Sentences with phrase «as teacher strikes»

May 14, 2018 • Recent graduates Cristina Chase Lane and WinnieHope Mamboleo will be joining the profession just as teacher strikes sweep the nation.

The demonstration comes as teachers strike and walk out in other states around the country, like Arizona, West Virginia, and Kentucky.

Not exact matches

Teachers within the country have been known to strike repeatedly, as the government has often failed to follow through on promises.

Then, as if Emanuel's administration wasn't already besieged, the local teachers» union announced this week that its members had overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike, which would put some 400,000 students out on the street.

Chicago has had a pretty painful year — it just experienced its most violent summer in recent memory and the teacher's union strike in September paralyzed schools as they prepared to open.

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

Arizona teachers rally as funding vote nears to end strike Melissa Daniels and Bob Christie, The Associated Press

Some educators in Arizona are volunteering to care for students and holding food drives as a historic teacher strike that has closed schools stretches on.

As I have come to know hundreds of spiritual teachers and thousands of spiritual practitioners through my work and travels, I have been struck by the way in which our spiritual views, perspectives, and experiences become similarly «infected» by «conceptual contaminants» — comprising a confused and immature relationship to complex spiritual principles — that are as invisible, yet as insidious, as sexually transmitted diseasAs I have come to know hundreds of spiritual teachers and thousands of spiritual practitioners through my work and travels, I have been struck by the way in which our spiritual views, perspectives, and experiences become similarly «infected» by «conceptual contaminants» — comprising a confused and immature relationship to complex spiritual principles — that are as invisible, yet as insidious, as sexually transmitted diseasas invisible, yet as insidious, as sexually transmitted diseasas insidious, as sexually transmitted diseasas sexually transmitted disease.

For teachers and students, and for the graduate student teaching assistants who were organizing as well, the issue was whether, in the event of a strike, classes should be moved off campus, so that no one would be crossing a picket line.

Now Nicole, I'm one of those people who dislikes marshmallows but will try anything at least once:) I had planned on making jam filled cupcakes today, maybe the bases for these as well then my girls can ice them tomorrow... When the strike is over, the teachers will most likely ask what did you do over the break?

The Chicago teachers strike and its focus on new ways to assess teachers remind me of a brilliant 2002 book, «Children As Pawns: The Politics of Educational Reform,» by Timothy A. Hacsi.

As the strike entered its 14th school day Friday the board came under pressure from at least one community group to begin using nonstriking teachers to conduct classes.

The Public and Commercial Services union backed a strike on June 30th, the same day as industrial action planned by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL).

What does the Chicago teachers strike mean for Obama and the Democrats as election time nears?

Angry and extensive coverage has characterised last week's Chicago teachers» strike as a series of splits: children's interests vs. teachers» interests; «reform» vs. «status - quo»; elites vs. the public.

Tens of thousands of teachers across the north - west will be taking strike action today (Thursday 27 June) as a further step in the NASUWT and NUT teacher unions» dispute with the Secretary of State for Education over pay, pensions, working conditions and jobs.

He spoke out as sources at the civil service PCS union, which joined teachers on strike in June in a row over the Government's pension reforms, said its national executive had agreed to hold another one - day walkout in the autumn.

Unions representing public sector workers such as teachers, train drivers and doctors will have to pass a much tougher test before being allowed to strike.

Thousands of schools across England will close today, as teachers go on strike in a dispute over pay and conditions.

Meeting today (29) the union's national executive committee endorsed the date as the next national strike following the successful action PCS took on 30 June alongside teachers and lecturers.

Catsimatidis also admitted that he considers himself a union guy, from his days as a member, and said that, if he were mayor, he would have been able to reach deals with the teachers» and bus drivers» union on a teacher evaluation system and new contracts to avert the school bus strike.

Nationally, Natale's words struck a chord as teachers everywhere are dealing with reforms similar to those implemented in Connecticut this year — a new teacher evaluation system, new academic standards known as the Common Core State Standards, and the trial of a new computerized testing system.

It further threatened that if the government does not reverse its decision to sack 9000 primary school teachers in the state, it will have the strike action as the only option.

