Sentences with phrase «imposed by unions»

But charters are themselves public schools, albeit without the burden of work rules and other constraints imposed by unions and the bureaucracy.

They were not unilaterally imposed by the unions.

Mulgrew's predecessor at the helm of the United Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, launched UFT Charter School in 2005 in a hubristic attempt to prove that charters schools could succeed under the conditions imposed by the union's contract.

Not exact matches

Sanctions imposed by the U.S. and European Union in the wake of Putin's intervention in Ukraine have blocked some major Russian banks and companies from accessing financing in the West, starving them of much - needed foreign capital.

Closed - shop rules imposed by the carpenters» union dictate public tendering policies, and so most future municipal construction contracts can only be bid by approved union firms, dramatically reducing the number of eligible bidders.

The European Union has threatened to retaliate by imposing tariffs on all - American imports such as Harley - Davidson motorcycles and Kentucky bourbon.

On Friday, the European Union threatened to retaliate by imposing tariffs of its own on some goods from America, including bluejeans, bourbon and motorcycles.

Part of why the U.K. voted to leave the European Union last month was to escape punitive taxes and regulations — indirect taxes — imposed by unelected officials in Brussels.

In this case, Canada and the European Union are both threatening to retaliate against the US after President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he planned to impose big tariffs on imported steel and aluminum by using an obscure trade law.

The European Union's three largest economies agree on the need to be «ready to react» to trade tariffs imposed by the United States, France's presidency said Sunday (29 April).

However, it must be noted that the regulation imposed by EU (European Union) is highly sufficient to ensure the verification of the authenticity of the given trading platform.

On August 31, 2007, the president of Clemson University opened a letter from the South Carolina chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union that read, «Coach [Tommy] Bowden... has abused his authority as... head football coach by imposing his strong personal religious beliefs upon....

On August 31, 2007, the president of Clemson University opened a letter from the South Carolina chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union that read, «Coach [Tommy] Bowden... has abused his authority as... head football coach by imposing his strong personal religious beliefs upon student - athletes under his charge.»

President Clinton managed to avoid this effect for a large part of his administration — since the tax hikes he imposed were modest and he benefited by an enormous peace dividend from the fall of the Soviet Union.

SOGI policies attempt to impose, by force of law, a system of orthodoxy with respect to human sexuality: the belief that marriage is merely a union of consenting adults, regardless of biology, and that one can be male, female, none, or both, again, regardless of biology.

In Search of Lost Meaning: The New Eastern Europe by Adam Michnik University of California Press, 248 pages, $ 29.95 The Soviet Union's domination imposed an alternative version of Poland on the republic that had been restored to Europe's map at Versailles, and it was into this version....

«There is concern within the National Farmers Union (NFU), as well as Unite and other consultees, about the potential scale of the internal consultation they need, set against the deadline imposed by government.

The union's case is that by failing to gain the consent of PCS, the largest civil service union, the government had no authority to impose detrimental changes to the civil service compensation scheme, which governs payments in the event of redundancy or early retirement.

«It bears restating that Nigeria is a federation of states, and no trade union can alter this federal reality by imposing on an employer state government the terms that federal employees have agreed with the Federal Government.

Laricchiuta said the union preferred Martins» plan to end a financial control period imposed by the Nassau Interim Finance Authority within two years.

«I therefore denounce, in the strongest terms, the illegal sanctions that are imposed on my country by the European Union and the USA and call for their immediate and unconditional removal.

The strike starts a six - week programme of protests by the union's members working in environment and forms part of a civil service - wide campaign over the government's imposed cuts to pay, pensions, jobs and working conditions.

Saff who provide admin and IT support to the UK's passport offices have voted by nearly nine to one to strike over an imposed pay cut, the Public and Commercial Services union announces.

«This is the first indication of the true scale of the cuts being imposed upon departments by this coalition Government, and it paints a devastating picture,» PCS union general secretary Mark Serwotka said.

Commenting on the announcement of the draft Scottish budget for 2013/14, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the fastest growing teachers» union in Scotland, said: «While the Scottish Government has been placed in a difficult position by the Westminster Government's imposition of its austerity measures, it is deeply disappointing that the Scottish Government has chosen to follow the Coalition's flawed economic policies by imposing another year of pay freeze on public sector workers.»

In a letter the union stated: «By imposing PILON you are cutting off this option and effectively consigning BME, disabled, women and trade union members to unemployment.

