Sentences with phrase «former teacher and union»

«This was bad - faith bargaining,» said Vargas, a former teacher and union leader.

Now Ritz, a former teacher and union activist, will get to back local control for the four IPS takeover schools as the Indianapolis mayor's office acts as an alternative to state intervention.

One key player the anti-testing crowd is looking to sway: Murray, a former teacher and union ally whom representatives for school groups hope will be open to their pleas.

Not exact matches

The New York State United Teachers union on Friday blasted the appointment of former Education Commissioner John King to become the acting secretary of education and urged its members to call the White House to «express their displeasure.»

AFT President Randi Weingarten, a former head of the NYC teacher's union, and Rabbi Sharon Anne Kleinbaum were married at La Marina, a restaurant in New York.

[22] Maloney, unsurprisingly, gained the endorsement of his former boss, Bill Clinton, [22] along with the nod from major unions in the state, including the New York State United Teachers, the state AFL - CIO, and some large SEIU locals.

Villaraigosa's chief rival in the June 5 primary is Lt. Gov. and former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who told the teachers» union that he would push for a freeze on charter school expansion.

The former Clinton aide is an outspoken liberal who is pushing for higher taxes on the rich and has the support of the state's powerful public employee and teacher unions.

The race for Skelos» former state Senate seat in Nassau County has turned into a proxy war between charter - school advocates, who support Republican Chris McGrath, and teachers unions, which back Democrat Todd Kaminsky.

Teachers unions «are some of the largest players in politics,» said Lara Brown, director of the Graduate School of Political Management at the George Washington University and a former Education Department official during the Clinton administration.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, was invited to be a UK commissioner by the Centre for American Progress, which convened a UK - US inquiry, co-chaired by US former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, to examine how to secure an economic recovery which benefits all, not just the few.

The union backed Democratic candidate Cindy Doran, a former Troy High School teacher and Rensselaer County lawmaker, for the 107th Assembly district.

... the teachers» union leadership opposed any alternative candidate to the governor in last year's election, from the mild - mannered liberal Democrat Zephyr Teachout who challenged Cuomo in the party primary, to the radical Green Party ticket of Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones, who is himself a former New York City teacher.

Along with his running mate for lieutenant governor, Brian Jones, a former Harlem elementary school teacher and active union member, Hawkins supports expanding public education from full - day Pre-K through college and increasing state aid to local schools.

Hawkins was polling 9 % statewide even before a widely - praised debate performance, and has earned endorsements from a spectrum of people and organizations, including Ralph Nader, Seattle socialist city council member Kshama Sawant, education analyst Diane Ravitch, and former Mobil Oil VP - turned - renewable energy activist Lou Allstadt; as well as Albany weekly paper Metroland, 6 teachers» unions, 6 Democratic Party clubs, Socialist Alternative, and a number of groups leading the fight against school privatization, such as United Opt Out and the New York Badass Teacher Association.

Both campaigns earned critical endorsements in the race, with Turner getting the backing of former Mayor Ed Koch, King, the New York Daily News, the New York Post and the Jewish Week, while the United Federation of Teachers, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D - N.Y.), Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the firefighters» union are throwing their weight behind Weprin.

Jackson got support from former Mayor David Dinkins, Sen. Bill Perkins, Rep. Charles Rangel, Assemblyman Keith Wright, Assemblyman Denny Farrell, Councilman Inez Dickens and 14 unions, including the United Federation of Teachers (UFT).

The debate continued with Paladino slamming teachers unions and referring to academics on college campuses as former «pot - smoking hippies back during the Vietnam era.»

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about an arrest of a former college student who threatened to commit a mass shooting at an unknown elementary school and a group to review teacher ratings system used by the New York State Board of Regents.

The union also recorded robocalls with former Common Council President George K. Arthur and Eva M. Doyle — a prominent writer, historian and former teacher — encouraging people in the Central District to vote for their favored candidate, Paulette Woods.

Former mayors Ed Koch and Rudolph Giuliani back Donovan, as do an array of law enforcement unions and the United Federation of Teachers.

Rubain Dorancy, an attorney, former teacher and Department of Education administrator, is also running for the seat, picking up an endorsement from the powerful health care workers» union 1199 SEIU last week.

Andy Smarick, a partner at Bellwether Education Partners, a nonprofit education reform organization, said Mr. Cuomo was unusual among current and recent Democratic governors of big states in his fidelity to reform priorities, noting that Martin O'Malley, the departing governor of Maryland, and Deval L. Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts, were closer to teachers» unions.

Jackson's major endorsements include powerful unions the United Federation of Teachers and DC37, and former Mayor David Dinkins.

«He was an honest broker,» Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers and former chairwoman of the Municipal Labor Committee, a coalition of unions representing New York civil servants, said in a phone interview.

It's at first at coy device, though it becomes less so as the series goes in its machinations from D.C. abstracts to grounded details, ones involving the Teachers Union, a powerful oil lobbyist and former colleague named Remy (Mahershala Ali), Claire's water nonprofit and an ambitious blogger named Zoe Barnes (Kate Mara) who develops a mutually beneficial relationship with Underwood.

And a former teacher, administrator, and president of the state teachers» union has takenAnd a former teacher, administrator, and president of the state teachers» union has takenand president of the state teachers» union has taken...

As one former school - board member from a large urban district noted, «Too often school boards and superintendents complain that they can not do something because of the teachers union contract.

