Sentences with phrase «reach agreement on»

Now they need to go the next step and reach agreement on a fair contract with enough concessions to help students and teachers survive and thrive next school year.

This policy, also known as LIFO, is no longer written in the state statute as the default policy for districts and union leaders who can't reach an agreement on how to handle layoffs.

In an effort to settle the case, the district and its teachers» union reach agreement on an evaluation program that factors in standardized test scores as well as Academic Growth over Time, a mathematical formula used to measure student achievement.

In a letter addressed to Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott and the teachers union president Michael Mulgrew that was delivered last week, teachers petitioned the two sides to reach an agreement on a new teacher evaluation system that would fulfill the requirements of the federal grant and allow the state to restore their financing.

UTLA remains one of the last of the district's labor partners to reach agreement on a contract.

The automatic cuts to education and many other federal programs, known as «sequestration,» were intended as an incentive for lawmakers to reach an agreement on lowering the federal budget deficit by $ 1.2 trillion, but were triggered when Congress failed to do so in late 2011.

Now the DOE will work overtime to spin doctor the failure to reach an agreement on new teacher evaluations, mandated by New York State's version of Race to the Top, as the fault of Michael Mulgrew and union leadership.

Advocates for public, charter and private voucher schools have been unable to reach agreement on numerous issues, including whether they all should take the same test to measure student performance, how that material should be presented, and whether any should face sanctions.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) negotiated rulemaking committee completed its third and final session today coming to consensus on the assessment (testing) issues but failing to reach agreement on supplement, not supplant (ESSA provisions requiring that federal Title I funds be used in addition to state and local education investments and not as a substitute for such).

But the process has been rocky: Earlier this year, New York state for a time withheld SIG money from New York City when the city teachers union and the district struggled to reach agreement on an evaluation system.

During those years, the Congress could not reach agreement on changing the law, and thus it languished despite pleas from educators that it was unworkable.

Responding to recent violent incidents and concerns about student - discipline problems raised by a high - school headmaster and others in the Boston Public Schools, Mayor Raymond Flynn of Boston late last week called a meeting of top city and school officials to try to reach agreement on how to address the problem.

Amid all the analysis of how Congress and President Bush were able to reach agreement on education matters last month, one negotiator has been ignored: Splash.

A crowd of protesters gathered on the sidewalk outside a government building in Lower Manhattan last June, collectively demanding that the city and state reach an agreement on how to pump billions of new dollars into New York City schools - and settle its contentious, decade - long school adequacy lawsuit.

But commissioners indicated that they can not reach agreement on a more controversial proposal to require stations to broadcast a minimum amount of educational programming.

It was to see if a racially and ideologically diverse group of leaders could talk things through in a frank but cordial manner, and then reach some agreement on how to promote a more constructive debate going forward.

Some areas are necessary to reach an agreement on as they form part of everyday life.

As world leaders and policymakers try to reach an agreement on global warming limits at the climate summit in Paris, there is one number they can't ignore.

The European Parliament (EP) and the Council adopted their positions on the EU ETS revision earlier this year and are currently holding talks to reach an agreement on how to design the system for the 2021 - 2030 period.

The Belgian State and the International Polar Foundation reach an agreement on the management of Princess Elisabeth Antarctica

Governments of 50 countries last week failed to reach agreement on how to regulate world trade in timber to help conserve forests.

Congress» failure to reach an agreement on a stopgap spending measure before a midnight deadline marks another setback for the nation's scientific enterprise, interrupting activities of the nation's federal health, science and space agencies, according to a statement by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

But the delegation «regrets that the IWC failed to reach agreement on a new paradigm that would improve the conservation of whales.»

Lawmakers were unable to reach agreement on 2015 spending levels in September, however, so the government has been operating on a temporary measure that has frozen spending at 2014 levels.

It may involve conflict management, in which the parties continue the conflict but adopt less extreme tactics; settlement, in which they reach agreement on enough issues that the conflict stops; or removal of the underlying causes of the conflict.

