Sentences with phrase «teacher union support»

But the application asks states to show how many local teachers unions support the changes.

The Republican Assembly Campaign Committee released a half dozen Pellegrino tweets from the period of last year's Democratic presidential primaries bashing Clinton and saying teacher union support of Clinton «makes no sense.»

A multivariate statistical analysis shows that, for candidates who are not incumbents, teacher union support increases the probability of winning substantially.

But those positive ideas were undermined by the Administration's inclusion — late in the process of formulating RttT guidelines — of an extraordinary, undemocratic requirement that teacher unions support state initiatives.

The most telling example may be in New York, where the simultaneous effort to change testing and accountability fueled intense concerns about how the tests would affect teacher job security, engendering fierce backlash and strong teachers union support for the «opt - out» movement.

Watch the rabid teachers union supports chime in, and I doubt any are actually teachers.

That state's largest teachers union supports changing the law so Wisconsin isn't eliminated from vying for the stimulus funds.

In Massachusetts, that movement is emerging with the creation of the Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Education Assessment (MCIEA), a consortium of six school districts and their local teacher unions supported by the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE).

After the Columbine murders, most school districts, with teacher union support, adopted «zero - tolerance» policies in schools.

LA Unified Superintendent John Deasy applauded Governor Jerry Brown's decision today to veto AB 375, a controversial teacher dismissal bill which had widespread teacher union support.

In his 2012 State of the State address, after riding teacher union support to an electoral victory, Malloy said, «In today's [education] system, basically all you have to do is show up for four years.

I didn't win because the local teacher union supported the status qou.

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He stressed that the teachers union supports the Common Core, but he said the state is pushing the new standards without needed support and sufficient funding.

Mary Bell, president of the Wisconsin Education Association Council, said the teachers union supports the goals of the task force, but questions Walker's track record on education.

The teachers union supported the school closure strategy at first, even though it requires teachers to reapply for their jobs and, in many cases, move elsewhere.

«The teachers union supported No Child Left Behind and it got them nowhere,» Pechthalt adds.

The only winners here are old teachers who regained their jobs for life and the teachers unions supporting them; students stuck with time - servers are the big losers.

Despite the teacher union support, over $ 3 million of his own money, and a famous name in the state (his grandfather was a U.S. Senator for 36 years), Pell got 27 percent of the vote — good enough to come in third of three major candidates.