Sentences with phrase «while teachers protested»

While teachers protested a proposed charter expansion plan outside the LA Unified school board meeting yesterday, union leaders involved with the district and a former board president, spoke out against it inside.

While teacher protests are nothing new, the recent spate of activism seems to be on a larger and louder scale than in previous years.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, Governor Nasir El - Rufai while speaking on Channels Television reiterated his stance to sack the teachers who failed the competency test in spite of the protests, stressing that he will not rescind the government decision under whatever guise.

While she complained, according to Education Week, that the school district should have granted her a leave of absence, a letter writer to the newspaper reminded the teacher of her history: «While civil disobedience and legal protest have long been used as ways of attracting attention to a cause, civil disobedience is unique because it has always carried with it the obvious risk of arrest and possible imprisonment.»

Hundreds of thousands of students in Kentucky and Oklahoma had no class Monday while their public - school teachers protested at state capitols during strikes for higher pay.

The teacher's union, UTLA, is asking members to protest at the meeting, and two anti-charter resolutions are under consideration, although in deference to the board's need to spend more time on other issues while the superintendent search continues, they were postponed until the board's January meeting.

While technology in Common Core assessments produced statewide protest, response from Florida's teachers and students to the actual changes in classroom education are far more mixed.

Following a 13 - day statewide strike among West Virginia teachers last month which culminated in an across - the - board 5 percent raise, teachers in Arizona have conducted a series demonstrations demanding higher pay, while Kentucky teachers have rallied to protest proposed cuts to their pensions.

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

In February 2011, with the protests being carried out daily, the Wisconsin Democratic Party claimed that the five states that outlaw collective bargaining for teachers all ranked below 44th in the nation in test scores, while Wisconsin ranked second.

While Walta's article effectively gives the game away, it's worth noting that, while teachers have various reasons for striking state to state — pay levels, pension benefits, class sizes, etc. — none of the protesting teachers in any of these states are publicly demanding the ability to force their colleagues to pay union While Walta's article effectively gives the game away, it's worth noting that, while teachers have various reasons for striking state to state — pay levels, pension benefits, class sizes, etc. — none of the protesting teachers in any of these states are publicly demanding the ability to force their colleagues to pay union while teachers have various reasons for striking state to state — pay levels, pension benefits, class sizes, etc. — none of the protesting teachers in any of these states are publicly demanding the ability to force their colleagues to pay union dues.

Teachers unions protested outside the virtual charter school operator's shareholder meeting, while inside, investors voted down its proposal for executive pay.

While some saw the protests as nothing more than an inconvenience to parents — especially working parents — others voiced support for participating teachers for helping to shine a light on an important societal issue.