Sentences with phrase «from teacher walkouts»

Public school advocates gathered enough signatures to get a repeal measure on the state ballot, forcing him to navigate the fallout from teacher walkouts and an effort to overturn a signature accomplishment while asking for another term.

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Nik Jones, from Wolsingham School and Community College in County Durham, is one of thousands of members of the National Union of Teachers taking part in the walkout.

«Gun control now,» Cuomo chanted, reclining on the sidewalk in his black suit and tie, along with students and teachers from nearby Leadership & Public Service High School who joined in nationwide school walkouts on the one - month anniversary of the Parkland shooting.

Ryan Deitsch, right, a high school senior, carries a sign that reads «love» as he joins his fellow students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 classmates and teachers were killed during a mass shooting in February, for the National School Walkout in Parkland, Florida.

Showing no self - awareness and little knowledge of her own field, geography teacher Tony Henson said of the walkouts from more than 100 Oklahoma school districts, «It's like the Arab spring, but it's a teacher spring.»

The financial crisis at the root of the Chicago Teachers Union's planned one - day walkout Friday is different from past troubles for the school district in an especially alarming way: No one seems to be riding to the rescue this time.

Collegiate made an effort to increase teacher diversity after the walkout, going from an 8 percent black teaching force to 30 percent.

More than 55 teachers union groups in Washington state have voted to go on «rolling walkouts» not only to protest the lack of funding for public schools but also the diversion of hundreds of millions of dollars away from the classroom and into the pockets of Wall Street corporations that make the high stakes tests.

As the everyday demands of the teaching profession in our country are compounded by persistent staffing shortages, inadequate pay, and low public esteem, it's no wonder that many teachers feel forced to leave the field, mobilize for walkouts, or discourage young students from pursuing teaching as a career.

Detroit's history of repeated teacher strikes — a total of four work stoppages from 1979 - 1992 with the longest walkout lasting four weeks — is hardly cause for optimism.

The coordinated walkouts will take place at 10 a.m. local time, including in South Florida, where at least 18 high schools and colleges from Wellington to Miami plan to honor the 17 teenagers and teachers killed in the Parkland massacre.