Sentences with phrase «teachers union officials say»

From The Chicago Sun - Times: Chicago Teachers Union officials say nearly 90 percent of their members have authorized a strike against the city's public schools.

Chicago Teachers Union officials say plans to close four Englewood - area high schools violate its labor pact and have demanded the district «immediately withdraw» the proposal.

Click here to read the 74 - page bill, which teachers union officials say appears even stronger than what Cuomo discussed last year on the campaign trail.

Local teachers union officials said they planning a rally for this Thursday near City Hall.

New mandated evaluations are rolling out this fall for New York teachers and a local teachers union official says educators are likely nervous.

Madison schools have been closed because of teacher absences since last Wednesday, but district officials and teacher union officials say teachers will return to work Tuesday.

Not exact matches

The teachers union says school officials never should have opened the programs because the Chicago Housing Authority and the city Department of Human Services have extended their summer feeding programs at 220 sites throughout the city.

Commenting on the Public Accounts Committee's report Retaining and Developing the Teaching Workforce, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «We have now had numerous official public bodies highlighting the lack of effective action by this Government to address the deep teacher recruitment and retention crisis.

The influential NYC principals union endorsed Mayor Bill de Blasio for reelection last night, joining the teachers union and a host of other labor groups supporting the worker - friendly mayor, campaign officials said.

The Task Force will include educators, teachers, parents, officials from the State Education Department and the teacher's unions,» Cuomo said in the pre recorded message.

«If you work in a district like that, no matter how effective you are you come out with a scarlet A on your head,» he said, to applause from the audience, which included state legislators, Board of Regents members, school board leaders and teachers union officials.

Teachers unions «are some of the largest players in politics,» said Lara Brown, director of the Graduate School of Political Management at the George Washington University and a former Education Department official during the Clinton administration.

Champagne corks popped in Albany yesterday as top state education officials declaimed a new deal with the unions that they said will lead to better teachers, a greater shot at federal funds for New York and possibly a hike in the charter - school cap.

It, frankly, is a disaster across the board and it's pretty rare when you get parents, you get students, you get school boards, and you get government officials lining up with teachers unions and others to say, «we just need to admit this is a abject failure,»» said Republican Congressmen Chris Collins.

It, frankly, is a disaster across the board and it's pretty rare when you get parents, you get students, you get school boards, and you get government officials lining up with teachers unions and others to say, «we just need to admit this is a abject failure,»» said Rep. Chris Collins, a Republican from western New York.

«They hear «the 2 percent cap» — lots of people think that's what it is,» said John Yagielski, chairman of the Educational Conference Board, a coalition of education groups including the New York State United Teachers union, plus groups that represent school board and school business officials.

Less than half of California school districts and only about a quarter of teacher unions have promised to make key education reforms required for the state to win $ 700 million in competitive federal grants, officials said Wednesday.

Antoinette Baskerville - Richardson, a former theater and speech teacher, union official, and district administrator who now chairs the advisory board, said Cerf's relationship with the board is evolving.

In New York, officials said, the two unions representing Catholic school teachers had reached tentative agreements by last week on new three - year contracts.

Union teachers in the Roman Catholic archdioceses of Boston and New York have picketed church officials and called in sick in recent weeks to protest what they say is a lack of progress in contract negotiations.

Not only is this the official position of the union, Doherty says, but in a survey of the 40,000 teachers in Massachusetts, about 90 percent oppose merit pay.

More teachers will report to work without contracts this fall than ever before, school and union officials say, but there will be fewer strikes this year than there have been in recent years.

The agreement to toss whole chunks of the landmark law reflects a rare political convergence, uniting liberals who decried rote testing regimes, conservatives who wanted the federal government out of education, state officials angry about unfunded mandates and powerful teachers unions who said NCLB punished them, rather than giving them needed assistance.

But state teachers» union officials say neither of the competing plans should be passed because both fail to raise salaries for teachers.

A tentative contract in Seattle may give teachers there a greater hand in running their schools than any previous agreement involving a big - city school system, both union and school officials say.

Officials with the Los Angeles teachers» union have said they learned from Mr. Ruelas» family that he was depressed about his score.

Charter schools draw fire from teachers» unions and other education groups, who say taxpayer money should be spent to fix traditional public education system rather than creating schools that have less oversight from state and local officials.

As New York lawmakers hammered out the state budget Monday, state education department officials said the latest proposal would require many school districts to quickly revise their evaluation agreements with teachers unions in order to get increased school aid.

It would be better, he said, for officials, principals (through their union) and teachers to reach consensus on how best to move forward.

Union officials are meeting again this week, and its team leader said that the teacher reaction reported by the Rutgers study was reason for pause.

The bargaining session scheduled for today between LA Unified and the teachers union, UTLA, has been cancelled, due to an illness of a union staff member, a district official said.

Officials for the school district say they worked jointly with the local teachers» union to agree on how state - generated test - score data would be interpreted, and took pains to make the evaluation instrument clear, to help make those finer distinctions in performance.

The optics of canceling a vote that teachers wanted to hold doesn't look great for the AFT, given that union officials regularly make a point to say that workers should have the freedom to decide for themselves if they want to be represented by a union.

The Manhattan Beach Unified School District and its teachers» union reached a tentative agreement on a contract late Thursday but would not provide any details until the deal is ratified, officials said Friday.

L.A. Unified on Friday unveiled its plan for how principals will incorporate the results of student testing in teacher evaluations — and union officials said they were stunned by the details.

Union officials objected in particular to granting school boards wider dismissal powers, saying at the time that the bill would «open teachers to dismissal at the whim of local administrators, who have shown themselves woefully ill - equipped to protect students or teachers.»

Union officials said hundreds of tenured teachers have been removed from their positions and the school district is using the law to circumvent established procedures for dismissing many educators with good evaluations.

In August, a New York State Supreme Court judge invalidated a vote by state education officials that would have let districts base 40 % of teacher evaluations on state test scores, after the state teachers unions sued saying the law allowed for only 20 %.

According to an article by Michael Levinson in the Boston Globe (6.6.14), Barbara Madeloni «won her race by openly criticizing the current union president... for his record of negotiating with — rather than fighting — officials on the development of teacher assessments and the Common Core...» He went on to say: «Her agenda forcefully rejects those policies, which have gained increasing support from Republicans and Democrats over the last 20 years.

Though teachers unions are traditionally painted as opponents to merit pay and defenders of the status quo, the American Federation of Teachers has supported several locally - based merit - pay experiments, while saying in its official materials that «it is not abandoning the traditional salary scheduleteachers unions are traditionally painted as opponents to merit pay and defenders of the status quo, the American Federation of Teachers has supported several locally - based merit - pay experiments, while saying in its official materials that «it is not abandoning the traditional salary scheduleTeachers has supported several locally - based merit - pay experiments, while saying in its official materials that «it is not abandoning the traditional salary schedule.»

New York City officials on Thursday said suspension shouldn't be used as a disciplinary measure for children in kindergarten through second grade, a proposal that drew criticism from the teachers union, which said it would lead to increased classroom disruption.

Laura Olhasso, Pasadena - Foothills Association of REALTORS ® director of government affairs, said that roughly 250 people attended the event, including elected officials, commissioners, developers, bankers, neighborhood associations, teachers, police and fire fighters union representatives and leadership from faith - based organizations.