Sentences with phrase «school district teacher contract»

The Park City School District teacher contract negotiation team has reached a settlement.

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«The massive number of teacher layoffs, school closings, cuts to academic programs and extracurricular activities could have been worse had districts not tapped into reserve funds or worked hard to negotiate contract concessions with their employee unions.»

Day three of the hearing to remove Carl Paladino from the Buffalo School Board began with School Superintendent Kriner Cash taking the stand and testifying that Paladino's public comments about the teacher contract hurt the district and its future contact negotiations.

What's not clear is if there is similar language in the Frontier Central School District's contract with its teachers.

But the school board pursued his removal based on the sharing of information from a closed - door executive session of the board, arguing it helped undermine the district during its negotiations with the teachers union for a new contract.

You may recall the teachers» contract does provide for a longer school day, allowing the district to add 25 - minutes for the new school year.

With teacher contract negotiations seemingly at a standstill, and a battle over the state's new receivership headed to court, tensions between Buffalo union and school district leaders are on the rise.

«The contract with the teachers» union expired in October 2009, while contracts with the union for principals and other school administrators and District Council 37, the city's largest public employee union, expired in March 2010.

Now that the Buffalo School District and Buffalo Teachers Federation resolved a lengthy contract dispute, what's next for the long - time union leader?

The Buffalo teachers union has rejected the latest contract offer from the city school district.

Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN)- On the day after a long - awaited contract between the Buffalo Teachers Federation and city school district was ratified, the documents are now available for all.

Dr. Cash comes to the Buffalo Public Schools at a pivotal time, when 25 schools have been placed into State Receivership, and the District works to negotiate a new contract with the Buffalo TeachersSchools at a pivotal time, when 25 schools have been placed into State Receivership, and the District works to negotiate a new contract with the Buffalo Teachersschools have been placed into State Receivership, and the District works to negotiate a new contract with the Buffalo Teachers Union.

The Buffalo Teachers Federation is accusing the city school district of «bargaining in bad faith» for a new contract.

After 12 - long years without a contract, the Buffalo Teachers Federation and city school district reached a tentative deal late Sunday night.

In one of her most significant actions as state education commissioner, MaryEllen Elia has granted Buffalo Superintendent Kriner Cash unprecedented power to make changes at the district's most struggling schools, bypassing the teachers union contract and sparking a likely court battle.

But School districts face rising costs for employee health care, pensions and annual longevity, or «step» raises for teachers that are built into most union contracts.

Requires publication of a «Parents Bill of Rights» on each school district and BOCES website that will be included in every contract with a third party contractor that receives student / teacher / principal data

Day three of the hearing to remove Carl P. Paladino from the Buffalo School Board began Monday with School Superintendent Kriner Cash taking the stand and testifying that Paladino's public comments about the teacher contract hurt the district and its future contact negotiations.

Buffalo Public School teachers recently received a letter directly from the city school board outlining the latest contract offer from the DisSchool teachers recently received a letter directly from the city school board outlining the latest contract offer from the Disschool board outlining the latest contract offer from the District.

Buffalo teachers will set up informational pickets outside city schools this week to protest the lack of a contract with the school district.

The long - simmering issue came to the forefront during recent negotiations for a new contract with the Buffalo Teachers Federation, when district leaders noted that one in four teachers missed 15 or more days during the 2015 - 2016 schoTeachers Federation, when district leaders noted that one in four teachers missed 15 or more days during the 2015 - 2016 schoteachers missed 15 or more days during the 2015 - 2016 school year.

With a teacher contract that expired 12 years ago, and the latest unraveling of negotiations, Buffalo School Superintendent Kriner Cash is not ruling out the possibility of a strike.Cash said he would not assume that Buffalo Teachers Federation President Philip Rumore will lead a strike, but when pressed, the superintendent said the district would be ready if a strike occu...

«I think there is serious question as to whether the Legislature can impair a contract like that,» said Pines, of Cullen Weston Pines & Bach LLP, and counsel for Madison Teachers Inc. «Will school districts or municipalities legally be able to withhold union dues?»

It's all too easy to make mistakes when you're emotional about the rigged teachers» contract by an incompetent Board of Education majority who sold out the school district as payback to teacher's union leader Phil Rumore for his election support.

