Not exact matches
The Education Act of 1980 introduced the Assisted Place Scheme which took selected and gifted children out of the state
school system and placed them into independent
schools; the trade
union reform acts abolished the closed shops, secondary picketing and stamped down wild - cat strikes; the Education Act of 1988 introduced
City Technology Colleges, which took states
schools out of the purview of the Local Education Authority; the 1988 Next Steps development began a transformation of the civil service by fragmenting in up into executive agencies; and the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 introduced the internal market into the NHS.
would just love to divide and conquer the public
school system, and us, as they try to destroy
unions, pensions, and anything that smacks of the word «government» or «public» — leaving them in charge, God help us, as they bring in their charter
school Trojan Horses, as they remove public ownership and public oversight of eduction in this
city, and in this country.
Calling it a «pivotal time in the history of our
school system,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew focused on the need to rebuild public education in New York
City after Mayor Bloomberg in his speech at the
union's annual Spring Education Conference at the New York Hilton on May 11.
The
union is proposing a wide range of changes to restore balance to the
city's
system of
school governance, including dramatic changes to the composition of the Panel for Educational Policy that will eliminate the mayor's majority.
But many of his proposals — such as toughening up evaluation
systems teachers barely agreed to in the first place, firing teachers with bad ratings, tying tenure to evaluations, and increasing the cap on charter
schools — are sure to be met with ire from politically powerful state and
city teachers
union.
Other Westchester Municipalities having
School Board And 2018 - 2019 Votes include The Peekskill City School District (2 seats up), Greenburgh Central School District, New Rochelle Public Schools (One (1) full Five - year term and one (1) Two - year term [unexpired portion of a vacant term]-RRB-, Scarsdale Public School District, the Mamaroneck Union Free School District (which includes public school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons St
School Board And 2018 - 2019 Votes include The Peekskill
City School District (2 seats up), Greenburgh Central School District, New Rochelle Public Schools (One (1) full Five - year term and one (1) Two - year term [unexpired portion of a vacant term]-RRB-, Scarsdale Public School District, the Mamaroneck Union Free School District (which includes public school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons St
School District (2 seats up), Greenburgh Central
School District, New Rochelle Public Schools (One (1) full Five - year term and one (1) Two - year term [unexpired portion of a vacant term]-RRB-, Scarsdale Public School District, the Mamaroneck Union Free School District (which includes public school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons St
School District, New Rochelle Public
Schools (One (1) full Five - year term and one (1) Two - year term [unexpired portion of a vacant term]-RRB-, Scarsdale Public
School District, the Mamaroneck Union Free School District (which includes public school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons St
School District, the Mamaroneck
Union Free
School District (which includes public school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons St
School District (which includes public
school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons St
school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public
Schools, Tuckahoe
Union Free
School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons St
School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public
School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons St
School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye
City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons St
School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle
School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons St
School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons Street.)
ALBANY — The head of the
city teachers
union dismissed as «a load of crap» state Senate GOP efforts to tie the renewal of a law granting Mayor de Blasio control over the
city school system to an expansion of charter
schools.
When he officially took the helm as leader of the
city school system he certainly inherited a number of challenges: poor graduation rates, gaps in special education services, burned bridges between his predecessor, Jean Claude Brizard, and the teachers
union and the
school board, among a host of others things.
Speaking from a packed high
school auditorium in the South Bronx, Mark - Viverito proposed a far - reaching overhaul of Rikers Island to bring it to the point of closing down and a plan to scrap old warrants from New Yorker's records — policies that could put her ahead of Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration on justice reform and in direct conflict with the
city's powerful correction officers»
union, the court
system and the police department.
In the report, StudentsFirstNY also presents recommendations for New York
City schools including financial incentives for retaining effective teachers and an agreement between the
City and the teachers»
union on a new teacher evaluation
system.
In a preliminary injunction made public yesterday, a court ordered that the State can not withhold $ 260 million in aid from NYC
schools in response to the
City and teachers»
union failing to reach an agreement on a new teacher evaluation
system.
The
Union Square's Washington Irving High
School, Murray Hill's Unity Center for Urban Technologies, Chelsea Career and Tech Ed High
School and the Bread and Roses Integrated High
School in Harlem are among 33 struggling
schools city - wide where the new evaluation
systems will be introduced.
