Sentences with phrase «public school workers»

Join parents, teachers, students, public school workers, clergy, activists and others in the three day citywide march across the city.

An unprecedented wave of public school teacher walkouts and strikes, impossible to consider even a few months ago, is overturning assumptions that teachers and other public school workers are either apolitical or fearful to act.

De Blasio said that issuing up to 50,000 parking placards to NYC public school workers is not a big deal because the number of reserved spots around schools won't change.

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To help determine whether it will result in a real improvement in the lives of garment workers or in business results, Levi's has enlisted Harvard's School of Public Health to rigorously measure and study the initiative.

The most recent research, led by Joseph Allen, who teaches at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, analyzed the performance of knowledge workers, including engineers, programmers, creative marketing professionals and managers.

That amounts to $ 1,345 per each additional H - 1B worker, according to Gaurav Khanna, CGD senior fellow and assistant professor of economics at the public policy school at the University of California - San Diego.

The company's plan, which prioritized community amenities, called for affordable homes that Hershey workers could rent or own, as well as public schools, an all - boys orphanage, shops, restaurants, and a trolley system.

To offset lost education taxes during a decade in which children of gigafactory workers are certain to boost enrollment, Tesla agreed to donate $ 37.5 million to local public schools starting in 2018.

For example, we would have a ton of support from public school teachers, young men and young women who were social workers or probation officers.

For a recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health analyzed the eating habits of more than 200,000 health care workers over the course of more than 20 years.

Expanding community health worker programs could save more than 3.6 million lives each year, according to a study by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

Whether it's class size and composition issues, downloaded costs to school boards without the extra funding to cover them, or public sector workers who previously accepted «net zero» or cooperative gains settlements, a balanced budget might be hard to achieve while keeping educators, parents, and students happy.

Thus, in recent years the Supreme Court has invalidated a Connecticut law (passed to replace the prior Sunday closing law) allowing workers to select their Sabbath day as their day off from work, struck down a Massachusetts statute allowing churches and schools to object to the issuance of liquor licenses in their near vicinity, and abolished an Alabama law allowing students in public schools a moment of silence.

We noted that no other major institution in American society» notably the public school system, social workers, Boy Scouts, athletic associations» has been subjected to similar scrutiny, and that some experts believe that the incidence of sex abuse by priests and bishops is relatively small by comparison.

Whereas public schools are designed to produce workers for the market, higher education is designed to produce engineers, scientists, accountants, managers, consultants, and executives for corporations, as well as the teachers, doctors, and lawyers required for the market society.

Moreover, clergy have learned not to let anyone lay guilt trips on them about their responsibility to help save the public schools, secure decent salaries for domestic workers, free prisoners who ought not to be incarcerated.

We have people in our community that work in the public schools, in homeless shelters, as social workers, or in non-profit or government agencies.

«Workers of all ages are good for business and these finalists are proof positive that creating a work environment that values older workers pays off big time,» says Ruth Finkelstein, director of the Age Smart Employer Awards program and Associate Director of the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center at the Mailman School of Public Workers of all ages are good for business and these finalists are proof positive that creating a work environment that values older workers pays off big time,» says Ruth Finkelstein, director of the Age Smart Employer Awards program and Associate Director of the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center at the Mailman School of Public workers pays off big time,» says Ruth Finkelstein, director of the Age Smart Employer Awards program and Associate Director of the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center at the Mailman School of Public Health.

The UK's public services — maternity and early years services, schools and social workers — have been and remain almost entirely mother - centric, and as a result consistently fail to support greater sharing by mums and dads.

When most of our current pedagogical practices were developed more than a century ago, the essential economic purpose of public schools was to produce industrial workers who were fast and reliable when assigned repetitive mechanical or clerical tasks.

In 2009, Bellingham Public Schools in Washington state brought together a coalition of district employees, parents, students, foodservice workers, community organizations and food advocates to talk about school food.

For instance, small businesses pay sales tax in the community, which filters into the school system, public parks, roads and local service workers.

The Chicago Food Policy Action Council and the Food Chain Workers Alliance have played a leadership role in the City's adoption of the Program by supporting the Chicago Good Food Taskforce organized by the Mayor's Office including multiple City of Chicago Sister Agencies (Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Park District, Chicago City Colleges, Chicago Housing Authority) and Departments (Department of Public Health, Department of Family and Support Services, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Aviation, and Procurement).

Chicago Public Schools began laying off 200 lunchroom workers Friday in the latest round of pink slips issued by the cash - strapped district.

