Sentences with phrase «teacher strike»

I went through the very hard but transformational five - week teacher strike in 1996.

Parent opinion will reflect a range of views on the issue of teacher strikes as it does on other issues.

Even though the past 12 months have been marked by teacher strikes, debt crises at all levels of government, and intense partisan debate, public opinion remains quite stable.

So the unions and the boards often settled their differences by negotiating changes in «working conditions,» thereby avoiding teacher strikes.

As we watch teacher strikes throughout the country, that's the same question we should be asking public school administrators.

A series of destructive and divisive teacher strikes had undermined parental confidence in the school system.

I was here when the last teachers strike occurred.

This strike, the first Chicago teachers strike in twenty - five years, pitted Democratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel against the Chicago Teachers Union.

Thousands chant as they participate in a protest at the Arizona Capitol for higher teacher pay and school funding on the first day of a state - wide teachers strike Thursday, April 26, 2018, in Phoenix.

Participants chant during a protest at the Arizona Capitol for higher teacher pay and school funding on the first day of a state - wide teachers strike Thursday, April 26, 2018, in Phoenix.

The vote brings to an end the first teachers strike in Seattle since 1985, which canceled six days of classes for the district's 53,000 students and sent parents into a frenzied, week - long scramble for childcare.

April 25, 2018 • The West Virginia teachers strike in mid-February started a movement.

In preparation for Friday's one - day teachers strike Chicago Teachers Union staff passed out picket signs and flyers to teachers.

The recent teacher strike in Chicago was due in part to a contract dispute about the extent to which student test scores should be used to rate a teacher's performance.

(see: Slim chance for teachers strike in L.A., officials say)

Locked in a battle between the Republican - controlled House and Senate and Republican Gov. Matt Bevin, the Legislature sent him a 378 - page budget and tax bill — partly aimed at ending teacher strikes — that included a 6 percent tax on the gross receipts of companion -LSB-...]

This week: how rural schools are bringing cutting - edge tech to their students, the wave of teacher strikes across the country and their implications for CA and the value of teacher diversity especially in a state where students of color now comprise three - quarters of public school enrollment.

The Arizona education groups leading the unprecedented teacher strike say they have no confidence the budget deal meets the needs of schools.

May 14, 2018 • Recent graduates Cristina Chase Lane and WinnieHope Mamboleo will be joining the profession just as teacher strikes sweep the nation.

The school closed for three weeks in 1970 and 11 weeks in 1971 during teacher strikes, the longer one racially polarizing.

About 75 teachers in the South Fayette (Pa.) School District walked off the job last week, beginning the second teacher strike of the school year there.

The seven - day Chicago teacher strike last September was historic.

(That's why there have been so few teacher strikes in the past couple of decades.)

The march comes after teacher strikes and walkouts earlier this year in Arizona, Kentucky, Oklahoma and West Virginia led to changes such as pay raises and higher education spending.

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis says the independent fact - finding report that recommended a four - year contract for teachers was «dead on arrival,» prompting the clock to start on a potential teachers strike before the end of the school year.

Recent massive teacher actions (see The Best Videos & Articles On The Kentucky & Oklahoma Teachers Strikes and The Best Resources For Learning About — & Supporting — The West Virginia Teachers) have brought attention to the teacher compensation crisis that exists in many states.

B.C. teachers strike just months after court ruled government «preoccupied with strategy to provoke strike, did not bargain in good faith», Vancouver Sun

Some educators in Arizona are volunteering to care for students and holding food drives as a historic teacher strike that has closed schools stretches on.

What does the Chicago teachers strike mean for Obama and the Democrats as election time nears?

Here's How Arizona Teachers Organized the First Statewide Teacher Strike in Arizona's History, by Chris Brooks

For me, the just - ended Chicago teachers strike awoke personal memories of the three New York City school strikes I experienced — which I remember as ugly, traumatic and pointless.

Both school boards and the unions greatly feared teacher strikes, knowing that there were few things that could anger parents as much as not being able to put their children in school when they had to go off to work in the morning.

A monthlong teacher strike in Michigan City, Ind., ended late last month after union leaders and administrators reached an agreement on a three - year contract that provides teachers with a 6 - percent salary increase next year and 5 - percent raises in each of the following years.

Fresh off a victory on the finance issue and newly enjoying complete control of the legislature, Republican leaders were primed to push changes sought by administrators» groups as a way of controlling costs and limiting teacher strikes.

The KCMSD — with its schools in disrepair, without what it considered adequate funding, and having endured damaging teacher strikes — took the ingenious route of suing the state, suburban school districts, and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and other federal government agencies for its inability to desegregate majority black schools.

The more that teacher strikes resemble Occupy Wall Street lite — featuring street theater, expansive demands for new spending, and calls for dramatic tax increases — the more likely they are to spur resistance among taxpayers, families, and Republican officials.

And as we have seen, reform efforts provoked a bitter teacher strike in Chicago.

As schools open, teacher strikes nationwide are running 36 percent ahead of the year before — a sign, observers say, of deteriorating labor relations due to the economic recession.

The settlement marked the end of Chicago's seventh teacher strike since 1969 and its second in two years.

Chances are that someone is going to mention teacher strikes, honeybee decline, trash pick - up, even the events in Gaza or Robin Williams» death.

For all the rhetoric we hear every time teachers strike or CBA issues are raised, what CBAs actually are and how they influence operations and outcomes remains pretty poorly understood.

Major Teacher Strikes.

As teacher strikes bring attention to underfunded public schools, families and education advocates are suing to compel states to uphold statutory or constitutional obligations on education funding.

That phrase, «committed to working together,» is significant, as this is the same district that a mere three years ago experienced the longest teacher strike in Washington state history — 49 days.

In the Chinese zodiac, 2018 is supposed to be the Year of the Dog, but a more suitable name might end up being the «Year of the Illegal Teacher Strike.»

Rejecting test scores as a core value Los Angeles Times (Sandy Banks): The Chicago teachers strike reflected the nationwide divide over «market reforms,» shorthand for the accountability metrics that tie teachers» salaries and jobs to how well their students perform.

In a filing to the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board, CPS repeats its long - held argument that Friday's walkout by the Chicago Teachers Union is illegal because it doesn't follow the state law governing teacher strikes.

However, when teachers strike, the children are always the losers.