Sentences with phrase «teachers group filed»

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While out walking in London recently, I passed a group of uniformed school children moving in an orderly, single - file line, with teachers in front and rear.

Expenses records filed with the state's lobbying regulator show the education battle show at least $ 757,093 was spent by both pro-charter school groups or the statewide teachers union during January and February.

The leader of one of the organizations, the Buffalo Parent - Teacher Organization, said the group plans to file an official petition with Elia asking her to remove him from office.

The suit was filed on behalf of two groups, the NYC Parents Union and the Partnership for Educational Justice, and essentially argues the tenure provisions give students access to ineffective teachers and ultimately hinders children the basic constitutional guarantee of being taught literacy, math and verbal skills.

Subsequently, four groups filed separate petitions to Elia to remove Paladino from office: (1) the school board; (2) the teachers» union (the Buffalo Teachers Federation and the New York State United Teachers); the (3) Buffalo Parent - Teacher Organization and Buffalo NAACP chapter; and (4) the District Parent Coordinating teachers» union (the Buffalo Teachers Federation and the New York State United Teachers); the (3) Buffalo Parent - Teacher Organization and Buffalo NAACP chapter; and (4) the District Parent Coordinating Teachers Federation and the New York State United Teachers); the (3) Buffalo Parent - Teacher Organization and Buffalo NAACP chapter; and (4) the District Parent Coordinating Teachers); the (3) Buffalo Parent - Teacher Organization and Buffalo NAACP chapter; and (4) the District Parent Coordinating Council.

Several groups — including the Buffalo School Board, the Buffalo Parent Teacher Organization and the Buffalo Teacher Federation — have said they plan to file official petitions to the commissioner to have him removed.

Both before and after Boston University took over the Chelsea schools in 1989, groups and individuals representing teachers, teachers» unions, and Hispanic parents filed lawsuits alleging the 10 - year contract was unconstitutional.

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So when Harlem Success Academy, a charter group in New York, proposed to take over P.S. 194's building after the school was shut down for poor performance, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) and the New York Civil Liberties Union took the obvious step: they filed a lawsuit claiming that the state pressed forward without proper consultation with local school boards.

Having a central system in place makes it simple for teachers to quickly and easily access student data and compare progress individually, across groups or whole classes at a glance, without having the headache of referring to previous paper notes and test results filed away throughout the year.

He's right, of course, that both are «interest groups,» but does he not see a massive difference between an entity that is devoted to getting more kids addicted to deadly cigarettes so they'll be lifelong clients and a group representing rank - and - file teachers whose life's work is educating children?

A group of educators and state legislators have filed suit against Hanna Skandera, the secretary - designate of the New Mexico Public Education Department, seeking to invalidate the department's teacher evaluation policies that Skandera enacted without legislative approval.

A group of active and retired Chicago city employees and four unions that represent them — AFSCME Council 31, the Chicago Teachers Union, the Illinois Nurses Associations and Teamsters Local 700 — filed suit today in Cook County Circuit Court to overturn Senate Bill 1922 (Public Act 98 - 0641), legislation to sharply reduce pension benefits for city workers and retirees who participate in the Municipal Employees Annuity and Benefit Fund (MEABF).

A group of pro-charter teachers filed a formal complaint this week with the state's Public Employment Relations Board contending that the teachers union had engaged in unfair labor practices by failing to support them and waging a «nonstop hate campaign» against the charter advocates.

Although many details remain to be ironed out, both of the bills filed so far would create a state panel that would approve charter applications, which could come from non-profit groups to start a new school or parents and teachers of an existing school.

A group of of education chiefs from around the nation, as well as some teachers, parents, student groups and business organizations, lended their official support to the Vergara lawsuit today by filing several amicus curiae or «friend of the court» briefs.

A coalition headlined by Washington's teachers union has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a recently - approved state initiative establishing charter schools, the group announced Wednesday...

More on the federal suit filed against Connecticut, backed by Students Matter, the California - based group that recently challenged teacher tenure in the Vergara vs. California case.

The Caucus of Rank and File Educators (CORE) is a group of dedicated teachers, retirees, Paraprofessional School Related Personnel (PSRPs), parents, community members and other champions of public education who fight for equitable public education and hope to improve the Chicago Teacher's Union (CTU) so that it fights both on behalf of its members and on behalf of Chicago's students.

