Sentences with phrase «powerful unions protect»
It is true that collective bargaining agreements and powerful unions protect poor performers in too many districts.
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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.
Because blocking is relatively easy, the unions are usually powerful enough to stop reforms they consider a threat to their interests, and thus to protect a status quo that benefits them.
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 President's commitment to jumpstart REDD + is a powerful and timely signal of the US» commitment to protecting tropical forests and reducing climate change,» added said Kevin Knobloch, President of the Union for Concerned Scientists.