Sentences with phrase «when teachers protested»

When teachers protested that students from disadvantaged backgrounds tend not to test well, having not had the benefit of tutors and test - prep programs, GWB said they were making «excuses,» showing «the soft bigotry of low expectations.»

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Parents, students and teachers from South Florida, the state's Democratic stronghold, have been a forceful presence in the Capitol since last week, when busloads of Stoneman Douglas High students spent two days lobbying — and protesting — lawmakers, urging them to take more far - reaching action and ban all assault weapons.

Washington Post: Protests of Va. parish's move away from altar girls reflects wider Catholic debate Mass had just begun at Corpus Christi Catholic Church when Jennifer Zickel, a Sunday school teacher, glanced at the church bulletin and saw something that made her sick to her stomach.

«When teachers in the school got no relief the UFT and community leaders protested on the steps of Tweed.

When Riley asked around, she identified the protest instigator as a 5th - grade teacher at Ambler who during the 2015 — 16 school year was also the UTLA union rep at the school.

Doug Pratt of the Michigan Education Association protested, «When you walk into a building in the middle of winter, the flu bug that's going around and sidelining students and staff can spread like wildfire... Do you want a teacher whose parent or partner is undergoing chemotherapy that morning — and because of the reasonable amount of time they've bargained — gets to be with their family member and take care of what they need to?

States where teachers are protesting have among the largest pay discrepancies when compared with similarly educated private - sector workers.

There were scattered cheers inside a South Loop union hall last week when the Chicago Teachers Union's governing body backed a call to walk off the job and gather downtown Friday for a mass protest.

Local groups are providing childcare options May 16 when Wake County and other Triangle school districts are closed, a result of so many teachers planning to take the day off to protest in Raleigh.

The debate erupted in August, when The Times published a database of the value - added scores of about 6,000 elementary school teachers based on seven years of testing data, prompting union protests and vows by the district to raise the issue during contract negotiations.

The Treasury has taken back # 384m originally promised for schools in England - at a time when head teachers are protesting about a cash crisis.

When it comes to plausibility, head teachers» warnings of cuts to children's lessons will always win out over politicians protesting that funding is at record levels.

I first came across Moore's work a while back, when he covered the tensions with teachers unions at the Black Lives Matter protests.

The union still can organize job actions, as when schools had to be closed for four days last year during the Capitol protests, or influence board action by crowding School Board meetings, as when elementary teachers were unhappy with proposed changes to their planning time last spring.

MIAMI — When protests from parents and teachers erupted against the new Common Core tests here, Florida thought it had a solution: It dropped the tests.

When the crowd, filled with teachers from every discipline, protested, he explained his thinking.