Sentences with phrase «other teachers unions do»

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Commenting on today's decision by the Lord Justice that last year's GCSE English results will not be regraded, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «It is very clear to the NUT and the other organisations who brought this action that a great injustice has been Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «It is very clear to the NUT and the other organisations who brought this action that a great injustice has beTeachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «It is very clear to the NUT and the other organisations who brought this action that a great injustice has beteachers» union, said: «It is very clear to the NUT and the other organisations who brought this action that a great injustice has been union, said: «It is very clear to the NUT and the other organisations who brought this action that a great injustice has been done.

And public unions such as teacher's unions don't just extract money from the state they do labor too (like teaching our kids), and, like other unions, they unionize to negotiate for better compensation and look out for their own interests, like just about every union out there does.

Loeb's donations to Gov. Cuomo and other New York Democrats and Republicans have come under scrutiny since last week because of a since - deleted Facebook post accusing Stewart - Cousins, who is black, of having done «more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood» by supporting public teacher unions over charter schools.

In other words, don't count on Lipton to break the abusive cycle in which Cuomo kicks down at the unions, who kick down at the WFP, who then kick down at grassroots activists backing the Green Party campaign of Howie Hawkins and Jia Lee, the latter a New York City teacher and opt - out activist.

Commenting on the publication by the Department for Education of School Workforce statistical data on headteachers» salaries, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «Headteachers and other school leaders have an important and critical job to do in leading and managing teaching and learning in schools.

Cuomo's national strategy also explains other high - profile actions, including his belated embrace of a «women's agenda,» his refusal to permit «fracking» for natural gas even after repeatedly promising to do so, his anti-gun Safe Act, his embrace of the teachers unions he had once sharply criticized, and his recent high - profile crackdown on Korean - owned nail salons in the city that, according to a deeply flawed report in the New York Times, were exploiting their immigrant workers, said the source.

As the Times reported on Wednesday, teachers unions along with other labor groups are not, as they did in previous years, launching major attack campaigns on the governor for his proposed cuts to education and other programs.

The strike was alongside action by five other public sector unions, but other teachers» unions did not take part.

Others have countered that many states have been without agency fees for years — and teachers» unions have done just fine in those states.

In the absence of full - time virtual schools, teachers unions and other opponents use their resources to attack blended - learning charters, even though the latter do not differ in legal structure, brick - and - mortar presence, or enrollment practices from other charter schools.

As I have repeatedly said would eventually happen, the teacher unions are turning against Common Core in New York and threatening to do the same in other states if high stakes tests aligned to those standards are put in place.

A federal district judge has ruled that the Maryland legislature had a right to reform the public employees» retirement system, despite allegations by the Maryland State Teachers» Association and other unions that in doing so the state violated a contract agreement.

A good federal tax credit, on the other hand, impacts everyone and doesn't require state approval, shielding it from teachers unions and state and local pols who would otherwise try to muck it up.

I don't know whether that's a cause or a product of building - level autonomy or (as is often said) a correlate of having multiple teacher unions, sometimes within the same schools, but it's a fact that makes other reforms somewhat easier.

They defend themselves by suggesting that the other side does that too: «But we were countering the claims by conservatives that the end of teacher unions would improve educational outcomes.»

Back in 2002 a group of educational travel companies came together and pioneered a robust verification scheme which featured an audit of all members every year by independent experts By measuring against a comprehensive code of practice that had been developed with, amongst others, health & safety experts, teachers» unions», head teachers» associations, outdoor advisors and top legal advice, the audit ensures all aspects of a company's business was examined, this includes worldwide health & safety management, financial security, consumer protection, fair terms and conditions and, for when it does go wrong, a commitment to independent arbitration.

The film, which included interviews with Michelle Rhee, Bill Gates, and the economist Eric Hanushek, among others, made the central points that public education was failing, that resources don't matter, and that the best ways to fix the national crisis of low test scores were to expand the number of privately managed charters, fire ineffective teachers, and weaken the unions that protected them.

The parents union, along with the parent empowerment efforts of StudentsFirst's New York affiliate (which is helping families in the Big Apple's traditional district fight for school libraries as well as lobby for teacher quality and other reforms), is actively helping families do more than just have a voice.

We don't have a split as much as a spectrum — a range of views, all of which are worlds away from the position of our opponents in the teachers unions and other parts of the education establishment.

In other words, if you are a conservative, moderate, apolitical teacher or just don't think the unions have any business getting into non-education issues, «Shut up... but keep those dues coming, and be sure to indoctrinate the kids while you are at it!»

However, some teachers do not wish to join because of the costs and other perceived issues with union membership.

But despite the job NASUWT and other unions do in representing teachers» interests, I worry that sometimes the rhetoric risks straying into territory where it actually damages the reputation of the profession.

