Sentences with phrase «back tenure protections»

I'm not opposed, in principle, to carefully paring back tenure protections for teachers in exchange for higher salaries or other benefits.

Not exact matches

Luckily for greens, the back - and - forth on the issue over the past eight years has meant that only seven miles of new roads — yielding access to just 500 acres of timber — have been cut on lands slated for protection under the Roadless Rule during Bush's tenure.

Villaraigosa and O'Donnell had some back and forth exchanges and disagreements on various points, including Vergara vs. California, the landmark lawsuit challenging teacher tenure and other protections.

Opponents of the nation's teacher unions won a landmark victory last year in a California lawsuit that challenged tenure protections, a case that became the beginning of a national effort to roll back teacher tenure laws in state courts.

Just months into Betsy DeVos» tenure as secretary of education, the department is already rolling back critical protections for vulnerable students.

Meanwhile, Pruitt — who sued the EPA 14 times to block stronger air, water and climate safeguards during his tenure as Oklahoma attorney general — is now trying to roll back environmental protections from the inside.