He neither opposed nor supported the teachers» strike action, casting himself as a rather odd, impotent observer of events.

The NUT has a membership in England and Wales of 330,700 and of these, 218,000 members are eligible to take strike action as they are active members of the teachers» pension scheme.

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.

This award - winning film follows naturalist and author Joel Greenberg, A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction, (Bloomsbury USA, 2014), as well as scientists, artists and teachers that are drawn to this literal teachable moment and its striking relevance to conservation challenges today.

We discuss her own journey from mystic child to depressed college student to literally being struck by lightning to awaken the dormant kundalini energy that existed inside of her so she can serve her mission on this planet as an international Kundalini Yoga Teacher.

So we could also say, «Bad Yoga Teachers Can Wreck Your Body», which strikes me as a good reason to encourage current and prospective yoga students to think seriously about where and from whom you are receiving your yoga instruction.

Struck by lightning, Number Five escapes, Nova chases, an animal - loving, anti-military, environmentalist (Ally Sheedy) ends up as the robot's new remedial teacher, and we all discover that newly alive life forms like the Three Stooges.

Weingarten is no less committed to the primacy of her union, a commitment she credits to her mother, who as an AFT member and a teacher in Nyack, New York, participated in a seven - week strike even at the cost of «material sacrifice for our family.»

It strikes me that the conversation and tenor around teachers in the United States is not as forgiving or supportive at this time.

A recently ratified teachers» contract in Chicago promises to make the next several Septembers as forgettable as the last few: no strikes, no heated picket lines, and no delayed school openings.

As a historian, I am most struck by the parallels between the dispositions assessments of today's aspiring teachers and the evaluations of teachers» mental hygiene and personality that began in the 1940s and continued for two decades.

Perhaps it's unfair to generalize from this small sample, but these five teachers, although frustrated by those students, struck me as caring people truly dedicated to turning them around.

One of the challenges facing school leaders right now is striking the right balance between pragmatism to make sure that every class has a teacher, and ensuring the bar continues to be set as a high as it should be in terms of teaching quality.»

A number of schools in England have been closed or disrupted as a result of the one - day strike staged by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) over school funding.

November 12, 2015 — Almost as soon as the month - long East St. Louis, Ill., teachers» strike ended last week, news broke of a possible Chicago teachers» strike looming in the near future.

This observation, that poor teacher preparation turns everything to garbage, strikes me as the skeleton key that unlocks so much of our failure to make and sustain gains in American education, regardless of grade, setting, subject, and school - governance model.

Here's one example that strikes me as particularly interesting: using a tablet with a screencasting app, teachers can record their students grappling with a problem and reflect on what led to their understanding (or failure to understand).

Prior to the ruling, unionized Seattle teachers went on strike just as the school year began, leaving charter schools the only public schools in the city open for business.

As the leaders of the United Teachers of Los Angeles laid the groundwork for a possible strike, a citywide coalition last week released a draft plan for restructuring the troubled school district.

Once a month, students have hosted HGSE Debates, an off - the - record discussion of timely topics such as the Chicago teachers» strike.

Craft trades and ministries point toward a middle way that, though less prestigious than medicine, could actually enhance the profession by better reflecting the work teachers do instead of arrogating to itself a status that strikes many noneducators as presumptuous and self - serving.

Fresh off a victory on the finance issue and newly enjoying complete control of the legislature, Republican leaders were primed to push changes sought by administrators» groups as a way of controlling costs and limiting teacher strikes.

Shanker is perhaps best known for his work as a union organizer in New York City, where he founded the United Federation of Teachers in 1960 and led the 1968 Ocean Hill - Brownsville strikes.

As the report documents, the teacher chronic absenteeism gap is particularly striking in the fourteen states where districts — but not charters — are required to bargain collectively.

The teacher - managers will have to keep a tab on each student's learning path simultaneously as well as actively assisting each of them wherever they are struck.

This struck me as a triple win: the students had a high - quality learning experience, the teacher had a rewarding professional experience, and the burden of creating the unit was shared among a group of teachers rather than each teacher laboring in isolation.