Sentences with phrase «public teachers only»

As the United States Supreme Court declared in the 1925 case of Pierce v. Society of Sisters, «The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the state to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only.

The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the State to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only.

Not exact matches

The poll on education funding, done by Environics Research for the Alberta Teachers Association, dealt only with public attitudes about public funding for private schools.

And only about one in three know that a public school teacher is allowed to teach a comparative religion class - although nine out of 10 know that teacher isn't allowed by the Supreme Court to lead a class in prayer.

Several of the teachers of values education believe that only a Christian perspective can renew the foundations of public morality — even in a Hindu context — just as it was the encounter with Christianity that prompted Gandhi (and many of his generation) to revise the dominant understanding of Hinduism.

Child development is rarely considered in our state - mandated teacher training programs and only sparsely in our Common Core Standards, but it is alive and well in our Public Waldorf schools.

My two youngest have only been in public schools and it's just like you said, there are good teachers everywhere.

We're also one of the only public schools to have guaranteed recess for every kid, everyday — it's a gift from our teachers who voluntarily gave - up a union - mandated planning period in order to supervise it.

The unions would only rule out strikes if, in addition to abandoning the RPI switch, the government commits to a full public valuation of teachers» pensions.

Mr Nabone questioned why teachers are the only public sector workers who are being counted, saying «the exercise is selective, we are not the only public sector workers so why us».

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver gave a wide - ranging gaggle with reporters this afternoon, admitting that «you probably can't» keep teacher evaluations out of the hands of general public after only parents are allowed to view them.

«I am disappointed by the decision of the Chicago Teachers Union to turn its back on not only a city negotiating in good faith but also the hundreds of thousands of children relying on the city's public schools to provide them a safe place to receive a strong education.

«Not only is the government failing to meet its obligations to teachers, it is failing in its duty to act in the interests of the public.

The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) has argued that nearly half of the city's college - ready students come from only ten percent of the city's public high schools, including Bronx High School of Science, Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn Tech High School, and Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art.

Certifications earned under these regulations will only be valid at charter schools authorized by SUNY, so teachers who want to transfer to other charters or to traditional public schools will need to take additional steps to earn a conventional state certification.

Buffalo, NY (WBEN) State Senator Chris Jacobs says he was surprised to learn only public schools were required to report claims of sexual abuse by teachers after reading the Nichols report on decades of inappropriate relationships between teachers and students.

Senate Republicans not only stuck it to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio on mayoral control of the public schools, but also handed a victory to his nemesis, Success Academy charter school network founder Eva Moskowitz by allowing charters to hire more uncertified teachers.

But now that Cuomo has successfully neutralized the two biggest players in budget battles past — GNHYA and SEIU 199 — he only has the teachers and public employee unions to deal with.

«The Government not only needs to ensure that it is able to demonstrate that its funding reform proposals are fit for purpose, but it also needs to secure confidence from schools, teachers and the public that these are the right proposals in the circumstances.

State Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa, who was featured Saturday as a speaker at the United Federation of Teachers annual Spring Conference in Midtown, told the Daily News it only makes sense for the mayor to continue calling the shots for public schools.

«We disagree with Sen. Flanagan's support for DeVos, but there are only two New Yorkers who will vote on her confirmation and we applaud Sen. (Charles) Schumer and Sen. (Kirsten) Gillibrand for their public opposition to DeVos» appointment,» said New York State United Teachers spokesman Carl Korn.

Though UFT and NYSUT leadership remain silent regarding the upcoming Gubernatorial race, we pledge go to the polls and vote for the only public school positive, teacher - and - student friendly candidates in this race.

Last night, during the race's only debate, Hawkins continued to push for teachers and public schools over Common Core and charters.

«The single best thing that I can do,» Gov. Cuomo said last year, is «break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies»: the teachers union.

In remarks to the Daily News editorial board, Gov. Andrew Cuomo discussed imposing stricter standards for teacher evaluation and referred to public schools as «one of the only remaining public monopolies.»

