Sentences with phrase «teacher and union activist»

Now Ritz, a former teacher and union activist, will get to back local control for the four IPS takeover schools as the Indianapolis mayor's office acts as an alternative to state intervention.

Ritz, a Washington Township teacher and union activist, overcame Bennett's clear advantages in campaign fundraising, national acclaim and even newspaper endorsements.

Green Party of New York Gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins talks about key campaign issue and introduces Lee, a public school teacher and union activist, who discusses the importance of Education to the campaign.

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Grey addresses the teachers» unions in Hawaii — and everywhere he goes he looks for activist clergy and angry mothers to organize.

Before her career as a photographer took off, Grossman was a labor activist within the teachers» union and a member of the American Labor Party.

Believing he was among friends, UFT boss Mike Mulgrew showed what he's really made of during a closed - door meeting with union activists — spewing hatred toward education «reformers» and charter schools, and even admitting he sabotaged teacher evaluations.

No elected official in Florida campaigned harder for Obama in Florida in 2012, and despite his GOP history, Crist has received enthusiastic receptions at recent gatherings of Democratic activists and teachers union members.

In other words, don't count on Lipton to break the abusive cycle in which Cuomo kicks down at the unions, who kick down at the WFP, who then kick down at grassroots activists backing the Green Party campaign of Howie Hawkins and Jia Lee, the latter a New York City teacher and opt - out activist.

«We will be urging the Bahraini authorities that they must act immediately to comply with international human rights and to respect fully the fundamental rights and freedoms of teachers, students and union activists in accordance with international standards.»

The teachers union and education activists cheered recent revelations that Gov. Cuomo may seek to reduce the role of state tests in teacher evaluations.

«In a very small - turnout election you have the [state] teachers union, which is against me, you have the public employees that are against me... and the fracking people, probably the largest single issue for activist Democrats, who are upset that I won't ban it.»

The big - money free - for - all is pitting New York City real state, business, and charter school interests — which support the Republicans — against the teachers unions and other liberal activists backing the Dems.

A bunch of the richest people in New York, if not the world vs some teachers unions and «other liberal activists.»

The teacher and activist had also launched a campaign page, secured union endorsements and has two upcoming fundraisers.

The letter is signed by world - renowned scholar Noam Chomsky, along with journalist Naomi Klein, Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and a host of other prominent scholars and activists, including some of the most established pro-public education voices.

Hawkins was polling 9 % statewide even before a widely - praised debate performance, and has earned endorsements from a spectrum of people and organizations, including Ralph Nader, Seattle socialist city council member Kshama Sawant, education analyst Diane Ravitch, and former Mobil Oil VP - turned - renewable energy activist Lou Allstadt; as well as Albany weekly paper Metroland, 6 teachers» unions, 6 Democratic Party clubs, Socialist Alternative, and a number of groups leading the fight against school privatization, such as United Opt Out and the New York Badass Teacher Association.

If Lib Dems, resourceful and determined activists and councilors some of them, decide they want to throw every spanner they can at the free schools movement they could be useful allies for the teacher unions and others already engaged in that campaign.

They earlier said they planned to put in more activist Regents members amid calls by the public and New York State United Teachers, the major teachers union, to delay the process and place less emphasis on Teachers, the major teachers union, to delay the process and place less emphasis on teachers union, to delay the process and place less emphasis on testing.

To support the California Teachers Union in its fight to preserve due process and seniority rights in a lawsuit brought against it by an organization funded by a billionaire conservative activist;

An internal document prepared off the record for American Federation of Teachers union activists and accidentally posted online explains how union lobbying in Connecticut worked to undermine a full version of the trigger.

The schools attracted more than 80 bids in total, about half coming from within the district, including area superintendents, teacher confederations only sometimes involving union activists, and the mayor's own partnership school organization.

The term «teacher union leader» typically evokes a hard - charging labor activist who shares an adversarial relationship with the school district, is focused solely on protecting members» bread - and - butter interests, and flees from phrases like «school reform.»

The teachers unions now face an environment in which their traditional enemies are emboldened, their traditional allies are deserting, and some of their most devoted activists are questioning the leadership of their own officers.

Accordingly, at a conference of the California Teachers Association (CTA), the union briefed its activists on the potential consequences should the unions lose in Friedrichs, citing loss of revenue; fewer resources; decline in membership; reduced staffing; increased pressure on the CTA pension and benefit system; and potential financial crises for some locals.

When the local press reported that Edison was expected to assume management of many of the city's schools, the local teachers union mobilized in opposition, and groups of parent and student activists held rallies throughout the city.

CHICAGO TEACHERS RALLY AROUND POSSIBLE STRIKE: Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis will lead thousands of members, parents, activists and others in a rally today «to showcase the union's solidarity and prepare its members for an upcoming strike authorization vote,» the union said in a TEACHERS RALLY AROUND POSSIBLE STRIKE: Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis will lead thousands of members, parents, activists and others in a rally today «to showcase the union's solidarity and prepare its members for an upcoming strike authorization vote,» the union said in a Teachers Union President Karen Lewis will lead thousands of members, parents, activists and others in a rally today «to showcase the union's solidarity and prepare its members for an upcoming strike authorization vote,» the union said in a relUnion President Karen Lewis will lead thousands of members, parents, activists and others in a rally today «to showcase the union's solidarity and prepare its members for an upcoming strike authorization vote,» the union said in a relunion's solidarity and prepare its members for an upcoming strike authorization vote,» the union said in a relunion said in a release.