Although Students For Education Reform has yet to file their IRS forms for this past tax year, in their first three years of business the group collected at least $ 6 million from corporate education reform groups, including a major start up grant form Democrats For Education Reform, an anti-union, anti-teacher, pro-charter group that have run attack ads against the Chicago Teachers Union and other groups speaking out for the rights of teachers and sTeachers Union and other groups speaking out for the rights of teachers and steachers and students.

Although Malloy's proposal to end tenure failed, we are now learning that the CEO of ConnCAN, the charter school advocacy group, is working to file a lawsuit to end teacher tenure in Connecticut.

In a lawsuit filed in federal court earlier this month, a group of teachers who do not instruct math or English - but nonetheless are being evaluated on those scores - have challenged the system on constitutional grounds of due process and equal protection.

(The group has also filed a case challenging 13 California districts» teachers contracts that prohibit the use of standardized test data in teacher evaluations, which they say violates a 1971 law.)

Representatives from statewide and local teachers» groups filed a complaint over a partnership SAISD is negotiating with a charter operator.

One month later, an advocacy group led by former CNN anchor Campbell Brown filed a lawsuit similarly trying to roll back teacher job protections in New York.

Trenton, NJ — A group of Newark parents yesterday filed a formal request to appeal a trial court judge's dismissal earlier this month of their lawsuit challenging the state's «last in, first out» teacher layoff law.

-LSB-...] Another group, the Movement of Rank - and - File Educators, is nominating a slate of candidates who have staked out positions on teacher evaluations and charter schools that differ dramatically from Unity's.

«In 2009 - 2010, the NEA (National Education Association) ladled out $ 381,576 to the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, which oversees teacher training programs, according to its filing with the U.S. Department of Labor; that's part of $ 1.9 million the union gave to the group over a five - year Teacher Education, which oversees teacher training programs, according to its filing with the U.S. Department of Labor; that's part of $ 1.9 million the union gave to the group over a five - year teacher training programs, according to its filing with the U.S. Department of Labor; that's part of $ 1.9 million the union gave to the group over a five - year period.

This lawsuit was filed by a variety of liberal groups, most notably the Washington Educators Association, the state teachers union, who also happened to be major campaign contributors to every Supreme Court justice who sided with their organization.

Related efforts to evaluate individual teachers based on student test scores have sparked a flurry of publicity — and led to a federal lawsuit filed by a group of Florida teachers who complained they would be rated on the test scores of students who weren't even in their classes.

The union campaign depicts Brown, who leads a group that has filed a New York State lawsuit modeled on the Vergara v. California case that found teacher tenure laws unconstitutional, as the puppet of former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee and Brown's husband, GOP policy adviser Dan Senor.

The appeal is much farther along than a separate challenge to such fees filed by a group of California teachers earlier this year.

In Brill's telling, the education class war pits a heroic group of entrepreneurial philanthropists, highly successful hedge fund billionaires, and idealistic Ivy Leaguers who join Teach for America against somewhat grubby and grasping rank - and - file public school teachers and their union leaders, who often put their own selfish interests above those of the children.

The statewide teachers union, the Florida PTA, the Florida School Boards Association and other groups filed the lawsuit in August, arguing the tax credit scholarship program unconstitutionally created a «parallel» system of publicly supported schools and violated a state constitutional provision barring state aid for religious institutions.

The suit was filed by the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding, a group that included parents, students, teacher unions and municipalities.

«They're going to go down as the worst laws we've looked at,» said Sen. Bert Johnson, a Democrat who has accepted campaign money from both the teacher's union and Democrats for Education Reform, a national Democratic group that support candidates with education platforms that often differ from those of the unions, according to campaign finance records filed with the state.

Now, with L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy locked in a stalemate with the teachers union over performance reviews, a prominent group of advocates believes it can force the issue with a lawsuit, which is expected to be filed Tuesday.

Left - wing groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the teachers» unions, and the Florida School Boards Association have filed a bevy of lawsuits in recent years to stem the school - choice tidal wave.

In New York today, a group of parents and advocates, led by former CNN and NBC anchor Campbell Brown, filed a suit challenging state laws that govern when teachers can be given tenure and how they can be fired once they have it.