Councils a real voice, especially concerning co-locations; and require that the schools chancellor be an educator.

Cuomo has had visibly tougher budget seasons, including changes to the state's education policies that had been deeply opposed by Democratic lawmakers and the state's teachers unions.

At 2 p.m., leaders from the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network and Education for a Better America will address the policy implications of the influx of unaccompanied children into the Hempstead, NY Union Free School District, 185 Peninsula Blvd., Hempstead.

At the same time, he praised state lawmakers for taking a «gutsy vote» on education policies in the state budget that are staunchly opposed by the state teachers» unions.

If lawmakers seem to have a sense of urgency, it's because parents and the state's teachers unions have been vocally opposed to the education changes included in the budget agreement — policies lawmakers reluctantly adopted in order to get a boost of state aid.

Commenting on the publication by the Department for Education (DfE) of «National Standards of Excellence for Headteachers», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «With increasing difficulties in recruiting new headteachers, and with record numbers of teachers wanting to leave the profession, the Coalition Government has failed to recognise the damaging effect of its policies on the morale and confidence of teachers and school leaders.

Sally Hunt, the general secretary of the University and College Union, said raising tuition fees would be «the most regressive piece of education policy since the war» and put university «out of reach for the majority».

Commenting on the Education Policy Institute's Closing the Gap report into the progress made by the Government to narrow the pupil attainment gap, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «The findings of this report are sadly unsurprising.

Commenting on Prime Minister Teresa May's speech to the Conservative Party Conference today, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «We welcome the fact that the Prime Minister clearly recognises that the education, social and economic policies of her predecessor have led to inequality across education and other public services.

Education policy issues are due to dominate the legislative session once again next year after lawmakers and Cuomo agreed to changes in the state's teacher evaluation the state's teachers unions deeply opposed in part due to the weakening of tenure and making it harder to obtain.

Political parties must commit to ending the social and economic policies which are damaging children's education, the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, has told the TUC Congress in Liverpool.

The two warring sides in the education battle — Cuomo and the teachers union — have reached something of a détente, at least when it comes to policy issues.

Beginning at 9:00 pm host Gary Axelbank will talk with Peter Murphy, the Policy Director of the New York Charter School Association, and Dr. Jessica Shiller of the Department of Middle and High School Education at Lehman College about student performance, a cap on the number of charter schools, funding, teacher's union issues, and more.

The system's sure not working — but it never will, as long as teachers unions have a veto over state education policy.

Union members also refused to interview Laura Lavine, a Republican who has centered her campaign around education policy.

As for policy, Cox pointed to the Republican Party's support for education reform efforts that have put them at odds with politically influential teachers unions.

Commenting on the information released today that the Government will not be proceeding in this Parliament with the Education for All Bill, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The Secretary of State has again shown a determination to not blithely follow the path marked out by her predecessors, and to, instead, put her own stamp onto the future policy direction for education, for gooEducation for All Bill, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The Secretary of State has again shown a determination to not blithely follow the path marked out by her predecessors, and to, instead, put her own stamp onto the future policy direction for education, for gooeducation, for good or ill.

The contribution from NYSUT comes after Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a former education committee chairman who is steeped in education policy, was seen chatting at the union's conference in Albany earlier this summer.

Nevertheless, Cuomo's education policies this year has outraged a key Democratic Party constituency: the state teachers union.

«The teachers union should not have a monopoly on state education policy,» Sedlis» memo said.

The governor did not mention charter schools, but Cuomo took a shot at teachers and their unions, who he's been at odds with over school policy, saying the teacher's fight is not about education.

It reminds me of that Yes, Minister sketch when Sir Humphrey Appleby says that it is much better that civil servants and teacher unions decide education policy because ministers are always changing.

For years, the Republican «Long Island Nine» in the State Senate stayed out of the way when Cuomo looked to pass liberal social policies like gay marriage and gun control, and supported his fiscally conservative agenda on taxes, education, public sector unions and regulation.

His policy chops make him the equal of education reformers and union leaders.

Responding to questions he said Barack Obama wanted Britain as a strong partner, which meant a United Kingdom remaining united and continuing as part of the European Union, and Labour would soon announce policies on student fees and higher education funding.

«I would rather use Bologna as an advantage, not look at it as a threat,» says Ligia Deca, chairperson of the European Students» Union (ESU), one of eight consultative members in the policy debate on higher education at the European level, and one that represents the students» perspective.

U-Multirank was produced by a group of institutions led by the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies in the Netherlands and the Centre for Higher Education in Germany, and backed by $ 2 million from the European Union for the years 2013 to 2015.

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Teachers» unions have long found friendship among Democrats (with the exception of some liberal education reformers who are supportive of Obama - era education policies) so we might expect that as Democrat lawmakers were ousted during the recent wave of Republican victories, so were the NEA's allies.

Even the teachers unions have been in the grip of neoliberal education policies, although for years I have advocated a social movement unionism — that is dedicated to engage beyond workplace concerns, but also in terms of wider political struggle for social and economic justice, for human rights, and for participatory and direct democracy.

The upshot is that, when school boards make decisions about policy or money or about the myriad rules governing school operations, they tend to give heavy weight to the interests of unions - and may often depart, as a result, from what is best for children and effective education.

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Gerald W. Bracey, a senior policy analyst for the National Education Association, was asked to resign recently because he repeatedly expressed his private opinions in a manner that suggested he was speaking for the union, top officials of the N.E.A. said last week.