Sentences with phrase «teacher union leaders do»

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

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The Union therefore accepts that there is a need for an on - entry assessment to establish a benchmark for evaluating future pupil progress, but these assessments must be administered in ways that are manageable for schools and do not create additional workload burdens for teachers and school leaders.

Commenting on the publication by the Department for Education of School Workforce statistical data on headteachers» salaries, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «Headteachers and other school leaders have an important and critical job to do in leading and managing teaching and learning in schools.

«We do hear some of our leaders who will point to [the teachers» unions] and say «They are against this,»» Dolan said.

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 leaders of the state's teachers unions aren't happy with how Gov.Dannel P. Malloydescribed the current tenure system in his State of the State address Wednesday — «the only thing you have to do is show up for four years» — but they say they are willing to work with him on his proposed reform.

The 2 percent per year property tax cap does not technically expire until next year, but leaders of cities, towns, and counties, as well as teachers and public worker unions say they fear an early renewal of the law might be part of any end of session deal.

Attorney Nathaniel Kuzma testified district leaders released the information because they did not feel teachers were getting correct information from the union.

Instead, increasingly, leaders of the education establishment (i.e., school boards, administrators, and the teacher unions) were doing their Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) math in the context of the 2014 deadline.

We've done a few debriefings and at one, a teacher from Ohio told us that she couldn't believe she was sitting with a team of teachers, superintendents, union leaders, and principals, all as peers.»

I've watched the leaders of our teachers» unions talking about how teacher pay is poor and teacher working conditions are poor and everything's poor and everyone is doing badly, but that they are going to fix it.

Negotiations between the district's school board and the East St. Louis Federation of Teachers broke down last month after union leaders rejected a contract offer that did not include...

Unions deserve their share of the blame for making it tough to remove lousy teachers, but the fact that 99 % of teachers are routinely rated as satisfactory can be chalked up almost entirely to school and district leaders failing to do their job when it comes to evaluating personnel (unless you happen to believe we have 3.4 million phenomenal teachers).

Leaders of the teacher unions warn, however, that the strikes that do occur may be long and bitter.

All that union leaders had to do was say, «Of course, there are circumstances that need to be allowed for, but we agree that this should probably mean one out of twenty teachers — not one out of four.»

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Whether he is successful or not, Saunders» quest highlights the unfairness and un-American nature of forced unionism that exists in 27 states and D.C. Interestingly, teacher union leaders are always telling its members how much they have done for them.

«This view is shared by both national teacher unions and state leaders all across the country who are committed to doing a better job of preparing our young people for the global economy.

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.

Christine Blower, leader of the National Union of Teachers, said: «As the government knows, free schools and academies do not raise standards in any more effective way than maintained schools.»

«I don't think the best approach in teacher evaluation comes from students» test scores,» said Dave Harswick, a highschool history teacher and union leader in Green Bay, Wis. «It can be part of the picture, but it shouldn't be the whole picture.»

Russell Hobby, general secretary of school leaders» union the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), said: «Parents usually know more about how good their school is than an inspector does after a day's visit.

It used to be, the teachers union leader told the crowd, that it didn't take much to win a school board race: a short statement in the election handbook, a little money for some mail and the shoe - leather to knock on doors and talk to voters.

It is rare to read an NEA or AFT mailer or attend any teachers» union event that does not rebroadcast the union leaders» political messages.

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The union says excessive and unnecessary «accountability measures» required by school leaders for Ofsted mean teachers have to spend hours making detailed records of work done by pupils in lessons.

But Nick Brook of the school leaders» union NAHT said the baseline assessments at reception were «absolutely the right thing to do» and, if designed properly, would provide useful information for schools while avoiding «unnecessary burdens on teachers or anxiety for young children».

In that spirit, I am asking Van Roekel, Weingarten and all the other teacher union leaders — who to the best of my knowledge have never done so — to release their tax returns.

E4E's leaders say they don't want to create a parallel organization to the unions; their goal is to «generate an elevated profession of teachers who want to be accountable,» according to Sydney Morris, one of two New York City teachers who founded the group last year.

And that amount does not include the thousands of dollars the employer (ultimately the taxpayer) has to pay for contributions to the teacher / union leader's retirement fund, health benefits, unemployment insurance and workers compensation.

If the government does not reduce teacher workload, the National Education Union will take action, one of its leaders has warned.

Despite his vocal support for the union during an unprecedented speech at its annual conference in March, the Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn did not visit teachers on picket lines today, and Angela Rayner, the new shadow education secretary and a former trade union official, stopped short of backing the strike.

Some of the leaders involved in the discussions, including the teacher union (CEA), administrators (CASE) and school boards (CASB), advocated for more funding, but did not believe changes to the system were necessary.

The head of New York's education department and the leader of 1.5 million teacher union members came together today at an event dedicated to «Finding Common Ground» — and did.

It bought together union leaders, teachers and ministers from high performing countries to talk about how do you elevate and enhance the teaching profession across the world?

Excellent teachers getting «developing» regardless that their students have IEPs, are special needs or are English Language Learners and have difficulty with testing... But the beat of bullying administrators, harassment, and the demand for data continues... And nowhere do I see our union leaders apologizing for supporting this agenda and calling for an immediate stop to its use.»

And in Virginia, where teachers unions do not have collective - bargaining rights, labor leaders often rely on political pressure to get their voices heard.

«Second, we requested (but did not require) the inclusion of signatures by three district officials — the superintendent, the school board president, and the leader of the relevant teachers» union or teachers» association — on each district - level MOU.

As a union leader who as of June made sure that every lousy teacher retained their job, do we really know what is motivating him in September?

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It's that sense of needing to stick together against real or potential mistreatment by management, plus a sincere — and accurate — belief that most teachers do teach for reasons beyond simply making a living, that drives Mulgrew and other union leaders.

But he did cite Education Secretary Arne Duncan as a Washington leader he admires, praising Duncan for helping to get more children in charter schools and for demonstrating a willingness to confront teachers unions.

But Moskowitz did criticize education figures, including teachers» union leaders, for opposing DeVos.

That even those few NEA and AFT leaders who advocate for some modest version of systemic reform continually back other policies that do not help younger teachers — including the defense of defined - benefit pensions from which half of newly - hired teachers will never benefit — has also made them apathetic about even bothering with the unions that take so much of their take - home pay.