Sentences with phrase «striking teachers»

More significantly, an even larger number of parents may not support striking teachers but nevertheless blame the government for their children's teacher going on strike.

In National Review, Reihan Salam writes that the 5 percent increase in pay secured by striking teachers in West Virginia does not trouble him; what does trouble him is that no effort has been made to transform the way teacher salary schedules work.

The 5 percent increase in pay secured by striking teachers in West Virginia might seem reasonable; the problem is that no effort has been made to transform the way teacher salary schedules work, Reihan Salam argues.

It's not the first time the mayor has warned of sky - high layoff numbers that never materialized, but this warning - packaged with a political push to change seniority rules - struck teachers union President Michael Mulgrew as reckless «political posturing.»

Even the hint of such action could bring an angry response from striking teachers, who predict the lunch program would be a strikebreaking attempt.

Handed down this month, the unanimous ruling by the state's highest court said Kanawha County Circuit Judge John Hey had overstepped his jurisdiction when he issued the injunction against striking teachers statewide.

He may be required to lead the lesson himself if striking teachers abandon the classroom he finds himself in.

An injunction issued by a lone circuit - court judge ordering striking teachers across West Virginia to return to their classrooms last March was illegal, the state supreme court has ruled.

Detroit — The nation's seventh - largest school district was back in session last Tuesday after school officials and striking teachers agreed to take their differences to binding arbitration.

There is a marked difference between a six - year old child who, in the course of a tantrum, flails his arms and accidentally hits the teacher, and an 11 - year old who strikes a teacher with the intent of hurting her.

In Kentucky, Republican Governor Matt Bevin accused striking teachers of leaving children exposed to sexual assaults or being in danger of ingesting toxic substances because teachers weren't at school.

Students have marched along striking teachers in West Virginia and Oklahoma, and teachers share their students» impatience with the GOP's resistance to gun control measures most voters back.

Striking teachers in Chicago are fighting a contentious education reform that could overhaul how teachers are paid and evaluated, highlighting the difficulty of judging teachers by the performance of their...

Republicans who control both the House and Senate spurned proposals to enact several other demands by striking teachers, including giving raises to support staff, shrinking class size and adding money for more school counselors.

The striking teachers are not the only ones taking to the streets.

Major Arizona school districts in metro Phoenix and Tucson were still closed for the day on Thursday following Gov. Ducey's signing of budget legislation providing more than $ 300 million in raises for many of the state's striking teachers.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has signed part of a state budget plan that provides more than $ 300 million in raises for many of the state's striking teachers.

That was one of the picket signs carried by 26,000 striking teachers this week in...

Mr. Carmichael was also planning to meet on Friday with school superintendents, some of whom have expressed support for their striking teachers.

At Columbia High School in East Greenbush, where 14 years ago a student fired a gun into a hallway, striking a teacher in the leg, students organized an event called «We Rise.»

«We expect our teachers to reportthings they see, hear, or read,» says JohnSawchuk, principal of Columbia HighSchool, in East Greenbush, New York.In February 2004, he tackled a sixteen - year - old school shooter and wrested a12 - gauge shotgun from him, but not before the student, JonRomano, fired a shot that struck a teacher in the leg.

During the following two days, 151 of the 600 striking teachers, secretaries, and aides were confined during daylight hours in a makeshift jail at the Washington Irving School.

The striking teachers — and politicians caving to them — lack a rudimentary knowledge of the real reasons teacher salaries aren't as high as they want and their school books and materials are old and scant.

A global perspective is not all the perspective the striking teachers — and politicians caving to them — lack.

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The striking teachers want to lower the caseloads for specialists like school psychologists and ensure a 30 - minute recess for elementary students.

Striking teachers in Chicago are fighting a contentious education reform that could overhaul how teachers are paid and evaluated, highlighting the difficulty of judging teachers by the performance of their students.

On April 2, the School Board fired the 84 striking teachers.

On the other side are Chicago's striking teachers and the rest of us who are finally seeing what «education reform» is really about.

Striking teachers from around the island began Tuesday outside the Department of Education.

The Seattle School Board has voted to take legal action against the striking teachers.