Sentences with phrase «teachers facing cut»

The Government needs to recognise that funding cuts are also now driving up workload - with class sizes increasing in two - thirds of secondary schools and teachers facing cut backs in preparation time.

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Then Dad would help me carve the face, letting me hold the knife and showing me how to carefully cut each angle and line, all the while entertaining me with a steady string of his Halloween teacher - jokes.

Schools are facing huge cuts - the subject of an absolutely brilliant campaign by teachers, the unions, and Labour.

The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK today warned at the TUC Congress in Brighton that many sixth form colleges were facing a financial crisis because of Government funding cuts.

Commenting on today's announcement that the Government is to bring forward the effective date from which the state pension age will only become payable at 68, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT — The Teachers» Union said:, «Over recent years teachers have already faced hugely detrimental changes to their occupational pensions, compounded by year after year of real term cuts to thTeachers» Union said:, «Over recent years teachers have already faced hugely detrimental changes to their occupational pensions, compounded by year after year of real term cuts to thteachers have already faced hugely detrimental changes to their occupational pensions, compounded by year after year of real term cuts to their pay.

• Unions representing headteachers have warned the government it could face major difficulties introducing performance - related pay for all teachers, noting, for example, that pay rises for some would lead to pay cuts or redundancy for others.

A group of Brooklyn teachers, chapter leaders and UFT representatives met on June 7 at a local diner with City Councilman Vincent Gentile to make sure he understood the severe problems facing overcrowded District 20 schools and how much more severe those problems will become if the city lays off 4,200 teachers and cuts another 1,500 teaching positions.

With the city facing a multibillion dollar shortfall — and the Bloomberg administration demanding further cuts, the United Federation of Teachers went on the offense today, with a study it says shows that fiscal constraints already have taken a toll on the city's more than 1.1 million students.

Teachers know that if they lose their unions during a fiscal crisis, they will have no protection at all as long as state and local officials face enormous pressure to cut teaching jobs, compensation, and benefits.

She said: «Teachers and heads in the thousands of existing state schools in the UK which are facing real - terms cuts in funding for their pupils will be dismayed to see the Chancellor throwing more money at free schools and grammar schools.

Many teachers are facing pay cuts because their schools are not raising their pay this year.

As preparations for the local elections in England gather pace, the National Association of School - Based Teacher Training (NASBTT) has joined forces with Universities» Council for the Education of Teachers, the Chartered College and the Teaching Schools Council to suggest solutions to the issues which students and teachers face, namely: dealing with funding cuts; struggling to find access to quality CPD; confusion over training routes; a «cumbersome» application process and skills tests which act as a barrier to teacher recruTeacher Training (NASBTT) has joined forces with Universities» Council for the Education of Teachers, the Chartered College and the Teaching Schools Council to suggest solutions to the issues which students and teachers face, namely: dealing with funding cuts; struggling to find access to quality CPD; confusion over training routes; a «cumbersome» application process and skills tests which act as a barrier to teacher recrTeachers, the Chartered College and the Teaching Schools Council to suggest solutions to the issues which students and teachers face, namely: dealing with funding cuts; struggling to find access to quality CPD; confusion over training routes; a «cumbersome» application process and skills tests which act as a barrier to teacher recrteachers face, namely: dealing with funding cuts; struggling to find access to quality CPD; confusion over training routes; a «cumbersome» application process and skills tests which act as a barrier to teacher recruteacher recruitment.

Nor did they offer practical strategies for teachers and administrators who want to maintain the arts but face budget cuts and faceless bureaucracies.

The polls by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and Phi Delta Kappa International (PDK) found a perceived lack of funding to be the biggest problem facing schools in respondents» communities, with AFT also identifying local and federal education budget cuts as the most worrisome trend in education.

In the face of budget cuts and the ever - increasing costs of running a school, head teachers are finding themselves asking: «How can we generate more income?»

Responses from 1,500 head teachers show a majority of schools in the survey face staffing cuts and bigger class sizes.

When faced with cuts to important creativity programs, teachers often feel like they can't fully engage their students.

Districts facing teacher shortages have also cut preschool and kindergarten programs and shortened the school week or school year.

Five head teachers» and teachers» unions issued a joint statement on Wednesday saying schools faced the «biggest real - terms cuts in a generation».

As charter schools have multiplied, many school districts facing declining student enrollment have closed schools or cut teaching positions, reducing the ranks of unionized teachers.

California, like Connecticut has been facing extraordinary budget problems that have resulted in raising taxes, laying off teachers and cutting instructional programs in public schools.

