Sentences with phrase «real public school teachers»

But despite more than 50,000 certified teachers and administrators, Governor Malloy and Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor chose to put Connecticut's «Alliance Districts» in the hands of an individual who has consistently failed to do what is legally required of Connecticut's real public school teachers and administrators.

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The teachers are miserable and can't wait to get out and get a job in a real public school.

«Mr. Carranza has earned a reputation for collaboration with teachers, parents and school communities and has been a real champion of public schools,» said United Federation of Teachers (UFT) President Michael teachers, parents and school communities and has been a real champion of public schools,» said United Federation of Teachers (UFT) President Michael Teachers (UFT) President Michael Mulgrew.

At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

But they had their revenge on the governor, undermining the new evaluation system by convincing thousands of parents to have their kids opt out of the tests — and the union's accompanying advertising campaign inflicted real damage on Mr. Cuomo's approval ratings, forcing him to drop some of his harsher rhetoric and tactics on public school teachers.

The result won't do much to allay the fears of New York teachers» unions that Cuomo's real aim is to transform traditional public schools into charter schools, since charter groups were among those chosen by Massachusetts education officials to implement turnaround plans in chronically underperforming districts.

In the teeth of the worst recession in decades, more than one - third of the over 6,800 teachers hired in 2006 - 2007 left New York City public schools of their own accord, largely because of the DOE's mismanagement and its obsession with test prep rather than real education.

The UFT on Feb. 3 released a television ad accusing Gov. Andrew Cuomo of putting his political career ahead of children's education by blaming teachers and ignoring the real needs of the city's public schools — smaller classes, afterschool programs and fairer funding.

Loosely based on real - life events, «Won't Back Down» tells the story of a single mom who teams up with a disillusioned teacher to transform a failing public school into a charter school.

Both films take the form of curdled dark comedies about raging misanthropes who abuse their positions of authority — or at least their power over small children, since drunken mall Santas and Chicago's public - school teachers both lack real power — to engage in criminal schemes.

Yassine's dedication to working on literacy problems both real and theoretical led her to a collaboration between a group of HGSE students and the litigants of the first federal case asserting a right to literacy based on gross inequity in Detroit Public Schools (DPS) that culminated in an on - campus event where parents, teachers, and students from DPS led a conversation.

At Albemarle County Public Schools, teachers use social media to get ideas for their classroom, for professional development, and to connect student learning to the real world.

Teachers who care and assignments that have real - world applications are attracting students to the Minnesota Business Academy, one of the state's most unusual public charter schools.

Their mission is to protect the jobs of teachers in the regular public schools, and real technological change — which outsources work to distant locations, allows students and money to leave, substitutes capital for labor, and in other ways disrupts the existing job structure — is a threat to the security and stability that the unions seek.

Other projects created during the class include an organization that will provide free public libraries in India; an online platform to help students make more informed decisions when applying to college; an app that gives students fun, game - based content that shows what real scientists are like; a cellphone - hosted service for rural teachers in the Philippines that provides direct training and tips; and a nonprofit that will train and employ parent liaisons to develop stronger bonds between families and middle schools in an effort to improve dropout rates.

The average amount of money spent per pupil by U.S. public schools has more than doubled in real terms since 1970, and the number of pupils per employed teacher has declined from 22 to 15.

There are public school districts across the country that have engaged in innovative contracts between teachers and the central office, and there are multiple models of educational interventions, including at the curricular level, that show real promise and do not depend on wholesale structural reform.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the average salary of a public school teacher was up about 6 percent in real dollars since it began tracking the data during the 1969 — 1970 school year.

What would Americans in the 1960s reasonably have expected from their public schools if they had been told that the future promised a tripling in real spending for education; a major reduction in class size; and increased job security, higher pay, and sizable new fringe benefits for teachers?

And since we pay most public school teachers in rolls of coins and crumpled up slips of paper that say «IOU» on them, these dedicated educators need real, low cost options.

Public - school teacher salaries increased in real terms by 400 percent in Brazil and by 200 percent in Chile, which had a positive impact on the quality of the teaching force.

The real innovation behind Summit Public Schools» work is that it appears its teachers and leaders are beginning to identify, in this new context, what role to play when and for which students.

Many parents, teachers, public school advocates and taxpayers are asking whether the Connecticut General Assembly will hold a real public hearing on the Common Core, the Common Core testing fiasco, and the flawed teacher evaluation system?

When you are friends with those who dislike public education and career teachers, and want to see an end to both, how big of a real supporter of public schools and teachers can you be?

While the racial, social, political, and economic consequences of poorly performing schools are innumerable and harsh, they won't be felt by Burris who earned $ 268,000 as a principal; or Ravitch who became a fierce public school advocate only after her children completed private school; or Valerie Strauss — another private school parent — who uses her Washington Post real estate to bolster all the drivel teachers» unions send her (without mentioning her connection to communication contracts with labor).

