Sentences with phrase «teacher unions fight»

The public image of teachers unions fighting like autoworkers for the benefit to retire at 55 with full medical coverage and 66 percent of their peak salary while the economy is in shambles and the quality of their industry stagnates has done much to undermine the doting aunt or uncle meme.

Driven by the maxim, «Nice political career you have, shame if anything were to happen to it,» the nation's most militant teachers union fights advocates for better public schools from New York to Los Angeles.

And as a constant mainstay, we've seen teachers unions fighting to discredit and dismantle charter schools across the country.

In the film, the single mom teams up with others to turn the failing school into a charter school and the teachers union fights against reforms, such as greater teacher accountability and more school choice.

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Though part of the initial Common Core «package» that was pushed on states by the Obama administration, teacher unions fought back against the evaluation piece.

Not exact matches

The Center for Union Facts, an anti-union organization that is part of lobbyist Rick Berman's family of front groups, received $ 1.55 million between 2007 and 2010 from the Bradley Foundation and spent heavily to support Walker and smear teachers unions with an anti-union website during the 2011 fight over public sector collective bargaining rights.

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.

Further proof of my assertion not long ago that education is developing into a serious sticking point between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver came in the form of a statement from the governor that blames «Assembly - led» legislation passed in 2010 for the current fight between the teachers unions and school districts over the creation of teacher evaluation systems.

A Quinnipiac poll last week found that the fight with the teachers union has dragged the governor's approval rating to its lowest point.

Unfortunately, the governor's laudable efforts will be squandered if he gets drawn into a narrow fight with the unions over details, like points and weighting percentages in teacher evaluations.

President Obama has chosen his side in this fight, sending his Vice President last year to assure the nation's largest teachers union that «you should have no doubt about my affection for you and the President's commitment to you.»

«We are going to continue to fight to defend our tenure and collective bargaining rights... We are going to continue to fight to stop excessive testing and unfair teacher evaluations... together,» said union executive VP Andrew Pallotta.

Sources said Mulgrew announced at the convention that the union will run a Democratic primary fight against Manhattan Assemblyman Jonathan Bing, who has proposed a bill to curb the «last hired, first fired» provision that protects veteran teachers from layoffs.

The unusually high percentage of school budgets that passed yesterday in spite of dire predictions by everyone from Gov. David Paterson on down has become fodder for the teachers union and its allies in the fight to restore $ 1.4 billion worth of education cuts proposed by the governor.

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.

Teacher's unions fought bitterly against the governor's proposals.

«Only democrat not taking tons of money from the teachers union which is the largest single lobby to the democrats... if not for Cuomo, thousands of children of color and white middle class kids would have been forced out of the charter schools their parents fought hard to get their kids into,» she wrote.

Mulgrew ended on a hopeful note by highlighting the union's efforts to move education in the city forward: the UFT's Community Learning Schools project; the union's fight to secure curriculum aligned to the new Common Core Learning Standards for every teacher; and its efforts to address the lack of lesson plans aligned to the Common Core through its new Share My Lesson website.

Chris Keates, general secretary of teachers» union the NASUWT, said the Bill was part of a wider government campaign to trample «those who fight for the rights of working people».

There are also raw, long - term battles being fought on new fronts: The teachers» unions, for instance, hate Cuomo's proposed tax breaks for private schools, and the governor disdains the unions» power over public schools.

With less than two months before the state budget is due, Governor Cuomo and education groups remain at odds, with the state teacher's union calling the fight a «war,» and Cuomo calling the teachers and their allies a bloated bureaucracy.

New York State United Teachers President Karen Magee, whose union fought bitterly with the governor over the initial proposals, calls it a «momentous development.»

Rich Napolitano, a high school social studies teacher in Suffolk County whose children are in kindergarten and first grade, said unions» fight on behalf of teachers indirectly benefits children.

The state's teachers union is already gearing up for a major fight this budget season on education issues after Cuomo declared he wanted to end the «public monopoly» on education through a strengthening of charter schools.

