Sentences with phrase «months as public school teachers»

An unexpected labor uprising has gripped some conservative states over the past two months as public school teachers have staged protests and strikes over low pay and strained education budgets.

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We are going to fight for our public schools, and look forward to talking with as many teachers and parents as we can in the months ahead,» said Howie Hawkins.

Just months after Percoco and his wife, Lisa Toscano Percoco, moved from a home on Staten Island to the country colonial in Westchester County — where the governor resides — she left her job as a public school teacher in New York City, Penland wrote in the criminal complaint.

inBloom, a non-profit that offered a data warehouse solution designed to help public schools embrace the promise of personalized learning by helping teachers integrate seamlessly the number of applications they use in their day - to - day teaching, collapsed and has ceased to exist, as privacy concerns from interested parties mounted over a period of many months (full disclosure: I served on the inBloom board of directors).

Weary of what they describe as unfounded attacks and increasing criticism leveled at the nation's public schools, the leaders of several national groups convened a conference of administrators, teachers, and other education experts here this month to launch a counterattack.

When asked specifically about the timeline to tenure — which can be awarded after as little as 18 months in the classroom — 38 percent said two years is too soon to award tenure, and 35 percent said public school teachers shouldn't receive tenure at all, the poll showed.

In a little over four months, twenty students, two teachers and I will leave for Thailand, where we will live through mid-April of 2018 with support from Thrival Academy: Indy, a free pilot program at Arsenal Tech High School this year (which will hopefully open its doors as a free public charter school for the 2018 - 19 school School this year (which will hopefully open its doors as a free public charter school for the 2018 - 19 school school for the 2018 - 19 school school year).

It's also uncertain whether any schools will need to close as teachers flock to Raleigh, although Mike Lee, school board chair for Durham Public Schools, acknowledged it's a possibility with many Durham teachers filing for their personal day nextschools will need to close as teachers flock to Raleigh, although Mike Lee, school board chair for Durham Public Schools, acknowledged it's a possibility with many Durham teachers filing for their personal day nextSchools, acknowledged it's a possibility with many Durham teachers filing for their personal day next month.

The stage was set with the two public education luminaries, ready to square off on such lightning rod issues as tenure and teacher dismissal laws in the wake of last month's Vergara trial: Randi Weingarten, leader of the nation's second largest teachers organization, AFT, and Superintendent John Deasy, leader of the second largest school district in the...

RALEIGH, NC (July 7, 2015)-- James E. Ford, 2014 - 2015 North Carolina Teacher of the Year, will join the Public School Forum this month as Program Director.

After two decades as president of the teachers union in the second - largest public school system in Massachusetts, Tim Collins is formally retiring at the end of the month.

They have long been at war with the teachers» unions as they battle for better schools and better services and have advanced a systematic attack on teachers» unions all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States, which will hear a case, Janus v. AFSCME, this month that could deal a major blow to public - sector unions nationwide.

This includes the new teacher evaluation pilot program that is part of the revised version of Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform package contained in what is now Public Law 116, which will only involve eight - to - 10 districts; the fact that NEA and AFT affiliates are still opposed to this plan and are also battling reformers over another evaluation framework that uses student test score data that the unions had supported just several months earlier also raises questions as to whether Connecticut can actually earn the flexibility from federal accountability that has been gained through the waiver.