Sentences with phrase «of teachers in each state»

«We have our own union because of the peculiarity of teachers in the state.

Mississippi and Arkansas have the lowest percentage, with males making up just under 18 percent of the teachers in those states.

Thanks to a last - minute revision to North Carolina's year - old K - 12 accountability law, none of the teachers in the state's lowest - performing schools had to take a much - talked - about competency exam last week.

In October 2014, 94 percent of teachers in the State of New York were identified by school district officials as either effective or highly effective.

Support for increased teacher salaries falls sharply when respondents are first told the average annual salary of teachers in their state.

However a government spokesperson argued: «Teaching has a lower turnover rate than the economy as a whole — 90 per cent of teachers in state schools stay in the profession from one year to the next while the number of teachers returning to the classroom continues to rise year after year.»

A total of 34.6 percent of teachers in North Carolina's traditional public schools missed more than 10 days of work because of sick days or personal days, compared to 12.8 percent of teachers in the state's charter schools.

Betty Weller, president of the Maryland State Education Association, the union that represents the majority of teachers in the state, urged caution in interpreting the results.

The size of the college of education at the University of Missouri - Columbia, the largest supplier of teachers in the state, would be reduced dramatically under a universitywide consolidation plan proposed by Provost Ronald F. Bunn.

«Pass this jobs bill and thousands of teachers in every state will go back to work,» Obama said.

One illustration of how bad this data is is simply to look at the top 10 list of teachers in the State.

The 4 - year contracts are to be awarded next year to the top 25 percent of teachers in the state.

Thirty - seven percent of teachers in the state's public schools are graduates of the UNC system, and they generally have better evaluations and higher pupil achievement than teachers who come from elsewhere.

The highly qualified teacher data allows educators and the public to find out the percent of teachers in each state who have received waivers of state teacher quality regulations.

The scores will apply to about 20 percent of all teachers in the state, given the limited number of teachers who have students taking the state tests in their subject areas.

From 1999 to 2010, the percentage of teachers in the state who were not white or Asian grew by 50 percent, increasing from 16 percent to 24 percent.118 In addition, the average SAT score of nonwhite, non-Asian teachers in the state increased significantly more than the SAT scores of white and Asian teachers.119

UCF is the largest producers of teachers in the state; the university's education school enrolls more than 2,000 students.

«Due to the extreme shortage of teachers in the state, many school districts must seek opportunities to attract qualified teachers,» Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, D - South San Francisco, said of his bill meant to increase the supply of affordable housing for teachers.

Officials from the CEA, which represents 80 percent of the teachers in the state, were not available to comment Tuesday.

One major obstacle does remain though: the CEA reports 70 percent of the teachers in the state do not teach a subject that has a standardized test.

The piece presents many figures that highlight the importance of the case, explaining that 250,000 California students are served by the 13 named districts and that «about 98 percent of teachers in the state receive a satisfactory rating every year, but only 44 percent of students are proficient in reading and 33 percent proficient in math.»

Distinguished — earned through evidence of leadership, including a letter of recommendation from the principal and two other teachers; a nomination from the district with student performance information and analysis of student growth; and meeting criteria set by the commissioner and being in the top 25 percent of all teachers in the state who teach in a similar certification area in student growth average over three years.

Students of color make up 35 percent of the public school population, yet just 15 percent of teachers in the state identify as persons of color.

As the second largest preparer of teachers in the state of Georgia, the Bagwell College of Education produced 697 teachers at the completion of the 2010 - 2011 academic year.

Not exact matches

The Trump administration sues the State of California, and another teacher you won't want packing heat in the classroom.

In particular, he cited the power of the network's grassroots movement in Wisconsin, noting that they have more activists than the state's members of the teachers unioIn particular, he cited the power of the network's grassroots movement in Wisconsin, noting that they have more activists than the state's members of the teachers unioin Wisconsin, noting that they have more activists than the state's members of the teachers union.

In 2011, Teach Away made headlines in Houston when, soon after news broke that the State of Texas would lay off hundreds of teachers in the Houston area, the company announced plans to recruit 1,000 teachers to be deployed overseaIn 2011, Teach Away made headlines in Houston when, soon after news broke that the State of Texas would lay off hundreds of teachers in the Houston area, the company announced plans to recruit 1,000 teachers to be deployed overseain Houston when, soon after news broke that the State of Texas would lay off hundreds of teachers in the Houston area, the company announced plans to recruit 1,000 teachers to be deployed overseain the Houston area, the company announced plans to recruit 1,000 teachers to be deployed overseas.

The right - to - work drive in Michigan is the latest of a series of setbacks for labor unions in the United States, beginning in 2011, when Wisconsin's Walker pushed through the legislature limits on public sector unions such as teachers.

