Sentences with phrase «as teachers unions»

If it does, it can be a crippling blow to public - sector unions, such as teachers unions.

He has long been at war with teacher unions and his handling of school aid and pushing charter schools have brought opposition from school districts as well as teacher unions.

The system's sure not working — but it never will, as long as teachers unions have a veto over state education policy.

Membership in credit unions is sometimes restricted to those in a certain group, such as employees of a company or those in a trade, such as a teachers union.

As long as the teachers unions remain powerful, America's schools can not be organized in the best interests of children.

As teacher union watchdog Mike Antonucci writes,

Chancellor Joel Klein encouraged charters to flourish, providing start - up assistance and offering space in public buildings, even as the teachers unions did their best to put up roadblocks, lobbying the state legislature to limit the number and funding of charter schools.

As teachers unions decry the teacher certification process rule for charter schools adopted by SUNY on Wednesday, charter schools are cheering the move.

As long as teacher unions act like Mary Poppins to parents, media elites, and others, the general public is willing to suspend their normal inclination to desire choice and competition in the goods and services they consume.

The disarming image of teachers unions as Mary Poppins has begun to morph into that of a burly autoworker, as teachers union advocacy has become more militant in recent years.

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But it would be just as worrisome as the teachers union's growing disaffection.

As teacher unions step up their calls to stop the «corporate agenda» in education and to confront the «privatization» movement, there is a far more real and serious threat facing teacher unions.

The possibility of a strike by Los Angeles teachers loomed larger today as the teachers union, UTLA, declared an impasse in negotiations with LA Unified, citing a lack of progress in bargaining since the talks began last year.

As the teachers union founder Al Shanker noted years ago, restricting bargaining to the issue of wages is a clever trap in which critics can suggest that teachers care only about money.

Administrators, school boards and our own experiences and expectations about schools are as much of a challenge as the teacher unions.

At a forum of former LA mayors in February 2017, Riordan joked that «as long as the teachers union hates him, I'll support him for governor.»

After years as a teacher union boss, Karen Lewis is making plans to spread her venom to the rest of the city.

These are just three of the latest examples of what I referred to in a prior post as teacher union hubrocrisy.

The union and city will also have to agree on academic performance measures to make up 20 percent of evaluations and on the non-observation elements of the subjective measures, just as the teachers union and city are required to do for teacher evaluations.

In the meantime, there are thousands of kids in California whose futures are in jeopardy as the teachers unions direct their cronies in the legislature to do their bidding and decimate charter schools.

If you follow teachers unions long enough, one of the odder things you'll notice is that almost as often as a teachers union sues for firing lousy employees, they sue for hiring other employees.

But public opinion shifted dramatically as teachers unions and parents of students in traditional schools pounded the theme of potentially dire financial consequences of opening more charters, which they said would cause massive budget cuts.

(A new bill by state Rep. Michael Molgano would reduce the number of parents on the school governance councils to five, leaving them with the same amount of power as the teacher unions.)

The San Diego Education Association opposed Teach for America's foray into the San Diego Unified School District — as teachers unions elsewhere in the country have done when their districts joined forces with the organization.

No other entity within the structure of the San Antonio Independent School District is as resistant to change as the teachers union.

As the teachers unions dig in, hundreds of thousands of school kids — poor and otherwise — are victimized by their work rules which have been enshrined into state law.

The case was closely watched across the country as teachers unions and educational reform groups have battled over teacher tenure.

Governor Cuomo recently wrapped up a rocky end of the legislative session, and has been feuding with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as well as the teachers union.

In his infomercial on behalf of for - profit education enterprises, there is a technological determinism that assumes no opposition from or conflict with special interests such as teacher unions, administrators, and education bureaucracies.

«As long as teachers unions remain powerful,» Moe writes, the «basic requirements» of educational success «can not be met.»

As teacher union watchdog Mike Antonucci points out, the unions will claim that fee - payers (those who opt out of paying the political portion of their union dues) «are not supporting unions» political speech in any meaningful way.»

«The best thing to have been done was that you write to us as teacher unions because at least, the law says that there must be one union which holds the collective bargaining certificate,» Mr. Acheampong asserted.

Cuomo recently wrapped up a rocky end of the legislative session, and has been feuding with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as well as the teachers union.

Finally, we find that a majority of teachers often takes positions contrary to those of a plurality of both the public and the affluent on key issues such as teachers unions, the rights and prerogatives of teachers, and school vouchers.

The search for more competent executive leadership can often roil interest groups within the school system, such as teacher unions and school administrators, whose power is in part tied to having one of their own, a former teacher and administrator, running the system.

Such quotes were bound to circulate among education reformers and give traditional opponents of school choice, such as teachers unions, heartburn.

In such statewide campaigns, it is easier for voucher opponents such as the teacher unions to influence the public as a whole than it is to influence the votes of individual legislators, especially in states with Republican majorities where legislators are less beholden to teacher unions and their allies in the public school system.

But the opposition to value - added testing is potent, as teacher unions have been fighting virtually any kind of performance - based evaluations of their members.

In Massachusetts, with its long history of local control of schools, the proposals of the mayor and the governor are likely to face opposition from school boards as well as teachers unions.

I have been writing on CEA's Facebook page saying we as teacher union members CAN NOT endorse the bully Malloy for governor the next go - round.

The group's waiver application has sparked controversy among other state superintendents, who see a district waiver as giving too much power to locally - run districts, as well as teachers unions that argue they were not consulted in constructing CORE's academic accountability system, known as the School Quality Improvement Index.

Democratic strategist Sachin Chheda said Evers, who worked as deputy state superintendent before taking the department's top position, has an advantage because even in years when Republicans have done well, voters have been hesitant to elect candidates who were not endorsed by other educators, such as the teachers union.

Citywide elections would be no better, as teachers unions have a proven track record of dominating such elections.