Sentences with phrase «like teacher unions»

«People really need to pay attention to what's happening at the state level, because policy groups — like teacher unions — are having a direct influence over policies, such as how teachers are fired, or the number of hours their children are in school,» she says.

And since school - board elections are typically low - turnout affairs, organized and energized interests, like teacher unions, can exert even more influence on the outcome than their raw numbers would suggest.

The governor is likely to get push back from many in the legislature, who are close to education interests like the teachers unions and local school leaders.

Not for nothing, but if you are going to take on an entrenched group like the teachers union in this state, you got ta be ready to really go to war.

When Skandera stepped down in June 2017 after seven years on the job, Martinez lauded her for being «relentlessly committed to helping us fight the status quo — like teachers unions and other entrenched special interests — to reform education and give our students, teachers, parents and schools more of what they need to succeed.»

Moreover, as Terry Moe and others have detailed, political control often means control by well - organized special interests like teachers unions.

Second, I think we anticipated the degree of cultural change that was on the horizon, and we didn't fool ourselves into thinking that status - quo actors like our teachers unions would see the light.

Commentary and analysis of the Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court case that will take on the question of whether public sector unions, like teachers unions, should be able to force non-members to pay fees.

Some, like the teachers unions, contend that choice programs exist in isolation from mainstream public school reforms and point to limited participation rates.

Like teacher union spin, manure comes with many different names — dung, fertilizer, cowplop, etc..

Problems in public schools do not need to be solved by creating a bunch of charter schools, publicly funded schools with less regulations, like teachers unions rules and school board mandates.

For liberals who sought to weaken their party's relationships with «special interest groups» like teachers unions, charters were a boon.

Not exact matches

The teachers» union also knows that many more parents would like to choose privately managed schools.

We're a colorful group, composed of members of the great right - wing conspiracy like me, old - time Southern Democrats, retired union stewards, tree huggers, school teachers, Jews, evangelicals, atheists, Catholics ¯ but we are united in our passion for simple, honest government, and that isn't a partisan issue.

This seems like a conspiracy by teachers Unions to have more free days.

Silver didn't address any of Cuomo's policy positions, some of which seem to be a direct hit on the speaker and his colleagues — like the one that would require full disclosure of lawmakers» outside income, for example, or the lifting of the charter school cap (not popular with the teachers unions, who are close allies of the Assembly Democrats).

Our bid was rejected because the Teachers Union stooped common - sense education reforms like allowing more charter public schools and demanding more accountability from teachers in the classroomTeachers Union stooped common - sense education reforms like allowing more charter public schools and demanding more accountability from teachers in the classroomteachers in the classroom.»

The disclosure of teacher evaluations has been firmly supported by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, but is a sensitive issue for teachers unions, who point to other public employees not having their evaluations released to either the general public or a narrowly defined portion of the populace, like parents.

Some represent unions and other institutions with a stake in ongoing state budget talks, like New York State United Teachers.

With his encouragement, labor leaders and major unions like the United Federation of Teachers and 1199SEIU left the party.

Unfortunately, the governor's laudable efforts will be squandered if he gets drawn into a narrow fight with the unions over details, like points and weighting percentages in teacher evaluations.

What role will labor unions with deep influence like the New York State United Teachers play?

And public unions such as teacher's unions don't just extract money from the state they do labor too (like teaching our kids), and, like other unions, they unionize to negotiate for better compensation and look out for their own interests, like just about every union out there does.

Ari Paul argues that police unions deserve not solidarity from other city unions, but rather, healthy antagonism — public sector workers like teachers should take a forceful stance against police brutality.

The bulk of the donations, which will be disclosed Monday in the state party's campaign filing, came from major unions like the ones representing health care and hotel and motel workers, which gave $ 250,000 each, and the American Federation of Teachers, which gave $ 100,000.

«It will help us because the people against the convention are generally our people — the public sector unions like teachers, government workers and police» concerned the recent «radical wave could sweep a convention» and diminish or erase pension and health benefits, Schaffer said.

