Sentences with phrase «during teacher strikes»

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Earlier this week, Jacqueline Vaughn, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, questioned the need for a lunch program during the strike.

Prior to that, in 1976, Buffalo teachers went on strike during the first phase of a court - ordered desegregation program.

More than a fifth of England's schools were closed on Thursday during a strike by the National Union of Teachers, according to government figures.

Some Mississippi schools will hold classes on weekends and during the early summer to make up for the time lost during three and a half weeks of wildcat strikes by teachers.

As part of the law, teachers were not allowed to strike for the first 18 months of the new administration, during which the union and the school board negotiated a new four - year contract.

Hundreds of thousands of students in Kentucky and Oklahoma had no class Monday while their public - school teachers protested at state capitols during strikes for higher pay.

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During his four - plus years as mayor, Emanuel has made a number of controversial decisions on education, from opening more charter schools and closing about 50 neighborhood schools to his standoff with teachers that led to the strike.

Lewis called that an «act of war» and declared that a lot of union members «have already bought red thermal jackets,» rhetoric aimed to conjure up images of thousands of red - clad teachers who picketed city streets during the 2012 teachers strike.

In addition to early morning pickets at schools, the Chicago Teachers Union plans a full day of teach - ins and rallies at sites around the city during a one - day strike Friday that the union promises will shut down the schools, according to a preliminary schedule issued Monday.

(Texas) With a statewide strike among Oklahoma teachers looming, lawmakers in Texas signaled this week that increasing teacher pay — possibly by tying raises to performance — will be a priority during the next Legislative session.

PURE was founded by parents and teachers together during the last Chicago teachers» strike in 1987, to help parents and teachers speak with one voice about who was failing our children: not the greedy teachers or the lazy parents, but the politicians and bureaucrats whose neglect and poor management was forcing failure on our schools.

In terms of general education - related topics, participants shared links on a wide variety of matters, including diversity and social justice issues, and to articles on education news and policy matters, such as the Common Core State Standards and the Chicago Teachers Union strike that unfolded during the semester.

The Chicago Teachers Union was depriving the city's children of their right to an education not just during the strike, editorialists argued, but also every day — by refusing to bow down to standardized tests.

During the strike, Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis said she was concerned that «too much of the new evaluations will be based on students» standardized test scores,» and argued there were «too many factors beyond our control which impact how well some students perform on standardized tests, such as poverty, exposure to violence, homelessness, hunger, and other social issues beyond our control» (Chicago Teachers Union, 2012, para. 5).

During the 2012 - 2013 public school year, actions against high - stakes tests included a successful teachers strike in Chicago, an effective boycott in Seattle, student walkouts in Denver and Portland, demonstrations in Providence and opt - out movements in dozens of communities.

I'm worried about the amount of violence that Chicago will see while during this teachers» strike

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Despite his vocal support for the union during an unprecedented speech at its annual conference in March, the Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn did not visit teachers on picket lines today, and Angela Rayner, the new shadow education secretary and a former trade union official, stopped short of backing the strike.

Participants chant during a protest at the Arizona Capitol for higher teacher pay and school funding on the first day of a state - wide teachers strike Thursday, April 26, 2018, in Phoenix.

Strong neighborhood and community alliances were forged in dozens of struggles to defend local public schools — alliances that later proved to be a key factor in the strong community support given to teachers during their strike.

During the Chicago teachers» strike I observed that the system faced a fiscal squeeze thanks to a coming sharp rise in annual pension contributions.

I was spat upon and sworn at as a seven year old kid crossing the picket line during a teacher's strike just because I wanted to attend school and get an education.

The Free Market Enters the Teacher Pay Controversy: While teachers in Oklahoma were able to increase their pay during their recent strike, they are still underpaid in relation to other states, and now one district in Texas is seeking to take advantage of that fact.

«Our objective, obviously, is to do everything possible to reach a final deal with (the Chicago Teachers Union) to prevent a strike,» district CEO Forrest Claypool said Wednesday during a Chicago Board of Education meeting.

Not over solidarity with the teachers (that's right, they are still on strike during their summer vacation) but over the lax enforcement by liquor authorities over the number of ounces served in a pint of beer.

Instead I will be tending to Sprog 1's wound (I thought Sprog 2 — the non-stoic one — was going to faint or vomit when she saw it yesterday afternoon), entertaining the Sprogs on Wednesday during the all - day teacher's strike (I'm thinking Brave and yum cha), then minding Sprog 1 during her Thursday athletics carnival since I don't see much point in her attending with a cracked head.