The union, which has been fighting for a moratorium on using Common Core tests to evaluate teachers, said the Regents» consideration was far from a solution; teachers and principals may already make that argument, they said.

He needed Shelly to be strong on the rent laws fight, to stand with teachers» unions to push back on Cuomo's pro-charter school crusade, and to occupy the left - flank on other issues too,» a Democratic operative argued.

Legally, the state budget must be balanced — but already health - care and teacher's unions have laid the groundwork to fight him on this.

Teachers» unions that were expecting a difficult session even with Silver's support said his arrest wouldn't impact their ability to fight for their priorities.

The tougher choices down the road could include major cuts in state education spending — the political third rail for many lawmakers; or what are euphemistically called «revenue enhancers,» also known as higher or new taxes; or a cap on state spending, which such powerful labor groups as the teachers and health - care workers unions fight against tooth and nail.

Errol Louis discussed Mayor de Blasio's fight with the city teachers» union over paid parental leave, with the Monday Consultants Corner: Suri Kasirer, Stu Loeser, Richard St. Paul and Leticia Remauro.

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And public - sector labor groups, including the teachers unions and CSEA, have either declared a truce or largely step aside from directly knocking Cuomo has issues like less generous contracts and fights over charter schools have died away.

WBFO's Focus on Education Reporter Eileen Buckley says as receivership plans for 15 of Buffalo's most struggling schools could mean changes to the school day, the teachers union is planning to fight the new rule.

With less than two months before the state budget is due, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and education groups remain at odds, with the state teacher's union calling the fight a «war,» and Cuomo calling the teachers and their allies a bloated bureaucracy.

As receivership plans for 15 - of Buffalo's most struggling public schools could mean changes to the school day, the teachers union is planning to fight the new rule.

Hawkins was polling 9 % statewide even before a widely - praised debate performance, and has earned endorsements from a spectrum of people and organizations, including Ralph Nader, Seattle socialist city council member Kshama Sawant, education analyst Diane Ravitch, and former Mobil Oil VP - turned - renewable energy activist Lou Allstadt; as well as Albany weekly paper Metroland, 6 teachers» unions, 6 Democratic Party clubs, Socialist Alternative, and a number of groups leading the fight against school privatization, such as United Opt Out and the New York Badass Teacher Association.

WBFO's Eileen Buckley reports the leader of the Buffalo teachers union is ready to fight against an outside receiver taking over B.U.I.L.D.

And one of City Hall's most reliable and influential allies — the United Federation of Teachers — shied away from the fight again this year since the union is one of the very groups that does not support the current system.

The leader of the Buffalo teachers union is ready to fight against an outside receiver taking over B.U.I.L.D. Academy.

The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.

«Before we came on the scene, the pro-reform community would get together for episodic fights and then we'd scatter, and the U.F.T. was always there,» she said, referring to the United Federation of Teachers, the city teachers»Teachers, the city teachers»teachers» union.

He appeared ready to end the legislative session early after securing a number of education reforms that were fought tooth - and - nail by teachers unions (and opposed by de Blasio).

As he has in the past, Bloomberg once again sees his education goals and his fight against the teachers union in Albany's hands.

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.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is no longer pushing the dramatic education reforms he was advocating a few years ago, and recently has placed his focus on fighting the Trump administration, a battle in which the teachers union will be a likely ally.

The UFT will work with its national unions, the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association (NEA), to fight against tax cuts that unfairly target those who need help the most including senior citizens, those who earn the least, children, the poor and the destitute.

Mr. Loeb urged that people «take up the fight against the teachers union, the single biggest force standing in the way of quality education and an organization that has done more to perpetuate poverty and discrimination against people of color than the K.K.K.»

It's always been a bit of a mystery, even to Governor Andrew Cuomo's allies: What is his real goal in picking a fight with the state's teachers» unions?

From the Moreland scandal to his failure to champion progressive issues to his fight with the teachers unions, he's screwed himself.»