Sentences with phrase «school teachers protested»

Hundreds of thousands of students in Kentucky and Oklahoma had no class Monday while their public - school teachers protested at state capitols during strikes for higher pay.

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Union leaders urged Wisconsin teachers to return to work at schools that are open on Monday, but large protests were expected to continue at the Capitol against a plan to cut collective bargaining rights and benefits to state workers.

These protests were born out of the Parkland, Florida school shooting that left 17 students and teachers dead.

Alex Wind, one of the student activists with the #NeverAgain movement, high - fived his protesting teachers just before everyone filed back into school.

In the midst of the national conversation about arming teachers and right before high school students around the country walked out to protest gun control laws, a high school teacher...

In home schooling, women are the chief teachers, and one may think that their decision to stay at home with the kids is a protest against regnant feminisms.

She has sent a letter to Catholic schools suggesting that teachers enlist their students to get signatures for the protest, asking each signer to contribute one dollar.

Washington Post: Protests of Va. parish's move away from altar girls reflects wider Catholic debate Mass had just begun at Corpus Christi Catholic Church when Jennifer Zickel, a Sunday school teacher, glanced at the church bulletin and saw something that made her sick to her stomach.

Moskowitz has cancelled school tomorrow at all 22 of her charters, and plans to bus angry parents, students and teachers to Albany to protest de Blasio's decision.

A pair of passionate protests took aim at a Bronx middle school principal who's accused of barring a teacher from giving black history lessons.

West Virginia's teachers are refusing to go to school for a fourth day today in protest of pay that is among the lowest in the nation.

Teachers have also held more low tech rallies, with instructors coming after the school day was done to protest at the Capitol.

Following a month of abundant citywide community activism and outreach, City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has submitted to City Hall more than 10,600 parent petition signatures, dozens of video and audio testimonies and nearly 20 resolutions from Community Education Councils, Community Boards and the Schools Chancellor's Parent Advisory Council, all protesting teacher and day care cuts.

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) and National Union of Teachers (NUT) at schools, colleges and universities across London will tomorrow (Wednesday) take strike action in protest against changes to their pensions.

«What the state workers are protesting, without prejudice to the Paris Club refunds, are the increment in wages to primary school teachers, local government workers and the increment of pensioners» emoluments,» it said.

The protest took place on March 14, one month to the day of the massacre in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in which 17 students and teachers were killed.

ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

Thousands of students, teachers, political activists and others staged a massive protest Saturday at the state Capitol, expressing anger at gun violence, particularly in schools, and frustration that Congress has not enacted tougher restrictions.

Plans for the protests circulated widely on social media on Saturday, as students, parents, teachers and neighbors gathered to express their grief over the fatal shooting of 14 students and three staff members at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

«When teachers in the school got no relief the UFT and community leaders protested on the steps of Tweed.

The state began testing third through eighth graders on the more difficult material last April, despite protests from unions and teachers that schools did not have the resources or time to prepare.

Following protests by school children, Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC and Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT against the Kaduna State government over sacking of 21,000 alleged unqualified...

«Last fall, 43 student teachers protesting the attack on Mexican public schools were arrested and then found murdered,» said Magee.

NYSUT President Andy Pallotta leads marchers in Saratoga Springs Sept. 12, protesting the SUNY Charter Schools Institute's then - proposal to certify charter school teachers.

Parents, students and teachers protested against Common Core - based state testing outside Williamsville North High School.

Secondary school teachers employed by the Edo State Government on Wednesday staged a protest over the alleged reintroduction of the competency test by the State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki.

Questions on other topics include: the NYS Attorney General's investigation of the Puerto Rican Day Parade committee, whether de Blasio's pre-K initiative will include private and parochial schools, the «absent teacher reserve», a protest by Girls Prep supporters against de Blasio's expected charter school policies, performance of Administration for Children's Services and whether de Blasio plans to contact the St. Patrick's Day Parade committee to urge them to lift their exclusion of LGBT groups and organizations.

Students in public Secondary Schools in Rivers State have staged a protest to register their grievances over the unavailability of teachers in their Schools.

