Sentences with phrase «after teacher strikes»

North Carolina's march comes after teacher strikes and walkouts earlier this year in Arizona, Kentucky, Oklahoma and West Virginia led to changes such as pay raises and higher education spending.

The march comes after teacher strikes and walkouts earlier this year in Arizona, Kentucky, Oklahoma and West Virginia led to changes such as pay raises and higher education spending.

Not exact matches

The decision comes after head teachers across England had suggested that they could go on strike as a result of forced academisation.

Helping Children Cope After a Traumatic Event The Teacher's Role When Tragedy Strikes Signs of Trauma in Children

A one - day strike would only have a limited effect - schools cope with teacher training days all the time, after all.

After the recent industrial action, deputy head teacher Steve Kirkpatrick took to the blog to explain why he took strike action.

More than 10,000 state schools are expected to close today, after the NUT called the first national teachers» strike in three years.

They decided to go on strike after state lawmakers passed a bill to raise pay for teachers and other public employees by 4 percent over three years while imposing higher health care premiums.

NUT Chairman, Comrade Audu T. Amba, who disclosed this shortly after an emergency meeting of the State Wing Executive Council (SWEC) held at the Teachers End Well Hotel, Kaduna said the decision to call off the strike was based on government's pronouncement to review its stand on the sack of tTeachers End Well Hotel, Kaduna said the decision to call off the strike was based on government's pronouncement to review its stand on the sack of teachersteachers.

The Nasarawa State chapter of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), on Sunday suspended its 19 - day - old strike after signing a memorandum of understanding with the state...

In July, the Human Rights Division of the Accra High Court declared that the strike embarked upon by the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG) was legal after the National Labour Commission (NLC) had petitioned the court to declare the strike as illegal and order the lecturers to go back to the classroom.

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Under the ground in a research base live a number of soldiers, doctors, and even teachers, who look after a range of children who display independent cognitive thought, but also crave human flesh when struck by the smell of humans.

A monthlong teacher strike in Michigan City, Ind., ended late last month after union leaders and administrators reached an agreement on a three - year contract that provides teachers with a 6 - percent salary increase next year and 5 - percent raises in each of the following years.

The California court, noting that education is a fundamental right of California youth, struck down the law that requires administrators to make essentially lifetime decisions after a teacher has been in the classroom for just 16 months and has yet to complete an induction program.

California, Pa. — Their lunchboxes shiny from lack of use, schoolchildren here returned to classes last week after an 82 - day teachers» strike — the longest in Pennsylvania history.

After an all - night negotiating session, the Chicago Teachers Union and the board of education reached agreement last week on a new contract that narrowly averted a strike in the nation's third - largest school system.

Arizona's special education voucher law was struck down by the state courts after a challenge from the teachers union and civil liberties groups, which claimed that the law violated a state constitutional provision barring any public funds from flowing to religious institutions.

The survey, which gauges racial attitudes in schools a half - century after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down separate schooling for black and white students, found differences between teachers and students on questions of race and education.

If courts can strike down teacher tenure laws as a violation of the rights of poor and minority children (see «Script Doctors,» legal beat, Fall 2014), why not use the results from CCSS assessments to go after the drawing of school boundaries in a way that perpetuates economic school segregation and denies children equal opportunity?

A teachers» strike in Philadelphia that began after school ended last Friday was over before classes resumed Monday morning.

District officials opened elementary schools with substitute teachers on Nov. 11, four days after the strike began, but about three - quarters of the pupils did not attend.

Teachers there had called the strike, their first in 25 years, the day after Labor Day.

Back in their classrooms after a nearly three - week strike that ended just before Thanksgiving, teachers in Billings, Mont., approved a hard - fought contract last week that will give them 2.5 percent pay raises and additional help with health insurance.

The news comes after the National Union of Teachers (NUT) voted to ballot for strike action over the academies plan.

Teachers who are members of the NASUWT union will take strike action as planned today (27 March), after East Dunbartonshire Council failed to prevent the action.

In a landmark ruling, a Los Angeles superior court judge on Tuesday struck down key elements of California's teacher tenure statutes after finding that the near inability to fire ineffective teachers disproportionately hurts poor and minority students.

Teachers in two school districts in Ohio, where the budget year begins on Jan. 1, remained on strike last week after negotiations for new contracts broke down.

At exactly 1 p.m. on Oct. 12, the day after the president made his plea for aid, the teachers of the K - 5 school in Atlanta simultaneously began a one - hour lesson aimed at helping students understand the terrorist strikes of Sept. 11, the war those attacks sparked, and the suffering of Afghan children.

The Governor, who intervened in the Denver labor negotiations in January to prevent a threatened strike, wrote the contract after conducting a series of hearings to examine the issues separating the Denver Classroom Teachers Association and the city school board.

Chicago's more than 350,000 public school pupils finally went back to class yesterday, after seven missed days due to the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) strike.

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Teacher Evaluations At Center Of Chicago Strike NPR: In California, after the state legislature mandated the use of student progress benchmarks to rate teachers, an education reform group sued the Los Angeles Unified School District to force the issue.

Teachers plan local strikes to begin in late June, after the exam season, and a national strike is planned for the autumn.

Related: West Virginia teachers agree to end statewide strike after governor promises larger raises

Look at Chicago — where last month, after incredible school - by - school organizing — 98 percent of the 92 percent of members who voted in a strike authorization vote stood together for dignity and professionalism for teachers, and for high - quality education for students.

After three and half years, much of it mired in controversy over technology missteps like the rollout of a $ 1.3 billion iPad program and a court case that struck down teacher tenure laws in California, the schools chief and the board have agreed to part ways.

It comes after teachers went on a week - long strike demanding a cost of living adjustment and more money in their classrooms.

Plans to convert a school in east London into an academy have been abandoned after its teachers went on strike for 19 days.

The Madison Metropolitan School District extended its teacher contract for two years — through the 2013 - 2014 school year — after Dane County Judge Juan Colas struck down key provisions of Act 10 in September 2012.

Members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) have already voted to ballot for strike action after rejecting the government's academies plan.

This was fresh in people's minds as they walked out of a screening in Chicago, literally a day after the teachers» strike there ended.

Yesterday, elected delegates of the Chicago Teachers Union voted not to end the strike, opting instead to reconvene Tuesday after discussing a proposed contract deal with CTU's broader membership.

The current Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) contract — agreed to after an eight - day strike in 2012 — expired at the end of school last year.

Soon after their meeting, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that he'll seek a legal injunction declaring the strike illegal and forcing the teachers back to work.

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis speaks to reporters after casting her ballot in a strike authorization vote.

This is happening as teachers across Oklahoma continue their walkout and after teachers in West Virginia got the raise they wanted by striking for more than a week.

After the Chicago teachers strike, a few parting observations, lessons to be learned, and things to watch in the future...

After the two sides came close to a weekend deal, the contentious Chicago teachers strike headed into its second week, compelling 350,000 elementary, middle, and high school students in the nation's third - largest school district to go yet another day without classes.

Teachers are to pass tests themselves, this time, and if they can not pass the tests after three attempts, they are to be terminated / replaced (i.e., three strikes, they are to be out).