Sentences with phrase «teachers union members remain»

Teachers union members remain objective?!! WHAT!!!

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New York State United Teachers, a union that remains powerful by virtue of its 600,000 members regardless of its losses in the recent election cycle, denounced Cuomo's letter on Thursday, arguing that his apparent priorities — strengthening teacher evaluations, lengthening the probationary period before teachers may get tenure and boosting charter schools — are handouts to pro-charter billionaire hedge funders who give generously to his caTeachers, a union that remains powerful by virtue of its 600,000 members regardless of its losses in the recent election cycle, denounced Cuomo's letter on Thursday, arguing that his apparent priorities — strengthening teacher evaluations, lengthening the probationary period before teachers may get tenure and boosting charter schools — are handouts to pro-charter billionaire hedge funders who give generously to his cateachers may get tenure and boosting charter schools — are handouts to pro-charter billionaire hedge funders who give generously to his campaigns.

Union leaders are elected by current members to protect their interests, and most teachers remain highly satisfied with their unions» conduct of collective bargaining.

Here the union is hedging its bets, trying to weaken the charter movement while also ensuring that any teachers who do slide into charter schools will remain union members.

«The local affiliates doing this work and teachers have remained really committed, and both unions have been committed to providing resources to members despite some of the political controversy,» attests Gates Foundation staffer Lynn Olson, who works with the unions on their Common Core endeavors.

But every teacher, union member or not, still must pay the remaining two - thirds of the fee to help fund collective bargaining.

Unlike Bush, Obama must try to carefully bring along the teachers unions, a key Democratic constituency that so far has praised the president's goals but remains wary of the threat to members» paychecks and the promise of tenure.

The school system is facing a budget shortfall of $ 600 million to $ 700 million and remains in protracted talks with the Chicago Teachers Union, whose members have voted to authorize a strike if a deal can not be reached.

Under the local initiative school model, Mann's teachers will remain members of the UTLA teacher union, but the school has freedom from certain contract requirements like scheduling, budgeting, professional development, assessment, and curriculum.

But right now the current system prevents her from remaining a local union member unless she helps fund the very policies that are blocking meaningful reforms that she believes are vital for teachers and students in California.

These members of the Deformer «advance force» parrot a regressive agenda of union - busting, tenure - smashing, and teacher - demonizing, paired with an obsessive devotion to standardized testing, «data driven decision making», charter school expansion, and privatization as the «answers» to the «crisis in public education» — while remaining seemingly oblivious to the fact that it was their policies that manufactured the crisis they claim to be addressing, and which are paying off so handsomely for the investors who fund their charter schools and pay their generous salaries.

Teachers remain union members and maintain their district seniority, so they continue to receive their pensions and other benefits as laid out in the collective bargaining agreement.