Sentences with phrase «schools under the union contract»

MLA, which isn't a charter, operates schools under the union contract, so it has faced less opposition from charter - school opponents, including some leaders of the teachers union.

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Under union contracts, park district employees are not required to work on holidays, so that most activities cease when schools are closed, when kids have time on their hands.

To bolster their stance, union leaders highlighted their recent support of certain innovations, including expanding Cortines's experiment with decentralized pilot schools, operating under flexible labor contracts and granting principals greater authority.

If schools were under private management, the union contract might call for an equity stake in the corporation, as does the agreement in Miami - Dade County for teachers working in Edison Sschools were under private management, the union contract might call for an equity stake in the corporation, as does the agreement in Miami - Dade County for teachers working in Edison SchoolsSchools.

KIPP says its teachers work under the same union contract as other New York City teachers but get paid overtime for the extra hours they're at school — in the afternoon, a half - day every other Saturday, and the three weeks of summer school.

Our union president wrote an editorial the other day talking about how under this contract, teachers will drive school reform.

Mulgrew's predecessor at the helm of the United Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, launched UFT Charter School in 2005 in a hubristic attempt to prove that charters schools could succeed under the conditions imposed by the union's contract.

Under the local initiative school model, Mann's teachers will remain members of the UTLA teacher union, but the school has freedom from certain contract requirements like scheduling, budgeting, professional development, assessment, and curriculum.

Like most urban districts, teachers in the New Orleans Public Schools for decades worked under union - negotiated contracts.

In structure, Minneapolis» first self - governed school would resemble teacher - led programs in the Milwaukee public schools, where the teachers in charge of the new schools retain their union seniority and district benefits like their colleagues but work under a contract that makes them responsible for their schools.

Under the 2003 law, charter teachers are part of the local bargaining unit, and all schools must abide by a contract that is negotiated between the school system and the teachers union.

Sauls said the school board plans to make good on its long - term financial commitments, such as paying its most effective educators under union contracts and rebuilding the district's school buildings.

Although innovation - network schools get charterlike autonomy — principals control matters such as the curriculum, and they're free from union contracts — they still fall under the district's umbrella.

Like other New Haven Public Schools, our teachers, administrators, and staff work under the appropriate union contracts.

Most Broward County teachers will receive raises this year ranging from 2.6 percent to to 3.51 percent, under a tentative contract between the school district and the teachers» union.