Sentences with phrase «local teacher union»

«Adamowski's style «was my way or no way» and «He is not a person who leads by building consensus among all stakeholders,»» according to the local teacher union leader.

The district superintendent, local school board president, and local teacher union or association president must approve the district plan.

On behalf of parents, students and teachers across Connecticut, we are publicly asking the Connecticut Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers — Connecticut Chapter and local teacher union chapters to end their silence and take immediate steps to speak out and support the growing effort by Connecticut parents to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC test.

I didn't win because the local teacher union supported the status qou.

Local teacher union representatives view the bill as «another ill - informed and burdensome» educational initiative needlessly thrust upon districts by lawmakers.

Applying districts must demonstrate a commitment to all four of the Race to the Top core reform areas (college - and career - ready standards and assessments, robust data systems, effective educators, and school turnaround) and obtain sign off on their plans from the district superintendent or CEO, local school board president, and local teacher union or association president.

The announcement of the Intensive Partnership grants culminated a yearlong competitive application process that brought together school district, school board, and local teacher union leadership to develop comprehensive and innovative reform plans.

An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the education, arguing Bridge focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.

Though 99 percent of districts were able to reach an agreement on a plan with their local teacher unions, submit it to the state, and have their plan approved by the State Education Department before their January deadline, New York City failed to so.

And he was sometimes at odds with the leadership of Miami's local teachers union, United Teachers of Dade.

Local teachers union officials said they planning a rally for this Thursday near City Hall.

«Ironically,» he said, «the provision preemptively limiting worker rights and benefiting the unions could not have made it into the budget without agreement of Senate Republicans — whose slender working majority has been targeted by campaigns funded largely by NYSUT and UFT,» the state and local teachers unions.

Many school administrators said they need more time to make revisions, especially since those changes must win agreement by local teacher unions.

While unions have said they worry that teachers could be unfairly judged based on their students» test results, the scoring for students and teachers is quite different — students get an objective standardized test score, while teachers are evaluated under multipart programs that are developed by local teachers unions and school leaders.

The leader of the local teachers union is speaking out on recently released teacher evaluation ratings.

Similarly, in many school districts in Colorado, it isn't uncommon for the local teachers union to endorse one slate of candidates.

And the actual linkage of the tax credit to rent control may not help suburban Democrats who have few, if any, rent controlled units in their district, but a very active local teachers union opposed to the measure.

Bob McCarthy reports Cuomo's would - be Democratic primary opponent, Zephyr Teachout, will address local teachers union and parent groups in Buffalo this week.

It probably didn't help matters that a number of local teachers unions backed Cuomo's primary opponent, Fordham Law Prof. Zephyr Teachout, and then transferred their support to Hawkins after Teachout lost in September.

The U.F.T., more than any other local teachers union, including New York State United Teachers, has been at the forefront of the battle against Cuomo.

In addition to enacting the voucher program, the conservative - led board ended the district's collective bargaining agreement with the local teachers union and set up a performance - based salary schedule for teachers.

The screenplay by Brin Hill and director Daniel Barnz lays the blame almost solely at the feet at the local teachers union, which, in this scenario, protects a teacher who sits in her classroom and uses her cell phone throughout class and ensures that no teacher will make the effort help Jamie's (Maggie Gyllenhaal) daughter Malia (Emily Alyn Lind), who has dyslexia, because school ends at 3 p.m. and so does the teacher's workday.

«Many people think of local teachers union presidents as fist - pounding defenders of the status quo.

Two types of charter schools operate in Massachusetts: Horace Mann charter schools are effectively «in - district» charters whose applications must first be approved by a host school district and, with a few exceptions, the local teachers union.

After Tom Boasberg replaced Bennet in 2009, the local teachers union mobilized and the next election limited the reformers» majority on the school board to 4 - 3.

On education matters, he appoints the school board and lets the members run the Boston schools as they please — so long as they avoid upsetting the local teachers union.

He ordered the district and the local teachers union to come up with a reasonable way of doing just that.

The district has been a flash point in Colorado, where the system's difficult relationship with its local teachers union led to the expiration of its contract with the Douglas County Federation of Teachers (DCFT)-- a remarkable outcome when one considers how unthinkable that would be even in big cities with contentious district - union relationships.

A few days later, Educators 4 Excellence, a group unaffiliated with the local teachers union, released a plan that called for student achievement to count for 40 percent of a teacher's score.

In PAR, the local teachers union and district administrators jointly manage a program to improve teacher quality by having expert teachers mentor and evaluate their peers.

During a «District Accountability Committee» meeting in January 2016, the local teachers union's Twitter account tweeted that a teacher involved looked «like a penis» before calling him an insulting name.

This candidate is supported by the local teachers union.

Five days before the primary election, the local teachers union sent out a mailing to likely primary voters describing me as «no friend of public education,» though I was endorsed by the union in four prior legislative campaigns.

If school boards, superintendents, and local teacher unions put top priority on raising standards, narrowing gaps, emphasizing quality in the classroom and running world class schools, America wouldn't be where it is.

Eventually, the board and local teachers union reached a compromise, and media attention shifted to other topics.

The local teachers union, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), strongly opposed the change.

When announcing round - one winners Tennessee and Delaware in March 2010, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan took pains to note that the two states had nearly 100 percent sign - offs from their local teachers unions.

Under the direction of a panel made up of schools administrators and members of the local teachers union, qualified veteran teachers — usually called consulting teachers — take sabbaticals from classroom teaching to mentor new teachers during their first years and to support other experienced teachers who are struggling.

Having the local teachers union as a key player from the beginning is helpful then.

As the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (UWM) considered authorizing charter schools for the first time in 1999, the local teachers union and top administrators in the Milwaukee Public Schools threatened to ban the college's student teachers from obtaining required classroom experience if UWM approved any charter schools that would be managed by the for - profit firm Edison Schools.

Perhaps most important, it wiped out the political strength of the local teachers union, an occurrence unlikely to be repeated elsewhere.

Such dismal figures may make it possible for a motivated group, such as the local teachers union or advocates of a particular curricular innovation, to disproportionately influence election outcomes.

When the local press reported that Edison was expected to assume management of many of the city's schools, the local teachers union mobilized in opposition, and groups of parent and student activists held rallies throughout the city.

In contrast, statewide and local teachers unions received high ratings from Democrats (average of 3.7 for state and 3.6 for local), but low ratings from Republicans (average of 2.4 for state and 2.7 for local).

Though Edison was held in high regard by the Republican state secretary of education, it faced strong opposition within Philadelphia, especially from the local teachers union.

Along the way Payzant cultivated a generally positive relationship with the wide variety of education groups in and around Boston, including the local teachers union.

She's organizing through the local teachers unions and says she has enough money to run the campaign she wants, even if Bennett can vastly outspend her.

In fact, for all the talk about the «democratic values» implicit in local control, the decibel level of the past few years has been caused less by a legitimate debate about the merits of the work than an internecine fight over which faction would control the local teachers union, a mayor's race pitting «old» vs. «new» Newark (read: Sharpe revanchists vs. Cory defenders), and the aspirations of what Curvin calls the «resource distributors» — those who view the power and wealth allocation opportunities of the school system as an end in itself.

Superintendent Scott Thompson recalled that the local teachers union proposed the idea, and months later it blossomed into reality when the school board approved the decadelong contract this month.

The leader of the local teachers union is speaking out on recently released teacher evaluation ratings.