AS Argentinian scientists in Antarctica last week raced to clear an 80 000 - litre spill of fuel oil before the summer thaw, international negotiators failed again to reach agreement on making polluters on the icy continent liable in law for cleaning up their messes.

The failure of Congress to reach agreement on climate and energy legislation has left the future of U.S. new nuclear projects up in the air, focusing more attention on the possibility and the challenges of further extending the life expectancy of the current nuclear fleet, industry officials say.

«And the administration feels that there might be opportunities for the president and Congress to reach agreement on the use of these additional mandatory funds.»

Negotiations came to a grinding halt in February this year, when the DFA and the university failed to reach an agreement on the key issues of salaries and the number of teaching positions in each faculty, as well as a host of other topics such as parental leave, nondiscrimination, flexible retirement, technology - assisted classes, and peer review in tenure cases.

Congress» failure to reach an agreement on spending measure before a midnight deadline marks another setback for the nation's scientific enterprise.

Lawmakers were also unable to reach agreement on proposals to raise the state's minimum wage and to create a system of public financing for elections.

The DOE and the UFT failed to reach an agreement on a teacher evaluation system for 33 «persistently lowest achieving» schools by the Dec. 31 deadline set by the New York State Education Department.

«We did not reach an agreement on something called «Raise the Age,»» Cuomo said when announcing a framework end - of - session deal with Senate President John Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.

If he's really interested in improving the schools his administration has mishandled, he will send his negotiators back to the table to reach an agreement on a new teacher evaluation process.

On Jan. 15 the UFT was informed by the mediator appointed by the state's Public Employment Relations Board that the city and the Department of Education have refused to take part in mediation designed to help us reach an agreement on a new model for teacher evaluations.

The Albany arrangement only extends the abatement for six months, with the intention of allowing real estate interests and building trades unions to reach an agreement on prevailing wage requirements.

David Cameron has arrived in Brussels to meet European leaders to try to reach agreement on the EU budget for 2014 to 2020.

Over the course of the investigation, the ethics committee was at first unable to reach an agreement on whether Mr. McLaughlin had in fact asked for the photos, according to the Nov. 27 letter.

The bill does not include such a provision, but instead hinges the future of the program on one big caveat: That unions and developers reach an agreement on wages.

The two sides would then have to reach an agreement on the compositon of the consolidation — the mix between spending cuts and tax rises.

Cuomo's proposed amendments must now be negotiated with the Senate and Assembly as they try to reach agreement on a new spending plan before the start of New York's fiscal year on April 1.

The New York State Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation cancelled its meeting Thursday, and a commissioner told Syracuse.com Friday that it was because they couldn't reach an agreement on whether to recommend the increases.

But he also sat next to the governor at a joint press conference as the two men emphasized their common goal, and said they had time to reach an agreement on the best method of realizing it.

He warned EU leaders will have to overcome «substantial political differences» to reach agreement on the issues of social benefits and free movement for EU citizens.

Since then, Gov. Chris Christie and legislative leaders have failed to reach an agreement on an increase in New Jersey's gas tax that would have replenished the state's Transportation Trust Fund.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year required REBNY and the labor unions to reach an agreement on wages for 421 - a projects before he would sign a renewal of the bill, which sunsets every four years.

In Connecticut the legislative session ends on Wednesday, but Democratic leaders in the state legislature and Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy have yet to reach an agreement on resolving a nearly $ 1 billion budget shortfall for the fiscal year that begins July 1.

In a preliminary injunction made public yesterday, a court ordered that the State can not withhold $ 260 million in aid from NYC schools in response to the City and teachers» union failing to reach an agreement on a new teacher evaluation system.

«If he's really interested in improving the schools his administration has mishandled, he will send his negotiators back to the bargaining table to reach an agreement on a new teacher evaluation process for these schools,» he said.

The Democrats and Malloy say the union concession deal on the table is crucial to balancing the current two - year state budget, which Malloy and state lawmakers have yet to reach an agreement on.