Sentences with phrase «teacher strike in»

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.

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

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.

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.

Meanwhile, Chicago schools are closed today for the second teacher strike in the last four years.

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

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

A teachers strike in 1974, in which Schaefer took a strong stand against the teachers, also took on racial overtones.

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.

That's one of the clearest take - aways from the just - concluded teachers strike in Chicago.

During the 2012 - 2013 public school year, actions against high - stakes tests included a successful teachers strike in Chicago, an effective boycott in Seattle, student walkouts in Denver and Portland, demonstrations in Providence and opt - out movements in dozens of communities.

First teachers strike in 25 years in Chicago.

First teachers strike in 25 years.

More than 6,100 school pupils across East Sussex have been affected by teachers striking in a row over pay, a union has said.

Teachers strike in Arizona for more education money; protests spread to Colorado is from USA Today.

Recent teacher strikes in West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma and anticipated strikes in Arizona have excited some in the labor movement who herald the strikes as a sign of a renewed era of union power.

For example, Representative Todd Rock (R - PA) maintains a website titled Stop Teachers Strikes in Pennsylvania, to support his Strike Free Education Act bill.

Not exact matches

Chicago has had a pretty painful year — it just experienced its most violent summer in recent memory and the teacher's union strike in September paralyzed schools as they prepared to open.

Now — in a time of red state teachers madly striking, of fast - food workers demanding $ 15 an hour, of #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter activists refusing to go away — it looks like our time could represent a cultural turn of its own.

Tens of thousands of Arizona teachers, whose pay is at least $ 10,000 below the national average, have led the largest teachers» strike in US history over the past week

VICTORIA — The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a B.C. court decision which found that the Christy Clark government deliberately tried to provoke a strike with B.C. teachers for political gain while leaving children undersupported in overcrowded classrooms, says B.C....

VICTORIA — The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a B.C. court decision which found that the Christy Clark government deliberately tried to provoke a strike with B.C. teachers for political gain while leaving children undersupported in overcrowded classrooms, says B.C. New Democrat Leader John Horgan.

A Storm Brewing: Teachers» strikes in a number of red states could prove to be a curveball in the midterms.

Other education related initiatives include resolving the issue of the Alberta teachers» pension plan shortfall and preventing a teachers» strike for five years; creating 1000 new spaces for post-secondary education students in energy, the environment, and economic studies; and creating 6000 new apprenticeship seats.

Major Arizona school districts in metro Phoenix and Tucson were still closed for the day on Thursday following Gov. Ducey's signing of budget legislation providing more than $ 300 million in raises for many of the state's striking teachers.

In B.C. schools, they have broken the law, cut resources and were caught trying to provoke a teachers» strike.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has signed part of a state budget plan that provides more than $ 300 million in raises for many of the state's striking teachers.

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.

That was one of the picket signs carried by 26,000 striking teachers this week in...

She was a spokesperson on behalf of striking workers, a volunteer teacher in night schools for railroad workers, and an active trade unionist.

As I have come to know hundreds of spiritual teachers and thousands of spiritual practitioners through my work and travels, I have been struck by the way in which our spiritual views, perspectives, and experiences become similarly «infected» by «conceptual contaminants» — comprising a confused and immature relationship to complex spiritual principles — that are as invisible, yet as insidious, as sexually transmitted disease.

For teachers and students, and for the graduate student teaching assistants who were organizing as well, the issue was whether, in the event of a strike, classes should be moved off campus, so that no one would be crossing a picket line.

CHICAGO (Reuters)- Public school teachers in Chicago voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new three - year contract, ending a bitter dispute with Mayor Rahm Emanuel over school reforms that prompted the first strike of city teachers in 25 years.

My children had school, and though I saw several teachers wearing red, I was deeply grateful for not having to find alternate care in the event that their (exclusively female) teachers decided to strike.

All of this led me to have a conversation with my sister Margie, who I believe is a natural parent and teacher, and is able to strike a balance between kindness and firmness in both of these roles.

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The unions would only rule out strikes if, in addition to abandoning the RPI switch, the government commits to a full public valuation of teachers» pensions.

Only around 40 % of teachers voted in the ballot, but of those that did 82 % backed strike action and 91 % backed action short of a strike.

Tens of thousands of teachers across the north - west will be taking strike action today (Thursday 27 June) as a further step in the NASUWT and NUT teacher unions» dispute with the Secretary of State for Education over pay, pensions, working conditions and jobs.

With the strike, the Chicago Teachers Union is sending a strong message to Washington — to both Obama and Duncan — that it is in charge of what goes on in the public schools, and it won't be dictated to by politicians in Chicago or Washington.

In the case of 100 teachers asked to strike, the action would only be lawful if at least 50 teachers voted and 40 of them backed the strike.

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) and National Union of Teachers (NUT) at schools, colleges and universities across London will tomorrow (Wednesday) take strike action in protest against changes to their pensions.

Members of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, will hold the first of six days of strike action starting tomorrow (9 October) at William Lovell Academy in Stickney, Lincolnshire.

Members of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, are poised to take two further days of strike action (20 and 21 March) at Castle Vale School in Birmingham

More than 10,000 state schools are expected to close today, after the NUT called the first national teachers» strike in three years.

In response to a question from a delegate about the Chicago Teachers Union strike, which led to a successful contract, and the UFT's current, long - running contract battle, Mulgrew contrasted the circumstances faced by educators in Chicago and New York CitIn response to a question from a delegate about the Chicago Teachers Union strike, which led to a successful contract, and the UFT's current, long - running contract battle, Mulgrew contrasted the circumstances faced by educators in Chicago and New York Citin Chicago and New York City.

The suits were prompted by a California judge's ruling in June striking down that state's teacher tenure laws.

The teachers embarked on a strike at the end of the 2015/2016 long vacation which ended in the first week of September.

He spoke out as sources at the civil service PCS union, which joined teachers on strike in June in a row over the Government's pension reforms, said its national executive had agreed to hold another one - day walkout in the autumn.

Teachers and lecturers from across London will be going on strike tomorrow, in a row over changes to their pensions.