Sentences with phrase «from striking teachers»

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My two girls have been home from school almost 2 weeks now (teachers strike), so they have a head start when it comes to boredom!

As the strike entered its 14th school day Friday the board came under pressure from at least one community group to begin using nonstriking teachers to conduct classes.

In response to a question from a delegate about the Chicago Teachers Union strike, which led to a successful contract, and the UFT's current, long - running contract battle, Mulgrew contrasted the circumstances faced by educators in Chicago and New York City.

Teachers and lecturers from across London will be going on strike tomorrow, in a row over changes to their pensions.

He said: «The Osun State wing of Nigeria Union of Teachers is not backing out from the strike despite the directive of the Nigeria Labour Congress that all workers should resume work.

Catsimatidis also admitted that he considers himself a union guy, from his days as a member, and said that, if he were mayor, he would have been able to reach deals with the teachers» and bus drivers» union on a teacher evaluation system and new contracts to avert the school bus strike.

«From the pledge of billions of undefined health care savings in its newly struck deal with the teachers» union, to its plan to reduce traffic deaths (in a city of eight million) to zero, [the de Blasio administration] has spun the dial on expectations well past 11,» a Times editorial frets.

We discuss her own journey from mystic child to depressed college student to literally being struck by lightning to awaken the dormant kundalini energy that existed inside of her so she can serve her mission on this planet as an international Kundalini Yoga Teacher.

So we could also say, «Bad Yoga Teachers Can Wreck Your Body», which strikes me as a good reason to encourage current and prospective yoga students to think seriously about where and from whom you are receiving your yoga instruction.

Perhaps it's unfair to generalize from this small sample, but these five teachers, although frustrated by those students, struck me as caring people truly dedicated to turning them around.

«We expect our teachers to reportthings they see, hear, or read,» says JohnSawchuk, principal of Columbia HighSchool, in East Greenbush, New York.In February 2004, he tackled a sixteen - year - old school shooter and wrested a12 - gauge shotgun from him, but not before the student, JonRomano, fired a shot that struck a teacher in the leg.

To hear the statement above from a teacher struck me.

Estimate the cost of these frantic last - minute arrangements at $ 20 per day per family, and the daily losses from the strike equal about $ 7 million per day or about $ 50 million for the strike period, which comes to about one - sixth of the salary gains that the teachers received.

Chicago teachers were prohibited from striking for at least 18 months and banned from bargaining on a number of issues, including charter schools, privatization, and class schedules — provisions they are still seeking to overturn seven years later.

California, Pa. — Their lunchboxes shiny from lack of use, schoolchildren here returned to classes last week after an 82 - day teachers» strike — the longest in Pennsylvania history.

The National Education Association expects to lose about 20,000 dues - paying members next year, and the union could lose even more revenue in the future if the Supreme Court strikes down its ability to collect agency fees from teachers who choose not to join the union.

What struck me most in the report were its testimonials from teachers living the realities of blended learning day - to - day in their classrooms.

It has spurred several states to take steps to raise caps on charter schooling, revisit teacher pay, and strike ludicrous rules that prohibited states and districts from using student learning to evaluate or compensate teachers.

It may be hard to imagine, given the astonishingly positive initial reception, but the story of these strikes is rapidly morphing from a nonpartisan «support your underpaid teachers» to a highly partisan «Bernie Sanders is right.»

Well, that didn't take long: The teacher strikes have quickly gone from a plucky fight over paychecks to an increasingly polarizing progressive crusade over tax and spending policy.

I was struck by the diversity and creativity in the projects, with target learners ranging from cardiology fellows, to kindergarteners, to children with autism, and generative topics including empowering indigenous teachers in the Philippines, religious tolerance, and rational numbers!

Yet a multiple choice test of discrete facts plucked from across a millennium strikes me as a poor ruler for measuring how well teachers can animate the past.

Arizona's special education voucher law was struck down by the state courts after a challenge from the teachers union and civil liberties groups, which claimed that the law violated a state constitutional provision barring any public funds from flowing to religious institutions.

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.

Even more striking, the number of states requiring districts to consider teacher evaluations in tenure decisions grew from 0 to 23 over that same period.