Instead, what interests me is the fact that these cuts — coupled with other challenges that teachers faced in 2011 — targeted students in poverty and students with special needs, that they targeted arts and physical - education programs, and that they severely disrupted school processes as one seismic change after another was proposed.

Filed last November, the parents» lawsuit asserts that the LIFO statute violates students» right to an education by unjustly requiring school districts to retain ineffective teachers while cutting other areas of education spending or laying off more effective teachers when faced with funding deficits.

They allege that these laws unjustly require Newark, a struggling school district, to retain ineffective teachers, while cutting millions of dollars each year from other areas of education spending or laying off more effective teachers when faced with funding deficits.

As for Mr. Sereda at the Thames Valley school board, he doesn't expect the provincial cuts to the education faculties to make much difference to the glut of new teachers that he faces every spring.

In the new era where teachers have little time for face - to - face interaction with colleagues and district budget cuts limit professional development opportunities, educators are increasingly turning to online communities (or professional learning networks, PLNs) that allow them to share lesson plans, teaching strategies, and student work, as well as collaborate across grade levels and departments.

«Rather than being an incentive to cut back on testing, superintendents, principals, and teachers are faced with an increasing amount of testing to evaluate teachers» and serve as test prep to increase SBAC scores, said Williams.

But the National Union of Teachers warned that despite removing anomalies, schools would still face funding cuts.

She said the Conservatives were «blinded by their political positioning on free schools», and had «totally failed to address the big challenges facing education», including teacher shortages, the widening attainment gap, the school places crisis and «severe cuts» to post-16 education.

Elementary teachers now face far fewer classroom supports than several years ago, thanks to years of state cuts to classroom supplies and early grade teacher assistants.

Head teachers are warning cuts to their budgets mean schools could soon be facing severe financial hardship, which could result in lower standards.

Head teachers are warning that cuts to their budgets mean schools could soon be facing severe financial hardship, which could result in lower standards.

The state's Teacher Academy — a valuable institution that provides critical professional development — faces either a 5 or 10 % cut.

This school faces $ 451,000 in cuts which will result in class sizes over 40 in the primary grades, loss of many highly effective teachers, along with drama and fine arts education, and a severe reduction in their ability to provide for the school's high special needs population.

Funds for classroom supplies and textbooks have been cut, increasing the financial pressures that teachers face as they attempt to provide students with the supplies they need.

People don't look often enough at the great things our teachers and students are doing, and now that we are facing the possibility of another $ 800,000 in cuts next school year, teachers need community support more than ever.

Support from Democrats and, at the last minute, from a teachers union in Colorado represents a major political shift at a time when states are facing huge budget cuts that could mean thousands of teacher layoffs.

Sir Andrew Carter, who led the government's review of initial teacher training in 2015, told Schools Week any apprenticeship would sit alongside existing routes, including School Direct, which has faced recent funding cuts and received less - than favourable quality ratings from trainees.

For California districts, that means a two - month reprieve from facing potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in funding cuts to special education programs and Title I aid for low - income students, along with tens of millions in cuts to the preschool program Head Start, career and technical education and grants for teacher training.

When many states and districts were facing teacher layoffs due to severe budget cuts during the 2009 recession, the Obama administration offered a share of $ 4.35 billion dollars to states through the Race to the Top competition.

«This is a total distraction from addressing the most pressing crises facing schools the shortage of school places, recruiting enough qualified teachers, and cuts to school budgets.»

The Labour leader was asked by a delegate at the National Association of Head Teachers annual conference in Telford whether he was «brave enough» to reverse the real - terms cuts faced by schools as a result of unfunded cost pressures.

Jules White, a head teacher in West Sussex and part of a campaign against funding shortages, said parents who are facing cuts in their children's schools should be made aware that «money is no object» for free schools and grammar schools.

Already saddled with a major reorganization, significant budget cuts and staff reductions, the Commission on Teacher Credentialing now also faces a sudden uptick in workload generated by districts scouring cases of unreported misconduct.

Given the mounting pressure that teachers face to crank out successful test - takers, it's understandably tempting to cut recess, gym, and other movement activities in favor of sitting still and studying.

The numbers are even more impressive given the funding challenges facing the district in recent years, where rising teacher pension costs and declining state support have forced endless borrowing, budget cuts and layoffs, escalating tensions with the local teachers union.

«Teachers are faced with a pay freeze and cuts to pensions which mean they have to work longer for less.»

Teachers set to strike across England in July over pay and conditions as schools face heavy budget cuts (Mirror)

Programs designed to improve teacher quality, provide academic support to low - income families and assist homeless students also face cuts.

«I am glad to see minimum cuts to the classroom, but teachers are the biggest part of the classroom and they faced very large cuts.