«People are hurting across Illinois while this so - called governor plays chicken with the state budget,» said Chicago
Teachers Union President Karen Lewis in an address to the City Club of Chicago in April.
Despite the strike and the resulting turmoil, the sides say there are close on some parts of an agreement, such as compensation, said
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis at a news conference Sunday night announcing the walkout.
The Los Angeles
teachers union president said Sunday he was organizing a «massive boycott» of The Times after the newspaper began publishing a series of articles that uses student test scores to estimate the effectiveness of district teachers.
New York
City teacher union President Michael Mulgrew said in a statement the evaluations were «a strategy designed only to raise test scores.»
American Federation of
Teachers union President Randi Weingarten came to support the walkers, and even Pastors For Oklahoma Kids and other religious leaders came out to bless the efforts.
Broward teachers union president Anna Fusco said the union and the evaluation department plan to send teachers a survey soon to find out their biggest gripes related to evaluations.
Los
Angeles teachers union President Warren Fletcher has announced a new push to reduce class sizes in the wake of a «no confidence» vote by his members against LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy.
Newark
Teachers Union President Joseph Del Grosso said yesterday that he recognized the value of using videotape to put a mirror up for teachers to see themselves at work.
Los Angeles
teachers union President Warren Fletcher said he would no longer actively campaign for reelection, clearing the path for challenger Alex Caputo - Pearl to become the next leader of United Teachers Los Angeles.
In the letter, the charter school organization's Kyle Rosenkrans writes to New York State
United Teachers Union President Karen Magee and United Federation of Teachers President Micahel Mulgrew that they should focus their attention on struggling schools, not opposition to Cuomo's measures.
The teachers union, previously headed by Hillary Clinton supporter and
national teachers union president Randi Weingarten, was a founding partner of the political party.
In Los Angeles, new
teacher union president Alex Caputo - Pearl pitched the small class mantra three separate times in his coronation speech.
Superintendent Robert Runcie, School Board members and Broward
Teachers Union President Anna Fusco met with Stoneman Douglas teachers and staff Friday morning.
But
Washington Teachers Union president Elizabeth Davis says that teachers haven't been given enough information about what evaluators are looking for, and that it was a mistake not to involve the union in designing IMPACT.
«The goal of IMPACT was to improve student achievement, but in fact, [overall] student achievement has been flat,» Washington
Teachers Union President Elizabeth Davis said.
«Newark
Teachers Union President John Abeigon said poor parents who lack child care often send sick children to school and spread germs to staff.
NYC teachers union president Michael Mulgrew took shots at the de Blasio administration for the second time in two weeks — this time charging city leaders with gender bias over their handling of paid parental leave.
New York State United
Teachers union President Andy Pallotta said in a statement that the weakened requirements «sell out the state's most vulnerable children to score political points.»
parents, students, teachers and other district workers rallied Tuesday morning to counter the U.S. education secretary's recent testimony about public
schools.Local teachers union president Annie Irvine...
parents, students, teachers and other district workers rallied Tuesday morning to counter the U.S. education secretary's recent testimony about public schools.Local
teachers union president Annie Irvine...
Cleveland Municipal School District CEO Eric Gordon and
Cleveland Teachers Union President David Quolke appeared Tuesday alongside Jackson and testified about their support for the plan.
Just 10 days ago, Mayor Frank Jackson, Cleveland schools CEO Eric Gordon and Cleveland
Teachers Union President David Quolke basked in the glow of a job well done: The trio and their partners had successfully negotiated a proposal to reform the struggling public school system by lessening the impact of teacher seniority in ridding the district of ineffective teachers and failing schools.
It's not the first time the mayor has warned of sky - high layoff numbers that never materialized, but this warning - packaged with a political push to change seniority rules -
struck teachers union President Michael Mulgrew as reckless «political posturing.»
Last
month teachers union president Michael Mulgrew stood with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and schools Chancellor Cathleen Black to announce a program to help struggling students.
«One Newark is essentially the beginning of the dismantlement of public education in Newark,» says Newark
Teachers Union president Joe Del Grosso, who calls Anderson «a drum major for charter schools.»
With most charter schools being non-union, the math behind Broad's charter expansion plan in LA is simple to the
LA teachers union president, Alex Caputo - Pearl: lose half of the district's students, and his union, UTLA, will also lose half of its teachers.