Dozens of Chicago Public Schools food service workers rallied Tuesday afternoon to call for an end to quickly prepared frozen meals that can be readied in smaller kitchens by fewer workers.

Workers who serve meals in Chicago Public Schools say the majority of kids are not eating the healthful new foods on the cafeteria menu, according to a confidential survey released Tuesday.

Workers who serve lunches in Chicago's public schools rally outside district offices Tuesday to seek more input on how the healthier school lunches are updated and served.

Vowing to reform the way food is handled in public school cafeterias and at plants that manufacture the food, Duncan announced plans to require all principals to keep their kitchen workers certified and their workspace clean.

The city had just built the Thorp Public School on the south side of Grace, making Schorsch's homes seem a good place to raise kids, and the price nicely accorded with a blue - collar worker's pay stub.

The NLC had earlier criticised Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, over what it described as the harassment, arrest and detention of workers who were protesting the government's policy to hand over public schools to individual in the guise of public, private partnership.

NYC workers assigned to help homeless students are desperately overwhelmed, leaving many of those children, among the most vulnerable in the public school system, to miss enormous amounts of school and fall far behind their classmates, two reports say.

When Zephyr Teachout, then a little - known Fordham Law School professor, challenged Cuomo in a primary four years ago, one of the state's largest public workers unions, PEF, endorsed her, while NYSUT decided to sit out the governor's race entirely, declining to pick a favorite.

Their goods are transported by road, their workers are educated in schools, their customers are part of sophisticated networks taking in the private sector, the public sector and charities.

Anne Spadone, Superintendent of the Lackawanna City school district, added, «Lackawanna Public Schools is very excited to be part of this pilot program, having a CPS worker housed within our district will add a new dimension as we directly link our students with the very critical services needed.»

Hawkins» platform includes tax reform that would create a city income tax, anti-poverty initiatives, state - supported worker co-ops for poor and working - class people, public ownership of utilities and desegregation of schools and housing.

The Government says it is expecting most schools to open and most public sector workers to stay at work during Thursday's industrial action.

Public sector workers, including teachers and other school staff, are expected to strike on Thursday 10 July forcing some schools to shut.

Voters last week showed they were upset with Cuomo's treatment of public workers, schools and his refusal to ban fracking, issues that Hawkins disagrees with Cuomo and Astorino on.

There have not been any angry public walkouts from the negotiating room to this point, but there have been the usual grumbling about the stickiest issues, which this week include talks on «Raise the Age,» workers compensation reform and support for charter schools.

To supporters, the public pension system - covering workers in villages, towns, police and fire departments, libraries and schools - is an unchangeable pact between government and its workers.

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.

«If the Report recommendations on the workforce are implemented it will be akin to using schools as a test bed for removing the employment rights of workers in the public sector.

Still on the table: Education funding — a battle that is again pitting traditional public schools against charters — worker's compensation reforms that the business community and its Senate GOP allies have been pushing, and the governor's ongoing desire for local government consolidation.

The Department for Children, Schools and Families received a letter from a social worker dated February 16th 2007 containing an allegation that child protection procedures were not being followed in Haringey and calling for a public inquiry.

The state budget approved in April had good news for schools and low - wage workers, but once again it was done behind closed doors and includes a shift of money to public authorities, a review by Comptroller Tom DiNapoli contended.

Such a move could include freezes on pay for public employees, including school workers, and on school aid.

A party for those whose priorities include the Welfare State, workers» rights, trade unionism, the co-operative movement, consumer protection, strong communities, conservation rather than environmentalism, fair taxation, full employment, public ownership, proper local government, a powerful Parliament, the monarchy, the organic Constitution, national sovereignty, civil liberties, the Union, the Commonwealth, the countryside, grammar schools, traditional moral and social values, economic patriotism, balanced migration, a realist foreign policy, and a base of real property for every household to resist both over-mighty commercial interests and an over-mighty State.

But though 80 percent of the charters in her home state perform worse than traditional public schools, DeVos — a billionaire whose family has also opposed workers» rights, gay marriage and has contributed heavily to a variety of other right - wing causes — has led the way in resisting any attempts to regulate or improve Michigan charter performance.

Governor David Paterson recently signed into law CSEA - backed legislation to clarify that school district, and other local government workers, including those employed by public benefit corporations, be granted time off with no charge to their accruals for mammograms and prostate cancer tests.

A member of the Teamsters and a long - time fighter for workers» rights, expanded public services, and environmental action, Hawkins puts the $ 15 minimum at the center of his platform, as well as a massive public works program and an end to hydro - fracking and charter - school expansion.