Organizers estimated that about 500 researchers, parent and teacher activists, district officials, union leaders and education writers attended the conference.

About 100 education activists and teachers» union representatives called on Bill de Blasio to keep his promise of creating 100 community schools by the end of his second term in a rally on Wednesday evening, a request the de Blasio administration was apparently happy to be reminded of.

«Even if she says things that today sound supportive, she's not going to be a steadfast friend of organized labor,» Jamie Rinaldi, a teacher from Newton, Mass. and a union activist told Politico.

Earlier this week a poll of more than 1,600 teachers by the National Education Union and UK Feminista — a prominent feminist activist group — revealed that 27 per cent of secondary teachers would not feel confident tackling a sexist incident at school.

Gabriel Tanglao, Social Studies Teacher BERGEN COUNTY TECHNICAL SCHOOLS, NEW JERSEY The son of a union nurse and the product of public schools, Gabriel Tanglao's educator - activist roots run deep.

As Terry Moe, a senior fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution, noted in a 2002 interview with the Heartland Institute, the teacher unions «have a lot of money for campaign contributions and for lobbying... They also have a lot of electoral clout because they have many activists out in the trenches in every political district.»

It was a bold and a controversial move by the mayor, who once was an activist member of the local teachers union.

And now the Koch brothers and deep - pocketed conservative activists are attempting to use that anxiety to push an anti-public education agenda of vouchers, privatization, and attacks on teachers and their unioAnd now the Koch brothers and deep - pocketed conservative activists are attempting to use that anxiety to push an anti-public education agenda of vouchers, privatization, and attacks on teachers and their unioand deep - pocketed conservative activists are attempting to use that anxiety to push an anti-public education agenda of vouchers, privatization, and attacks on teachers and their unioand attacks on teachers and their unioand their unions.

The union highlights comments from teachers who responded to the survey and stressed these were «classroom teachers and not union activists».

At the public hearing conducted by our Board on the proposed rule, there was testimony from fifty witnesses, the large majority in opposition, primarily representing the teachers» unions and advocacy groups, colleges of education, and assorted education activists.

A poll of more than 1,600 teachers by the National Education Union (NEU) and UK Feminista — a prominent feminist activist group — found that 27 per cent of secondary teachers would not feel confident tackling a sexist incident at school.

Parent Power activists such as the Connecticut Parents Union are already gearing up for a fight with the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association over expanding the reach of the state's Parent Trigger law; the fight is particularly tinged by revelations earlier this year of the AFT's presentation on how it unsuccessfully attempted to kibosh the passage of the Parent Power law and how it exacted revenge by ousting Jason Bartlett, the legislator who led the passage of the law and the neutralizing of his former colleague, Gary Holder - Winfield.

She is also a union activist in the United Teachers of Los Angeles, a fierce advocate for social justice, and an outspoken opponent of high stakes testing.

While the 24th Street conversion went relatively smoothly, activist parents typically encounter serious pushback from unyielding teachers unions and their fellow travelers.

As a teacher and a union member and activist in the audience at this speech, none of this stirred me much.

Casey would go on the next year to accuse news anchor - turned - teacher quality reform activist Campbell Brown (along with several other reformers) of committing «the equivalent of a blood libel» against teachers for daring to expose the complicity of the AFT's Big Apple local (and that of the national union) in keeping criminally abusive teachers on the city's payroll.

But the fact that the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers remain key forces within the activist wing of the Democratic Party, along with the success of the two unions in co-opting progressive players means that the party still remains divided over transforming education.

Teachers union President Warren Fletcher delivered a fiery speech to more than 400 UTLA chapter chairs and activists on Saturday, using language more suited to a situation room than a classroom.

Union members mingled with the occasional communist pamphleteer, and, on a temporary stage, a series of activists, students, scholars, and teachers put forward variations on a theme: Standardized tests and corporate interests are ruining public education.

In the spring of 2011 many leaders and rank - and - file activists from the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) traveled north to support the Wisconsin teacher uprising.

The two major players in the debate — led on one side by the teachers union and on the other by activists in the business community — are as polarized as ever, showing no sign of compromise.

The Chicago teachers» strike of 2012 will be looked back on as a turning point in a new kind of teacher unionism, something that rank - and - file union activists have been advocating for years.

On Thursday, with time running out in the 2017 Session, teacher union officials, educators and activists denounced the controversial $ 200 million spending plan (HB 1505) at a news conference outside of Essrig Elementary School in northwest Tampa.

The Chicago Teachers Union sees itself as having been on the front lines of education reform for more than a decade, and this is now a radicalized union, taken over two years ago by an activist facUnion sees itself as having been on the front lines of education reform for more than a decade, and this is now a radicalized union, taken over two years ago by an activist facunion, taken over two years ago by an activist faction.