Sentences with phrase «back against teachers»

You helped us fight back against teacher layoffs and severe cutbacks, and you helped us make the case that it's time that millionaires pay their fair share of taxes.

[xi] Teacher associations, for their part, continue to push back against teacher evaluation systems that focus on objective measures of student achievement and provide any meaningful differentiation between teachers.

The same teacher learning conditions that Mills Teacher Scholars supported at Life Academy — collaborative, teacher - driven inquiry — can be deliberately nurtured to decrease isolation and increase teacher collective efficacy at any school or district, pushing back against the teacher attrition crisis in Oakland and beyond.

Not exact matches

Anne Sheehan, head of corporate governance at California State Teachers» Retirement System, which backs the additional climate reporting, said Exxon's letter suggests the voting is at least very close and may be going against the company.

His plan roughly presented, Smith sat back with the alert expresssion of a good teacher ready to defend it against an unconvinced student.

Bullied and bludgeoned by weeks of intense public debate over a longer school day, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis fought back Friday by filing an unfair labor practices complaint against Chicago Public Schools leadership and accusing Emanuel of trying to intimidate her in a profanity - filled tirade recently at City Hall.

Rather, sit up straight, like your teachers used to tell you in school, with your back flush against the chair.

A state Supreme Court judge in western New York on Friday issued a show cause order in a Senate Republican - backed challenge against a super PAC tied to the New York State United Teachers.

It is certainly not an illustration of courage or leadership on the part of the council members, legislators, mayor or county executive, who have joined in the chorus of racist and incompetent Board of Ed members seeking my removal, so as to push back on me to not disclose their culpability in rigging the recent teacher's contract, or their complicity in trying to unfairly settling the Board's $ 450 million lawsuit against Lou Ciminelli, for fleecing the citizens and children of Buffalo.

Senate Democrats in a news conference at the same time pushed back against the effort to expand charter schools, which included a fiery response from United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew.

«It is certainly not an illustration of courage or leadership on the part of the council members, legislators, mayor or county executive, who have joined in the chorus of racist and incompetent Board of Ed members seeking my removal, so as to push back on me to not disclose their culpability in rigging the recent teacher's contract, or their complicity in trying to unfairly settling the board's $ 450 million lawsuit against (developer) Lou Ciminelli for fleecing the citizens and children of Buffalo.

But Iannuzzi faced criticism for not aggressively pushing back against Gov. Andrew Cuomo's policies, especially a 2013 teacher evaluation law.

In a surprise move, the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, has given the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, Kaduna State branch a strong backing to stage a rally against the sacking of 22,000 primary school tTeachers, NUT, Kaduna State branch a strong backing to stage a rally against the sacking of 22,000 primary school teachersteachers.

In the fight back against the cuts, and to make sure our kids get the education they deserve, the New York State United Teachers and the Alliance for Quality Education have teamed up to urge legislators to restore the needed funding.

«Clearly we would not advocate giving expensive gifts for small improvements in behaviour and obviously not to pupils who have behaved badly, on the contrary we fully back teachers in taking swift and firm action against trouble makers,» he continued.

The move comes after NYSUT pushed back this year against efforts by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to overhaul the state's teacher evaluation system, with the performance evaluations linked to both standardized test results and in - classroom observation, while also making it more difficult for teachers to obtain and keep tenure.

Several of our RTC members are just back from Chicago where they supported teacher union members in their campaign against Mayor Rahm Emanuel's bid for re-election.

At the conference, she also spoke out against the teacher evaluation system backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, saying that politics should be kept out of education policy - making.

For one, it appears that the city did not give in to the UFT's demand to place the 1,200 ineffective teachers currently in the absent teacher reserve (ATR) back into classrooms against a principal's will.

The city teachers union pushed back against comments Mayor Bill de Blasio made that seemed to undercut the validity of some sexual - harassment complaints made by Department of Education employees.

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 big - money free - for - all is pitting New York City real state, business, and charter school interests — which support the Republicans — against the teachers unions and other liberal activists backing the Dems.

A radio ad thanking parents, teachers, elected officials and community leaders for fighting back against the threat of teacher layoffs started airing on June 30.

The board of directors of the state's largest teachers union is backing Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.The leadership of the Connecticut Education Association, which has more than 43,000 members, is endorsing the Democratic incumbent against Republican challenger...