The decade - long fight between Buffalo's school system and the Buffalo Teachers Federation over a contract surfaced at Wednesday's Buffalo Board of Education meeting where hundreds of teachers prTeachers Federation over a contract surfaced at Wednesday's Buffalo Board of Education meeting where hundreds of teachers prteachers protested.

Buffalo teachers will set up informational pickets outside city schools this week to protest the lack of a contract with the school district.

The state has recently sacked about 22, 000 primary school teachers over poor performance, generating protest and strike by the Nigeria Union of Tteachers over poor performance, generating protest and strike by the Nigeria Union of TeachersTeachers.

Since the turmoil that saw public school advocates protest across the state — New York State United Teachers decried he tests as an «erosion of local control» — the state Department of Education has revised the controversial testing, reducing the number of questions on the exams, encouraging more teacher involvement in developing them, no longer timing the tests and reducing potential teacher penalties.

Almost all the English teachers at Brooklyn Technical High School are protesting New York City's new English tests that are part of teacher evaluations.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, came to Buffalo today to lend his support to teachers and parents protesting the rushed action taken by the School Board to allow charter schools to take over their public schools facing closure.

THE DE BLASIO FILES: «Bill de Blasio once went to a bat for a teacher at his daughter's school who was arrested protesting Israel's policies in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.»

At rallies and protests, parents and teachers argued that Moskowitz's charter schools have a poor track record of sharing space with other public schools.

parents, teachers, and UFT representatives held a rally outside MS 399 in South Fordham yesterday, to protest the DOE's decision to close the school.

Following a school year marked by statewide protests to recent changes in the testing procedures and teacher evaluation methods — with 20 percent of New York's students opting out of standardized tests — administrators at Minerva Central are preparing for a year of growth and collaboration, Farrell said in an interview.

General News of Wednesday, 9 May 2018 Source: mynewsgh.com A photo grid of Mim SHS Teachers of Mim Senior High school (SHS) in the Asunafo North Municipality of Brong Ahafo Region, have declared an indefinite strike in protest against series of attacks on teachers by the communitTeachers of Mim Senior High school (SHS) in the Asunafo North Municipality of Brong Ahafo Region, have declared an indefinite strike in protest against series of attacks on teachers by the communitteachers by the community folks.

Buffalo Public School teachers held a rally last week in Niagara Square to protest after going without a new contract for the last 12 - years.

Arizona teachers and education advocates march at the Arizona Capitol protesting low teacher pay and school funding in Phoenix.

While she complained, according to Education Week, that the school district should have granted her a leave of absence, a letter writer to the newspaper reminded the teacher of her history: «While civil disobedience and legal protest have long been used as ways of attracting attention to a cause, civil disobedience is unique because it has always carried with it the obvious risk of arrest and possible imprisonment.»

(In my own hometown of Seattle, students, staff and parents at a local high school staged a walkout in 2014 to protest the district's move to eliminate a critical Latin teacher.)

Teachers in the Bristol, Va., school system are protesting the use of McGuffey's Eclectic Readers on the grounds that they are «racist, sexist, and archaic.»

When Riley asked around, she identified the protest instigator as a 5th - grade teacher at Ambler who during the 2015 — 16 school year was also the UTLA union rep at the school.

In September 2015, the United Teachers Los Angeles union staged a demonstration outside Eli Broad's museum to protest his involvement in a plan to expand the number of charter schools operating in the district.

Anthony Schell, a Spanish teacher at Baltimore's Mergenthaler Vocational - Technical High School, protests the idea of employee furloughs at a Jan. 28 rally organized by the city teachers» union.

Teachers and school leaders can support students» right to protest without taking a stand on those views themselves.

The formation last week of a support and advocacy group for homosexual teachers in Utah capped a series of protests over the Salt Lake City school board's ban on extracurricular clubs.

Courts in Iowa and Maryland last week denied requests from local teachers» unions to bar two children with herpes from attending school, sparking parents to withdraw their children from class in protest.