Sentences with phrase «teacher union leaders»

The organization's main goal is to support district and teacher union leaders in bringing about positive change that supports teachers and improves student learning and growth.

The grades have sparked controversy for years, with teacher union leaders among those who contend the marks are misleading.

Parents still have many reasons to be concerned about state tests for grades 3 - 8, teacher union leaders say.

Teacher union leaders want to keep poorly performing public schools open, but kill off thriving charters and voucher schools.

Certainly not a major teachers union leader at a time when the national movement is toward holding teachers accountable.

The governor who treated trial lawyers and teachers union leaders as enemies of the state?

The war between teacher union leaders who insist on a one - size - fits - all cookie cutter education system run by them, and parents who want to get their kids out of failing schools and into charters rages on.

Then last Thursday, Weingarten popped up in Kiev, telling FoxNews that she went to Ukraine as part of a delegation of teacher union leaders from five nations (including the United Kingdom, Poland, Denmark and Bulgaria) as an act of solidarity and to «promote democratic values.»

In July 1995, Adam Urbanski, President of the Rochester Teachers Association, and the late Helen Bernstein, former President of the United Teachers of Los Angeles, CA., both local union leaders at the time, convened a group of progressive teacher union leaders from 21 urban union locals to discuss how educational reform has evolved at the local level.

Randi Weingarten — who should be prepping for her Red Carpet appearance — and other teacher union leaders talk such a good game, but when the curtain is drawn back, all that's there is a self - serving agenda.

Our national teacher union leaders taking funds to collaborate with problematic policies that have no reliable evidence for raising student achievement and improving teacher effectiveness, back in 2009, is what started the most vocal of educators, researchers, policy analysts and even psychometricians grumbling.

on Seattle — What happens when teacher union leaders step up to support teachers, students, parents and public schools

Anti-Catholic remark by teachers union leader reported in the Family Research Council's newsletter, Washington Watch, January 1992.

So NEA President Dennis Van Roekel does what so many teacher union leaders do.

The descriptions of the latest uses of educational technology both within schools and over the Internet are just as compelling as the evidence provided that teachers union leaders today are little more than modern Luddites.

It's often noted that the original vision for charter schools, championed by legendary teachers union leader Al Shanker and others, was that they'd be «laboratories of innovation» whose lessons could inform the broader system.

As it stands, Chicago Teachers Union leaders urge their members to abandon classrooms on April 1.

«We urge teachers union leaders across the Northeast and the rest of the nation to denounce Ms. Turner's Trump - like hate speech or, by your silence, acknowledge that you agree with her that school choice is akin to homicide.»

MITUL coordinators draw on the talents of experienced, progressive teacher union leaders who can work with teacher union locals as coaches, trainers, facilitators, planners and organizational consultants.

At the urging of local teachers union leaders, the staffs of at least 40 Seattle schools voted to reject their building - level budgets in protest.

Seattle — What happens when teacher union leaders step up to support teachers, students, parents and public schools

But Brad Jupp, a former teachers union leader who is an advisor to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, said, «We have to resist turning these teacher voice groups into foils for the union or seeing them as flanking operations.

Mr. Vargas, a retired teachers union leader, fought unsuccessfully for a moratorium on new charter schools, although Connecticut's charters are generally successful and in demand.

A hidden - camera video showing Yonkers teacher union leaders advising someone impersonating a teacher on how to avoid disciplinary charges has city officials calling for resignations.

Several board members who support repeal, including the Island's representative, Roger Tilles, questioned the agency staffers» analysis of the legislation, as did state teachers union leaders during a later news conference.

The delegation to Ukraine includes teacher union leaders from the USA, Poland, Denmark and Bulgaria, along with the UK.

Weingarten, a nationally prominent teachers union leader, said there is great worry about «not knowing» whether those services will be there.

James I've just put a bet on Gove as the next PM, I even know old fashioned teachers Union leaders who liked his reforms, something Charles Clarke was proposing If he becomes PM we'll have Tory government still 2040 and that's if remain just win too

Teachers union leader Philip Rumore has hired private counsel to fight transferring the teachers.

Ironically, the current crop of teacher union leaders seem less like such labor lions as Samuel Gompers and Walter Reuther and more like Charlie Wilson, the imperial president of General Motors.

Teachers union leaders testified and were cheered.

For example, Brimelow considers teacher union leaders «commissars of [an] American Red Army.»

Because of that, in 2009, Rep John Benson, a former Edina teacher union leader along with strong support from Mpls district union leaders Louise Sundin and Lynn Nordgren sponsored legislation that enabled districts to access the same flexibility and autonomy provisions of chartering without actually chartering a school.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is a dear friend of a fiery teachers union leader, she speaks out against the bombardment of standardized testing that dismays educators, and she never misses a chance to say how enamored she is with those who teach.

Mike Antonucci gives Weingarten's comment an historical perspective, enumerating high - sounding teacher union leader's past proclamations which did nothing to change the moribund status quo.

But if teacher union leaders want to legitimately whine about something, they could honestly say «We are bleeding unionized teachers.»

Just watch any one of dozens of videos where the Chicago Teachers Union leader lashes out at, well, just about everyone, regularly dumping on rich people, white people, Common Core, Arne Duncan, et al..

Teacher union leaders cleverly bundle political funding with things teachers value, including access to insurance benefits, full salary during parental leave, and voting rights.

Meanwhile, Wisconsin's teachers union leaders turned down an invitation to participate, saying they could not work with the governor and Republican committee members who had abolished collective bargaining rights for public employees this spring.

Neither The New York Times nor teachers union leaders discuss how individuals lose out under current pension systems.

Teacher union leaders scream for more money so that every school can have a guidance counselor.

From the very beginning, TURN's purpose has been to challenge teacher union leaders to take steps to promote teachers as professionals, advance a broad based new unionism, and link professionalism and new unionism to ways for improving student learning.

(The answer Mr. Larkin is: Your average teacher union leader.)

Teacher union leaders constantly talk about the «right to collectively bargain» It is not a «right.»

CEC offers teacher union leaders training in successfully collaborating within a complex school district system.