But he grew feisty when he spoke about his anger toward other school board members, the superintendent of the Buffalo school district, Dr. Kriner Cash and the President of the teachers union, Phil Rumore, and what he said was their «scheming» that led to a «rigged» teacher contract that he Paladino believed would drain the districts reserves and plunge it further into debt.

The Syracuse City School district reached a contract agreement with its teachers, which district officials are calling historic.

School districts had until Nov. 15th to reopen their teacher contracts and negotiate a plan with their unions to implement the new requirements.

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.

Monday's hearings also featured School Board Superintendent Kriner Cash testified often about the Buffalo Teachers Federation contract, and how he felt that achieving one after 17 years was required for the district to make other educational reforms.

We have experienced this negative phenomenon first - hand by having had a district - wide contract rescinded before the program even started due to fear caused by media attention generated from a single parent in single school who took offense to a classroom teacher leading mandala coloring and using the term, «Namaste,» with her students.

In other New York City news, Alex Zimmerman of Chalkbeat reports that the school district will not be renewing its contract with TNTP to recruit and train teachers.

Two and a half years later, Kelly Services has contracts to provide substitute teachers to 12 school districts in Mississippi and Louisiana.

A 2005 study by the New Teacher Project, the national nonprofit organization that works with school districts to recruit high - quality teachers, examined five urban districts and concluded that seniority - based transfer privileges written into contracts often force principals «to hire large numbers of teachers they do not want and who may not be a good fit for the job and their school.»

As one former school - board member from a large urban district noted, «Too often school boards and superintendents complain that they can not do something because of the teachers union contract.

The initiatives outlined in the plan include lengthening the school day and year, implementation of a statewide teacher contract, consolidation of school districts, and increasing needs - based financial aid in the 2010 budget.

Deployed by districts or contracted by individual schools, instructional coaches live alongside the faculty and provide on - the - job support to teams of teachers.

Concurrent with my efforts to turn kids away from viewing discussion as an exercise in point - scoring, I was involved with contract negotiation between our teachers» association and the school district.

The court held that teachers» right to tenure «vested» once they signed a contract with their local school district at the end of their probationary period.

Kronholz cites findings from the National Council on Teacher Quality's database on collective - bargaining agreements in 113 large school districts, which show that district contracts give their teachers an average of 13.5 days of sick and personal leave per school year.

Faced with mandatory federal and state holidays, contracted teacher professional development days, and the need to plan for weather - related cancellations, Maryland school districts will struggle to fit in the obligatory number of days without dramatically shortening winter and spring breaks.

Districts could address within - district inequities in lots of ways — they could offer higher salaries to teachers in poorer schools, they could have lower class sizes in poorer schools, or they could expand other services within poorer schools — but local teachers» union contracts often prohibit all of these policy options.

In a sudden shift in negotiating positions last week, officials of the Los Angeles Unified School District and the United Teachers - Los Angeles agreed to table the two most controversial issues in their current contract talks, apparently averting the possibility of a strike that would affect 550,000 students, according to district ofDistrict and the United Teachers - Los Angeles agreed to table the two most controversial issues in their current contract talks, apparently averting the possibility of a strike that would affect 550,000 students, according to district ofdistrict officials.

In 2003 schools chancellor Joel Klein appointed her and the project, through a no - bid three - year $ 5.4 million contract, to the task of revamping the way literacy skills are taught in more than 100 district schools, including most of those in Brooklyn and Queens, the project's mission is to retrain — through onsite workshops, leadership seminars, curricular materials, and an intensive summer institute — primary and upper - grade teachers, administrators from principals up through district superintendents, and central department policymakers.

Furthermore, many argue that freedom from sometimes constraining teacher contracts and district policies can infuse a breath of fresh air badly needed in school reform.

The first teachers» union contract approved for one of Massachusetts» 57 charter schools that operate outside a local public school district will allow performance - based teacher pay and a longer school day.

Districts have negotiated contracts with teacher unions that eliminate schools» discretion in favor of seniority preferences.

The teachers» contract often channels more than half of a school district's operating budget and sets the pattern for much more than that.

The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), which maintains a database on collective - bargaining agreements in 113 large school districts, reports that the contracts give their teachers, on average, 13.5 days of sick and personal leave per school year.

Unions mediate much of the fiscal contract and most of the psychological contract between teachers and school districts.

Negotiations between the district's school board and the East St. Louis Federation of Teachers broke down last month after union leaders rejected a contract offer that did not include...