Sentences with phrase «fight on behalf of teachers»

Rich Napolitano, a high school social studies teacher in Suffolk County whose children are in kindergarten and first grade, said unions» fight on behalf of teachers indirectly benefits children.

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We plan to democratize the Chicago Teachers Union, hereinafter referred to as CTU and turn it into an organization that fights on behalf of its members and the students we educate.

The Caucus of Rank and File Educators (CORE) is a group of dedicated teachers, retirees, Paraprofessional School Related Personnel (PSRPs), parents, community members and other champions of public education who fight for equitable public education and hope to improve the Chicago Teacher's Union (CTU) so that it fights both on behalf of its members and on behalf of Chicago's students.

«Our hope is that NYCEDF can be a catalyst for the sort of change that will make the UFT a real leader in the fight on behalf of city teachers and the public school system.»

On behalf of Connecticut parents, students and teachers, I'm writing to request that the Working Families Party of Connecticut follow the lead of your colleagues in New York State and join us here as we fight back against the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core SBAC testing program.

In a school system under - funded by both the State of Connecticut and the local community, Daniel Kwet and his colleagues are not only fighting for children but provide a powerful inspiration for the rest of us who are advocating on behalf of students, parents, teachers and our public schools;

Instead of fighting on behalf of Connecticut's students, parents, teachers and public schools, the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education (CABE) and the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPSS) are actually working hand - in - glove with the corporate education reform industry to move public policy in exactly the wrong direction.

All of us involved in the case — recall that Jesse Rothstein and I served as the expert witnesses on behalf of the plaintiffs, and Thomas Kane of the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project and John Friedman of the infamous Chetty et al. studies (see here and here) served as the expert witnesses on behalf of the defendants — knew that all of the plaintiffs» claims would be tough to win given all of the constitutional legal standards would be difficult for plaintiffs to satisfy (e.g., that evaluating teachers using their value - added scores was not «unreasonable» was difficult to prove, as it was in the Tennessee case we also fought and was then dismissed on similar grounds (see here)-RRB-.

While it is true that Connecticut may not want to follow California's lead on all things, it sure would be helpful if more of Connecticut's local school districts and local school officials were following their colleagues in California (and other states like New York,) and standing up and fighting on behalf of their districts» students, parents, teachers and taxpayers.

Last week, a hard - fought legal case brought on behalf of nine California public - school students resulted in a stunning and, for many, exciting decision: A number of the state's teacher - tenure violate the state constitution by depriving California students of the equal opportunity for a quality education.