Sentences with phrase «public school employee unions»

School choice battles incite bitter resistance from one of the largest, most politically potent and well - financed set of economic interests in the nation: public school employee unions.

This ratio of staff to students has gone up by 70 percent since 1970, swelling the ranks of the public school employee unions to about 4.5 million people.

If the president goes ahead with his plan to spend billions more on public schooling, he'll be driving this country deeper into dept for no good reason at all... unless of course you consider swelling the ranks of the public school employee unions a good reason.

It's easy to see why public education supporters, including public school employee unions, are intrigued by charters.

Not exact matches

Those unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of public school employees, spent a combined $ 1.1 million lobbying Albany in 2017.

«Now they have rolled over for Andrew Cuomo, the latest son seeking to inherit his father's former office, who refuses to make Wall Street and the rich pay their fair share of taxes, who intends to make war with the public employees union, supports expanding the financial waste of charter schools and wants to impose caps on public spending.

Kermit the Frog: who refuses to make Wall Street and the rich pay their fair share of taxes, who intends to make war with the public employees union, supports expanding the financial waste of charter schools and wants to impose caps on public spending.

«The contract with the teachers» union expired in October 2009, while contracts with the union for principals and other school administrators and District Council 37, the city's largest public employee union, expired in March 2010.

The database includes every public employer on the Island - from the Village of Baxter Estates in Nassau, which has one active employee in the pension system, to the Brentwood Union Free School District in Suffolk, the largest on Long Island, with 2,987 employees in the system.

Public employee unions were angry with the governor for reducing pensions benefits for new workers, and teachers were upset over a property tax cap, which impacts school budgets, and test - based evaluations.

As I wrote in my DN column this morning, the teachers and the public employee unions aren't sold on Cuomo — largely due to proposals that are unpopular with the leadership like spending and property tax caps, wage freezes and support for charter schools.

It's one of the biggest concerns among lawmakers and public employee unions as well as advocates for school districts, hospitals and other public services.

The UFT, which represents teachers at three Victory charter schools in New York City, has cited Victory management at the New York State Public Employment Relations Board for firing educators for union activity, coercing employees to withdraw their union support and discriminating against employees who are union supporters.

The same path could have been taken with public school employees without the political distortions that public employee unions introduce by virtue of having their interests represented on both sides of the bargaining table.

If you combine the campaign spending of all those entities it does not match the amount spent by the National Education Association, the public - sector labor union that represents some 2.3 million K — 12 public school teachers and nearly a million education support workers (bus drivers, custodians, food service employees), retirees, and college student members.

The state teachers union and others oppose them because they hire nonunion employees and divert money from traditional public schools.

Chicago Public Schools said it will quit paying the bulk of pension contributions for more than 2,000 nonunion workers, a move that lays groundwork for the district to request similar concessions from the Chicago Teachers Union and other employees with labor contracts.

Charter school supporters may be an effective counterbalance to the prevailing influence public - employee unions have long exerted on Democratic politics in California.

In accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 («Title VI»), Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 («Title IX»), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 («Section 504»), Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 («ADA»), and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 («The Age Act»), applicants for admission and employment, students, parents, employees, sources of referral of applicants for admission and employment, and all unions or professional organizations holding collective bargaining or professional agreements with Capital City Public Charter School («Capital City») are hereby notified that Capital City Public Charter School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, familial status, family responsibilities, political affiliation, source of income, or disability in admission or access to, or treatment or employment in, its programs and activities.

Friday's rulings on several complaints that were brought to the California Public Employee Relations Board (PERB) were mixed, with some in favor of the independent charter school operator and some in favor of the union.

Coalition Members: Our Community, Our Schools, Alliance AFT, Coalition for an Accountable System of Education, Dallas AFL - CIO Central Labor Council, LULAC District III, NEA Dallas, Texas State Teachers Association, North Texas Jobs with Justice, Dallas Friends of Public Education, Texas Organizing Project, Foundation for Community Empowerment, Tejano Democrats, Stop the Takeover, Texas AFT, Mexican American Democrats, Oak Cliff Coalition of the Arts, Association of Hispanic School Administrators, Zen Holmes Community Outreach Center, Texas Alliance for Retired Americans and Service Employees International Union.

Back in July 2002, during a slow news period, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), a school employee labor union, issued a widely cited report «showing» that charter schools — autonomous public schools of choice — do not work as well as the traditional district public schools.

Mayoral candidate Jesus «Chuy» Garcia prepares to join the Chicago Teachers Union and Fight for 15 at a news conference March 25, 2015, to call for an increase in the minimum wage for Chicago Public Schools employees.

An effort between school districts and the state's largest teachers union to collaborate has unraveled following Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to curtail public employee collective bargaining.

His expertise is labor, education, and employment law with 40 years of experience representing, «over 100 school administrator associations, in addition to individual employees, school superintendents, and other public sector unions, including teacher, police, fire, secretarial, paraprofessional, nurse, and town hall employee units in collective bargaining, grievance arbitration, termination matters, and unfair labor practice complaints.

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Note: I call the charter school a «public charter school» because a charter school is still a public school, just one that is not dominated by public employee unions.

