Sentences with phrase «nysut teachers union president»
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.
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Jacqueline Vaughn, teachers union president, earlier had seemed more optimistic, but Gardner said: «I see no evidence of any reason to be optimistic....
Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis called the idea of a quota «morally repugnant,» especially with a federal judge ruling last month that CPS's recent firing of hundreds of tenured teachers was mishandled.
NYC teachers union president Michael Mulgrew took shots at the de Blasio administration for the second time in two weeks — this time charging city leaders with gender bias over their handling of paid parental leave.
In the letter, the charter school organization's Kyle Rosenkrans writes to New York State United Teachers Union President Karen Magee and United Federation of Teachers President Micahel Mulgrew that they should focus their attention on struggling schools, not opposition to Cuomo's measures.
Teachers union president Michael Mulgrew said the union has been helping teachers to be more prepared for the tenure process.
As CBS2's Marcia Kramer reported, some of the governor's education proposals angered teachers union president Michael Mulgrew.
They have made an offer that the NYC Teachers Union President could not refuse.
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...
State teachers union President Dick Iannuzzi has gone as far as to suggest a vote of no - confidence for Education Commissioner John King.
NYSUT spokesman Carl Korn confirmed yesterday evening the call between Cuomo and state United Teachers Union President Dick Ianuzzi took place.
The Syracuse teachers union president says she was suspended after she uncovered a fellow officer's inappropriate use of a computer during an audit.
City teachers union president Michael Mulgrew said Saturday that he supports mayoral control of the schools but with some modifications.
The teachers union, previously headed by Hillary Clinton supporter and national teachers union president Randi Weingarten, was a founding partner of the political party.
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.
The teachers union president says when it comes to her thoughts on the system as a whole, the differences between schools doesn't just come down to parity in funding, but parity in opportunity.
Last month teachers union president Michael Mulgrew stood with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and schools Chancellor Cathleen Black to announce a program to help struggling students.
NYSUT teachers union president Karen Magee fired back at «this latest attack by our thin - skinned governor.
«People are hurting across Illinois while this so - called governor plays chicken with the state budget,» said Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis in an address to the City Club of Chicago in April.
«These numbers come as no surprise, given the fact that the mayor has previously said that his ideal would be to double class size,» said teachers union president Michael Mulgrew.
But teachers union President Jerry Jordan said the cuts are unreasonable.
«The class size issue is not one that is going to go away,» teacher union president Michael Mulgrew told The New York Times.
Teachers union president Michael Mulgrew took shots at the de Blasio administration on Monday for the second time in two weeks — this time charging city leaders with gender bias over their handling of paid parental leave.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Syracuse teachers union president says she was suspended after she uncovered a fellow officer's inappropriate use of a computer during an audit.
Teachers Union President Says Trust in New Rochelle Schools «Badly Shaken» by Allegations against Jose Martinez (04/05/2011)
The Daily News praises Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott and teachers union president Michael Mulgrew for finding a compromise on teacher evaluations in 33 low - performing schools, saying it should be a model for all of them.
For more information, please read «Leading the Local: Teachers Union Presidents Speak on Change, Challenges.»
«Many people think of local teachers union presidents as fist - pounding defenders of the status quo.
In Illinois, Chicago teachers union president Karen Lewis called the work of Stand — especially its PAC funds — as «pretty much union busting.»
CHICAGO TEACHERS RALLY AROUND POSSIBLE STRIKE: Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis will lead thousands of members, parents, activists and others in a rally today «to showcase the union's solidarity and prepare its members for an upcoming strike authorization vote,» the union said in a release.
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...
In addition to being President of the CTU, David is a Vice President of the American Federation of Teachers; past co-chair of Ohio 8, a coalition of the Superintendents and teacher Union Presidents in Ohio's eight urban school districts; and serves on the Executive Board of the North Shore Federation of Labor and the Ohio AFL - CIO.
The Los Angeles teachers union president said Sunday he was organizing a «massive boycott» of The Times after the newspaper began publishing a series of articles that uses student test scores to estimate the effectiveness of district teachers.
In a post after I won a Tribune contest that let me ask Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis and CPS CEO Jean - Claude Brizard some tough questions, I was able to bring up the issue that we lack college - prep schools on the Southwest side.
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Negotiated in part by a district personnel chief who until last year was the teachers union president, the deal also provides average...
«The goal of IMPACT was to improve student achievement, but in fact, [overall] student achievement has been flat,» Washington Teachers Union President Elizabeth Davis said.
With Jesse Hagopian, teacher at Garfield High School in Seattle and leader of MAP test boycott and Karen Lewis, Chicago Teachers Union president
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis is greeted by supporters while visiting the picket line at King College Preparatory High School April 1, 2016, as part of a one - day CTU strike in Chicago.
American Federation of Teachers union President Randi Weingarten came to support the walkers, and even Pastors For Oklahoma Kids and other religious leaders came out to bless the efforts.
Vargas, School Board President Malik Evans, and teachers union President Adam Urbanski will meet with Arne Duncan later this month.
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis said the district's withdrawal of a one - year contract offer was «disingenuous, disturbing and destructive» and called efforts by the city to have teachers pay their full pension contributions «strike - worthy.»
A recent quote from Louisiana teacher union president Joyce Haynes says it all.
In Los Angeles, new teacher union president Alex Caputo - Pearl pitched the small class mantra three separate times in his coronation speech.
«I implore that you close schools in the District until your facilities crew has had time to properly assess and fix the heating issues within the affected schools in Baltimore City,» Baltimore Teachers Union President Marietta English wrote in a letter that was hand - delivered Wednesday to the school system's CEO, Sonja Santelises.
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis speaks Jan. 21, 2016, at Northeastern Illinois University.
He has devoted most of his professional life to improving education, first as a college professor and then as a classroom teacher, policy advocate and teacher union president.
Baltimore Teachers Union President Marietta English criticized the cuts to charters, along with other aspects of next school year's budget.
In New York, the transition has been so rocky that the state's teachers union president said this week that he would pursue a no - confidence vote on education commissioner John King over his handling of Common Core implementation.
Importantly, the consortium's governing board consists of the superintendents and teacher union presidents of member districts, signaling the prominent role that teachers should play in new accountability models.