Sentences with phrase «teacher advocacy group»

This requires more than talking to the leaders of teacher advocacy groups who are in our email address books and who show up at familiar conferences.

«If all of these students are already attending private schools, that means we have an additional expense,» said Margaret Ciccarelli, a lobbyist for the Professional Association of Georgia Educators, the largest teacher advocacy group in the state.

I am fortunate to know one of those teachers through local teacher advocacy groups, and she agreed to inform me about her discussions with Mr. Bergner and to share what it is like to be a teacher at a school where Ms. Moskowitz has claimed classroom space for her students.

As states moved to implement the new Standards (and aligned assessments), an anti-Common Core coalition arose first on the far right among Tea Party activists and then from the left, particularly among teacher advocacy groups.

New Profit, Inc.'s «investments» include major donations to underwrite the faux teacher advocacy group called Educators 4 Excellence, which is actually another New York based, anti-union front group.

UNIONS LOSE CONTROL: The 74's Mike Antonucci penned a piece describing how the media coverage of the teacher walkouts was largely missing the behind - the - scenes story of how state and national teachers unions are, ahem, sharing control with independent teacher advocacy groups.

Jewell says his organization, which is the state's largest teacher advocacy group, supports Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's education budget proposal, which would give teachers an eight percent average pay raise.

Last month, at an event hosted by the teacher advocacy group Educators4Excellence, New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia angered parents and teachers alike by calling parents who opt their children out of Common Core testing «unreasonable» and teachers who support opting out «unethical.»

In that process, I found the teacher advocacy group, Educators 4 Excellence.

«I think opt - out is something that is not reasonable,» State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said at an event hosted by the teacher advocacy group Educators 4 Excellence.

Educators 4 Excellence, a teacher advocacy group, has called for student surveys and peer evaluations to be used to help evaluate teachers in non-tested subjects.

«It just makes it really difficult for schools and teachers to have not have clarity around this,» said Evan Stone, co-CEO of Educators 4 Excellence, a teacher advocacy group.

... The most daunting task for the city will be to prepare what could amount to thousands of new independent observers in just a few months, said Evan Stone, executive director of the teacher advocacy group Educators 4 Excellence.

No more than 35 percent of evaluations should be based on test scores, she said, citing the recent recommendations from the teacher advocacy group Educators 4 Excellence.

According to a press release distributed by the teacher advocacy group Educators 4 Excellence, District 6 School Board candidates Monica Ratliff and Antonio Sanchez agreed on several things during recent interviews (such as Superintendent Deasy's leadership of the district and charter schools) but disagreed on others (including teacher retention and school improvement strategies).

Educators for Excellence, a teacher advocacy group, also suggested that the city's plans were un-novel solutions to a bigger problem: the lack of a teacher evaluation deal.

That's a central idea of a paper about teacher pay released today by the teacher advocacy group Educators 4 Excellence.

Earlier this month, Educators 4 Excellence - Los Angeles (E4E) held an event at which the teacher advocacy group unveiled a set of recommendations its members had developed, which included ideas for retaining and rewarding effective teachers in LAUSD.

Those are key recommendations being published today in a new paper by the teacher advocacy group Educators 4 Excellence.

Jonathan Schleifer, the executive director of Educators 4 Excellence (E4E), a teacher advocacy group, congratulated de Blasio and said the new administration will make «the education of our 1.1 million students a priority.»

The teacher advocacy group Educators for Excellence said a group of teachers from across the country...

Evan Stone, the co-founder of Educators 4 Excellence, a teacher advocacy group seeking to challenge the dominance of the union, offered a harsher assessment of the new discipline code's uneven rollout.

Among the «teacher advocacy group's» major funders is Education Reform Now, another corporate funded advocacy group that spends its money promoting charter schools and an end to tenure and «seniority - based layoff.»

«After this disappointment, Mayor de Blasio has an obligation to lead boldly with a transparent, inclusive process,» said Evan Stone, co-founder of the teacher advocacy group Educators for Excellence in a statement.

Educators 4 Excellence, a teacher advocacy group comprised of members of the Los Angeles teachers union, UTLA, has developed an interactive election guide focusing on the 10 candidates running for UTLA president.

School climate: One aspect of ESSA that has been hailed by student and teacher advocacy groups is its call to include non-academic indicators such as school climate or student engagement as part of the overall accountability system.