The Buffalo Teachers Federation and its parent union, the New York State United Teachers, filed the complaint in February, arguing the receivership law denies teachers their collective bargaining rights by allowing the state education commissioner to impose reforms that override contract terms.

In fact it's the Tories (who get half their annual donations from the banks) who adjust their policies to keep the City of London and the CBI bosses sweet, whereas Labour notoriously has kept the unions marginalised on a short leash, has not reversed the crippling impediments imposed by the most extreme Thatcherite anti-trade union legislation, and has made virtually no concessions to the unions to assist their membership or strengthen their role.

As an authority, LIPA is exempt from civil service rules that impose legal limits on political activity and affiliation being the basis for employment, and is not constrained by union contracts.

If laws kept being imposed on English voters by Scottish MPs there was, he said, a real risk of damaging the Union.

Class Warfare takes a wider view but one clearly influenced by the experience of the irrationality and inefficiency imposed by lengthy union contracts, which dictate in detail what can and can not be done in disciplining or, indeed, leading and guiding teachers.

And this is how the teachers unions have used their political power in shaping the nation's schools: not by imposing the policies they want, but by blocking or weakening those they don't want — and thus preventing true reform.

But a more productive response is to recognize that the unions are frustrated by the same things that have frustrated conservative school reformers in recent years — the eagerness of the Obama administration to impose its particular school - reform agenda on states, as rapidly as possible and by whatever means necessary.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused last week to hear a challenge by a group of Buffalo, N.Y., school unions to a state fiscal - oversight board's power to set aside labor contracts and impose a wage freeze to help the city and its school district emerge from a budget crisis.

Mr. Martin and the executives on the Civic Committee of the Chicago Commercial Club, who blame the teachers union for contributing to academic failure by imposing restrictions on teachers and administrators alike, used the threat of federal sanctions to pressure the city to put many schools into private hands, outside union jurisdiction.

The conservatives who control the board have neutered the teachers union, prodded neighborhood elementary schools to compete with one another for market share, directed tax money to pay for religious education and imposed a novel pay scale that values teachers by their subjects, so a young man teaching algebra to eighth graders can make $ 20,000 a year more than a colleague teaching world history down the hall.

An effort by the Los Angeles Unified School District to win a high - profile $ 40 - million grant has unraveled after the L.A. teachers union declined to sign the application, a condition for the competition imposed by the federal education department.

Charter School Choices The next round of reform deserves to go forward without tiresome attacks on charter schools, which have ranged from efforts by the Legislature to impose a moratorium on new charter schools to questionable union - sponsored studies suggesting that the movement is a failure.

At the same time, Cuomo stepped into the stalemate between the state education department and the AFT over settling the lawsuit filed by the union last year; Cuomo is threatening to impose his own solution through the state budget within the next 30 days unless the two sides reach a settlement.

LA Unified violated state employment laws by imposing an evaluation system on members of its teacher union, UTLA, a state agency said in a tentative ruling made public today.

Since being named by Corbett to lead the SRC, Green has signaled that he would be willing to impose a contract on the teachers» union if a negotiated settlement could not be reached.

«Despite objections from the teachers» union, the city board of education asked Tuesday night that state Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor use his statutory power to impose a «turnaround» plan for Clark School that would include management by an outside group.

It called for imposing reform from the top down; a more open political process could be taken captive by unions and machine politicians.

Under the new evaluation system, which was imposed by the state after months of feuding between the city and the teachers» union, teachers will be graded next school year on a variety of measures.

Unintended Consequences, a study by The New Teacher Project (TNTP), documented the damage done by this union - imposed staffing policy.

Navy Federal Credit Union also makes it easy to redeem the cash you earn by imposing relatively few restrictions.

The Cooper Union Weapons Policy is in addition to, and may be more restrictive than, weapons regulations that may be imposed by Federal, State, and New York City law.

Today is the day that the Cooper Union trustees will hold their final vote on whether to impose tuition on this fall's incoming class of undergraduates, or to, by adopting some other package of financial reforms, maintain Cooper's status as the country's most prominent and well - regarded tuition - free university.

You might remember that in his State of the Union address last January 25, President Obama proposed that the federal government impose an 80 percent standard by the year 2035.

As far as the steel industry exemption demand by the unions this represents a real crisis for the Gillard government's attempt to impose the tax.