MANHATTAN — The teachers
union and the Department of Education reached a deal Friday that will allow the
city to implement a new teacher evaluation
system at four Manhattan
schools in order to help secure millions in federal funding.
MANHATTAN — Negotiations between the
city and the teachers
union on a new teacher evaluation
system fell apart Friday, prompting the State Department of Education to suspend more than $ 60 million in federal funding that had been targeted at some of the
city's worst - performing
schools.
In the wake of a resolution passed this weekend by the Representative Assembly of NYSUT, the UFT will recommend that the
city's Teachers» Retirement
System (TRS) suspend any new investments with New Mountain Capital and
union - busting Wall Street financier Steven Klinsky, whose Victory Inc. operates charters
schools in New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois.
Mayor Bloomberg in his State of the
City address on Jan. 12 proposed merit pay for teachers, vowed to step up efforts to remove ineffective teachers, blamed the
union for the breakdown of negotiations over a teacher evaluation
system in 33 restart and transformation
schools and announced that he would open 50 new charter
schools in the next two years.
Thus, in 2002, the Los Angeles
union unseated a majority of the reform - minded board that had selected former Colorado governor Roy Romer to lead the
city's troubled
school system.
Political leaders had seen no upside to taking on a
school system that employs thousands of African Americans in a
city where African Americans account for a majority of the population, the voter rolls, the
city council, local - government posts, and
union leadership.
Union leaders steered the debate away from the academic records of two big
city school systems.
Kirp examines
Union City's strategies in his latest book, Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American
School System and a Strategy for America's
Schools.
From observing conditions there and in other
cities, we believe that bargaining and related
union activity have not only hampered urban public
schools with such things as cumbersome contracts, but have introduced practices into the education
system that are counterproductive, fomenting a demoralizing pattern of acrimony between teachers and administrators that is fundamentally at odds with effective education.
City and
school leaders in Boston reached an agreement with the Boston Teachers»
Union last week to expand the district's
system of small, autonomous
schools, ending a 2 - year - old standoff that had stalled the growth of the experimental program.
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.
And in a public education world where the
unions have typically been able to protect even the lowest - performing teachers, that kind of quality upgrade seemed doable only because the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had offered the
city a grant that required the
union to cooperate in return for a huge injection of funds into the
school system.
Implementation in New York
City was delayed an additional year (until 2013 — 14), because it took that long for the
school district and teachers
union to agree on an evaluation
system.
I guess Randi didn't really consider that all across America segregation permeates, including New York
City, where she once ran the teachers
union — today it is one of America's most segregated
school systems.
«I implore that you close
schools in the District until your facilities crew has had time to properly assess and fix the heating issues within the affected
schools in Baltimore
City,» Baltimore Teachers
Union President Marietta English wrote in a letter that was hand - delivered Wednesday to the
school system's CEO, Sonja Santelises.
«The strong leadership by the mayor, the chancellor and a progressive teachers»
union has allowed a
school system the size of New York
City to dramatically improve student achievement in a relatively short period of time,» Mr. Broad said in a statement.
The teachers
unions in those
cities, who profess to be all about the kids, social justice and progressivism, pound the table and insist that our outdated 19th Century Prussian - style zip - code mandated
school system continue without any innovation, just more money.
Finally, the agreement is structured to ensure collaboration between
union members and
City Schools on key items like evaluation tools and
systems, pathway criteria and review processes.
