Sentences with phrase «if striking teachers»

He may be required to lead the lesson himself if striking teachers abandon the classroom he finds himself in.

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Then, as if Emanuel's administration wasn't already besieged, the local teachers» union announced this week that its members had overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike, which would put some 400,000 students out on the street.

I will definitely make these, school is to commence here on Sept. 2, if the teachers strike is over which they seem to be holding out for all they can get, at the students expense.

The unions would only rule out strikes if, in addition to abandoning the RPI switch, the government commits to a full public valuation of teachers» pensions.

In the case of 100 teachers asked to strike, the action would only be lawful if at least 50 teachers voted and 40 of them backed the strike.

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.

The next government may have a teachers» strike on its hands within months if it fails to address what unions have called a schools funding crisis.

The National Union of Teachers has backed a motion to ballot members over strike action if no progress is made through talks on the issue with the new government by the autumn statement.

With a teacher contract that expired 12 years ago, and the latest unraveling of negotiations, Buffalo School Superintendent Kriner Cash is not ruling out the possibility of a strike.Cash said he would not assume that Buffalo Teachers Federation President Philip Rumore will lead a strike, but when pressed, the superintendent said the district would be ready if a strike occu...

Does anyone really expect the school support staff to strike to support teachers if the government makes concessions on the LGPS?

It further threatened that if the government does not reverse its decision to sack 9000 primary school teachers in the state, it will have the strike action as the only option.

The Technical University Teachers Association of Ghana (TUTAG), has threatened to embark on strike today, Thursday, if some sections of the 2016 Act that establishes Technical universities are amended.

It's a socio - economically mixed school which is striking for the way that it is teacher and student driven; you can't teach there if you can't come up with projects and...

Teachers in another major urban district, Chicago, continued on the job without a contract last week, but voted to authorize a strike on Oct. 3 if no settlement has been reached.

More than half of the 50,000 members of the Washington Education Association have voted to authorize a strike if the state legislature does not adequately address teachers» concerns in its current session.

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.

It struck me that the same philosophy could apply if we had clear standards of practice for regular teachers.

If the dispute about the contract, which formally expired on Aug. 31, could not be settled, the Cleveland Teachers Union threatened to strike on Sept. 4.

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?

Being struck or threatened by a student can undermine a teacher's authority — especially if the teacher loses control when reacting to the experience — and it can frighten other students.

The Scottish Secondary Teachers» Association (SSTA) found that 91 percent of its 8,000 members supported action short of a strike, with 64 per cent saying that they would take strike action if necessary.

If the Supreme Court decides to strike down agency - fee laws nationwide, the NEA and the AFT would be forced to recruit their members one by one; additional teacher hiring would not automatically swell the unions» ranks.

The EIS has warned that the pay of Scotland's teachers must be substantially improved this year if strike action in schools is to be avoided.

The full implementation of Judge Treu's striking down five laws that set rules for teacher dismissal, seniority rights and tenure will likely not take effect for years — or not at all if the state wins on appeal.

Members of the United Teachers - Los Angeles last week voted overwhelmingly to authorize their board of directors to call a strike if union leaders are unable to negotiate a salary agreement with the city's school board.

Teacher strikes are firmly in the National Lampoon «if - you - don't - buy - this - magazine - we'll - kill - this - dog» school of negotiating.

The local teachers union, United Teachers Los Angeles, threatened to strike if health care teachers union, United Teachers Los Angeles, threatened to strike if health care Teachers Los Angeles, threatened to strike if health care was cut.

Rather like the boy who cried wolf, parents will stop listening to teachers if they take strike action too easily.

Most teachers are working in excess of 60 hours and in my case inexcess of 70 hours a week and if they took strike action would lose a days pay (significant when you are paid so little) I do not know of any other professional career where professionals work in excess of 70 hours a week at 50 + with over 15 years experience.

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.

The school system is facing a budget shortfall of $ 600 million to $ 700 million and remains in protracted talks with the Chicago Teachers Union, whose members have voted to authorize a strike if a deal can not be reached.

At the beginning of the new school year, the United Teachers of Los Angeles and other teachers unions across the country are threatening to strike if their wage demands areTeachers of Los Angeles and other teachers unions across the country are threatening to strike if their wage demands areteachers unions across the country are threatening to strike if their wage demands aren't met.

It said Caputo - Pearl and his new team of officers are «hitting the ground running» on policy initiatives, which include «organizing members school - by - school, neighborhood - by - neighborhood, and area - by - area to a place where we can strike if we feel it is necessary» to achieve other gains, such as smaller classes, pay increases, additional school staffing and elimination of «gotcha» evaluations and «teacher jail.»

Speaking at the recent American Federation of Teachers conference in Los Angeles, UTLA president Alex Caputo - Pearl raised the possibility of a strike if a fair bargain were not reached.

Even the whiff of that idea has the Chicago Teachers Union talking strike, as if they were facing destitution.

As 10,000 teachers plan to descend on Colorado capitol, lawmakers propose jailing them if they go on strike.

Likewise in Minnesota, the district judge said that the plaintiffs failed to establish that they had been harmed in any way by the statutes, but even if they had, «because Plaintiffs» alleged harms are not fairly traceable to the teacher tenure and the continuing contract provisions they challenge, a decision by the Court to strike those laws would not redress the harms.»

If there is one piece of advice I could give to parents, it would be to remain calm and keep their eyes on the big picture: • While a teacher strike is something to be avoided, it should not be treated as a larger problem than it is.

If the strike takes place as scheduled, Arizona's would be fifth in a wave of red - state teacher walkouts that began in West Virginia two months ago and has since spread to Oklahoma, Kentucky and Colorado.

Teachers voted overwhelmingly to authorize the first strike in 25 years if the city and the union can't come to terms this summer.

Teachers are to pass tests themselves, this time, and if they can not pass the tests after three attempts, they are to be terminated / replaced (i.e., three strikes, they are to be out).

Wealthy people tend to lobby effectively for their interests, and if their interests were to include adequate public funding for the schools their children attend, and libraries, and air - conditioning, those goals could likely be achieved without having to resort to unpleasant things like teachers» strikes.

And if teachers somehow don't get what they want at the bargaining table, they are allowed to strike in seven of those states.

At first glance, it looks like one of those statistics that doesn't seem striking one way or the other until you realize that, on the flip side, 70 percent of teachers aren't getting much, if anything out of their observations.

The progressive group — which plans to call for a strike if a new teacher contract can't be...

CTU Vice President Jesse Sharkey said Wednesday that «the majority» of members would want to strike immediately if Chicago Public Schools unilaterally ends its long - standing practice of picking up the bulk of teacher pension contributions.

If you strike or yell at a hamster, it sees you simply as an antagonist, not a teacher.

(2) In case of strike by members of a teachers» bargaining unit or a lockout of those members, the board may close one or more schools if it is of the opinion that,

It does not matter if you struck a conversation with a prospective employer at a doctor's appointment or at your child's parent teacher meeting — if you have discovered a job opportunity, you have to sound professional in a cover letter even if you know the person who will be reading it.