Sentences with phrase «powerful teacher unions»

But then it came before the Assembly Education Committee, which shamefully bowed to the state's powerful teacher unions and rejected the bill.

Making an issue of using test scores to evaluate teachers means taking on powerful teacher unions, pitting a core Democratic interest group against a major goal of the Obama administration.

He said he views his school aid proposals with the most optimism because powerful teacher unions will make the case on both sides of the aisle.

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.

Anthony Weiner shouldn't count on a mayoral endorsement from the city's powerful teachers union.

On one side are left - leaning Democrats like Mr. de Blasio and the Assembly speaker, Carl M. Heastie, who have traditional ties to the powerful teachers union.

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.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia's ruling that Superintendent Kriner Cash can circumvent the union contract to make changes at receivership schools will likely end in a court battle with one of the most powerful teachers unions in the country.

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.

The bill would also do away with a requirement that those abused in a public institution like a school must file a notice of intent to sue within 90 days of the incident occurring — something that in the past has been vehemently opposed by the public sector and powerful teachers union.

The real problem, in Magee's eyes, is that wealthy New Yorkers are trying to dismantle the publicly funded school system — complete with the powerful teachers unions — because they don't want to pay their «fair share» in taxes to support the education of all children, not just the «elite.»

New York State United Teachers, the state's powerful teachers union, has not taken a formal position on the bill yet, said spokesman Carl Korn.

The powerful teachers union continues to pick losers in prominent races.

The Legislature, under pressure from powerful teachers unions and school lobbyists, refused to cut any school aid midyear.

Her plan to overhaul the tenure standards in place gets condemned by the seeming villain of the picture, the powerful teachers unions.

An article in the New York Times reported, «Hedge fund executives are thus emerging as perhaps the first significant political counterweight to the powerful teachers unions....

The board was unwilling to take on the powerful teacher union in many instances when it most mattered.

It will raise costs; undermine efficiency; block rich instructional options; restrict school choice and parental influence; and strengthen the hand of other interest groups, including but not limited to already too - powerful teachers unions.

And to be sure, the organized interests of the status quo — particularly the powerful teachers unions — will always find a way to get their message out to core audiences.

Tisch had already assembled her dream team: herself, Steiner, Klein, King, and Michael Mulgrew, head of New York City's powerful teachers union, the United Federation of Teachers.

And since de Blasio was not endorsed by the powerful teachers union, his victory left some reformers wondering whether de Blasio was, as the Thomas B. Fordham Institute's Mike Petrilli wrote, «untethered from both the 1 percent and organized labor.»

And he has vetoed bill after bill sent to him by a legislature that often does the bidding of the state's powerful teachers unions, which have opposed much of California's accountability system.

Joel Klein, Controversial as Chancellor of NYC Department of Education, Offers Lessons on Fixing Education WNYC: Klein writes about his eight - year mission of improvement: demanding accountability, eliminating political favoritism, and battling a powerful teachers union that seemed determined to protect a status quo that didn't work for kids.

The agreement to toss whole chunks of the landmark law reflects a rare political convergence, uniting liberals who decried rote testing regimes, conservatives who wanted the federal government out of education, state officials angry about unfunded mandates and powerful teachers unions who said NCLB punished them, rather than giving them needed assistance.

«My determination is to reform the public school system,» said candidate Booker, who was opposed by the state's powerful teachers union, with 192,272 members, in part because of his support of vouchers.

That's traditionally been a non-starter with Washington's powerful teachers union, the Washington Education Association.

The legislation faced stiff opposition from the state's powerful teachers unions, and while linking teacher pay with student performance remains a key goal of the Obama administration, there remained enough uncertainty around the proposal to cause its demise, again.

Amid a controversial lawsuit charging that the state's teacher tenure and dismissal laws were depriving students of their constitutional right to a quality education, billionaire philanthropists seeking to overhaul public education and powerful teachers unions poured more than $ 20 million into television attack ads and nasty mailers.

