Sentences with phrase «ending teacher strikes»

Locked in a battle between the Republican - controlled House and Senate and Republican Gov. Matt Bevin, the Legislature sent him a 378 - page budget and tax bill — partly aimed at ending teacher strikes — that included a 6 percent tax on the gross receipts of companion animal veterinary services.

Locked in a battle between the Republican - controlled House and Senate and Republican Gov. Matt Bevin, the Legislature sent him a 378 - page budget and tax bill — partly aimed at ending teacher strikes — that included a 6 percent tax on the gross receipts of companion -LSB-...]

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Arizona teachers rally as funding vote nears to end strike Melissa Daniels and Bob Christie, The Associated Press

So when said husband encouraged me to go on a health and wellness retreat last week, I frantically packed my bags before he could change his mind and ran out the door (OK that's not true, I argued with him about the what, when, where for each kid and the logistics of leaving a 9 month old who's nursing around the clock and a 9 year old who's out of school for weeks because her teachers are on a strike that seems like it will never end.

CHICAGO (Reuters)- Public school teachers in Chicago voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new three - year contract, ending a bitter dispute with Mayor Rahm Emanuel over school reforms that prompted the first strike of city teachers in 25 years.

The teachers embarked on a strike at the end of the 2015/2016 long vacation which ended in the first week of September.

Bill de Blasio and the teachers union struck a deal on a new contract, ending a nearly five - year labor dispute and potentially setting a template for negotiations with the city's other unions.

Parents in Kafanchan have called for dialogue between the Kaduna State Government and Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) to end ongoing strike by public school...

NUT Chairman, Comrade Audu T. Amba, who disclosed this shortly after an emergency meeting of the State Wing Executive Council (SWEC) held at the Teachers End Well Hotel, Kaduna said the decision to call off the strike was based on government's pronouncement to review its stand on the sack of tTeachers End Well Hotel, Kaduna said the decision to call off the strike was based on government's pronouncement to review its stand on the sack of teachersteachers.

Struck by lightning, Number Five escapes, Nova chases, an animal - loving, anti-military, environmentalist (Ally Sheedy) ends up as the robot's new remedial teacher, and we all discover that newly alive life forms like the Three Stooges.

Should the Supreme Court strike down disparate impact, it would end the most mischievous and destructive policies imposed by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and would also stop pernicious lawsuits (like one just decided in New York) that seek to eliminate basic standards for new teachers.

A monthlong teacher strike in Michigan City, Ind., ended late last month after union leaders and administrators reached an agreement on a three - year contract that provides teachers with a 6 - percent salary increase next year and 5 - percent raises in each of the following years.

November 12, 2015 — Almost as soon as the month - long East St. Louis, Ill., teachers» strike ended last week, news broke of a possible Chicago teachers» strike looming in the near future.

A Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruling that ended the strike and ordered the school system to re-hire 3,000 teachers «exacerbates our already very severe financial problems,» Mr. Marcase explained.

But on Sept. 29, 36 of Teaneck's teachers were led into a trailer adjacent to the Bergen County Jail Annex in Hackensack, where they would spend a day for defying a judge's order to end their strike.

And so, when negotiations predictably bogged down at the end of the summer, Chicago teachers went out on strike for seven school days at the start of the 2012 — 13 school year.

When the strike ended with a new contract, Chicago teachers generally seemed satisfied with the results Lewis had secured, voting to ratify the contract and basking in the national attention they had won.

The settlement marked the end of Chicago's seventh teacher strike since 1969 and its second in two years.

A teachers» strike in Philadelphia that began after school ended last Friday was over before classes resumed Monday morning.

At the end of the first full week of the teachers» strike in Oakland, Calif., both district officials and union representatives reported little progress and no end in sight.

Philadelphia teachers were poised to begin a strike last Friday afternoon, provided no new contract had been worked out by the end of the school day.

Back in their classrooms after a nearly three - week strike that ended just before Thanksgiving, teachers in Billings, Mont., approved a hard - fought contract last week that will give them 2.5 percent pay raises and additional help with health insurance.

In the Chinese zodiac, 2018 is supposed to be the Year of the Dog, but a more suitable name might end up being the «Year of the Illegal Teacher Strike.»

The average American who is struggling to make ends meet will not take kindly to a teachers strike under these circumstances.

The layoffs announced Monday by Chicago Public Schools — 62 workers, 17 of them teachers — were far milder than feared earlier in the school year, but the district's plan to end its longstanding practice of picking up pension costs for teachers led to a fresh strike threat from the Chicago Teacherteachers — were far milder than feared earlier in the school year, but the district's plan to end its longstanding practice of picking up pension costs for teachers led to a fresh strike threat from the Chicago Teacherteachers led to a fresh strike threat from the Chicago TeachersTeachers Union.

Rank - and - file members of the Seattle teachers union formally ended their strike against the state's largest school district, voting Sunday evening to ratify a proposed three - year contract.

The vote brings to an end the first teachers strike in Seattle since 1985, which canceled six days of classes for the district's 53,000 students and sent parents into a frenzied, week - long scramble for childcare.

In 2012, a seven - day CTU - led teachers strike ended in a new three - year contract, but it did not end the acrimony between the union and Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

And his top political nemesis, the Chicago Teachers Union, is waiting at the other end of a negotiating table for a new contract or another strike.

Related: West Virginia teachers agree to end statewide strike after governor promises larger raises

This was fresh in people's minds as they walked out of a screening in Chicago, literally a day after the teachers» strike there ended.

Yesterday, elected delegates of the Chicago Teachers Union voted not to end the strike, opting instead to reconvene Tuesday after discussing a proposed contract deal with CTU's broader membership.

The current Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) contract — agreed to after an eight - day strike in 2012 — expired at the end of school last year.

The Chicago Teachers Union said Wednesday that it's not likely to strike before the end of the school year, choosing instead to continue to press state and local lawmakers to provide a financial lifeline to the city's troubled schools.

Measuring growth strikes many as far preferable to holding teachers accountable only for end - of - year test scores.

After West Virginia educators» nine - day strike ended in a resounding labor victory last month that secured 5 percent pay raises, teachers in several more red states launched walkouts and rallied at state capitols this week.

In Detroit Public Schools, the Detroit Federation of Teachers threatened to strike when the emergency financial manager called for teacher merit pay and an end to the seniority system.

Last week, unionized teachers in Chicago walked out of their classrooms for the first time in 25 years in a strike over proposals similar to Obama's, including revamped teacher evaluations and ending job security based only on seniority.

The fact that both the NEA and AFT have become so fearful of the implications of last month's decision in Vergara v. California ending near - lifetime employment and reverse - seniority layoff rules — including the likelihood that teachers, now realizing that the two unions can no longer hold up bargain they struck with earlier generations in the profession — show how tied they are to this outdated model of unionism.

CTU Vice President Jesse Sharkey said Wednesday that «the majority» of members would want to strike immediately if Chicago Public Schools unilaterally ends its long - standing practice of picking up the bulk of teacher pension contributions.

The Pueblo Education Association announced teachers have approved the offer from D60 ending the strike in Pueblo.

At NEIU, in 2004, a teachers» strike threatened to end the semester, depriving students of their credit hours.

He explained that despite the teacher's strike, the end - of - term keyboard concert was going ahead yesterday.