The California Teachers Association and many other teachers unions have been proudly and openly supportive of this group of ne'er - do - wells, losers, rapists, communists, thieves, litterbugs and people who just don't want Teachers Association and many other teachers unions have been proudly and openly supportive of this group of ne'er - do - wells, losers, rapists, communists, thieves, litterbugs and people who just don't want teachers unions have been proudly and openly supportive of this group of ne'er - do - wells, losers, rapists, communists, thieves, litterbugs and people who just don't want to work.

It is good to see that so many folks posting here have done such extensive research and have interviewed each and every single principal, teacher and staff member fired or forced out by Chancellor Rhee and have determined that each and every single one of them was truly incompetent, as are every other single union member in America, and every single veteran teacher of every single low - performing, low - income student.

According to teachers and union staff, the program does not have basic functions that are routinely found in other computer programs, such as an «auto save» feature.

The educational establishment — school boards, teachers unions and other special interest groups, dubbed the «Government Education Complex» by Bruno Behrend, director of the Center for School Reform at The Heartland Institute, don't like the law since it allows a group of parents to trump their power.

Education writer RiShawn Biddle does an excellent job of poking holes in the teacher bashing argument, claiming, among other things, that Weingarten «is just using a rhetorical trick often deployed by teachers unions and other education traditionalists to oppose school reform.

CHICAGO — Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) President Karen Lewis criticized the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) list of schools targeted for closures and other school actions by pointing out that not only does the policy do little to improve student achievement, but the District has a poor record of improving academic achievement among the city's most vulnerable students.

In that spirit, I am asking Van Roekel, Weingarten and all the other teacher union leaders — who to the best of my knowledge have never done so — to release their tax returns.

The unions, even if they don't outspend their opponents, have a great advantage because of their organizational mechanism and a large group of ready voters (teachers and other school workers) who reliably turn out to vote for the union - endorsed candidates.

Miraculously remains employed??!! Teachers unions are notorious for doing their damndest to keep pedophiles and other miscreants in the classroom and yet she seems shocked that the bad teacher «remains employed at the school.»

Colorado's do - over is a warning to other states that might use Blaine Amendments to derail school choice programs that threaten teachers unions and the public school monopoly.

And there is no better way to complete the public schooling monopoly — to let the teacher unions, administrator associations, and other adult interests do one - stop shopping for domination — than to centralize power in one place.

The two - term board member, who is closely allied with the teachers union, said he cancelled due to scheduling issues, but an editorial in the LA Times questioned whether politics could have been a factor: the forums were hosted by the United Way - Los Angeles and ten other community and education groups that often don't see eye to eye with Kayser.

Democratic strategist Sachin Chheda said Evers, who worked as deputy state superintendent before taking the department's top position, has an advantage because even in years when Republicans have done well, voters have been hesitant to elect candidates who were not endorsed by other educators, such as the teachers union.

He did nothing to support the teachers and other public union workers in the Madison, Wisconsin uprising in 2011.

Even though they mostly talked past each other on issues like the deep budget cuts Trump has proposed and the desirability of school choice everywhere, the visit did seem to signal the end of the long war between the education department and the teachers unions over the school and teacher accountability issues that have dominated the relationship for the last 17 years or so.

The state's other teachers» union, the Massachusetts branch of the American Federation of Teachers, teachers» union, the Massachusetts branch of the American Federation of Teachers, Teachers, did not.

The nation's two largest teachers unions are certainly doing their best to triangulate and beat back Parent Power movements and other school reform efforts.

The numbers do lump private school teachers and public school teachers together in one category, and they do not include other education employees, but they do confirm in 2014 what occurred for the first time in 2013: There are more non-union teachers than union teachers in the United States.

NEFW was co-created by AAE and the Nevada Policy Research Institute (NPRI) because labor unions like the NEA don't inform their members of their legal rights to opt - out of membership, leaving millions of teachers and other employees completely unaware that they have options.

'' It's unconscionable that the Buffalo teachers» union and other charter school naysayers are fixated on trapping parents and children in schools they do not want.

Oklahoma teachers do have collective bargaining rights, but like the other states, their union lacks wide influence.

It's that sense of needing to stick together against real or potential mistreatment by management, plus a sincere — and accurate — belief that most teachers do teach for reasons beyond simply making a living, that drives Mulgrew and other union leaders.

There are countless other examples which exemplify the fact that the teachers unions» raison d'être is preserving their influence, and doing so by any means necessary.

While many teachers support the union, others do not and the state can not constitutionally compel an individual to join and financially support an organization with which he or she disagrees.

What is so incredibly strange, even bizarre, about the utter lack of action by Connecticut's teacher unions is that it is in such stark contrast to what other teacher unions are doing around the country.

California, Michigan, and Wisconsin, among others that didn't win in the first round, were criticized by the peer reviewers for not having union support for their plans to improve teacher and principal effectiveness based on student performance.

Rather than teachers having to share the general economic misery, other workers may do well to join a union.

That even those few NEA and AFT leaders who advocate for some modest version of systemic reform continually back other policies that do not help younger teachers — including the defense of defined - benefit pensions from which half of newly - hired teachers will never benefit — has also made them apathetic about even bothering with the unions that take so much of their take - home pay.