But the event also comes as Cuomo is taking a post-budget victory lap and as he faces fresh skepticism from organizations like the Working Families Party and the statewide teachers union over his fiscal priorities.

On one side are left - leaning Democrats like Mr. de Blasio and the Assembly speaker, Carl M. Heastie, who have traditional ties to the powerful teachers union.

I'm surprised that school boards, superintendents, teacher unions and the like aren't yelling from the rooftops in support of the $ 2 billion Smart Schools Bond Act of 2014.

As president of New York State United Teachers — a union whose 600,000 - plus membership is more than 70 percent women — I am proud to be leading a steering committee that is exploring issues of particular importance to women in today's society — issues like the minimum wage, child care and paid family leave.

The Educational Conference Board, a coalition of school boards, teachers unions, and school administrators, say the state's schools need and additional $ 1.5 billion next year just to keep up with rising costs like health insurance premiums and pensions.

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However, he remains an adamant advocate of measures like the Education Investment Tax Credit, putting him in line with Mr. Cuomo and State Senate Republicans, and at odds with Mr. de Blasio and his teachers» union allies.

Numerous groups like teachers and law enforcement unions support it, and my organization, the New York League of Conservation Voters, has enthusiastically endorsed it.

The Educational Conference Board, a coalition of school boards, teachers unions and school administrators, said the state's schools need an additional $ 1.5 billion next year just to keep up with rising costs like health insurance premiums and pensions.

«If you work in a district like that, no matter how effective you are you come out with a scarlet A on your head,» he said, to applause from the audience, which included state legislators, Board of Regents members, school board leaders and teachers union officials.

ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

Commenting on the launch of a consultation by the Secretary of State for Education on professional development for teachers and calling for expressions of interest in a College of Teaching, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «This Government can establish whatever framework it likes for professional development but unless teachers are given a contractual entitlement to access such development, the current system of inequality and ad hoc arrangements will continue, with access being on the basis of grace and favour and the whims and preferences of individual employers.

THERE ARE many teachers like Jia Lee, a member of the Movement of Rank and File Educators caucus inside the UFT, who disagree with the concessionary strategy of their union's leadership.

The unions are also highlighting the serious workplace and social problems that will accompany the enforced longer working age for public sector workers, particularly those with strenuous or demanding jobs like construction workers, cleaners, nurses, paramedics and teachers, including an increasingly frail workforce and the exclusion of younger workers from the labour market.

The races have seen an influx of outside cash on behalf of both the Democratic and Republican candidates, including labor groups like the Communications Workers of America, the state teachers union, and super PACs like Friends of Democracy and Common Sense Principles.

Cuomo feuded with public workers unions like the New York State United Teachers, the Public Employees Federation and the Civil Service Employees Association.

As I wrote in my DN column this morning, the teachers and the public employee unions aren't sold on Cuomo — largely due to proposals that are unpopular with the leadership like spending and property tax caps, wage freezes and support for charter schools.

Unions including the Kingston Teachers Federation are still working under the terms of their prior contracts, and Padalino said last week that doesn't look like it's going to change anytime soon.

Bailey has secured the endorsements of many of the unions that loom large in New York City politics — 32BJ and 1199 SEIU, New York State United Teachers and New York State Association of Nurses, among others — as well as Bronx officials like Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and Hassell - Thompson.

«There's a reason why the teachers» union has spent $ 60 million in Albany over the past five years: to get politicians like Andrea Stewart - Cousins to put their interests over the hundreds of thousands of kids victimized by a failing system.

School and union leaders complained that the state began testing before teachers had the necessary resources, like textbooks aligned to the material.

The bill would also do away with a requirement that those abused in a public institution like a school must file a notice of intent to sue within 90 days of the incident occurring — something that in the past has been vehemently opposed by the public sector and powerful teachers union.

And public - sector labor groups, including the teachers unions and CSEA, have either declared a truce or largely step aside from directly knocking Cuomo has issues like less generous contracts and fights over charter schools have died away.

It's like when the teacher's union says with a straight face that tenure is only due process.