Sentences with phrase «issue of teacher strikes»

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Other education related initiatives include resolving the issue of the Alberta teachers» pension plan shortfall and preventing a teachers» strike for five years; creating 1000 new spaces for post-secondary education students in energy, the environment, and economic studies; and creating 6000 new apprenticeship seats.

For teachers and students, and for the graduate student teaching assistants who were organizing as well, the issue was whether, in the event of a strike, classes should be moved off campus, so that no one would be crossing a picket line.

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.

The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers has vowed to fight any layoffs of its members and said it may strike over the issue.

In a sudden shift in negotiating positions last week, officials of the Los Angeles Unified School District and the United Teachers - Los Angeles agreed to table the two most controversial issues in their current contract talks, apparently averting the possibility of a strike that would affect 550,000 students, according to district officials.

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.

Fresh off a victory on the finance issue and newly enjoying complete control of the legislature, Republican leaders were primed to push changes sought by administrators» groups as a way of controlling costs and limiting teacher strikes.

The NORC poll did not report teacher views on these issues, so one can not be sure of the extent to which teachers and the public differed on the key issues at the heart of the Chicago strike.

Rahm Emanuel's mishandling of teacher issues in Chicago and the CTU's subsequent strike set off this era.

Strikes me that that there's a serious specification issue and potential tautology involved in asserting that the «top one - third of students» get the «best one - third of teachers,» especially when the gauge of teacher quality is student performance.

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has written to the Education Secretary outlining the reasons for their strike on 5 July and asking for meaningful discussions to resolve the issues that are negatively affecting education.

NASUWT has issued a notice of strike action to East Dunbartonshire Council following its failure to tackle management practices which the union says «have an adverse impact on the workload and working conditions of teachers».

Space is too short to highlight every noteworthy feature, but here are a few that have stood time's test: E. D. Hirsch's placement of progressive education within the Romantic tradition (first issue), Joel Best's skeptical view of school violence (2002), Michael Podgursky's discovery of the well - paid teacher (2003), Bruno Manno's and Bryan Hassel's takes on the charter movement (2003), Brian Jacob and Steve Levitt's technique for catching teachers who cheat (2004), Barry Garelick's jeremiad against progressive math (2005), Frederick Hess and Martin West's exposé of school «strike phobia» (2006), Roland Fryer's identification of «acting white» (2006), Clay Christiansen and Michael Horn's vision for virtual learning (2008), and Milton Gaither's authoritative look at home schooling (2009).

He was also struck by the level of agreement on teacher quality issues among Democrats and Republicans, and how many parents said they wanted to see changes in their children's schools.

The Governor, who intervened in the Denver labor negotiations in January to prevent a threatened strike, wrote the contract after conducting a series of hearings to examine the issues separating the Denver Classroom Teachers Association and the city school board.

In addition to early morning pickets at schools, the Chicago Teachers Union plans a full day of teach - ins and rallies at sites around the city during a one - day strike Friday that the union promises will shut down the schools, according to a preliminary schedule issued Monday.

A state labor panel on Thursday agreed to ask a judge to issue a temporary injunction against strikes like the one carried out by the Chicago Teachers Union on April 1 until the larger issue of whether such walkouts are legal is resolved.

But the bigger issue is the question of whether teachers are «on strike.»

Shifting gears to the size of the new teacher supply in California, the first and most striking fact is that the number of new credentials issued in California has fallen for each of the 10 most recent years for which data are available.

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How student test scores are used to evaluate teachers is at the heart of the unresolved issues causing Chicago's first strike in 25 years.

In terms of general education - related topics, participants shared links on a wide variety of matters, including diversity and social justice issues, and to articles on education news and policy matters, such as the Common Core State Standards and the Chicago Teachers Union strike that unfolded during the semester.

Teacher tenure and dismissal laws are probably most polarizing, a status that has only grown since Los Angeles County Judge Rolf M. Treu issued his 16 - page ruling striking down state laws that govern the hiring and firing of classroom educators.

During the strike, Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis said she was concerned that «too much of the new evaluations will be based on students» standardized test scores,» and argued there were «too many factors beyond our control which impact how well some students perform on standardized tests, such as poverty, exposure to violence, homelessness, hunger, and other social issues beyond our control» (Chicago Teachers Union, 2012, para. 5).

As I explored the authors» thinking about discussion in student learning, I was struck by the mirroring of the same issues in teacher learning and productivity in PLCs.

The issue was at the heart of the recent Chicago teachers strike, and negotiations with Boston's teachers union dragged on for years before the sides finally came to an agreement.

When parents and community members knew that teachers were going to stand with them on the issues they felt were important to their families, it helped pave the way for community support of the strike.

The Chicago teachers» strike has again focused Americans on the issue of public school teacher pay and benefits levels, especially in the midst of our continuing national economic struggles.

The bill, which now moves to the full House, strikes Section 4.5 of the Illinois Education Labor Relations Act, which bans the CTU's ability to bargain — and potentially strike — over non-monetary issues, a right denied to only to teachers in Chicago.

I mean, the issue in the Chicago strike — one of the issues — was that Rahm Emanuel wanted a longer school day and the teachers said we want a better school day.

But the teachers» complaints go far beyond compensation, and when viewed in the context of their other demands, it's clear that the strike gets at the heart of some of the biggest issues facing America's children: access to effective teachers, high - quality learning materials, and modern facilities.

Parents Across America is pleased to stand with our nation's schoolteachers in efforts to improve education for all children — efforts that range from the issues raised in the Chicago teachers» strike to the Seattle teachers» boycott of wasteful standardized tests.

How teachers are evaluated has become one of the big issues in the ongoing strike by Chicago public school teachers as well as in the many debates on school reform being conducted around the country.