Sentences with phrase «national union leaders»

The list includes influential members of Congress, United States cabinet officials, governors, prominent figures in business and finance, as well as top national union leaders.

The Gates foundation news release includes commendations from national union leaders.

We have already held one firearms safety rally, at which national union leaders, politicians and Stoneman Douglas students spoke eloquently about their determination to effect change in weapons laws.

Yet many local, state, and national union leaders have not pressed for more rigorous evaluation systems for fear that such systems may result in the dismissal of additional teachers for poor performance and may strengthen the case for performance - based pay at the expense of the single - salary schedule.

«It is shocking that our national union leader is proposing a national high stakes exam for educators, while at the same time leading a national campaign supposedly against the overuse of high stakes testing for students,» said Julie Cavanagh, NYC teacher and UFT presidential candidate with MORE caucus.

With a sympathetic president as a partner, national union leaders could have spent the last five years telling their members the truth: The nation's classrooms are changing fast, now at 50 percent poor and minority students, and our schools are simply not good enough for too many students.