Sentences with phrase «kibosh parent»

The other model — putting the school under the CommPACT schools initiative controlled by the Nutmeg State's NEA and AFT affiliates — would kibosh Parent Power by eliminating the school governance council already in place; it would be no better than being under the Commissioner's Network.

Not exact matches

One teacher told a cautionary tale of having to put the kibosh on a project that had been months in the making, due to a parent rejection.

In August, the AFT was forced to offer several apologies to school reformers (including one from its president, Randi Weingarten, during a face to face meeting) after education news magazine Dropout Nation revealed the union's presentation on how its Connecticut affiliate worked unsuccessfully to kibosh that state's parent trigger law.

When you've spent so much time trying to get parents involved, it can be disheartening to have someone put the kibosh on your big plans.

[Given that only seven states have Parent Trigger laws on the books, the real problem lies with state legislatures and governors such as those in Florida, where Rick Scott orchestrated a kibosh of a proposed Parent Power law in the state's senate.]

Parent Power activists such as the Connecticut Parents Union are already gearing up for a fight with the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association over expanding the reach of the state's Parent Trigger law; the fight is particularly tinged by revelations earlier this year of the AFT's presentation on how it unsuccessfully attempted to kibosh the passage of the Parent Power law and how it exacted revenge by ousting Jason Bartlett, the legislator who led the passage of the law and the neutralizing of his former colleague, Gary Holder - Winfield.