Sentences with phrase «talk of teachers striking»

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He discusses the Chicago Teachers strike and an essay by writer Alex Kotlowitz that talks about how the strike raises questions about the severity of this challenge.

The National Union of Teachers has backed a motion to ballot members over strike action if no progress is made through talks on the issue with the new government by the autumn statement.

What struck me yesterday was all the talk of teachers helping students to teach other students.

In a sudden shift in negotiating positions last week, officials of the Los Angeles Unified School District and the United Teachers - Los Angeles agreed to table the two most controversial issues in their current contract talks, apparently averting the possibility of a strike that would affect 550,000 students, according to district officials.

He discusses the Chicago Teachers strike and an essay by writer Alex Kotlowitz that talks about how the strike raises questions about the severity of this challenge.

The possibility of a strike by Los Angeles teachers loomed larger today as the teachers union, UTLA, declared an impasse in negotiations with LA Unified, citing a lack of progress in bargaining since the talks began last year.

The school system is facing a budget shortfall of $ 600 million to $ 700 million and remains in protracted talks with the Chicago Teachers Union, whose members have voted to authorize a strike if a deal can not be reached.

Governors of those states insist their teacher strike talks haven't been influenced by school choice options.

But when you talk to progressive union leaders and the teachers at the vanguard of this new movement, it's striking how much they have in common — even accounting for disagreements around specific policies.

Sure, Supt. John Deasy has managed to at least talk the talk on systemically reforming the district (even as he makes rather weak moves as striking a deal with the AFT's City of Angels local on a teacher evaluation plan that does little to actually measure the performance of teachers based on their success with the students they instruct in classrooms) and has even allowed for families at 24th Street Elementary to exercise the district's own Parent Trigger policy and take over the school.

Even the whiff of that idea has the Chicago Teachers Union talking strike, as if they were facing destitution.

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.

This talk of arming teachers strikes me as cavalier leaping toward insane, an answer to mass shootings that expands, rather than diminishes, the presence of guns in American life, thereby increasing the risk of injury or death.