Sentences with phrase «teachers and other public»

Also, if you currently hold a Perkins loan, you could lose access to this particular loan's cancellation program for teachers and other public service employees if you consolidate it into another loan.

Monday of next week (January 11) marks a major milestone in the effort to bring employee rights in the workplace to teachers and other public - sector employees.

Having just observed Memorial Day, a special time to honor military personnel who died while serving the United States, most Americans would probably be stunned to learn that teachers and other public employees DO NOT HAVE full First Amendment rights when working in their capacity as a public employee.

IR is representing nine California teachers and the Christian Educators Association International in a landmark effort to re-establish the right of individual teachers and other public employees to decide for themselves whether to join and support a union.

Teachers unions have used state power to entrench themselves in our political system, extracting compulsory fees to buy influence with lawmakers, who then allow unions to abuse their power at the expense of teachers and other public employees.

Evidence from recent years suggests that this is not the case and that the decision to pass Act 10 may have hurt not only teachers and other public servants, but Wisconsin's students as well.

Wisconsin's 2011 budget cuts and the passage of Act 10 could have affected the turnover of teachers and other public servants in multiple ways, some of which would have conflicting effects.

Indeed, following Scalia's death, the Supreme Court split 4 - 4, upholding mandatory union dues for teachers and other public employees in Rebecca Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, which had been called a «life - or - death» case for public employee unions.

CIR is representing ten California teachers and the Christian Educators Association International in a landmark effort to re-establish the right of individual teachers and other public employees to decide for themselves whether to join and support a union.

Teachers and other public workers have long traded lower base salaries for better benefits and more security, but that dichotomy has become more obvious and more important.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill Wednesday, after a vote that would clear the way for a $ 26 billion measure to help states with their severe budget problems and save the jobs of tens of thousands of teachers and other public employees.

California is one of twenty - three states that forces teachers and other public employees — even those who have expressly opted out of union membership — to pay several hundred dollars in union fees every year.

The book, which has glowing endorsements from Joel Klein and Michelle Rhee, comes as teachers and other public employees are under siege from Republican governors in Wisconsin, Indiana, and elsewhere.

The loss of most collective bargaining rights for teachers and other public employees would almost certainly mean more frequent walkouts and strikes, she said.

In the wake of recent rebellions by teachers and other public education advocates that have been taking place in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Arizona, the teachers» unions in Florida have been largely silent on getting involved, mostly reminding education professionals that we can not strike here due to the deal we made with the Florida Legislature in 1968 that exchanged our right to collectively bargain for our right to strike.

He did nothing to support the teachers and other public union workers in the Madison, Wisconsin uprising in 2011.

If the effects of this recession continue, we'll see teachers and other public employees lose many of the benefits they've worked so hard to earn.

Today, Wisconsin is again at the forefront of a union battle - this time in Republican Gov. Scott Walker's effort to cut his state's budget deficit in part by curtailing collective bargaining for teachers and other public employees.

Turn parents against their children's teachers and other public employees.

It's about time teachers and other public employees had both.

An unprecedented wave of public school teacher walkouts and strikes, impossible to consider even a few months ago, is overturning assumptions that teachers and other public school workers are either apolitical or fearful to act.

And, although we've been somewhat insulated to date, we have not been altogether immune from the wave of national hostility toward teachers and other public employees.

The Worst In 2011, Republican governors in Ohio and Wisconsin sought to severely curtail the ability of teachers and other public employees to bargain collectively.

In contrast, teachers and other public sector workers are still overwhelmingly offered defined benefit pension plans and more than four out of five teachers are enrolled in a DB plan today.

The unions representing teachers and other public employees in California rose to power in the 1970s, and have never been recertified.

Stymied for nearly a decade in their attempts to mandate collective bargaining in every state, the nation's teachers» unions have made a breakthrough in New Mexico with the passage of a law that allows teachers and other public - sector employees to negotiate as a unit.

Five years earlier, Wisconsin had become the second state, following Connecticut, to establish collective bargaining rights for teachers and other public employees.

Is the public wrong in supporting the rights of teachers and other public employees to collectively bargain?

But polls suggest that Americans don't want to see teachers and other public employees stripped of collective bargaining rights.

Thousands of teachers and other public sector workers have been retiring in recent years, fueled in part by changes to their pensions.

The Supreme Court announced Thursday that it will hear a case involving the agency fees that teachers and other public employees are required to pay to unions even if they choose not to join the unions.

Congress acted again in 2007 to provide more loan forgiveness, creating the TEACH Grant program for teachers and the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF), which benefits teachers and other public employees.

Wisconsin's curtailment of the collective bargaining rights of teachers and other public employees was undoubtedly the top education news story of early 2011.

The Supreme Court is poised to deal a sharp blow to the unions that represent millions of teachers and other public employees, announcing Thursday it will consider striking down the mandatory fees that support collective bargaining.

Indiana teachers and other public - school employees feel they have little influence in shaping the state's educational system, a researcher's survey has found.

Teachers and other public sector workers have been warned that the one per cent pay rise promised to public sector staff is not guaranteed.

Americans only need look at Wisconsin, where the governor and lawmakers pushed through legislation curtailing the collective bargaining rights of teachers and other public employees.

Teachers and other public workers will continue to hear about the heavy burden they put on taxpayers and the need for «shared sacrifice.»

Mr. Cuomo derided the WFP as a «fringe party» last week, comments he later walked back, and seemed to deliberately flout its union backers by promising to take a hard line against teachers and other public servants.

They decided to go on strike after state lawmakers passed a bill to raise pay for teachers and other public employees by 4 percent over three years while imposing higher health care premiums.

Governor Andrew Cuomo on May 31 signed into law a bill that enables public school teachers and other public employees who are honorably discharged veterans and have five years in their civilian jobs to purchase up to three years of service credit toward their pensions.

The party, in a written statement, is backing Cuomo's platform in which he promises to cut state spending, including aid that goes to the unions representing teachers and other public workers closely associated with the party.

«If ministers continue to dig their heels in they will face industrial action by three million civil servants, health workers, teachers and other public servants that will not just last one day, but will be sustained for weeks and months.

Teachers and other public service workers on moderate salaries will be forced to bear the brunt of unfair proposals to limit severance payments, the NASUWT, the largest teachers Union in the UK warned today.

Concerns about the «unrealistic» reforms being pushed through by the coalition prompted a walkout by teachers and other public sector staff last month.

50 % fear that «in a few years» time teachers and other public sector employees will be losing their jobs if they don't support gay marriage».

State Senate Democrats have reaped $ 85,000 in election - year campaign contributions from the state teachers union since they skipped last month's vote to cut pension benefits for new teachers and other public employees.

NYT was about to provide good and just reasons for taxpayer wrath, leavened, of course, by responses from those representing teacher and other public sector unions.

Not exact matches

But none of the broken things would be fixed by Donald Trump's proposed budget, which does away with federal subsidization of interest on student loans and eliminates the program that forgives loans for people who enter public service (including teachers)-- among other education - related cuts.

Other top pension PE players over the same period were the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (15.5 percent); the Houston Firefighters» Relief and Retirement Fund (13.6 percent); the Minnesota State Board of Investment (14.4 percent); and the Iowa Public Employees» Retirement System (14.1 percent).