Sentences with phrase «nonunion schools»

By allowing kids to leave regular public schools for alternatives and by forcing unionized schools to compete with nonunion schools, choice ensures that the unions will lose members and resources - and thus become smaller and less politically powerful.

Children and resources will begin to flow to nonunion schools, and unions will find themselves with fewer members, less money, and a growing number of schools and teachers that are outside the traditional system and difficult to organize.

Therefore, an appointed board of a nonunion school might be more appealing and effective, free from the headaches of collective bargaining.

That means the School Board in a town that loves its unions and public education is being asked to approve a nonunion school that would largely be free from the bonds of the public education system despite getting lots of public money.

Not exact matches

Charter schools are often a subject of considerable public debate, since they receive public funding but may be privately operated and staffed by nonunion teachers, in contrast to traditional public schools.

However, pilot schools, which were started by Boston Public Schools and the Boston Teachers Union, remain part of the local school district and are continuing to grow — seven new schools are slated to open this September; charter schools have independent advisory boards, are mostly nonunion, and report directly to theschools, which were started by Boston Public Schools and the Boston Teachers Union, remain part of the local school district and are continuing to grow — seven new schools are slated to open this September; charter schools have independent advisory boards, are mostly nonunion, and report directly to theSchools and the Boston Teachers Union, remain part of the local school district and are continuing to grow — seven new schools are slated to open this September; charter schools have independent advisory boards, are mostly nonunion, and report directly to theschools are slated to open this September; charter schools have independent advisory boards, are mostly nonunion, and report directly to theschools have independent advisory boards, are mostly nonunion, and report directly to the state.

Why do charter schools, 88 percent of which are nonunion, only outperform regular public schools 17 percent of the time, as a 2009 Stanford University study found?

More than 95 percent of charter schools are nonunion.

The groups, led by the League of Education Voters, filed a ballot initiative in the hopes of forcing a November vote on the free but independent public schools, which are allowed to use unconventional techniques and hire nonunion employees.

The state teachers union and others oppose them because they hire nonunion employees and divert money from traditional public schools.

Charter schools receive public funding but, unlike public schools, employ mostly nonunion teachers and have autonomy in school districts, which allows them to set their own conditions, such as longer school days.

Chicago Public Schools said it will quit paying the bulk of pension contributions for more than 2,000 nonunion workers, a move that lays groundwork for the district to request similar concessions from the Chicago Teachers Union and other employees with labor contracts.

The nation's second - largest school system is once again inviting bidders to take over poorly performing and new campuses, in a school - control process that is, once again, pitting teachers and their union against independently operated charter schools, most of which are nonunion.

AAE is a nonprofit, nonunion, pro-charter schools association offering most of the benefits the teacher unions provide but at a fraction of the cost.

They are usually nonunion and have fewer regulations to follow, giving them flexibility that permits longer school days.

But hiring nonunion staff could raise other legal issues because Madison's current collective bargaining agreement with Madison Teachers Inc. requires district schools to employ union staff — although Howard said there's disagreement about that interpretation.

A Madison School Board vote to approve Madison Preparatory Academy has been delayed until at least December after the proposed charter school's board decided to amend its proposal to use nonunion emplSchool Board vote to approve Madison Preparatory Academy has been delayed until at least December after the proposed charter school's board decided to amend its proposal to use nonunion emplschool's board decided to amend its proposal to use nonunion employees.

The extra cost could be avoided if the School Board allows Madison Prep to use nonunion staff, which is one of the options under state law.

If inside groups» plans are unacceptable, then charter operators, who mostly run schools that are nonunion, and others can apply.

She also was bound by the high court's 1992 decision in Mitchell v. Los Angeles Unified School District, which «rejected the notion that the only funds from nonunion members that a union constitutionally could use for political or ideological causes were those funds that the nonunion members affirmatively consented to pay.»

The vast majority of charter schools, nationwide and in Chicago, are not unionized, and the flexibility that teachers and schools gain from not having a typical union contract does seem to make a difference — one researcher found that nonunion charters in Milwaukee performed better academically.

Over time, conservative charter school advocates argued that having a nonunion environment in charter schools was a key advantage — perhaps the defining advantage — over regular public schools.

Both were instrumental in turning Sacramento High into a charter school in 2003, getting rid of the teachers and replacing them with a nonunion staff.

My colleague here at the School of HRM at York, Tony Fang, found a while back that the union wage premium in Canada is about 7.7 % (see page 13), meaning that unionized workers earn that much more on average than nonunion workers.