Earlier this week Cuomo told the Daily News editorial board that, if he's re-elected, he intends to «to break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies,» vowing to challenge public school teachers by supporting stricter teacher evaluations and competition from charter schools.

The quality of Head Start suffers partly because only half the teachers are required to have a college degree, and their pay is far lower than that of public pre-k teachers, he said.

The defense was trying to make the point that the two board members did not discuss the Buffalo teachers contract in executive session, and that information was disclosed only after the final contract had been settled because it was a great public interest.

One Cuomo promise was «to break... the only remaining public monopoly,» referring to public schools and teachers unions, by promoting charter schools, private school tuition tax credits, and a new round of teacher evaluations based on Common Core - aligned high - stakes testing.

Stewart - Cousins also sidestepped a question about Gov. Cuomo's criticism of the teachers union and whether she would support him in his plans — first revealed to the Daily News Editorial Board — to push for a new round of teacher evaluations and break up «one of the only remaining public monopolies.»

In the interview with the News, Cuomo said he intends to break «one of the only remaining public monopolies» with stricter teacher evaluations and competition from charter schools.

But Darwin had ignored the dangers, informing his old teacher that only an extensive tome with appropriate footnotes would be capable of convincing the public of his theory.

«The only reason I made it as far as I did is because of special teachers along the way who let me know that I was capable and I could do it,» said Torok - Storb, looking back at her impoverished childhood in a public housing project in Erie, Pennsylvania.

During this same period, the number of public school teachers rose from 2.2 million to more than 3.1 million, several times the rate of increase of the students they serve, whose numbers edged up only slightly, from 44.8 million to 48.4 million.

It is only to say that some potential applicants might be more effective teachers than the alternatives that are currently available to public schools.

The PDK / Gallup poll released last week shows 54 percent of Americans — a majority now — agree that «standardized tests are not helpful» in letting teachers know what to teach, a figure that jumps to an alarming 68 percent when you count only public school parents.

If the United States is ever to pay off its vast and rising public debt, as well as the growing deficits in its teacher pension accounts, it will have to fix not only the nation's schools but local ones, too.

Of the 813 teachers who responded to the poll, 64 percent gave public schools a grade of A or B. Only 42 percent of the general public, an3swering a similar question in a Gallup poll last spring, gave schools those marks.

A White House proposal to bring math, science, and engineering professionals into public high schools to teach those subjects could bypass the «highly qualified» teacher mandate under the No Child Left Behind Act, while only temporarily easing the shortfall of mathematics and science teachers, education observers say.

Americans only need look at Wisconsin, where the governor and lawmakers pushed through legislation curtailing the collective bargaining rights of teachers and other public employees.

Only half of the state's public school teachers typically remain teaching after five years.

Some organizations direct their activities only to district and / or charter school issues, such as improving teacher quality and effectiveness, developing new public charter schools, or closing and transforming failing district schools to create new high - quality schools of choice.

Teacher attrition rates are especially bad in Hawaii, where only about half of the state's public school teachers remain teaching after five years.

But because the law applied only to schools and not to other public employers, such as police and fire departments, teachers unions argued that it engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.

It comes from Ingersoll's report, and it shows the percentage of teachers who are age 50 or older (the chart includes public and private teachers, but private school teachers tend to be much younger, so a similar chart for public school teachers only would likely be even higher).

The Lebanese government opened its public schools to Syrian students, but immense obstacles, including a language barrier, overcrowding, and the high cost of transportation, have made the transition a difficult one not only for students, but for teachers as well.

The net effect of growing charter schools, closing under - enrolled traditional public schools, and only hiring back the best and most desired teachers from those schools is a true merit pay system.

Prior to the ruling, unionized Seattle teachers went on strike just as the school year began, leaving charter schools the only public schools in the city open for business.

(Methodological note: Also, the EdNext survey asked a representative sample of the public whether or not they supported the Common Core, but the PDK poll asked its question concerning teacher use of the Common Core only to those who had said they had some knowledge of the Common Core.

«We praised Chinese education but what I saw on the ground was different — public shaming, one art teacher trying to teach rain as only falling from the sky in little dots...,» she says noting, there was little room for creativity or expression.