In the Washington Teachers Union race that took place last month, George Parker, a high school math teacher and an outspoken critic of former President Barbara A. Bullock, received 520 votes, just six more than Rachel Hicks, a union field representative and a colleague of Ms. BulloUnion race that took place last month, George Parker, a high school math teacher and an outspoken critic of former President Barbara A. Bullock, received 520 votes, just six more than Rachel Hicks, a union field representative and a colleague of Ms. Bullounion field representative and a colleague of Ms. Bullock's.

The settlement ends a dispute that began in 2002, when teacher Nathan Saunders II filed a federal lawsuit against former top union officials, the union's former board of trustees, the AFT, and a local bank.

Strange Bedfellows Dillon calls it a «strange - bedfellows twist,» and his story describes how Michelle Rhee, former D.C. superintendent, has hired George Parker, former head of the district's teachers union, as a part time senior fellow at her new advocacy organization Students First.

Thomas Wagner is a retired New York City public - school teacher as well as a former taxi driver, debate coach, union leader, and member of the San Antonio Golden Gloves.

That's surely what some education observers might wonder about the notion that Randi Weingarten, former head of New York City's teacher union and current head of the American Federation of Teachers, should be chancellor of New York City schools.

What is remarkable is that Solmon, a former education dean, Jupp, a union leader, and Koppich, a «new union» advocate, agree that the debate is no longer whether to throw out the single salary schedule by which most of our teachers are paid, but what to replace it with.

Writing for the business - minded Wall Street Journal, Joe Morgenstern does not fault the movie for fingering «teachers» unions as the main obstacle to reform» and painting «Randi Weingarten, the former head of the United Federation of Teachers, as a pedagogic Darth Vaderteachers» unions as the main obstacle to reform» and painting «Randi Weingarten, the former head of the United Federation of Teachers, as a pedagogic Darth VaderTeachers, as a pedagogic Darth Vader.»

Antoinette Baskerville - Richardson, a former theater and speech teacher, union official, and district administrator who now chairs the advisory board, said Cerf's relationship with the board is evolving.

A chauffeur who worked for the former president of the Washington Teachers» Union in the nation's capital has been charged with laundering union funds over a period of six years for himself and his boUnion in the nation's capital has been charged with laundering union funds over a period of six years for himself and his bounion funds over a period of six years for himself and his bosses.

Cerf has also collaborated with Booker's successor, Mayor Ras Baraka, a former city councilman and high school principal whose 2014 campaign was based on his opposition to Anderson and her reforms and had the backing of the Newark Teachers Union.

(In Colorado, most of the Democratic members of the state House education committee are former teachers — and current union members.)

And right in the backyard of the Miami New Times we find the mysterious absence of $ 3.8 million from the Broward County teacher union accounts, the prior head of the Broward teacher union in jail for soliciting sex from a minor, and the former head of the Miami - Dade County teacher union in jail for corruption and embezzlemeAnd right in the backyard of the Miami New Times we find the mysterious absence of $ 3.8 million from the Broward County teacher union accounts, the prior head of the Broward teacher union in jail for soliciting sex from a minor, and the former head of the Miami - Dade County teacher union in jail for corruption and embezzlemeand the former head of the Miami - Dade County teacher union in jail for corruption and embezzlemeand embezzlement.

Perhaps one can expect nothing more from a commission composed mainly of academics and former members of the public school establishment — folks that once were school superintendents, state education officers, school board members, teachers union officials, or school teachers.

Indeed, many former supporters of Common Core, including Republican governors Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Chris Christie of New Jersey, and Mary Fallin of Oklahoma, have withdrawn support of the standards in the face of political opposition from conservative interest groups, teachers unions, and swarms of parents and other voters.

Asbestos is still the biggest workplace killer in the UK and The House of Commons Education Committee heard as many as 300 former school pupils develop asbestos related cancer every year, while the National Union of Teachers has called for all asbestos in schools to be removed.

The only force standing in their way is the teachers union — «the champions of equity,» who «define solutions that drive excellence and success for all students,» as described by former NEA president Dennis Van Roekel in his keynote address to the Representative Assembly in July 2014.

Larry Sand, a former LAUSD teacher who founded California Teachers Empowerment Network, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that seeks to educate teachers and the public about union and school choice issues, said if Melvoin and Gonez are elected, he would be optimistic that the board would address its unfunded retiree benefits liabTeachers Empowerment Network, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that seeks to educate teachers and the public about union and school choice issues, said if Melvoin and Gonez are elected, he would be optimistic that the board would address its unfunded retiree benefits liabteachers and the public about union and school choice issues, said if Melvoin and Gonez are elected, he would be optimistic that the board would address its unfunded retiree benefits liabilities.

Leo Casey, Executive Director of the Albert Shanker Institute and a former vice president of New York's teachers union, suggested that it's about more than just rent: «Eva Moskowitz's schools are a particularly egregious case... every school is co-located and as a co-location, what they get for free is not only the building, the facilities itself, not only the space that's up to code, etc..

As the president of a teachers union and the former president of the largest local union in the world, I can attest that, in education, if you set out looking for a fight, you'll find one.

She's a former Democrat and a polarizing firebrand who made a name for herself by fighting teachers unions and advocating fiercely for the expansion of charter schools.

The search for more competent executive leadership can often roil interest groups within the school system, such as teacher unions and school administrators, whose power is in part tied to having one of their own, a former teacher and administrator, running the system.

The choice of the Democrat - turned - Republican — a former teachers» union lobbyist and Reagan administration official — drew immediate praise from political conservatives who support her position on two pressing education - related issues: affirmative action and bilingual education, both of which Ms. Chavez opposes.