Sentences with phrase «education union president»
Australian Education Union president, Correna Haythorpe concurred, saying that public schools are «performing as well as private, once socio - economic background is taken into account».
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President Obama's 2011 State of the Union Address focused on themes of education and innovation, stressing the importance of innovation economics to make the United States more competitive globally.
In his State of the Union in 2013, President Barack Obama said, «Education has to start at the earliest possible age.
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.
Among the signatories to the joint letter are former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams, Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson, President of the Accord Coalition for Inclusive Education Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain OBE, former government integration tsar Ted Cantle CBE, the General Secretaries of the National Education Union Dr Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney, as well as a number of high - profile authors, academics, and entertainers.
The president of the country's largest labor union told delegates at her organization's annual gathering that they would not work with the Trump administration because the president and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos could not be trusted to do what is in the best interests of children.
United Federation of Teachers President Mike Mulgrew referred to Klein and the Department of Education as acting «nuts» and doing «nutty» things while addressing Big Apple union delegates Friday at a meeting in Washington, DC, attendees said.
The union president said the organization will be looking at all candidates and making a decision based on what's best for education and what's best for Buffalo.
The first resolution, introduced by Vice President for Academic High Schools Janella Hinds, articulated the union's view on the role of testing in public education.
Calling it a «pivotal time in the history of our school system,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew focused on the need to rebuild public education in New York City after Mayor Bloomberg in his speech at the union's annual Spring Education Conference at the New York Hilton oeducation in New York City after Mayor Bloomberg in his speech at the union's annual Spring Education Conference at the New York Hilton oEducation Conference at the New York Hilton on May 11.
WNYALF president Richard Lipsitz told POLITICO New York the union doesn't normally come out for school board races but made an exception because it felt the current board was damaging public education in Buffalo.
UFT President Michael Mulgrew brought members of the citywide Community Education Councils and parent activists up to date on issues facing educators and schools at a meeting on May 20 at union headquarters.
In an intense Delegate Assembly on Jan. 18, UFT President Michael Mulgrew explained to delegates the competing visions of teacher evaluation held by the UFT and the city Department of Education that have resulted in the union being in Mayor Bloomberg's direct line of fire.
As CBS2's Marcia Kramer reported, some of the governor's education proposals angered teachers union president Michael Mulgrew.
This suit seeks to remedy the violations that occurred at Pan American and ensure that the New York City Department of Education protects its employees» civil rights in the future,» Bharara said in announcing the lawsuit, which came a day after his office charged the city's Correction Union President Norman Seabrook with fraud and corruption.
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...
The NYC teachers union piled on as American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten blasted Trump's pick to lead the U.S. Department of Education, Betsy DeVos, whose confirmation hearing will be tomorrow.
State teachers union President Dick Iannuzzi has gone as far as to suggest a vote of no - confidence for Education Commissioner John King.
«No one is above the law, and every court that has looked at this issue has ruled decisively that the Department of Education violated the law when it tried to close these schools,» Michael Mulgrew, the president of the union, said in a statement.
UFT President Michael Mulgrew opened the Delegate Assembly on March 25 by thanking delegates for the union's outstanding work in countering Gov. Cuomo's destructive education agenda.
Ian Austin, the education chair, recently told Corbyn to stop acting like a «student union president».
As laid out in the letter, the story of how the lobbyist, Peter Galbraith Kelly, sought an internship for the daughter of the president of a «influential» labor union led to Percoco's wife being hired for a part - time job working on an education program.
The letter is signed by world - renowned scholar Noam Chomsky, along with journalist Naomi Klein, Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and a host of other prominent scholars and activists, including some of the most established pro-public education voices.
New York State United Teachers President Karen Magee says teachers are angry over what they see as Governor Cuomo's increasingly negative view of their union, and the public education system in general.
New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) President Karen Magee says teachers are angry over what they see as the governor's increasingly negative view of their union and the public education system in general.
The president of the New York State Teachers Union says members aren't yet ready to rescind a vote of no confidence in state Education Commissioner John King, despite improved relations in recent months.
NYSUT President Karen E. Magee shreds the common core test contracts outside of the NYS Education Department on Monday evening, August 11, 2014, in Albany N.Y. (Selby Smith / Special to the Times Union)
The National Union of Students (NUS) President Aaron Porter, who wrote a piece for Channel 4 News asking Lord Browne if he would like to start his adult life with debts of # 40k last week, said: «If adopted, Lord Browne's review would hand universities a blank cheque and force the next generation to pick up the tab for devastating cuts to higher education.
