Sentences with phrase «many teachers and the unions»

There already is a moratorium on using the test results for teacher evaluations, after teachers and their unions objected to the idea.

Green Party of New York Gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins talks about key campaign issue and introduces Lee, a public school teacher and union activist, who discusses the importance of Education to the campaign.

There's already a moratorium on using the test results for teacher evaluations, after teachers and their unions objected to the idea.

«Even if he prevails, he is no closer to the solution, because the real problem is not teachers and their unions,» Urbanski said.

Cuomo, who championed the new teacher evaluation system, and who has feuded publicly with teachers and their union, has also taken a step back.

Meanwhile, hundreds of parents, children, teachers and union leaders protested Bloomberg's proposed education budget cuts outside City Hall on Wednesday.

Dr Patrick Roach, Deputy General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «The situation facing teachers and their unions in Ukraine is extremely difficult following the brutal violence witnessed in the country in recent months.

Around 100 teachers from several regions of the state gathered in the biting cold to protest what they believe is Governor Cuomo's unfair stance against teachers and the union that represents them.

The Green Party candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Brian Jones, a teacher and union member from New York City, strongly criticized the temporary moratorium until 2017 on including student performance on Common Core - aligned test scores in the state - mandated teacher evaluation system.

The Green Party candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Brian Jones, a teacher and union member from New York City, added strong criticism of the temporary moratorium on including student performance on Common Core - aligned test scores in the state - mandated teacher evaluation system until 2017.

Hawkins said Cuomo's fundraising is why he has favored corporate interests over the needs of workers, attacking teachers and unions, impeding efforts to make the minimum wage a living wage, and largely ignoring wage theft which costs low - income workers in NYC alone an estimated billion dollars a year.

The governor did not mention charter schools, but Cuomo took a shot at teachers and their unions, who he's been at odds with over school policy, saying the teacher's fight is not about education.

Hawkins said that Cuomo's hostility to public school teachers and their unions and his support for charter schools must be understood in light of his large campaign contributions from wealthy hedge fund managers who profit from the favorable tax treatment of investments in charter schools and who like the fact that most charters are non-union.

Cuomo, who championed the new teacher evaluation system and feuded publicly with teachers and their union, has also taken a step back.

Elia says her style will be «collaborative», and she says she will work with the teachers and their union and seek their input designing the tests, which will be administered by a new company, Questar, after the state severed it's ties with another company after criticism about the process.

To explore these questions, I compare teachers and their unions in Ontario, Canada and Finland with their U.S. counterparts.

It is hardly surprising that teachers and their unions are circling the wagons to salvage as much as possible of what they have gained since the 1960s.

By trading trust for manifest distrust, the McGuinty government laid the base for the collaborative relationship with teachers and their unions that it saw as the prerequisite for improving student performance.

Finland's teachers and their unions have not engaged in confrontational politics; the unions have been at the reform table for years as essential social partners.

The mutual trust that grew out of this relationship persuaded the teachers and unions to make concessions that they would never have willingly made under savage attack.

They brought teachers and their unions to the table for discussions of education reform strategy and won their trust by listening hard to what the teachers had to say and then providing the needed support.

But he invited the teachers and their unions to the table.

Did they think they could sneak up on teachers and unions and implement the whole thing before anyone would object?

Did they think teachers and their unions wouldn't politically resist an effort to compel compliance to Common Core through high stakes tests?

For at least two and a half decades, political leaders and opinion makers have been telling teachers and union leaders like me that it is high time to move away from the single salary schedule.

Gates is a major supporter of the Hope Street Group, a national think tank and consulting firm that formulated the language for the Obama administration's Race to the Top grant program, which is opposed by many teachers and union leaders.

Indeed, the year leading up to the strike had proven to be a powerful opportunity for Chicago parents to bond with their children's teachers and union organizers.

SAP's Alberti insists that teachers and the unions have supported the standards despite reservations about testing and how agencies were rolling them out.

In doing so, teachers and unions become complicit.

This analysis reveals that turnout can be an important resource for teachers and their unions.

Proponents of performance - based pay insist that these experiments were too limited in scope and were destined to fail in the face of stiff opposition from teachers and unions.

The teachers and the unions have to be brought into the reform movement.

But it is also clear that the NBPTS has changed the conversation about teaching within the profession by setting and gaining acceptance of its high standards and by persuading teachers and their unions to begin to accept performance evaluation and differential certification and pay for teachers.

The interests of teachers and their unions don't always coincide with those of students, but on the really big issues, such as overall investment in education, the convergence of interests is strong.

Evidently teachers and their unions were willing, even happy, to have some teachers earn more as long as everyone could trust the basis of differentiation.

One key player the anti-testing crowd is looking to sway: Murray, a former teacher and union ally whom representatives for school groups hope will be open to their pleas.

In this debate, teachers and their unions have often been seen as the problem, not part of the solution.

Another thing that ticks me off is the amount of prep time is not considered that the teacher had to do, and the money for the popsiclemsticks, snd tubs, and well, PBL needs lots of... TIME... somall teacher and unions will need to add 2 hours of in class teacher time fot the teachers to cover PBL and all common core standards... Why is it teachers do not speak out more about the pressure they must be under, all the while, knowing, that they are not effective teachers and learning is regressing...... How about some teachers, jus simple teachers, not spokespersons for them, just middle of the road teachers start posting on edsource the trials you went through in year 2014 - 2015....

We base our findings on the analysis of six excellent examples of how teachers and their unions have been critical to improving public education systems in collaboration with administration.

Teachers and their unions hate it.

Scholars have established that teachers and their unions have substantial influence at the local level (Hess, 2002; Lieberman, 1997; Moe, 2002, 2011).

If teachers and their unions can agree, perhaps policymakers can institute bundles of pay raises and accountability in different forms in a variety of school districts.

One «myth» is inelegantly phrased as: «While Teachers and Their Unions Use Poverty as a Convenient Smokescreen for Their Own Failures, It's Become Obvious That Grit and Merit Can Overcome Every Disadvantage.»

Marla Ucelli - Kashyap is Assistant to the President for Educational Issues at the 1.6 million member American Federation of Teachers, where she leads a team of professionals working on key areas of policy, practice and professional development aimed at helping teachers and their unions improve education quality and their profession.

The groups included representation from classroom teachers and union representatives — they are a great example of the profession taking charge of their own development.

Michael Roatt, a music teacher and union representative, says if the data's released, it shouldn't be attached to any names.

Ritz, a Washington Township teacher and union activist, overcame Bennett's clear advantages in campaign fundraising, national acclaim and even newspaper endorsements.

But if there is one thing that Luke Bronin has made clear in his campaign for mayor, (it even cost him the endorsement of the Hartford Teachers Union), is that money from Paul Tudor Jones and the other corporate education reformers is far more important to his candidacy than any support from teachers and their unions.

«I don't think the best approach in teacher evaluation comes from students» test scores,» said Dave Harswick, a highschool history teacher and union leader in Green Bay, Wis. «It can be part of the picture, but it shouldn't be the whole picture.»

Most writers — and I'll include myself in this — are pretty quick to draw a line between teachers and their unions.