Sentences with phrase «teacher union officials»

Another voice has also joined in opposition over the decision of teachers union officials to participate in the march.
To avoid embarrassment, many teacher union officials cave in to staff demands, which means teachers must pay higher dues to receive union services.
Chicago Teachers Union officials say plans to close four Englewood - area high schools violate its labor pact and have demanded the district «immediately withdraw» the proposal.
From The Chicago Sun - Times: Chicago Teachers Union officials say nearly 90 percent of their members have authorized a strike against the city's public schools.
TRENTON — Senate President Steve Sweeney, Senate Education Committee Chairwoman M. Teresa Ruiz and Senate Labor Committee Chairman Fred H. Madden today announced that they will hold joint committee hearings in the wake of online videos that appear to show teachers union officials suggesting that teachers should not report assaults against students, including an alleged sexual assault.
New mandated evaluations are rolling out this fall for New York teachers and a local teachers union official says educators are likely nervous.
That idea, broached by the city earlier in contract negotiations over a new teachers contract, was again shot down by a Chicago Teachers Union official who promised a fight if it is pursued.
A quick response from New Jersey legislative leaders (see here for context): TRENTON — Senate President Steve Sweeney, Senate Education Committee Chairwoman M. Teresa Ruiz and Senate Labor Committee Chairman Fred H. Madden today announced that they will hold joint committee hearings in the wake of online videos that appear to show teachers union officials suggesting that teachers should not report assaults against students, including an alleged sexual assault.
Chicago Teachers Union officials want to make their case directly to aldermen to counter the blitz Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration has undertaken to institute a longer school day.
Hoping to tell their side of the longer school day story, Chicago Teachers Union officials met with 25 aldermen in private briefings Monday.
In 2011, Carvalho helped implement a merit pay system — considered anathema to most teachers union officials, including Weingarten — that tied raises to teachers» evaluation scores and provided bonuses for highly effective teachers.
Click here to read the 74 - page bill, which teachers union officials say appears even stronger than what Cuomo discussed last year on the campaign trail.
Yet, maybe because teachers union officials were in the audience, Pawlenty carefully parsed tenure, saying, «Seniority can remain a big factor, maybe even the main factor, in setting pay scales,» according to news reports.
Ed schools presently benefit from a lack of public accountability, low political visibility, public policy inertia, and iron triangle protectionism provided by self - interested coalitions of executive branch credentialing managers, teacher union officials attempting to restrain labor market entry, and a few aligned legislators.
Teacher union officials began calling in chits with swing members; local school board members flooded Capitol Hill switchboards; and party - whipping organizations went to battle stations.
Teachers union officials initially signed off on the Springfield empowerment zone.
While supporters were apparent with their blue shirts, plenty of dissenters, including high ranking teachers union officials, filled the seats, too.
Although Los Angeles teachers union officials and family members have speculated that the scores were a factor in the teacher's suicide, no evidence to support that assertion has been made public.
Some choice bits: Cops booted an unruly group of city teachers union officials from a posh Albany eatery after they caused a ruckus over their dinner tab, the Daily News has learned.
Robert Pilkington, Ed.D. is a long time Rhode Island charter school leader, founder of the RI League of Charter Schools, former teachers union official and charter school designer and operator.
In Adelanto, in San Bernardino County, the Wall Street Journal revealed, teachers union officials went door - to - door to confront parents who had signed Parent Trigger petitions, insinuating they could be deported if they didn't rescind their signatures.
«Again, the «haves» get help and the «have nots» don't,» complains teachers union official Mike Dreebin.
Six weeks ago LA teachers union officials told the LA Unified school board that independent charter schools were costing the district about $ 500 million each year.
He has called public education advocate Diane Ravitch a racist on dozens of occasions and has made similar statements about AFT President Randi Weingarten and other teacher union officials.
Several videos have widely circulated online that appear to show teachers union officials condoning inappropriate teacher conduct.
Man, I just hope all those New York teacher union officials who carried Cuomo's water throughout the primary season are really enjoying this unfettered direct attack against the profession and the public schools.
And since we don't want to get pension and teacher union officials in trouble, we have a modest proposal, inspired by Professor Alfred Kahn, President Carter's anti-inflation czar.
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Madison schools have been closed because of teacher absences since last Wednesday, but district officials and teacher union officials say teachers will return to work Tuesday.
Chicago Teachers Union officials have said they want to be compensated for a longer day and have called for a «better school day» as opposed to a lengthened one.
But teachers union officials, who have maintained that the lunch programs were the first step toward opening schools during the strike, are outraged by the prospect of the board dipping into its budget to pay for school lunches.
«If you work in a district like that, no matter how effective you are you come out with a scarlet A on your head,» he said, to applause from the audience, which included state legislators, Board of Regents members, school board leaders and teachers union officials.
De Blasio, Fariña and teachers union officials have insisted charters still be considered laboratories of innovation — their original mission — although prominent national charter leaders have said charters now exist to serve as alternative school systems.
Perhaps one can expect nothing more from a commission composed mainly of academics and former members of the public school establishment — folks that once were school superintendents, state education officers, school board members, teachers union officials, or school teachers.
After months of will - we - or - won «t - we, Chicago Teachers Union officials have landed on won't.
In New York, teachers union officials are fighting the public release of ratings for more than 12,000 teachers, arguing that the estimates can be drastically wrong.
But an increasing number of Illinois students are expected to ditch controversial standardized tests in Illinois this spring, according to parents, non-profit groups and teachers union officials.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said last month that he would push for a change in that law, but teachers union officials said it was designed to protect instructors from principals who write shoddy evaluations or are vindictive.
City, school and Chicago Teachers Union officials have looked to Springfield for a permanent fix that would address the weight of the district's pension obligations.
On Thursday, with time running out in the 2017 Session, teacher union officials, educators and activists denounced the controversial $ 200 million spending plan (HB 1505) at a news conference outside of Essrig Elementary School in northwest Tampa.
In Los Angeles, a teachers union official criticized standardized tests and the school district's plans to use them in evaluating instructors.
Some teachers union officials argue that Amplify's efforts are part of a disturbing effort to lure politicians with technology that promises to enable teachers to handle more students per class — and thus reduce how many teachers school districts will need to employ.
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