And when we talk about improving public education, and the very real and increasing threat that is coming from the corporate «education reform» types, who want to layoff teachers, ban or reduce collective bargaining rights, take - over public schools and transfer the care and control of our public schools to various third parties... let's not forget that many districts do not fund enough IA positions and every district fails to fairly compensate IAs for the incredible work they do.

The real aim is to privatize public schools and get rid of union teachers.

Remember, charter school students, their parents, and teachers all forego ordinary legal due process protections that their peers who attend REAL public schools enjoy.

After seven years of real terms pay cuts due to the Government's public sector pay policy, unions want the Government to make a significant pay increase for all teachers and school leaders.

Kelle Stewart, an elementary school teacher from Tennessee, said the heavy focus on tenure keeps the education debate from focusing on real issues that significantly affect public schools.

Bill Gates apparently doesn't want funding to go towards real public schools staffed by professional career teachers either, since the foundation met with CREEED as noted at the top of this post.

Over the course of three hours, Coulson revisits the story of Jaime Escalante, the real - life Los Angeles teacher whose success preparing low income public school students for the AP Calculus exam was made famous in the 1988 film Stand and Deliver.

Change might be able to deal with the problems but there will never be any real change for Title 1 public schools while Americans are willing to listen to the politicians about bashing teachers instead of understanding and dealing with the problems.

Sorry to be the bearer of unpleasant news, but the SOS (Save Our Schools) March on Washington — an attempt to con the public by diverting the debate away from real education reform issues like failing schools, irresponsible spending, retaining bad teachers, etc. — will be setting up their Big Top in Washington D.C. from July 28th to JulSchools) March on Washington — an attempt to con the public by diverting the debate away from real education reform issues like failing schools, irresponsible spending, retaining bad teachers, etc. — will be setting up their Big Top in Washington D.C. from July 28th to Julschools, irresponsible spending, retaining bad teachers, etc. — will be setting up their Big Top in Washington D.C. from July 28th to July 31st.

«Our hope is that NYCEDF can be a catalyst for the sort of change that will make the UFT a real leader in the fight on behalf of city teachers and the public school system.»

In a joint statement from the state teacher unions, CTA President Eric Heins called the decision «a good day for students and educators,» adding, «it's time to get back to the real issues facing our public schools and work together to improve student learning and support the art of teaching.»

Although Malloy is the only Democratic Governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers in «turnaround» schools, the announcement that Stefan Pryor will be leaving his position at the end of this year was seen by some as a signal that Malloy was going to shift away from his corporate education reform industry and privatization policies and would use a second term to provide more support for Connecticut's real public education system.

Another approach that is attracting some teachers is the teacher led school idea — which would be real power in teachers» hands — as part of a district or charter public school.

This can be seen in the opposition to using objective student score growth data in teacher evaluations and structuring teaching assignments (in an age in which using data is a critical part of marketing and strategy - development in the private and public sectors), and the continued focus of ed school professors on teaching aspiring teachers theory instead of on real - world practices that support student success.

The real reason for closure is to obtain real estate to insert charter & mini schools in these buildings, with the ulitmate aim of breaking teachers» unions & privitization of public education.

The combination of not completing courses and getting a failing grade in courses they do complete means that K12 INC students are much less likely to graduate from high school than students who attend real public schools in real classes with real teachers.

Well, I think Newark needs good schools, period... This idea of «we have to build charters at the expense of public school» is a ridiculous notion... That's an argument that people are having about real estate, about space, about money and finances, when on the ground, the thing that improves education is what happens in the classroom — is teacher development, staff development, and extended days and, you know, curriculum...

«Mr. Carranza has earned a reputation for collaboration with teachers, parents and school communities and has been a real champion of public schools,» Mulgew said in an emailed statement.

They are coauthors of 50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools: The Real Crisis in Education (Teachers College Press, 2014).

She continues to support the school's highly collaborative culture where students and teachers are engaged in transdisciplinary projects across grade levels that produce real work while also maintaining her role as a 1st grade teacher in this public school.

However, while Jennifer Alexander spends plenty of time inside the Capitol lobbying legislators and working with the Malloy administration, she has refused, to date, to accept an offer to debate the real problems and issues facing Connecticut's public school children, parents, teachers and schools.

However, real average salaries for public school teachers actually fell by 2 percent during this time period.»

Our urban public school is open to teachers and administrators who want to see effective teaching strategies at work in real classrooms, share ideas with other committed educators and see measurable gains in student achievement.

[Editor's Note: For more than ten years, Substance he been following the stories about how Michael Milkie, founder of the «Noble Network of Charter Schools,» has been forcing his «failing» students to return to the city's real public schools based on rules which no decent public school — or teacher — would impose on chSchools,» has been forcing his «failing» students to return to the city's real public schools based on rules which no decent public school — or teacher — would impose on chschools based on rules which no decent public school — or teacher — would impose on children.

Based on a national investigation of more than 40 schools and on detailed case studies, this book illustrates how teachers in six real - life situations in a range of different public schools were able to construct and implement curricula that enabled students to learn challenging disciplinary content through multiple intelligences.