Sentences with phrase «teacher protests»

Others with similar pay differences could be prime for future teacher protests.

It left teachers protesting and parents of the 15,000 students enrolled in 16 now - unconstitutional charter schools scrambling for answers.

The evaluation and compensation changes in Indiana came during a contentious 2011 legislative session in which hundreds of teachers protested laws restricting their collective bargaining rights, making it easier for charter schools to expand and introducing an expansive private school voucher system.

The week - long walkout was one of the biggest teacher protests in a year marked by job actions.

North Carolina teacher protests on Wednesday, May 16, 2018 will start off the state legislature's 2018 budget debate.

The report was released as Arizona, Oklahoma and West Virginia continue to feel the aftershocks from teacher protests over low pay and cuts to school spending that shut down schools for days.

But John Heffernan, director of Central Park School for Children, said the leadership in his school is «definitely in union» with teachers protesting next week.

This week in #nced: Gov. Cooper Seeks $ 130 Million for Safer NC Schools; Is North Carolina Ripe for Big Teacher Protests?

A group of students and teachers protested outside of the White House Monday afternoon, demanding a call for action on gun control.

While teacher protests are nothing new, the recent spate of activism seems to be on a larger and louder scale than in previous years.

The loudest rallying cries from Colorado teachers protesting for more education dollars were about dwindling paychecks that are steadily losing ground to the state's rising cost of living.

«Last fall, 43 student teachers protesting the attack on Mexican public schools were arrested and then found murdered,» said Magee.

Parents, students and teachers protested against Common Core - based state testing outside Williamsville North High School.

Sayville teachers protest on April 28, 2014, outside a catering hall in Holbrook where Gov. Andrew Cuomo was speaking.

Hundreds of thousands of students in Kentucky and Oklahoma had no class Monday while their public - school teachers protested at state capitols during strikes for higher pay.

The recent strike of 20,000 West Virginia teachers protesting pay so low that some qualify for food stamps (Jorgensen & Sterling, 2018) might prompt the question: Are teacher shortages simply about low teacher pay?

The vocal leader of the Arizona #RedforEd teacher protest has had his political motives questioned by local politicians, and has now made an effort to distance himself from socialist groups on social media.

NC teacher protests on Wednesday, May 16, 2018 will start off the state legislature's 2018 budget debate on teacher salary raises, school safety, prison safety, GenX funding, state employee raises, and more leading up to the 2018 midterms.

Looming Teacher Protest in North Carolina: North Carolina teachers are the latest to join in the nationwide trend of protests with a rally planned for May 16th.

When teachers protested that students from disadvantaged backgrounds tend not to test well, having not had the benefit of tutors and test - prep programs, GWB said they were making «excuses,» showing «the soft bigotry of low expectations.»

The decade - long fight between Buffalo's school system and the Buffalo Teachers Federation over a contract surfaced at Wednesday's Buffalo Board of Education meeting where hundreds of teachers protested.

New York Times» national education reporter Dana Goldstein wrote three or four pieces on Oklahoma alone, as part of seven pieces on this spring's teacher protests over six weeks.

Pros and cons of Oklahoma teacher walkout coverage By Alexander Russo The Oklahoma teacher walkout is over and teacher protests in Colorado and Arizona are just picking up.

Teachers protested outside the governor's mansion on New Year's Eve, after Cuomo vetoed a bill that he originally supported.

While teachers protested a proposed charter expansion plan outside the LA Unified school board meeting yesterday, union leaders involved with the district and a former board president, spoke out against it inside.

Educators in Phoenix and Denver rallied for more education funding at their state capitols on April 26, as part of a wave of teacher protests that have...

Sloan also had a testy exchange with a teacher protesting Wells's role in financing companies that manufacture and sell assault rifles.

Several thousand charter school students and their teachers protested de Blasio's plan to bar some charter schools from rent - free space in New York City public schools.

Several thousand charter school students and their teachers protested Mayor de Blasio's plan to bar some charter schools to rent - free space in New York City public schools.

Teacher protests have accelerated in the last year because the new evaluation systems are coming online at the same time states roll out tough new exams aligned to the Common Core standards.

Why are no teachers protesting mandates?

Hansen places these teacher protests in the context of a national «war on teachers» narrative, fueled by working conditions declining, erosion of benefits and increased spending on charter schools and vouchers for families to attend private schools.

In Florida, teacher protests over a bill that would have linked teacher pay to student test scores and eliminated the tenure system for all newly hired teachers persuaded Gov. Charlie Crist, a Republican, to veto it in April.

Their focus — veteran teacher pay, retirement benefits, textbook funding, school support personnel and the rise of private school vouchers — shouldn't mark a large departure from the teacher protests of the past.

Yet Jewell points out that this year's teacher protests have been focused in Republican - leaning states like West Virginia, Kentucky and Oklahoma, a movement he's referring to as a «red - state revolt.»

Parents and teachers protest the PARCC standardized state test at a news conference Feb. 26, 2015, at the Thompson Center in Chicago.

Merrow's work has taken him from community colleges to kindergarten classrooms, from the front lines of teacher protests to policy debates on Capitol Hill.

Although hundreds of teachers protested, most of the bills were passed.