Teach Away made headlines in Houston that year when, soon after news broke that the state would lay off hundreds of teachers in the region, the company announced it would hire 1,000 teachers to be deployed in Abu Dhabi.

Business Insider reported last week, meanwhile, that the California State Teachers» Retirement System, one of the biggest pension funds in the world, was lobbying shareholders to vote against the proposal.

Parents, students and teachers from South Florida, the state's Democratic stronghold, have been a forceful presence in the Capitol since last week, when busloads of Stoneman Douglas High students spent two days lobbying — and protesting — lawmakers, urging them to take more far - reaching action and ban all assault weapons.

Desperate for money after years of neglect by the state Legislature, Palm Beach County schools may ask voters in November to approve a new tax to boost teacher salaries and supplement school security and mental health care.

Educators in Phoenix and Denver rallied for more education funding at their state capitols on April 26, as part of a wave of teacher protests that have...

Andrew Pollack, father of slain Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Meadow Jade Pollack, joined by his sons, speaks during a listening session with President Donald Trump, high school students, teachers and others in the State Dining Room of the White House on Feb. 21, 2018.

Anne Sheehan is the Director of Corporate Governance for the California State Teachers» Retirement System (CalSTRS), the largest teacher's public pension fund in the USA, where she is responsible for overseeing all corporate governance activities for the fund including proxy voting, company engagements and managing $ 4 billion placed with activists managers and sustainability managers.

The New York City Employees» Retirement System; the New York City Fire Department Pension Fund; the New York City Teachers» Retirement System; the New York City Police Pension Fund; and the New York Board of Education Retirement System, as joint filers (NYC Retirement System), c / o The City of New York, Officer of the Comptroller, 633 Third Avenue, 31st Floor, New York, New York 10017, which in the aggregate held 12,707,578 shares of common stock on November 15, 2011, the New York State Common Retirement Fund, whose address is the same as that of the NYC Retirement System, which held 19,560,008 shares of common stock on November 22, 2011, and the Illinois State Board of Investment on behalf of the State Employees» Retirement System of Illinois, c / o 180 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 2015, Chicago, Illinois 60601, which in the aggregate held 928,927 shares of common stock on November 18, 2011, the Judges» Retirement System of Illinois and the General Assembly Retirement System of Illinois, as co-filers, intend to submit a resolution to stockholders for approval at the annual meeting.

In Kentucky, where the public pension fund is on the verge of collapse, teachers are demanding a State bailout.

Now — in a time of red state teachers madly striking, of fast - food workers demanding $ 15 an hour, of #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter activists refusing to go away — it looks like our time could represent a cultural turn of its own.

Teachers in Arizona and Colorado turned their state Capitols into a sea of red Thursday as they kicked off widespread walkouts that shut down public schools in a bid for better pay and education funding, building on educator revolt that emerged elsewhere in the U.S. but whose political prospects were not clear.

A Storm Brewing: Teachers» strikes in a number of red states could prove to be a curveball in the midterms.

Major Arizona school districts in metro Phoenix and Tucson were still closed for the day on Thursday following Gov. Ducey's signing of budget legislation providing more than $ 300 million in raises for many of the state's striking teachers.

She attended Michigan State University and graduated with honors, earning her bachelors degree in child development — with intentions of pursuing a career as a preschool teacher until Pure Barre came into her life.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has signed part of a state budget plan that provides more than $ 300 million in raises for many of the state's striking teachers.

Our baptismal confession is not about the state of our emotions nor about what Jesus subjectively means to us or who we think he is: a prophet, a teacher of ethics, or whatever other projection human beings can invent in their attempts to justify themselves.

In any event, the state and national teachers» unions, plus other public - employee unions, predictably poured tons of money into a media blitzkrieg to defeat the measure.

Fred, as I see it, most of the people lamenting the state of the church are those who have been in institutional churches where actual teachings of the Bible were ignored in favor of the concepts power - hungry teachers liked.

In her latest book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, she charges that the state reading and math tests mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act lower the bar, produce inconsistent results, lack content, promote cheating, and encourage teachers to waste time on test - taking strategies.

Back in the States we most recently had been part of General Baptist churches we were usually involved as worship leaders and Sunday school teachers, my husband a deacon.

My nephew's RE teacher in a state school told him he was going to Hell because he was Jewish — this was said to him publicly, in front of the whole class, during a lesson.

Perhaps he has sketched some portraits of him; he may even have in his possession an entire series of such portraits, depicting and accurately reflecting every change that by reason of age or state of mind may have taken place in the outward appearance of the Teacher.