If courts can strike down teacher tenure laws as a violation of the rights of poor and minority children (see «Script Doctors,» legal beat, Fall 2014), why not use the results from CCSS assessments to go after the drawing of school boundaries in a way that perpetuates economic school segregation and denies children equal opportunity?

Take this striking finding: 43 % of private school teachers say that most students in their high school graduate having learned «to be tolerant of people and groups who are different from themselves» compared with just 19 % of their public school counterparts.

The ballot will run from 14 - 30 September and the wording on the ballot has been confirmed as: «Would you be prepared to take «action short of strike action'to reduce teacher workload?»

The teacher strikes have quickly gone from a plucky fight over paychecks to an increasingly polarizing progressive crusade over tax and spending policy.

Headlines about teachers» strikes may have moved on from Kentucky and Oklahoma to Arizona and Colorado, but the uprisings these wildcat teachers started have not, according to numerous sources I've spoken with in Louisville — Kentucky's largest school district, with over 100,000 students.

Florida's teachers union struck out Wednesday in its latest effort to dismantle a tax credit scholarship program as the state's Supreme Court rejected the union's appeal for legal standing to challenge the voucher - like program that finances students from low - performing schools who want to attend private schools.

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In what one organizer described as a»60s - style protest rally with guitar music and singing, a group of striking California child - care providers demonstrated on the grounds of the state Capitol in Sacramento last week, saying low wages are keeping good teachers from staying in the field.

Perhaps the higher levels of support we observed in 2014 reflected temporary shocks to public opinion stemming from events such as Wisconsin governor Scott Walker's recall election and the landmark Vergara v. California decision that struck down California's teacher evaluation and tenure laws, both of which took place while our survey was in the field.

These groups range from independent, or «in house,» unions — such as the American Federation of Teachers Staff Union, which last month threatened to strike over proposals by the A.F.T. to change...

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.

State law requires a number of steps before Chicago teachers can strike, including the completion of a final phase of contract negotiations called «fact - finding» that involves a representative from both sides and a neutral party.

Yet constancy and consistency is what public school students are not getting from their teachers, strikes or no strikes.

Last year, teachers got a big win when a Wake County Superior Court judge struck down part of a 2013 law that would have stripped tenure from educators who had already received it.

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.

Two major factors account for the transformation that already has touched thousands of public schools in Mexico: the acceptance of authorities in charge of the system, of course, but most striking, the inner conversion of teachers and students from passive receptors of external directives to managers of their own learning and active agents of change in neighboring schools.

This struck me as a simple way to show everyone how I was spending my time and what kinds of practices I valued, and I heard from numerous people in the system that teachers were excited to be recognized in this way.

One of the most striking findings of the universities of Minnesota and Toronto report is that effective leadership from all sources - principals, influential teachers, staff teams and others - is associated with better student performance on math and reading tests.

Much of the press coverage on the strike has focused on West Virginia's low ranking in average teacher salaries (see examples from The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, CNN, Vox, etc.).

Elaine WeissA Column on the Huffington Post today by Elaine Weiss breakes through the uniform media stupidity and unified opposition from the nation's political class to clarify what the Chicago teachers strike is really about.

Thanks to a series of deals Philadelphia struck with the AFT local, along with increases in pension contributions, led to a 53 percent increase in spending on teachers» benefits between 2002 - 2002 and 2011 - 2012, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau; benefits accounted for 27 cents of every dollar spent on teacher salaries in 2012, versus 21 cents a decade earlier.

That's one of the clearest take - aways from the just - concluded teachers strike in Chicago.

This is evident from the fact that more than 90 percent of Chicago teachers voted to authorize the strike and that the union's governing body so mistrusted the administration of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel that it took two additional days to go over the proposed contract's fine print.

In Oklahoma, meanwhile, teachers who have not received a raise from the state in a decade have declared they will go on strike on April 2 if the Legislature does not act to increase their pay as well as overall education budgets.

From The Chicago Sun - Times: Chicago Teachers Union officials say nearly 90 percent of their members have authorized a strike against the city's public schools.