Trustees, beholden to teachers and other employee unions opposed to the parent reform efforts, never agendized a public discussion with the Palm Lane parents to learn why they launched the school reform movement.

In addition to support from CCSA, AB 1360 is sponsored by the California Teachers Association (CTA), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Alliance for Boys and Men of Color, California Federation of Teachers, California School Employees Association, Public Advocates, and Public Counsel.

Union leaders say they'd like to see a superintendent with a career in education; a history of collaboration with various local groups, including employees; and a commitment to focusing on the success of traditional public schools.

Charter schools are virtually unregulated, they don't have to show how they spend their money, and are costing much more than the old public school union employee models.

Human Resources Employment Policies and Practices (hiring, firing, evaluations, and wage and hour issues); Collective Bargaining and Working with Unions; Workplace Policies Regarding Email Internet Privacy and Teacher / Student Interactions; Personnel Responsibility Particular to Public Schools and Teachers (FERPA, mandated reporter status, 4th and 5th amendment student rights, etc.); Workers» Compensation; Workplace Wellness; Avoiding Burnout; Best Practices for Employee Leaves; Appropriate Handling of Sexual Misconduct Allegations

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.

Taking a look at the latest numbers available, courtesy of Mike Antonucci, we see that the National Education Association lost 42,000 active members in 2013, «bringing the union's total losses among working public school employees to more than 310,000 (10.7 %) over the past five years.»

When districtwide layoff notices hit every one of Detroit Public Schools» 5,466 unionized employees late last week, an American Federation of Teachers spokeswoman called the move the largest «one fell swoop» firing of teachers in union memory.

«More questions than answers remain at this point, not the least of which include who will be part of the planning team, how the new system will be designed, and what will happen to the collective bargaining rights of employees of the Detroit Public Schools and the Education Achievement System,» DPS union leaders wrote in a joint statement.

We'll also be contacting the state Department of Finance, the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office, the California State Teachers Retirement System, the California Public Employee Retirement System, the Brown administration, state lawmakers and staff from both sides of the aisle, school officials, teachers and their union representatives, parents and interest groups — asking for help understanding this topic and also sharing our findings to seek further comments.

Earlier this week a group of pro-charter pastors from West Louisville in conjunction with the extreme right - wing anti-public education think tank, the Bluegrass Institute of Public Policy, held a press conference to call on the Interim Commissioner to authorize a state takeover of Jefferson County Public Schools and to end the ability of the Jefferson County Teachers Association (JCTA) and the other JCPS employee unions to bargain collectively.

The LA Times» day - after story described the race as «a proxy war between wealthy charter school advocates and public employee unions» and the outcome as «a dramatic political shift.»

PenFed is a credit union for military members and their family, government employees, and employees in public schools.

The case is Cape Breton - Victoria Regional School Board v. Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 5050, 2011 NSCA 9.

Mr. Hodgins returned to Queen's University Law School in 1979 after working for several years as a full - time union officer at Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 389 in North Vancounion officer at Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 389 in North VancoUnion of Public Employees Local 389 in North Vancouver.

[vi] See British Columbia (Public Service Employee Relations Commission) v. British Columbia Government Service Employees» Union, [1999] 3 S.C.R. 3 («Meiorin») at para 3, where the Supreme Court allowed an appeal and restored the arbitrator's decision to reinstate an employee, Nilsson v. University of Prince Edward Island, [2013] P.E.I.H.R.B.I.D. No. 2 where the Board of Inquiry ordered a professor reinstated following a finding of age discrimination, Matheson v. Presbytery of Prince Edward Island and Others, [2007] P.E.I.H.R.B.I.D. No. 1 where the Board of Inquiry ordered reinstatement eleven years after the breach of the Human Rights Act had occurred, and, Fair v. Hamilton - Wentworth District School Board, 2013 HRTO 440 where the Tribunal ordered the applicant reinstated to an alternative position almost nine years following her termEmployee Relations Commission) v. British Columbia Government Service Employees» Union, [1999] 3 S.C.R. 3 («Meiorin») at para 3, where the Supreme Court allowed an appeal and restored the arbitrator's decision to reinstate an employee, Nilsson v. University of Prince Edward Island, [2013] P.E.I.H.R.B.I.D. No. 2 where the Board of Inquiry ordered a professor reinstated following a finding of age discrimination, Matheson v. Presbytery of Prince Edward Island and Others, [2007] P.E.I.H.R.B.I.D. No. 1 where the Board of Inquiry ordered reinstatement eleven years after the breach of the Human Rights Act had occurred, and, Fair v. Hamilton - Wentworth District School Board, 2013 HRTO 440 where the Tribunal ordered the applicant reinstated to an alternative position almost nine years following her termemployee, Nilsson v. University of Prince Edward Island, [2013] P.E.I.H.R.B.I.D. No. 2 where the Board of Inquiry ordered a professor reinstated following a finding of age discrimination, Matheson v. Presbytery of Prince Edward Island and Others, [2007] P.E.I.H.R.B.I.D. No. 1 where the Board of Inquiry ordered reinstatement eleven years after the breach of the Human Rights Act had occurred, and, Fair v. Hamilton - Wentworth District School Board, 2013 HRTO 440 where the Tribunal ordered the applicant reinstated to an alternative position almost nine years following her termination.