Sentences with phrase «members against education reform»

The current CEA leadership, under President Sheila Cohen and Executive Director Mark Waxenberg, has stated their desire to and actually has taken some steps to change the course of the CEA to focus more on organizing teachers and community members against education reform.

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United Federation of Teachers president Michael Mulgrew rallied teachers against Governor Andrew Cuomo's education reform proposals during a town hall meeting Tuesday night, asking his members to prepare for a «tough road» ahead during budget negotiations.

Public employee unions have a huge amount of sway near the heart of the state's bureaucracy, and in 2014, they worked against the governor who had angered their members with his tough negotiations on labor contracts and his support for pension and education reforms.

Democratic senator Mary Landrieu, a cosponsor of the «Three R's» bill, worked tirelessly, and against considerable opposition from members of both political parties, to increase the targeting of federal education dollars to low - income communities and schools in an effort to better support their school reform efforts.

Shavar Jeffries, a member of Success's board of directors and the director of Democrats for Education Reform, urged the Senate to vote against DeVos» nomination.

He is one of the founding members of the National Coalition Against Bullying and has led the charge in Australia on Boys Education and Middle school reform and is now a leading authority on young people and bullying and the internet.