Sentences with phrase «officials met with teachers»

Last week, district officials met with teachers designated for layoffs and offered them the opportunity to resign instead of being terminated.

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With their alderman, Luis Gutierrez (26th), Clemente parents and teachers have begun meeting with Chicago Park District officials to try to resolve the issues, which include concern over broken lights, doors, fire alarms and dirty rooms and hallwWith their alderman, Luis Gutierrez (26th), Clemente parents and teachers have begun meeting with Chicago Park District officials to try to resolve the issues, which include concern over broken lights, doors, fire alarms and dirty rooms and hallwwith Chicago Park District officials to try to resolve the issues, which include concern over broken lights, doors, fire alarms and dirty rooms and hallways.

Recommendation 1: School officials and local policymakers should work collaboratively with parents, teachers, students, and funders to identify and implement strategies for meeting equipment, infrastructure, and training needs.

Hoping to tell their side of the longer school day story, Chicago Teachers Union officials met with 25 aldermen in private briefings Monday.

Besides showing scheduled meetings with political over-tones, such as attending protests against President Donald Trump (R) on Jan. 19 and against the now - defunct Independent Democratic Conference, or IDC, on Feb. 16, Councilmember Dromm's 2017 calendar also showed scheduled meetings with officials with special interest groups Queens Community House, on Jan. 27; the United Federation of Teachers on several occasions; and NY - CLASS, on Nov. 28.

Parents, teachers, clergy and elected officials criticized the Department of Education at a joint meeting of Community Education Council 3 and the DOE — with some vowing to fight the closure.

MANHATTAN — Obama administration officials will be meeting with hundreds of local parents, teachers, students and community leaders at a bullying prevention summit Saturday to address the safety of Asian American, Pacific Islander and Muslim American students.

Trump first floated the idea of arming teachers and school officials after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last month — an idea that was met with immediate criticism.

Meetings are planned with teachers» organisations in the country, along with government representatives and EU and US officials based in Kiev.

Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, met last week with a group of elected officials and George Gresham, the president of SEIU 1199.

The advisory group is the direct result of a Jan. 23 meeting, organized by UFT Vice President for Education Evelyn DeJesus, which gathered together 40 teachers from the UFT's English language learner focus group to discuss their concerns with top city and state officials.

On Tuesday, representatives of the United Federation of Teachers met with officials from the Division of School Facilities, who are in charge of the DOE - owned building, to express their concerns.

Last month, StudentsFirstNY officials met with public school parents to talk about the issues surrounding teacher evaluations.

Black will spend the next weeks and month meeting with parents, teachers, officials and community leaders, Bloomberg said.

The fast tracking of the new national Common Core standards set off a near rebellion last fall, as parents, teachers and students voiced their concerns at often raucous meetings with state education officials.

Sacramento school district officials met with parents, teachers, and students — as well as community members and business and industry leaders — for months to discuss the school - to - career approach for their high schools.

Illinois education officials have approved a new set of rules that all teachers must meet, and which the state hopes will bring it into line with new federal mandates aimed at raising teacher quality.

With a $ 5.9 million grant from the Lilly Endowment, a local philanthropic organization, they set out to transform the prevailing vision of what preK - 12 education is for — as one district official put it, «to meet the needs of the kids» future, and not the teachers» past.»

Directly following their days at HGSE, Reimers brought the delegation to Washington, D.C. to meet with senior officials in the U.S. Department of Education and other leaders involved in teacher education and standards reforms.

Meanwhile, faced with popular support for the teachers, state officials have avoided harsh words and worked to meet their demands.

Meeting or activity shall mean those school - initiated meetings or activities attended by parents or persons in parental relationship who are hearing impaired, which are specific to the academic and / or disciplinary aspects of their child's educational program, including, but not limited to, parent - teacher conferences; child study or building level team meetings; planning meetings with school counselors regarding educational progress and career planning; suspension hearings or any conference with school officials relating to disciplinary actions.

But in doing so, states from Massachusetts to Colorado are tangling with their teachers» unions as they test how far they can go to meet federal officials» demands that they be aggressive, yet inclusive, in devising a road map to dramatically improve student achievement.

E4E teachers met with officials from the Department of Education and testified before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to share their perspectives on how discipline policies must be less exclusionary and express support for guidance that helps districts achieve this.

Former Edina teacher Debbie York and former St. Paul teacher John Ekblad were among a group of Minnesota teachers and parents who met with officials from the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights and other departments, according to Thomas B. Fordham Institute president Michael Petrilli.

Ahead of layoffs that could affect up to 60 teachers, SAISD officials on Tuesday announced they would meet with teachers recommended for termination.

Arizona's state officials publicly sparred with the administration after it was threatened with being placed into high - risk status for refusing to count graduation rates for 20 percent of a school's ranking on the state's new accountability system (versus 15 percent), and for not revamping its teacher evaluation system to meet the waiver's requirement.

To drive the point home, Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan plan an Oval Office meeting Monday with teachers and school officials working to reduce testing time.

In preparing for your meetings with teachers and other school officials it helps to try to see things through their eyes.

At a recent town hall meeting in Long Island, a classroom teacher charged state officials with «child abuse» and was roundly cheered by an audience of hundreds of disgruntled parents and educators.

Faced with a $ 4 million budget deficit, school officials got a reminder of their financial troubles on Tuesday when a couple hundred teachers rallied outside the district offices before a board meeting demanding more than the 1 percent pay raise the district is offering.

Perhaps the single most important development at the meeting was the fact that the Mayor and administers with the City of Hartford admitted that the Malloy administration was behind the Friendship and that the city was told that Clark would lose the funds state funds if the parents, teachers and local officials did not agree to the Commissioner's demand.

Media reports indicate that high - ranking Department of Education officials are meeting with a group of conservative parents and teachers interested in rescinding the guidance, which LDF strongly opposes.

Coalition members met with teachers, school leaders, and district officials until their voices were heard.

A different group of Minnesota teachers and parents argued for rescinding it at a meeting with federal education officials last November.

More than 1,100 teacher advocacy meetings and policy panel events have been held, providing teachers with access to key decision - makers, such as legislators and district officials

In New York and in other locations around the country, the teacher unions have put state and local officials on notice that attempts to punish teachers for speaking honestly about the testing scheme will be met with the full resources of the union.