Sentences with phrase «politically powerful teachers»

The push by the California Teachers Association adds a fresh twist to the complicated and often contentious relationship between the nation's growing network of charter schools and its politically powerful teachers» unions.

The Assembly passed a bill Wednesday that would bar public schools from using students» standardized - test scores to evaluate teachers — a priority of the state's politically powerful teachers unions.

Legislative leaders, under pressure from the politically powerful teachers union to restrict access to the information further than would occur under Cuomo's plan, have yet to come up with proposals of their own.

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.

Not exact matches

Could it be that the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers» union and one of the most politically powerful special interests in history, isn't really about educational effectiveness after all, and that the Democrat Congress is in the pockets of the NEA?

But many of his proposals — such as toughening up evaluation systems teachers barely agreed to in the first place, firing teachers with bad ratings, tying tenure to evaluations, and increasing the cap on charter schools — are sure to be met with ire from politically powerful state and city teachers union.

While some of the most politically powerful unions like the United Federation of Teachers, 1199 SEIU and 32 BJ SEIU calculated that Bill Thompson, Bill de Blasio and Council Speaker Christine Quinn were viable pro-labor choices for mayor, throwing their weight behind them, Mr. Seabrook ignored Mr. Liu's stagnant poll numbers.

Andrew Pallotta, president of the politically powerful New York State United Teachers union, took note of the state's deficit, the potential impact of the federal tax law and possibility for more federal funding cuts.

Of course, if the governor had not peevishly insisted in the first place on holding teachers» feet to the fire on test scores while simultaneously making watershed changes in their practice, New York would likely never have experienced the immune response we have seen — particularly among affluent parents in the state's politically powerful suburbs.

While elements such as state standards, accountability measures, and value added measures are gaining acceptance, other important components, especially performance - based pay and increased choice options, are opposed by powerful forces — such as the politically connected teachers unions — with vested interests in the current system.

Remember that teacher unions, ed schools, and other opponents of tough standards that might expose the shortcomings of schools and teachers are much better organized and politically powerful than anyone else in education politics.

Electorally and politically, this is especially powerful because teachers are one of the nation's most highly - respected professions.

The goal is to revamp a process in which the vast majority of teachers are traditionally stamped with «satisfactory» or «meets expectations» ratings — if they are evaluated at all — either because of administrative incompetence or an interest in keeping the peace with politically powerful unions, reform advocates say.

[2] Teachers unions, then, represent one of the last politically powerful, publicly present trade organizations in the United States.