Sentences with phrase «second teacher strike»

About 75 teachers in the South Fayette (Pa.) School District walked off the job last week, beginning the second teacher strike of the school year there.

Meanwhile, Chicago schools are closed today for the second teacher strike in the last four years.

Not exact matches

The second poll on the 24th June asked specifically about teachers taking strike action on the 30th June over changes to pblic sector pensions that «mean teachers will have to work longer and pay more towards lower pensions.»

The settlement marked the end of Chicago's seventh teacher strike since 1969 and its second in two years.

After the two sides came close to a weekend deal, the contentious Chicago teachers strike headed into its second week, compelling 350,000 elementary, middle, and high school students in the nation's third - largest school district to go yet another day without classes.

Chicago teachers made clear they're prepared to walk off the job for the second time in three years absent a deal with the city's school board, presenting one more political challenge to Mayor Rahm Emanuel even though a potential strike remains months away.

On Labor Day, the Chicago Teachers Union held its protest in preparation for a strike that is set to begin on Sept. 10, unless negotiations with Chicago Public Schools result in a contract.The protest served two functions: first, as a sort of threat display designed to demonstrate to CPS officials and Mayor Rahm Emanuel that CTU is ready to sustain a lengthy strike; and second, to reinforce the union's message among its rank - and - file membership

As both a former teacher and a MBA, I'm struck these days by two things: first, the ubiquity of «business thinking» in today's education reform strategies; and second, the complete absence of the sort of business thinking we actually need to be heeding.

As the Chicago Teachers Union begins the second week of their strike, some political leaders and media commentators are quick to blame teachers for resisting a system for evaluating teachers that other states and school districts across the country have already Teachers Union begins the second week of their strike, some political leaders and media commentators are quick to blame teachers for resisting a system for evaluating teachers that other states and school districts across the country have already teachers for resisting a system for evaluating teachers that other states and school districts across the country have already teachers that other states and school districts across the country have already adopted.

This week, CPS chief Forrest Claypool raised the prospect of 5,000 more teacher layoffs this year, which has the Chicago Teachers Union talking about the possibility of a second strike since 2012.

In the latest tiff between public - employee unions and cash - strapped governments, more than 350,000 Chicago children were shut out of classrooms for a second day Tuesday by striking teachers pursuing goals that are out of step with reality.

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