Sentences with phrase «negotiating with the teachers union»

The union said the decision gave Cash powers to make changes that affected staff outside of the receivership schools without negotiating with the teachers union.

A spokesperson for de Blasio said the mayor is concerned for the plight of new parents and is currently negotiating with the teachers union.

The rules for rating teachers are set by the state, but elements of the implementation must be negotiated with the teachers union — which has resisted efforts to tie student performance to teacher reviews.

The proposal freed school districts to adjust employee work assignments without negotiating with the teachers union and promised to make objectives like merit pay, scheduling revisions, and tenure reform far more attainable.

By standing by whilst successive governments have refused to negotiate with teacher unions we have a situation where teachers in England face horrendous workload problems with concomitant impact on teacher retention.

Negotiate with teacher union leaders, if applicable, to ensure teacher leadership roles are included in employment contracts or agreements and provide significant and sustainable compensation for teachers to serve in leadership roles in their schools, i.e. release time, stipends, authority, etc..

Negotiate with teacher union leaders, if applicable, and provide significant and sustainable compensation for teachers and principals to serve in leadership roles in their schools, i.e. release time, stipends, authority, etc..

That change would have to be negotiated with the teachers union.

But it could not negotiate them with the teachers union.

District leaders are negotiating with the teachers union to plan out the details.

Not exact matches

Again on Thursday, Lewis called on CPS to sit down with union leaders to negotiate better terms for teachers if the school day and school year is extended.

«The massive number of teacher layoffs, school closings, cuts to academic programs and extracurricular activities could have been worse had districts not tapped into reserve funds or worked hard to negotiate contract concessions with their employee unions.»

Dr. Cash comes to the Buffalo Public Schools at a pivotal time, when 25 schools have been placed into State Receivership, and the District works to negotiate a new contract with the Buffalo Teachers Union.

The Buffalo Public School system is constantly negotiating union contracts with some organization, with the recent contract with the Buffalo Teachers Federation establishing a framework.

A State Supreme Court judge has placed a temporary restraining order on the Buffalo School Board for attempting to eliminate the controversial cosmetic surgery rider from the teacher contract without negotiating it with the union.

New York teachers are suing the state over new regulations that allow superintendents to impose teacher improvement plans on underperforming teachers without negotiating them with their union first.

Districts would be required to negotiate the choice of tests with unions representing teachers and principals.

«[T] he only pension change the mayor has, in effect, negotiated during his tenure (via a side deal with the teachers union) was exceedingly modest.

Do you support amending or repealing the Triborough Amendment to to give school districts more leverage with teachers unions in negotiating salaries and health care and pension benefits?

Mayor Bloomberg on Jan. 29 spelled out the consequences of his failure to negotiate a new evaluation system for teachers with the union: heavy cuts to the city education budget.

If the majority of staff vote for affiliation with a statewide labor union called the New York State United Teachers, the library's board and management must begin negotiating a collective bargaining agreement.

School districts had until Nov. 15th to reopen their teacher contracts and negotiate a plan with their unions to implement the new requirements.

News flash: With City Hall and the teachers union negotiating a new contract, union boss Michael Mulgrew asked for the sun and the moon, then promised, «We're not trying to bankrupt the city.»

In the ruling, PERB said that the attempts by the Department of Education to change the improvement model it planned to use for the schools «does not nullify its obligations» to negotiate with the teachers» union.

Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: «Pearson needs to end its involvement with fee - paying private schools in the global south; stop all practices that promote and support the obsession with high - stakes testing; and negotiate with teachers» unions and others to secure agreement on the appropriate role of «edu - business» in edTeachers, said: «Pearson needs to end its involvement with fee - paying private schools in the global south; stop all practices that promote and support the obsession with high - stakes testing; and negotiate with teachers» unions and others to secure agreement on the appropriate role of «edu - business» in edteachers» unions and others to secure agreement on the appropriate role of «edu - business» in education.

But that model required the approval of the teachers union, and even with extra time, the city could not negotiate a deal.

Only then would local districts have the incentive to both lobby states for changes in state laws and to negotiate tough contracts with teacher unions.

(In an interview posted on the Education Next website today, Jason Kamras, Michelle Rhee's deputy for human capital, explains the new teacher evaluation system that Rhee launched just before the firings (and which does not have to be negotiated with the union).

Districts have negotiated contracts with teacher unions that eliminate schools» discretion in favor of seniority preferences.

On Monday, the Philadelphia School Reform Commission shocked the city by announcing that it would unilaterally cut health care benefits to city teachers rather than continue to negotiate with the teacher's union.

They negotiated a memo of understanding with the teachers union, then asked teachers and principals to make proposals.

The EIS and other unions will shortly enter new negotiations with local authorities and the Scottish Government on the 2018/2019 pay settlement for Scotland's teachers via the Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachersteachers via the Scottish Negotiating Committee for TeachersTeachers (SNCT).

Stymied for nearly a decade in their attempts to mandate collective bargaining in every state, the nation's teachers» unions have made a breakthrough in New Mexico with the passage of a law that allows teachers and other public - sector employees to negotiate as a unit.

As the recent contract dispute at the American Federation of Teachers made clear, the A.F.T. and the National Education Association are not just labor unions: They are employers faced with many of the same issues as the school districts with which their members negotiate.

Members of the United Teachers - Los Angeles last week voted overwhelmingly to authorize their board of directors to call a strike if union leaders are unable to negotiate a salary agreement with the city's school board.

The following year, Christie hired Anderson, who negotiated an innovative contract with the teachers union that allowed merit pay.

Not surprisingly, when forced to negotiate with their own staff, teachers unions turn into management and are often tyrannical.

With the state and various cities on the brink of insolvency, it's imperative that the electorate become more informed and demand that school districts and teachers unions do their negotiating in public.

She also negotiated a new contract with the teachers union.

Teachers with Ph.Ds and decades of service don't crack the six - figure ceiling, even in districts like Los Angeles Unified and San Diego Unified with powerful unions negotiating for them.

Then it sidelined the local teachers» union by refusing to negotiate a collective contract, instead working out deals one - on - one with each employee.

If a more experienced teacher has become ineffective, there is an evaluation procedure and remediation process in the contract the district has negotiated in good faith with its local teachers union.

And any teacher evaluation changes would have to be negotiated with unions.

But the bill, supported by the powerful California Teachers Assn., attracted a firestorm of criticism over the costs to financially strapped districts and the requirement to negotiate with unions every element of evaluations, including the use of state standardized test scores.

He said it is often pressure from unions in negotiating with the districts that compels the districts into putting in the clause prohibiting student scores in teacher evaluations.

Chalfant ordered the district to negotiate the terms of test score use with the teachers» union.

Most districts negotiated the specific terms of their evaluation systems with their teachers» unions.

The amended version of AB 934 allows local districts and teachers unions to negotiate an alternative dismissal system, eliminating the bill's previous language whereby an ineffective teacher could be dismissed with due process after two negative evaluations and a robust professional development program.

However, districts could lose all that additional funding if any particular school site exceeds the required class size, unless school officials have negotiated a collective bargaining agreement with their teachers» union that sets class sizes at a different level, according to the analysis.

The union had opposed the district's effort to test changes to the system without negotiating the changes in teacher workload that came with it, and it unsuccessfully sought an injunction from the state Public Employment Relations Board to stop the program in 2011.