Longtime gay activist Cleve Jones, Stonewall Democratic Club of Southern Nevada Chair Derek Washington, Culinary Workers Union President Geoconda Arguello - Kline, Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network of Southern Nevada Co-Chair Howard Wa... Read
In a statement released after the vote this afternoon, the union's president, Michael Mulgrew, praised Mr. Espaillat's record on education, and argued the Washington Heights lawmaker «understands what New York schools need and will make sure the voices of teachers, parents and students are heard in Congress.»
«This is a new Early College and Career Technical Education school for this community, one that is modeled after the nationally recognized P - Tech, which President Obama lauded in his 2013 State of the Union address and visited last year,» DOE spokesman Harry Hartfield said Wednesday.
And while coordinators say the appearance of NYSUT President Karen Magee at their annual awards dinner was a coincidence, her speech offered a platform to draw attention to education issues before an audience of union workers.
In their letter to Merryl Tisch, chancellor of the state Board of Regents, and state Education Commissioner John King Jr., state United Teachers president Richard Ianuzzi and Michael Mulgrew, head of the city teachers union, stressed those concerns.
Fielding questions from UFT president Michael Mulgrew, vice president, Karen Alford, and a half - dozen teachers, the candidates took turns touting their education experience and criticizing Mayor Bloomberg, who is profoundly unpopular with the union.
But the union later released a statement, in which president Karen Magee said: «Public education is for the public good.
Among the signatories to the joint letter are former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams, President of the Accord Coalition for Inclusive Education Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain OBE, former government integration tsar Ted Cantle CBE, the General Secretaries of the National Education Union Dr Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney, Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson, and a number of high - profile authors, academics, and entertainers.
According to the New York Post, UFT President Michael Mulgrew declared «war» on education reformers at a Wednesday - night meeting with union delegates.
UFT members from Districts 13, 14 and 17 as well as high schools from those areas heard UFT President Michael Mulgrew speak about the proposed federal education budget cuts, the attack on unions by far - right privatization advocates, the dangers to hard - won benefits if a state constitutional convention is held in 2018 and other pressing issues.
In response to the mayor's most recent attempt to point the finger at the union for the breakdown of evaluation talks, UFT President Michael Mulgrew observed, «Most people would be embarrassed that the state's highest education official has directly contradicted their statements about a new teacher evaluation system, but not the mayor.»
It's Michael Mulgrew, the union's chief operating officer since 2008 and its vice president for career and technical education since 2005.
One of two former presidents of the Oxford union here (the other is Education Secretary Michael Gove) Hague became an MP in 1989, succeeding Nick Clegg's old boss Leon Brittan to win the seat of Richmond in North Yorkshire.
Functional chapter members attended a Meet the President event at UFT headquarters on Jan 11 to hear UFT President Michael Mulgrew describe the union's political, legislative and education agenda for the first six months of 2018.
For years our complacent community has come to accept as reality the lie that the complicity of members of the Board of Education and its executive staff with you, as President of the teacher's union, is good for the kids.
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«[I w] ill always be a huge critic of Willetts» reforms to [higher education], but he was a genuine politician who never questioned [the] legitimacy of [the U.K. National Union of Students],» said Rachel Wenstone, the union's former vice president for higher education, on Twitter yesteUnion of Students],» said Rachel Wenstone, the union's former vice president for higher education, on Twitter yesteunion's former vice president for higher education, on Twitter yesterday.
And in 1996 the president gave the movement the ultimate blessing when he said, in his State of the Union address, «I challenge all our schools to teach character education, to teach good values and good citizenship.»
A Primer: The Seven Priorities of the U.S. Department of Education President Clinton called for national testing in his State of the Union Address.
Wayne Urban, professor of education and an expert on teacher unions, notes that NEA president Robert Chase gave a pivotal address on behalf of new unionism at the National Press Club in 1997, calling for «the transformation of his organization away from the adversarial stance institutionalized in collective bargaining toward one that was more professional.»
Contributors include the President of the National Union of Students, Shakira Martin, the Chair of the Education Select Committee, Rob Halfon MP, and the Sutton Trust's Director of Research, Conor Ryan.
Clinton's State of the (Education) Union Address Read excerpts related to Education from the President's 6th annual State of the Union Address (January 27, 1998).