Richard Berman, executive director of the Center for Union Facts, says yesterday's «Day of Action» is no more than the latest attempt by the powerful teachers union to pull the wool over the public's eyes: «Randi Weingarten doesn't care about reforming schools in the name of quality education; she cares about exploding government budgets in the name of filling her union's bank account.»

That bill has been publicly backed by the New Jersey Education Association, the powerful teachers union, although its leaders have been in discussions with Ruiz over the past several months as well.

In response, state legislatures across the country are pushing to reform tenure and seniority rules, sparking battles with powerful teachers unions.

Remember when Charlie Crist sold out the future of Florida's school children by vetoing a school reform bill that would have introduced merit pay and tweaked tenure in order to curry favor with that state's powerful teachers union in the hopes that they would aid him in his race for the Senate?

The school district, elected school board members and the powerful teachers unions have been handed a well - deserved public rebuke.

To achieve badly needed education reforms in California, state legislators and local school board members must stand up to the powerful teachers unions.

They're graciously taking on the case pro bono, but it's mutually beneficial — because California's Parent Trigger law is at the forefront of an ed - reform battle raging hotly across America, pitting charter operators and radical reformers against powerful teachers unions.

Powerful teachers unions are able to use their nearly unlimited resources to create a bully pulpit for themselves — drowning out the voices of people like me — who represent the voice of parents.

Not exact matches

The monopoly is defended by what is probably the most powerful political lobby in America, the teachers» unions.

House Speaker Michael Madigan blamed teacher unions on Friday for killing a proposal to send tax dollars to private schools, claiming the powerful lobby doesn't want competition for Illinois public schools.

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 former Clinton aide is an outspoken liberal who is pushing for higher taxes on the rich and has the support of the state's powerful public employee and teacher unions.

The city's powerful teachers» union voted today to endorse Bill de Blasio for mayor — after snubbing him during the Democratic primary in favor of Bill Thompson.

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?

New York State United Teachers, a powerful statewide union, denounced the tests last April, claiming that teachers and students did not have enough time or resources to Teachers, a powerful statewide union, denounced the tests last April, claiming that teachers and students did not have enough time or resources to teachers and students did not have enough time or resources to prepare.

Additionally, in the weeks leading up to the election, the powerful New York State United Teachers union's political action committee spent more than $ 78,000 on mail and advertising for Doran, according to the state Board of Elections.

New York State United Teachers, a union that remains powerful by virtue of its 600,000 members regardless of its losses in the recent election cycle, denounced Cuomo's letter on Thursday, arguing that his apparent priorities — strengthening teacher evaluations, lengthening the probationary period before teachers may get tenure and boosting charter schools — are handouts to pro-charter billionaire hedge funders who give generously to his caTeachers, a union that remains powerful by virtue of its 600,000 members regardless of its losses in the recent election cycle, denounced Cuomo's letter on Thursday, arguing that his apparent priorities — strengthening teacher evaluations, lengthening the probationary period before teachers may get tenure and boosting charter schools — are handouts to pro-charter billionaire hedge funders who give generously to his cateachers may get tenure and boosting charter schools — are handouts to pro-charter billionaire hedge funders who give generously to his campaigns.

Carl Korn, spokesman for New York State United Teachers, said the powerful statewide teachers» union is «strongly opposed» to receiTeachers, said the powerful statewide teachers» union is «strongly opposed» to receiteachers» union is «strongly opposed» to receivership.

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.

The Alliance for Quality Education, a school advocacy group that helped unseat some incumbent senators in November, is joining with the powerful New York State United Teachers union to protect school funding.

New York State's largest teachers union was once a powerful force behind the opt - out movement.

The governor is also expected push for a tougher teacher evaluation system by linking some, if not all, of the promised 4 percent increase in education aid while also overhauling the state pension system — two moves that will put him on a collision course with powerful labor unions.