Sentences with phrase «teachers say claims»

Some of the teachers said the claim by the state government that the written test was for promotion to the position of a permanent secretary was a booby trap for them.

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«The bankruptcy proceeding doesn't affect our claim,» said Katie Mesner - Hage, one of the lawyers representing the plaintiffs, nine families who had a relative killed and a teacher who was shot and survived.

S.Lewis» «I am here trying to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: «I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God.»

I have grown convinced that more often than not it is sheer ignorance, sheer lack of study of the actual records, which makes clever as well as foolish men say, «Well, of course, he was a great teacher, but I can not accept the claim that he was divine.»

For those of you who are interested in reading the arch of a sad, sad bitter life, crusie through the remarks by «the son a Piper man» aka Tom Tom, Stands for nothing, hates everything, curses when left with nothing to say, then hysterically claims victory for hurting someone's feelings, and stands for nothing, but will gladly point out your poor syntax, grammar and spelling errors like a weary retired 3rd grade teacher.

the bible does speak of «wolves in sheeps clothing»... and — again — Christ, himself, said that not all who claim to be his followers are... the other writers of the NT also spoke of false teachers and prophets....

Some pastors and teachers say that we should not read Jesus back into the Old Testament, and other pastors and teachers claim the opposite, that we can not properly read the Old Testament unless we read them in light of Jesus Christ.

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: «I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.»

«Many of my fine Christian friends, pastors, and teachers routinely made the claim that they were Bible - believing Christians, and they were committed to the whole Bible and that — and this was one of my favorite lines — «God said it, I believe it, that settles it for me!»

The Appellate Division, in a 4 - 1 decision handed down Thursday, said the tax cap doesn't violate due process or equal protection clauses of the constitution, as the New York State United Teachers» lawsuit claimed.

He said the invoice showed, among other things, that the board recruited teachers and parents to make speech claims against Paladino which the board could not legally make, that Miller discussed strategy with attorneys for BPTO and NYSUT, created a model complaint and even reviewed the organizations» complaints.

«It was detected that some teachers were holding fake documents including certificates to support their claims while others were not at post», he said.

Buffalo, NY (WBEN) State Senator Chris Jacobs says he was surprised to learn only public schools were required to report claims of sexual abuse by teachers after reading the Nichols report on decades of inappropriate relationships between teachers and students.

Commenting on the Local Government Association's claim that more than # 160 million has been spent by councils on Building Schools for the Future (BSF) projects axed by the Coalition Government, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said:

As a result more than a fifth (22 %) say they have been forced to claim job seekers allowance; nearly two thirds (64 %) of supply teachers say they do not have access to training and professional development opportunities; Nearly two thirds (64 %) of supply teachers say they do not have any access to a mentor or line manager to discuss their work; Nearly half (44 %) of supply teachers feel they are used to cover the lessons of more challenging pupils; only 31 % of supply teachers said they were always made to feel welcome when entering a new school; over a third (35 %) of supply teachers did not always have access to food and drink facilities in the schools where they worked.

A former teacher at a Catholic school in Queens who said she had reported the sexual abuse of seven female students by a priest in 1991 now claims that the Diocese of Brooklyn covered it up for more than a decade, allowing more girls to be abused.

In that address — and in a letter to the state education department — the administration claimed it could remove teachers at failing schools — whatever the union might or might not say.

SI: Are you saying that PCAST is staking a claim within the proposed reauthorization for a program to pay master teachers?

The DfE has said this was driven by a rise in those moving to go «out of service», which refers to qualified teachers who are not identified as teaching in either a state of primary school in the government's annual workforce statistics, but were teaching the previous year and not claiming pension.

«My basic recommendation is that if a product claims to be proven by brain research, forget it,» says neurologist and former classroom teacher Judy Willis.

Often, one side would accuse the other of falsely claiming they needed a larger facility, or one side would identify empty rooms that the other side would say were needed as art rooms, music rooms, teachers» collaboration rooms, and so on.

Around 56 per cent of respondents said reduced class sizes would improve learning, compared to just 19 per cent which claimed better teacher pay would help.

English, he said, was becoming far too loose, and it needed «stiffening up,» a claim that would resonate several centuries later with Needham High School's English teachers.

