Sentences with phrase «against powerful teachers»

They're graciously taking on the case pro bono, but it's mutually beneficial — because California's Parent Trigger law is at the forefront of an ed - reform battle raging hotly across America, pitting charter operators and radical reformers against powerful teachers unions.

Not exact matches

This week, writer, teacher and speaker Beth Moore joins us to talk about why she is speaking out against Christians who ignore allegations against powerful people.

(He also has some very powerful things to say against the rather anemic theism of another Ahad Ha'Am follower, Mordecai Kaplan [d. 1983], who was and still is an extremely influential American Jewish thinker, and who was also a teacher of Hertzberg's at the Jewish Theological Seminary in the 1940s.)

And so the two houses of the Legislature aligned against each other, each backed by a powerful interest group: charter school advocates who have contributed generously to Senate Republicans (and Gov. Andrew Cuomo) and teachers» unions that are core supporters of Assembly Democrats, and see charter schools as a persistent threat.

The tougher choices down the road could include major cuts in state education spending — the political third rail for many lawmakers; or what are euphemistically called «revenue enhancers,» also known as higher or new taxes; or a cap on state spending, which such powerful labor groups as the teachers and health - care workers unions fight against tooth and nail.

But on Monday, Cuomo used the veto to push back against the state's powerful teachers» union and call into question the accuracy of the new evaluation system.

Set after the war, with Ip Man relocated to Hong Kong, it replaces the foreign devils that were the occupying Japanese Army with the colonial British foreign devils ruling Hong Kong in 1950 and sets the honorable sensei against a corrupt cabal of martial arts teachers lead by Sammo Hung (who is also the film's fight choreographer) and a champion boxer called The Twister (Darren Shahlavi), a British brute with a powerful punch and a killer instinct.

Looking back, I can see that my colleagues and I were struggling to counteract powerful tendencies that work against high student achievement in urban schools: If teachers work in isolation, if there isn't effective teamwork, if the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasm.

But other Democrats and teachers unions, a powerful constituency within the party, have railed against charters, which operate free of many district constraints and usually have non-unionized teachers.

So we had Tuck, a no - name candidate, without a ground game, whose messaging failed to reach a low - information populace and who suffered a poor voter turnout, fighting against a man backed by the most powerful state teachers union in the country — and Tuck still lost by only four percentage points.

Making an issue of using test scores to evaluate teachers means taking on powerful teacher unions, pitting a core Democratic interest group against a major goal of the Obama administration.

After all, students are just as adversely impacted by «education reform» as the teachers, and thus their parents and also community organizations who serve children and their parents could be vital allies in this fight against powerful and well funded opponents.

Earlier this year, as the truly repulsive story of Mark Berndt (warning: the link is not for the faint of heart)-- an elementary teacher in the L.A. Unified School District accused of committing unspeakable acts against his students — came to light, I noted here on Public Sector Inc. that the failure to prevent his crimes owed in part to the influence of the California Teachers Association, the teachers union that is the state's most powerful special iTeachers Association, the teachers union that is the state's most powerful special iteachers union that is the state's most powerful special interest.

Teachers, new to the profession, need to stand up and push back against the powerful unions that so many are forced to pay dues to.