Sentences with phrase «gave teachers collective bargaining»

Legislatures gave teachers collective bargaining rights, the courts began instructing the schools on disciplinary procedures, regulations multiplied, the United States gained a national department of education, and state and federal dollars poured into the system.

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He says the teachers union is trying to avoid making union concessions, like giving up some collective bargaining laws that the business group believes favors unions over management.

The people of MINESOTA tried giving the republicans a break and Voted in THE GOP and now their collective bargaining rights for law enforcement and teacher and child education is in jeopardy - the Gop is for the rich and does nt care at all for the middle class but that is my opinion and I COULD BE WRONG but I doubt it»

Wayne Urban, professor of education and an expert on teacher unions, notes that NEA president Robert Chase gave a pivotal address on behalf of new unionism at the National Press Club in 1997, calling for «the transformation of his organization away from the adversarial stance institutionalized in collective bargaining toward one that was more professional.»

Kronholz cites findings from the National Council on Teacher Quality's database on collective - bargaining agreements in 113 large school districts, which show that district contracts give their teachers an average of 13.5 days of sick and personal leave per school year.

Cambridge, MA — When current U.S. education secretary, Arne Duncan, headed the Chicago Public Schools in 2004 - 05, the city implemented a new collective bargaining agreement that covered teacher dismissal policy: principals were given more flexibility to dismiss non-tenured teachers.

The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), which maintains a database on collective - bargaining agreements in 113 large school districts, reports that the contracts give their teachers, on average, 13.5 days of sick and personal leave per school year.

It has, without any authorization from Congress, given teacher unions the right to participate in the formulation of RttT policy — separate and apart from the standard collective bargaining process.

Ironically, current collective - bargaining agreements already give district leaders the flexibility to terminate ineffective teachers during their first two or three years on the job.

Washington — Two rival local teachers» groups from Indiana argued before the U.S. Supreme Court last week over the constitutionality of collective - bargaining provisions that give one and not the other the privilege of using the school system's internal mail facilities.

Expanding collective bargaining for teachers to more states and to more education issues will give educators greater voice, and in so doing, indirectly strengthen the voice of students.

A fundamental problem is that the law gives DCPS the total authority to design the teacher evaluation system — it is outside the collective bargaining agreement.

After several years in which teachers» unions have been hammered on the issue of tenure, have lost collective bargaining rights in some states and have seen their evaluations increasingly tied to student scores, they have begun, with some success, to reassert themselves using a bread - and - butter issue: the annual tests given to elementary and middle school students in every state.

Brown says the reason the legislation currently prohibits collective bargaining on these bonuses is to give the local administrators and school boards the control to reward teachers that perform well and receive additional education.

Gov. Scott Walker's move to curb collective bargaining for most public workers gives school districts unprecedented authority to run schools as they see fit, without consulting teachers unions.

She pointed out that her amended bill would still extend the probationary period before teachers receive tenure from two to three years and would at least give districts the ability to negotiate a streamlined dismissal process through collective bargaining with local teachers unions.

In a June interview with Salon, Weingarten touted a statewide compromise in Connecticut (backed by both national unions) which included school takeovers with limited collective bargaining, and a union contract for New Haven, Connecticut which give management greater discretion in firing teachers.

Martha Infante, a middle school teacher in South Central Los Angeles, says collective bargaining has given her «peace of mind to know that you can do your best instruction» and «give your best opinion, your best thoughts, and not fear retaliation from management.»

Shanker envisioned that charter school teachers would have union protections but would receive waivers from certain elements of the collective bargaining agreement to give them greater flexibility.