Sentences with phrase «opposition against teacher»

Opposition against teacher evaluation based solely on student test scores is strong.

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The president's comments about the deputy come as he's promoted the idea of training and arming teachers to defend against shooters, a controversial proposal to which prominent Democrats and Republicans have voiced opposition.

The teachers union has launched a multimillion - dollar TV campaign in opposition to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's education cuts with an ad that pits cut schoolchildren against wealthy Wall Street executives.

will the states be able to pay police and service them is the question we should answer especially those agigating for state - police because some of these states can not pay teachers and LG employees nor to talk of police that they are going to use as political thugs against the oppositions.

Meanwhile, teachers remain largely united in their opposition to the concept: fully 78 % of teachers express opposition to merit pay, against just 15 % in support.

The letter prompted strong opposition, with the National Union of Teachers coming out against the plans, arguing that a longer day would force parents and teachers to travel at busier times and be too exhausting for youngerTeachers coming out against the plans, arguing that a longer day would force parents and teachers to travel at busier times and be too exhausting for youngerteachers to travel at busier times and be too exhausting for younger pupils.

The teachers» fight against MAP echoes, at least in some ways, UTLA's opposition to Academic Growth Over Time (AGT) student assessment program.

At the United Federation of Teachers Delegate Assembly on February 11, 2015, Sterling Roberson, the Vice President of Career and Technical Education stated, in opposition to the resolution, ``... the union is against over-testing, but testing is important for parents to know where their child is compared to other children.»

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From opposing the expansion of high - quality charter schools and other school choice options, to its opposition to Parent Trigger laws and efforts of Parent Power activists in places such as Connecticut and California, to efforts to eviscerate accountability measures that hold districts and school operators to heel for serving Black and Brown children well, even to their historic disdain for Black families and condoning of Jim Crow discrimination against Black teachers, both unions have proven no better than outright White Supremacists when it comes to addressing the legacies of bigotry in which American public education is the nexus.

In a recent post, I wrote that Randi Weingarten, the current president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), has (finally) expressed her full opposition against the use of value - added models (VAMs) to evaluate and measure teacher effectiveness.

As just posted on Diane Ravitch's blog, Randi Weingarten, the current president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), has (finally) expressed her full opposition against using value - added models (VAMs), the statistical measures of utmost interest on this blog, for teacher evaluation, accountability, and merit pay purposes.