Sentences with phrase «siding with the teachers union»

«Perkins is definitely siding with the teachers union over the parents and children... It's a sorry state of affairs,» said Karl Willingham, whose son, Micah, 8, attends the Harlem Success Academy II charter school.

On education, 48 percent of respondents said they generally side with teachers unions on education issues, while 36 percent said they tend to stand with the governor.

Peebles also took issue with the mayor's handling of education, saying he's siding with the teachers union instead of standing up for kids and charter schools.

A higher percentage of white voters backed Emanuel, 35 percent, but more of them still sided with the teachers union, 42 percent.

Three times as many Chicagoans side with the teachers union as with Mayor Rahm Emanuel on how to improve public schools at a time when the two sides remain locked in contentious contract negotiations, a Chicago Tribune poll has found.

Then, he reverses the cherry picking process, «In fact, a majority of those polled (52 percent) side with teachers unions and educators who have been under attack as a new crop of governors — Wisconsin's Scott Walker, Florida's Rick Scott, New Jersey's Chris Christie, Ohio's John Kasich — declared war on public employees and the middle class.»

The state government appeared to side with the teachers union, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo said firing provisions would be arranged during contract negotiations instead of through legislation.

Not exact matches

Hoping to tell their side of the longer school day story, Chicago Teachers Union officials met with 25 aldermen in private briefings Monday.

The Fund for Great Public Schools, a teachers union backed SuperPAC has weigh in support of Senator Rivera, while New Yorkers for Independent Action have sided with CM Cabrera because of his strong support for charter schools and education tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate to public, private and parochial schools.

The appointment of Betty Rosa as the new Regents chancellor in New York signals a big victory for the statewide teachers union, NYSUT, in the battle over the direction of education in New York — a battle waged with millions of dollars in campaign spending and brute political tactics from both sides over much of the past decade.

«Governor Cuomo and State Education Commissioner John King deserve high marks for standing up for our kids and successfully pressuring Buffalo School Superintendent Dr. Pamela Brown to void a highly questionable, secret side deal with the teachers» union that threatened to significantly undermine their teacher evaluation system before it was even implemented.

«[T] he only pension change the mayor has, in effect, negotiated during his tenure (via a side deal with the teachers union) was exceedingly modest.

In Part 1 of his weekly «Mondays with the Mayor» interview on NY1, Mayor de Blasio talks to Errol Louis about a proposal on the Upper West Side to desegregate middle schools, and why he is at odds with the teacher's union over how to give teachers paid time off for parental leave.

He said he views his school aid proposals with the most optimism because powerful teacher unions will make the case on both sides of the aisle.

Sensing a limited window of opportunity, a number of special interests are investing heavily in the Senate battle, with charter school advocates and real estate interests backing the Republicans, and teachers» unions, tenant advocates and social progressives — led by NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio — siding with the Democrats.

The contract showdown between the Buffalo Public Schools and its teachers union has been a long time coming.Perhaps surprising is that teachers are frustrated with those on both sides of the bargaining table, feeling caught time and again in the middle of what has become an epic battle shaped by politics, ideology and personalities.They feel many people in the community bl...

MANHATTAN — The city's teachers union has taken to the airwaves once again with a new ad blasting Mayor Michael Bloomberg's education record as the two sides remain locked in a stalemate over teacher evaluations.

Mr. Cuomo is quite likely to face resistance to some of his priorities from the Democratic - led Assembly, which tends to side with the teachers» union, while getting support from the Senate, where Republicans are in control.

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Schwarzenegger also stepped into a dispute over the future of the state's largest school district, Los Angeles Unified, siding with Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa against the district's board and the teachers union (see «Power Struggle in Los Angeles,» forum, Summer 2007).

TEACHERS UNION SIDES WITH CHRIS CHRISTIE AND TRUMP ALLY: Even as the race to replace Gov. Chris Christie gets underway, the largest teachers union in New Jersey is mounting a scorched - earth campaign against an unlikely foe — Democratic Senate President Stephen TEACHERS UNION SIDES WITH CHRIS CHRISTIE AND TRUMP ALLY: Even as the race to replace Gov. Chris Christie gets underway, the largest teachers union in New Jersey is mounting a scorched - earth campaign against an unlikely foe — Democratic Senate President Stephen teachers union in New Jersey is mounting a scorched - earth campaign against an unlikely foe — Democratic Senate President Stephen Sweeney.

There's good news for reformers on the Democratic side of the aisle too, what with the teachers unions» terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day signaling their waning influence.

But United Teachers Los Angeles challenged the agreement, and a Court of Appeal sided with the union, throwing the case back to Superior Court for further action without voiding the earlier settlement.

In 2012, an independent arbitrator sided with the union over the district in his recommendations, lending impetus to the teachers» strike.

When it came to California's absurd system of granting teachers tenure after, effectively, just 18 months on the job, Thurmond sided with the unions and undermined meaningful legislative reform efforts.

East Side Union High School District, in the San Jose area, has released its draft LCAP, which prioritizes investments in social workers to improve students» social emotional health, teacher coaches to support staff as they transition to Common Core, and parent centers staffed with liaisons to maximize parent involvement.

There are Democrats on the other side who are allied with the teachers unions, who oppose any end to tenure, which I disagree with.

The Senate should approve the legislation and move it along to DFL Gov. Mark Dayton, who previously sided with the powerful Education Minnesota teachers union in opposing similar legislation.

Mr. Cuomo is quite likely to face resistance to some of his priorities from the Democratic - led Assembly, which tends to side with the teachers» union, while getting support from the Senate, where Republicans are in control.

This lawsuit was filed by a variety of liberal groups, most notably the Washington Educators Association, the state teachers union, who also happened to be major campaign contributors to every Supreme Court justice who sided with their organization.

The issue was at the heart of the recent Chicago teachers strike, and negotiations with Boston's teachers union dragged on for years before the sides finally came to an agreement.

Hours into the strike, Mitt Romney claimed that Obama had sided with the union (his evidence: a speech Joe Biden gave to a different teacher's union last year).

Los Angeles and Milwaukee teacher unions head to the bargaining table with community members at their side.

Some wore white «UTL» buttons with the logo of the United Teachers of Lusher; others carried handmade signs with slogans like «No Union;» and most on both sides had some variation of the Lusher logo on T - shirts in the school's signature deep blue.

Clarke also criticised unnamed professional bodies — believed to be a reference to the National Union of Teachers and the NASUWT — for putting to one side consideration of «the systematic problems» their Birmingham members faced in their relationships with school governors.

On the flip side, partly as result of the new contract the district signed with the teachers union, UTLA, there will be 96 more school counselors, 12 more nurses and six more librarians.

Two deputy chancellors dispatched to broker a deal with the union walked away from negotiations around 10 a.m. after the sides reached an impasse over the appeals process for negative teacher ratings.