Sentences with phrase «teaching unions oppose»

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The Labour party and teaching unions have fiercely opposed the expansion plans.

Teaching unions reacted angrily to his comments, however, saying they were not opposed to reform in itself, noting in particular their support for the education bill's proposals to give teachers more disciplinary powers.

«Historically, teachers unions around the country have opposed rewarding great teaching through merit pay, but more and more teachers are asking, «Why?»

SAN FRANCISCO — After nearly 15 years of opposing unionization for teaching assistants, the University of California (UC) administration agreed earlier this month that it will recognize and bargain with a union of TAs at UCLA.

Ironically, Rhee's successors at DCPS have redesigned teaching through some of the very policies that teachers» unions and other Rhee adversaries opposed most strongly: comprehensive teacher evaluations, the abandonment of seniority - based staffing, and performance - based promotions and compensation.

The unions vigorously opposed those efforts, leading Rhee to move instead to improve the teaching force by terminating unqualified teachers.

The union's 136 - member board of directors opposes the national board's decision to offer the opportunity to become certified to any teacher with a bachelor's degree and three years of successful teaching experience at one or more primary or secondary schools.

Nonetheless, teaching unions have opposed the new contracts, claiming the changes would cause teaching assistants to lose around # 400 per month and have warned they would be balloting members for industrial action.

They have been fiercely opposed by Labour and teaching unions, who say they are a dangerous experiment which will fracture England's school system.

Teaching unions are opposed to the Sats tests and some boycotted them three years ago, saying that they forced teachers to «teach to the test», marking was unreliable and the results were too «high - stakes» because of the league tables.

The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) and the National Union of Teachers (NUT) oppose Sats because they say teachers are obliged to «teach to the test».

However, academies have been opposed by teaching unions, who say they undermine the state school system and are a form of privatisation.

However, if the vast majority of the union membership believes that corporate reform policies of privatizing education and reducing teaching and learning to a test scores is harmful to public education — as we have expressed in numerous votes in the SEA — then we need a union that more rigorously opposes these harmful policies.

The San Diego Education Association opposed Teach for America's foray into the San Diego Unified School District — as teachers unions elsewhere in the country have done when their districts joined forces with the organization.

If anything, Malkin seems to be more in common cause with traditionalists and teachers» unions opposed to Teach For America's very existence than with the taxpayers (including families and their children) for whom she expresses so much concern.