Sentences with phrase «largest teacher union»

Christina Brey, a spokesman for the Wisconsin Education Association Council, the state's largest teacher union, says WEAC would like to see a more collaborative approach to improving student performance, citing a summit the union hosted in Milwaukee in May.

Therefore, I think the time has come for the largest teacher union in CT - CEA - to join both National teacher unions in their support for the Opt — Out movement, as well as in reducing standardized testing in general.

The state's largest teacher union has spent more than $ 210 million on politics over the past decade.

The state's largest teacher union announced Wednesday that it is backing House Minority Leader Janet Cruz in her bid to unseat Tampa Republican Sen. Dana Young in Senate District 18.

Even after substantial membership losses, it is one of the largest teacher union locals in the nation, with more than 12,000 full - time equivalent members.

An Education Intelligence Agency analysis of 2010 - 11 Internal Revenue Service filings reveals five of the eight largest teacher union local affiliates in the nation operated with budget deficits.

1) Five of Eight Largest Teacher Union Locals Had Budget Deficits.

He is the head of one of the largest teacher union locals in the nation, and is an AFT vice president to boot.

Amicus briefs were filed on Reading's behalf by the Pennsylvania State Education Association, the state's largest teacher union; the Pennsylvania School Boards Association; and the Education Law Center - Pennsylvania.

This focus shocked many Americans, as was clear from the bad press the National Education Association, the nation's largest teacher union, received when some of the curricula posted on its website suggested that teachers avoid attributing blame for the attacks — despite the fact that the attacks were a clear product of a well - organized terrorist group.

Carl Korn, spokesman for New York State United Teachers, the state's largest teacher union, said the agency must fully repair damage done by an over-reliance on invalid and inaccurate tests.

The state's largest teacher union is crying foul over potentially more state funding for charter schools.

Carl Korn, spokesman for New York State United Teachers, said the state's largest teacher union is encouraging its members to wear orange — the color adopted by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas students since the shooting — to honor the lives lost.

Then, just weeks before the March segment of the PARCC, the NJEA, New Jersey's largest teachers union, aired a series of widely viewed television commercials that denounced the exam.

, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers union said;

Commenting after the debate on Motion 40 The Government, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers union said: «We are very obviously not all in this together.»

The NASUWT, the largest teachers union in the UK has taken part in the Reclaim The Internet Conference.

The President of the state's largest teachers union, New York State United Teachers, disagrees.

The NEA Advocacy Fund is a super PAC that was launched by the National Education Association (NEA), the nation's largest teachers union, in 2010.

Nixon told a meeting of the state's largest teachers union, New York State United Teachers, that she would repeal the policy.

President Obama has chosen his side in this fight, sending his Vice President last year to assure the nation's largest teachers union that «you should have no doubt about my affection for you and the President's commitment to you.»

The governor is also asking for the state's largest teachers union and the state education department to drop a lawsuit over the teacher evaluation has that has further delayed things.

The largest teachers union in California is preparing for life without forced union membership, as a lawsuit challenging coercive dues makes its way through the legal system.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley says New York State's largest teachers union wants to offer assistance.

This comes on the heels of a memo circulated yesterday by the state's largest teachers union, NYSUT, that called on legislators to reject major provisions of the education reform proposals that are in the spending plan's framework.

The two largest teacher unions, the NASUWT and the NUT, representing nine out of ten teachers, are today confirming the next phase of their jointly coordinated campaign to Protect Teachers and Defend Education.

Commenting on the inclusion of quality education as one of the Sustainable Development Goals at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers union in the UK, said:

New York State United Teachers, the state's largest teachers union, supported the movement and leveraged it in the battle over teacher and principal evaluations.

The largest teachers union in the country is ending its relationship with Wells Fargo because the bank does business with the gun industry and the NRA.

But the state's largest teachers union, New York State United Teachers, called the 2017 test results «virtually meaningless.»

NYSUT is the state's largest teachers union.

New York State's largest teachers union has filed a lawsuit against the state's property tax cap, arguing it's unconstitutional.

New York State's largest teachers union was once a powerful force behind the opt - out movement.

The FEA, the state's largest teachers union, disagrees.

Open Secrets, a project of the nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics, ranks the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association — the nation's largest teachers unions — as the 9th and 11th most generous givers to Democrats out of more than 18,000 super PACs during the 2016 election cycle.

Teachers and other public service workers on moderate salaries will be forced to bear the brunt of unfair proposals to limit severance payments, the NASUWT, the largest teachers Union in the UK warned today.

In making its decision, the union joined the American Federation of Teachers Connecticut, the state's second - largest teachers union, in backing Malloy.

ALBANY — For the second time in four years, the state's largest teachers union has decided not to endorse Gov. Cuomo.

Carl Korn, a spokesman for New York State United Teachers, the state's largest teachers union, said that since so few districts must renegotiate the plans, the process will be «a bit more manageable» than if all districts had to.

The head of the state's largest teachers union, NYSUT President Dick Iannuzzi says his understanding is that the July 1 date is the starting point to submit the teacher evaluation plans.

«He did anything but help the public education system,» says Florida Education Association Joanne McCall, who leads the state's largest teachers union.

Instead, he was silent when the state's largest teachers union called for a three - year «moratorium» on using the Common Core for high - stakes decisions.

The state's largest teachers union says it is outraged at Gov. Cuomo's veto of a bill on the Common Core.

New York state's largest teachers union has filed a lawsuit challenging the state's property tax cap, arguing it is unconstitutional.

Before the New Year even began, the state's largest teachers union was already making its displeasure with Governor Andrew Cuomo known, by protesting outside the governor's mansion.

The head of New York state's largest teachers union says arming teachers won't make schools safer, but he says schools should have more protection.

The state's largest teachers union has a new president, Karen Magee, the first woman to run the organization.

New York State United Teachers, the state's largest teachers union, uses military terms to describe the escalating argument with Cuomo.

In 2002 the Times published a story accusing the National Educational Association (NEA), the largest teachers union in the nation, of teaching students that the policies of the U.S. government were partly to blame for the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

(CNN)- A year earlier than usual, the nation's largest teachers union on Monday endorsed President Barack Obama for re-election in 2012.