Sentences with phrase «city teachers union»

New York City teacher union President Michael Mulgrew said in a statement the evaluations were «a strategy designed only to raise test scores.»

Some choice bits: Cops booted an unruly group of city teachers union officials from a posh Albany eatery after they caused a ruckus over their dinner tab, the Daily News has learned.

«We have a long history with Hillary,» said city teachers union President Michael Mulgrew.

Andrea Flinders, president of the Kansas City teachers union, can list the school superintendents she has known over the past decade.

Panepinto confirmed then that four staffers had left his Senate payroll since the end of December, including Daniel Corum, a former employee of the New York City teachers union who worked on the senator's 2014 campaign before joining his staff in 2015.

That same year, a pro-charter school group, Families for Excellent Schools, spent about $ 9.6 million on lobbying while the state and city teachers unions together spent $ 4.7 million.

But critics like city teachers union president Michel Mulgrew argue it will allow charters to hire cheap, unqualified instructors.

(Recently, the New York City teachers union won an arbitration decision mandating that «lesson plans are for the personal use of the teacher» and that supervisors may not «mandate specific elements of lesson plans.»)

For example, in this video we see former New York City teachers union vice-president Leo Casey pounding the table, demanding that charters be unionized.

Recently, New York City teacher union boss Michael Mulgrew actually said, «Without tenure, teachers can be disciplined or even fired for speaking out on behalf of the needs of their students.»

New York City teachers union braces for Supreme Court ruling that could drain money and members

Reporting from New York — The New York City teachers union argued Wednesday before the state Supreme Court that the nation's largest school district should not follow through with its plan to disclose evaluation information about some 12,000 teachers by name, saying it could do serious harm.

In December 2011, the Sacramento City Teachers Union sued the school district over the policy.

Park City teachers union to change leadership Incoming co-president says maintaining communication with district officials is critical

It's been a complex time for any big city teachers union.»

Johnson joins Mayor de Blasio, Speaker Carl Heastie, Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, and city teacher union president Michael Mulgrew as being among those who refused to choose a side this week.

Kink, who led the Democrats» policy office, will head the Strong Economy for All Coalition, which, according to a recent Times report, will soon open with a $ 5 million budget, backed by SEIU / 1199, the powerful health care workers» union, and the UFT, the New York City teachers union.

The state Education Department and Buffalo's school district tried to ratchet up the pressure in advance of a critical meeting today of the city teachers union on the stalled system for evaluating teacher performance at six troubled schools.

But many of his proposals — such as toughening up evaluation systems teachers barely agreed to in the first place, firing teachers with bad ratings, tying tenure to evaluations, and increasing the cap on charter schools — are sure to be met with ire from politically powerful state and city teachers union.

The fifth - largest contributor was the New York State United Teachers union, which distributed $ 717,343, while the city teachers union kicked in additional $ 347,800.

The city teachers union didn't seem too concerned at the prospect of charter - school candidates flooding the school boards.

At nearly the same time, about a thousand members of the city teachers union arrived in Albany to rally for more education aid and against Cuomo's plans, which include tougher teacher evaluations and more charter schools.

And his decision not to fully back Mayor Bloomberg's push to do away with the last in, first out layoff system for teachers is credited with keeping the city teachers union quiet on his proposed education cuts.

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.

The A.F.T. is run by Randi Weingarten, former president of the New York City teachers union.

ALBANY — The head of the city teachers union dismissed as «a load of crap» state Senate GOP efforts to tie the renewal of a law granting Mayor de Blasio control over the city school system to an expansion of charter schools.

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

City teachers union president Michael Mulgrew said Saturday that he supports mayoral control of the schools but with some modifications.

His announcement drew a rare public critique from the city teachers union, which said it would lead to more classroom disruption and the department didn't provide...

The Service Employees International Union Local 1199, which represents health care workers; the influential state and city teachers unions, and building workers union SEIU Local 32BJ, are all backing Clinton.

But de Blasio's decision to further reduce suspensions by outlawing them completely for kids in kindergarten through second grade drew criticism from the presidents of both the city teachers union and the principals union.

Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg once likened an endorsement from the New York City teachers union to a «kiss of death.»

One such group, the Strong Economy for All Coalition, will formally open next week with a $ 5 million budget, backed by S.E.I.U. 1199, the powerful health care workers» union, and the United Federation of Teachers, the New York City teachers union.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The city teachers union won't consider supporting the mayoral candidate whose campaign is built around schools.

«Maybe he wants to talk about all these bad ideas so we're not talking about that he owes us a lot of money,» city teachers union president Michael Mulgrew said.

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In their letter to Merryl Tisch, chancellor of the state Board of Regents, and state Education Commissioner John King Jr., state United Teachers president Richard Ianuzzi and Michael Mulgrew, head of the city teachers union, stressed those concerns.

In Buffalo, the city teachers union broke a 12 - year stalemate with a new contract that awards hefty raises for teachers.

Henderson was a serious enough candidate that de Blasio spoke to her, but she was never embraced by his allies in the city teachers union because of her Bloomberg - style education - reform ideas.

The former Memphis City School leader received a favorable response from those attending, including the leader of the city teachers union.

He did battle with the powerful New York City teachers union.

ALBANY - The head of the city teachers union is taking aim at Gov. Cuomo's upcoming trip to Cuba, saying if the governor has time to visit the tiny Caribbean country next month he should be able to visit a classroom in New York.

The city teachers union has begun pushing a new property - tax proposal tied to its union employment program.

A new video from Choice Media TV tells the story of how the NAACP in New York ended up joining a lawsuit filed by the New York City teachers union to evict charter schools from buildings they share with traditional district schools.

Five years earlier, Shanker, leader of the New York City teachers union, shook the city with a series of strikes to defend the rights of teachers who had been dismissed from Brooklyn schools.

Furthermore, knowing that it was funded by the New York City teachers union, it is impossible to cast the Thacher report as unbiased.

In New York, TNTP gathered data on the school staffing rules of the city teachers union contract.

But the process has been rocky: Earlier this year, New York state for a time withheld SIG money from New York City when the city teachers union and the district struggled to reach agreement on an evaluation system.

Other groups include NewTLA, a caucus within Unified Teachers Los Angeles, the city teachers union, and the New Millennium Initiative, a network of educators in five cities that tries to influence local and state education policies.

It does not call for merit pay tied to student test scores, which Bloomberg has supported and the city teachers union has said it would never accept, nor does it support Bloomberg's recent proposal to offer permanent pay raises to teachers who earn top ratings on new evaluations.