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School Administrators (AASA) American Association of State Colleges & Universities (AASCU) American Council on Education (ACE) American Counseling Association (ACA) American Educational Research Association (AERA) American Federation of
School Administrators (AFSA) American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) American Federation of Teachers (AFT) American Institutes for Research (AIR) American Library Association (ALA) American Medical Student Association (AMSA) American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) American
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School Business Officials International (ASBO) Boston University (BU) California Department of Education (CDE) California State University Office of Federal Relations (CSU) Center on Law and Social Policy (CLASP) Citizen
Schools Coalition for Higher Education Assistance Organizations (COHEAO) Consortium for
School Networking (COSN) Cornerstone Government Affairs (CGA) Council for a Strong America (CSA) Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Council for Opportunity in Education (COE) Council of Chief State
School Officers (CCSSO) Council of the Great
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Schools of America, Inc. (MSA) Military Impacted
Schools Association (MISA) National Alliance of Black
School Educators (NABSE) National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) National Association for Music Education (NAFME) National Association of Elementary
School Principals (NAESP) National Association of Federally Impacted
Schools (NAFIS) National Association of Graduate - Professional Students, Inc. (NAGPS) National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) National Association of Private Special Education Centers (NAPSEC) National Association of
School Psychologists (NASP) National Association of Secondary
School Principals (NASSP) National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium (NASDCTEc) National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE) National Association of State Student Grant & Aid Programs (NASSGAP) National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) National Center on Time & Learning (NCTL) National Coalition for Literacy (NCL) National Coalition of Classified Education Support Employee
Unions (NCCESEU) National Council for Community and Education Partnerships (NCCEP) National Council of Higher Education Resources (NCHER) National Council of State Directors of Adult Education (NCSDAE) National Education Association (NEA) National HEP / CAMP Association National Parent Teacher Association (NPTA) National Rural Education Association (NREA) National
School Boards Association (NSBA) National Student Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA) National Superintendents Roundtable (NSR) National Title I Association (NASTID) Northwestern University Penn Hill Group Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
School Social Work Association of America (SSWAA) Service Employees International
Union (SEIU) State University of New York (SUNY) Teach For America (TFA) Texas A&M University (TAMU) The College Board The Ohio State University (OSU) The Pell Alliance The Sheridan Group The Y (YMCA) UNCF United States Student Association (USSA) University of California (UC) University of Chicago University of Maryland (UMD) University of Maryland University College (UMUC) University of Southern California (USC) University of Wisconsin
System (UWS) US Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG) Washington Partners, LLC WestEd
Just 17 percent of active members — educators who are currently working in
schools and with
city students — actually voted, a turnout that dismayed some who want to see changes in the
union and the
school system.
The weeklong teachers» strike in Chicago has crippled the nation's third - largest public
school system as
union leaders fought against budget cuts and a reform agenda laid out by the
city's Democratic mayor, Rahm Emanuel.
Berkeley's David Kirp dug deep into how and why early education worked in
Union City, N.J. Kirp explained in Improbable Scholars that
Union City used those research - based, early education reforms to turn around a
school system that had been one of New Jersey's worst.
«The first half of his tenure was marked by a series of reforms: closing more than one dozen failing
schools and programs and creating several others that have thrived; decentralizing the
system by cutting the headquarters staff by more than half; giving principals power over budget decisions; creating choice for
city families, and competition among middle and high
schools; and signing a landmark pay - for - performance teachers»
union contract that was hailed as a model in the nation.
Appointed in 2002 by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Klein transformed the
city's public -
school system by promoting privately managed charter
schools to replace regular public
schools, by increasing the consequences for principals and teachers of standardized tests, and by attacking
union - sponsored due process and seniority provisions for teachers.
Alonso's speech marked the first public acknowledgment that the
city hopes to model its construction funding plan on a groundbreaking
schools project in Greenville, S.C. Transform Baltimore, a coalition of education advocates led by the American Civil Liberties
Union, has been lobbying
city leaders to carry out Greenville's plan, which would require a nonprofit or other entity to float the bonds on behalf of the
school system.
Under the new evaluation
system, which was imposed by the state after months of feuding between the
city and the teachers»
union, teachers will be graded next
school year on a variety of measures.
«It appears that the decision - makers in the Baltimore
city school system are sending a clear message to the citizens of Baltimore that the
schools are extremely safe,» Sgt. Clyde Boatwright, president of the
school police
union.
Alex Awards, 2009, committee members: Priscille Dando, chair, Robert E. Lee High
School, Fairfax County Public
Schools, Lorton (VA); Hope Baugh, Clay Public Library, Carmel (IN); Diane Colson, Alachua County Library District, Gainesville (FL); Jennifer Jung Gallant, Elyria Public Library
System, Bay Village (OH); Sarah Hill,
Union School District # 95, Paris (IL); Jennifer Hubert Swan, Little Red
School House and Elisabeth Irwin High
School, (NY); Betsy Levine, San Francisco Public Library (CA); Charli Osborne, Oxford Public Library, Troy (MI); Kaite Mediatore Stover, Kansas
City Public Library (MO); Ian Chipman, Booklist consultant, Chicago (IL); and Vicki Emery, administrative assistant, Lake Braddock Secondary
School, Burke (VA).