Charter school supporters have often targeted AQE as being beholden to its benefactors in the teachers unions, a line of attack that AQE has repeatedly pushed back against, while AQE has decried any shift towards charter funding as a betrayal of the public education system.

UFT members throughout the five boroughs participated in events in March and April to push back against City Hall's destructive policies and alert the public that the threatened teacher layoffs are totally unnecessary and would be an educational disaster.

Mr. Cuomo derided the WFP as a «fringe party» last week, comments he later walked back, and seemed to deliberately flout its union backers by promising to take a hard line against teachers and other public servants.

Join Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones at the New Possibilities for Public Education: Rally for Kids and Schools as they stand with educators and parents dedicated to saving public schools and talk about how to fight back against the test and punish regime rampant in schools, the privatization of education, and the attacks against teachers

NYSUT is backing Pellegrino, a Baldwin teacher who lives in West Islip, against retired teacher Tom Gargiulo, a Conservative who has Republican backing.

Pellegrino, a West Islip resident and leader in Long Island's «opt - out» movement against standardized student testing, is facing Conservative Tom Gargiulo of Babylon, a retired teacher and coach who also has the backing of Republicans and the Independence Party.

Walcott ordered a review of D.O.E. investigations going back to 2000, after a recent spate of sexual - abuse allegations against teachers.

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.

Sit and stand against your teacher - wall of choice and check if all parts of your back, neck and head are pressed flat against the wall.

A minor character in the first film, Remi's the lead here: An entomologist working as an inner - city school teacher, she's shocked to discover the bug men are back and valiantly protects a pair of students against them.

I talked a little bit about Cooties back at the beginning of December so this one outta still be fresh in your minds as it pits a bunch of elementary school teachers against savage pre-adolescent children.

That wasn't an applause line, for sure, but it did serve another purpose: to position the candidate as a different kind of Democrat, one willing to embrace ideas from across the aisle and push back against his own teachers union base.

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.

Faced with an endless cycle of memorize, drill, spit back and test, teachers have become the wardens of a new educational reality that pits the head against the heart.

Although many states and districts made worthy changes to their evaluation practices in response to long - ago - spent Race to the Top dollars, the pushback against those changes has been intense, the methodology usually had flaws (especially when linking student learning to teacher performances), and lots of places have been backing down.

And that's where you're getting some push - back from teachers who are working hard on other matters of education reform, and they're saying, ˜Adapting our curriculum takes more time than we've been given and that's going to affect our performance against the new assessments.

Along the way, Green tells fascinating stories of teachers and researchers on a quest to create a true science of education — and pushes back against the notion that great teachers are born, not made.

Parents supported reasonable measurement and accountability but were pushing back against a system that they believed compromised educational quality and failed to accurately evaluate teachers.

Back in 2002 a group of educational travel companies came together and pioneered a robust verification scheme which featured an audit of all members every year by independent experts By measuring against a comprehensive code of practice that had been developed with, amongst others, health & safety experts, teachers» unions», head teachers» associations, outdoor advisors and top legal advice, the audit ensures all aspects of a company's business was examined, this includes worldwide health & safety management, financial security, consumer protection, fair terms and conditions and, for when it does go wrong, a commitment to independent arbitration.

Those on the right increasingly believe that the Common Core represents severe federal overreach into state sovereignty over education; those on the left, including the AFT, are pushing back not against the standards themselves, but against their implementation and use in newly adopted high - stakes teacher evaluation systems.

And it turns out that, even after policies were changed, principals still were not sure what poor teaching looked like, still did not want to upset their staffs, and still did not think giving a negative evaluation was worth the ensuing tension and hassle — especially given contractual complications and doubts that superintendents would back up personnel actions against low - rated teachers.

What's more important to them is forming «change agents» — new teachers who push back against school practices and resist modern reforms, reforms that have little to do with the romantic view of schooling that so many of Dewey's descendents so ardently espouse.

Still others praised the study's design but pushed back against interpretations that teacher evaluations of the sort used in the District of Columbia will lead to widespread improvements in teaching quality.

How can we fight back against #RedForEd and their teacher union allies?

In making the case against further teacher union endorsements of Clinton, the blog Defend Public Education meticulously chronicled Broad's relationship with the candidate, going back to a visit Broad made in 1983 to the Arkansas home of Clinton and her husband, then - Gov.

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.