Sentences with phrase «over the teachers union»

Republicans were split over Common Core, Democrats divided over teachers unions.

Despite a landmark education decision in California favoring children over teachers unions, how much will really change?

Not exact matches

His successor, Ron Mock, was named six months before he took over, and Leech spent a lot of time introducing Mock to the province's government officials and teachers» unions (two important stakeholders for OTPP) to make sure they were comfortable with him.

The Center for Union Facts, an anti-union organization that is part of lobbyist Rick Berman's family of front groups, received $ 1.55 million between 2007 and 2010 from the Bradley Foundation and spent heavily to support Walker and smear teachers unions with an anti-union website during the 2011 fight over public sector collective bargaining rights.

Regardless, it is not the teachers unions that are wreaking our education system, it is the top heavy school boards (e.g. those that make over 500K).

Bullied and bludgeoned by weeks of intense public debate over a longer school day, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis fought back Friday by filing an unfair labor practices complaint against Chicago Public Schools leadership and accusing Emanuel of trying to intimidate her in a profanity - filled tirade recently at City Hall.

As the Chicago Board of Education prepares to approve a 2011 - 12 budget Wednesday, school officials and the teachers union are battling publicly over related issues of withdrawn raises and the mayor's push for a longer school day.

As principals got a better sense this week of their school's budget for the coming year, officials with the Chicago Teachers Union and privately run charter schools — which rarely agree on anything — both sounded an alarm over the effects of potential funding cuts.

The Chicago Teachers Union jabbed at Mayor - elect Rahm Emanuel on Thursday over education reforms pending in Springfield, a sign that upcoming talks on a new contract might not be easy.

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This warning came on the heels of the planned protest by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, Kaduna State chapter to express solidarity with the over 21,000 teachers recently sacked by the state govTeachers, NUT, Kaduna State chapter to express solidarity with the over 21,000 teachers recently sacked by the state govteachers recently sacked by the state government.

Further proof of my assertion not long ago that education is developing into a serious sticking point between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver came in the form of a statement from the governor that blames «Assembly - led» legislation passed in 2010 for the current fight between the teachers unions and school districts over the creation of teacher evaluation systems.

First, the state Education Department and the teachers unions must resolve a lawsuit over the evaluations or Cuomo will insert his own plan into the 30 - day amendments (taking advantage of the broad powers the governor has over the budget in New York).

National Union of Teachers head of education, John Bangs, argues that the argument over competitiveness is anon - issue.

It's a reversal from only three years ago, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo muscled the evaluation law through the Legislature over the objections of the state's politically powerful teachers unions.

NYC teachers union president Michael Mulgrew took shots at the de Blasio administration for the second time in two weeks — this time charging city leaders with gender bias over their handling of paid parental leave.

The 2.5 million - member AFL - CIO has backed Gregg Lundahl, a UFT member primarying Democratic Assemblyman Jonathan Bing, who has angered the teachers union by introducing a bill that would give principals authority over teacher layoffs.

Tens of thousands of teachers across the north - west will be taking strike action today (Thursday 27 June) as a further step in the NASUWT and NUT teacher unions» dispute with the Secretary of State for Education over pay, pensions, working conditions and jobs.

The governor has also been in a feud with the teachers unions over new performance reviews and standardized testing related to the Common Core.

King recently expressed extreme frustration with the teachers union and school administrators in several large cities downstate and upstate, over what he said was a failure to come up with a teacher evaluation plan by a December 31 deadline, to meet requirements for the federal Race to the Top grant awards.

And not even Democrats, especially not Democrats to whom teachers unions have given tons of money over the years.

The second largest lobbying spender was the teachers union, which reports spending far less than the charter school groups, at just over $ 3.2 million.

Unfortunately, the governor's laudable efforts will be squandered if he gets drawn into a narrow fight with the unions over details, like points and weighting percentages in teacher evaluations.

He's accused of breaking the rules of an executive session of the board, and telling a local paper the details of confidential talks with the teachers union over a new contract.

The Kaduna State Wing of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), has directed its member to commence indefinite strike on Monday, Jan. 8, over the sack...

A Siena College poll found that the teachers unions have a slight edge over the governor in public support.

Andrea Flinders, president of the Kansas City teachers union, can list the school superintendents she has known over the past decade.

At a Manhattan news conference, the Democratic attorney general praised Duffy's efforts to consolidate agencies and bring mayoral control of schools to New York's third - largest city over the objection of teachers unions.

Kaduna State wing of Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, has raised alarm over attempt by the state government to allegedly frustrate the Order of Interlocutory Injunction...

The teacher's union is suing the Education Department over the teacher evaluation process, and won a partial victory in state court last summer.

The Chicago Teachers Union has never gotten over its resentment for Duncan, who served as Chicago superintendent of schools from 2001 to 2009 and implemented many of the same accountability measures that Bush and Obama embraced.

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The NYC - based teachers union is ratcheting up its war over charters in the wake of the Senate's 45 - 15 passage yesterday of a bill that would increase the cap on the schools from 200 to 460.

Quinn tells WBFO News he believes the powerful New York State United Teachers Union has taken over the city school board, influencing the majority members.

The governor is also asking for the state's largest teachers union and the state education department to drop a lawsuit over the teacher evaluation has that has further delayed things.

Union contracts, for example, could allow senior teachers, who typically are paid more, the ability to choose the school at which they teach, which could be seen as providing increased support for students in one building over others.

Allies of the state's teachers union this week were emboldened by a Quinnipiac University poll that found voters trust the teachers unions over Cuomo to help improve education.

She is supportive of the Common Core education standards, but at a news conference following her election as commissioner, Elia spoke in conciliatory terms when discussing teachers, whose statewide umbrella union has been especially restive over the changes.

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The opt - out effort this year has united different political strains: Republicans and conservatives are skeptical of Common Core as it pertains to a loss of local control for school districts, while the state's teachers union is encouraging the movement as well over concerns of how the results will impact performance evaluations.

The WFP in 2016 had endorsed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the presidential election, over the objections of the teachers union.

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With teacher contract negotiations seemingly at a standstill, and a battle over the state's new receivership headed to court, tensions between Buffalo union and school district leaders are on the rise.

Commenting on the reports in the media that the Secretary of State for Education, Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, is to apologise to Parliament for errors contained in the Government's list of schools to be rebuilt or refurbished under the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «The Government's decision to scrap over 700 projects to rebuild or refurbish schools was an unnecessary and disastrous development that history will judge to be bad for children, bad for education and bad for local communities and the economy.

But the event also comes as Cuomo is taking a post-budget victory lap and as he faces fresh skepticism from organizations like the Working Families Party and the statewide teachers union over his fiscal priorities.

A proponent of charter schools, Cuomo is in a protracted battle with teachers unions over the direction of public education — as well as spending — in the state.

The statewide teachers union filed a federal lawsuit late Wednesday over the state Department of Education's policy of requiring teachers to sign confidentiality agreements before scoring tests based on the Common Core standards.

He spoke out as sources at the civil service PCS union, which joined teachers on strike in June in a row over the Government's pension reforms, said its national executive had agreed to hold another one - day walkout in the autumn.

Without a real evaluation plan in place created by the teacher's unions and the State Education Department within 30 days, the government will take over and institute an evaluation plan.

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