After all, if the union position is as compelling as it claims, as Justice Kennedy said, «the union can convince teachers to join.»

A fifth of those surveyed claimed they had no access to a counsellors for pupils, while many teachers which did have a counsellor on site said their services were overstretched, with many unqualified members of staff having to shoulder the responsibility.

Dillon justifies this claim by saying (emphasis added) that «many thousands of teachers and other school workers — no one yet knows how many — were laid off in dozens of states because of plummeting state and local revenue.

Given these facts, some policy analysts claim that current spending levels are more than adequate and that further cuts in class size are unnecessary, while others say much more needs to be done, especially on the teacher salary front.

The Ofsted official has argued grammars» higher rating may be due to «more effective teaching», while Mr Widdows, deputy head teacher at Giles Acadamy in Lincolnshire, said the claim was an «insult» to teachers in other schools.

But this has angered teachers who say that the chief inspector's claims do not match the «evidence from his own inspection service».

«Gov. Cooper's hypocrisy knows no bounds — he vetoed an average 9.6 percent pay increase for teachers just last year and now claims he supports teacher pay raises,» Carver said.

Rochelle Wilcox, an attorney representing The Times, said the district and union provided no evidence that publishing the information would harm teachers, a point Chalfant accepted in saying that claim was largely speculative.

Of the 400 who said they stood in for the regular class teacher, 60 % said they did the same work as fully qualified teachers, claims the union, while a third (31 %) of these staff said they had been used to take classes for three or more consecutive days.

The unions say their figures show that cuts to school budgets are hitting the front line, but the Department for Education suggested the numbers are «fundamentally misleading», and claimed there were «15,000 more teachers in classrooms since 2010».

Claims that teachers tend to be lower academic performers have been widely dissected, and some say discredited, just for the record.

Chris Keates, leader of the Nasuwt teachers» union, attacked the government's claim that the GCSE was a «broken qualification» and said it had «proved itself to be a robust and reliable qualification».

The reputation of the Welsh exam board is at stake after claims some of its examiners gave teachers unfair advice on upcoming GCSE questions, says the education minister.

Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said today's data was «not suitable» for publication and claimed the floor standard was «untenable».

Some head teachers have criticised the report saying the claims are not backed up by the evidence of inspections.

Classroom support staff say they are increasingly being asked to stand in for fully qualified teachers, a union is claiming.

The Recruitment and Employment Confederation rejected the NUT claims as unfair and said schools with vacancies «rely on their recruitment partners to bring in quality teachers, often at very short notice».

The justices said they were split on a challenge brought by a group of California teachers who claim their free - speech rights are violated when they are forced to pay dues to the state's teachers union.

Two teachers make claims to Newsnight about what they say happened at a school at the centre of an alleged «Trojan Horse» plot by Muslim hardliners in Birmingham.

The tests would be used by the Department for Education to track how much progress a child had made, she said, claiming that this would be used to decide whether the child's teacher gets a pay rise or goes into a capability procedure.

At another secondary school it was claimed there was a plot to remove the head teacher, Mr Boyes said.

The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) said it had «received some anonymous letters in February which claimed that an extremist religious group was trying to engineer the sacking of head teachers who did not promote the group's idealsTeachers (NAHT) said it had «received some anonymous letters in February which claimed that an extremist religious group was trying to engineer the sacking of head teachers who did not promote the group's idealsteachers who did not promote the group's ideals».

Fiona Pethick, the director of regulation at the exam board regulator Ofqual, says claims that some examiners gave teachers unfair advice on upcoming GCSE and A-Level questions, will be investigated.

Speaking ahead of his association's annual conference in Birmingham, Mr Hobby said he had held a meeting with 100 head teachers in the city to discuss the claims.

Kevin Courtney, deputy general secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), said the findings were not supported by the evidence, and claimed that the sample size of schools used in the analysis were too small to be «statistically robust».

«Critics of college - and university - based teacher preparation have made many damaging claims about the programs that prepare most U.S. teachers,» their report says, «while touting the new privately - financed and - run entrepreneurial programs that are designed to replace them.»

Elsewhere, the Broward school board is looking into claims that a Stoneman Douglas teacher said a student was acting like Adolf Hitler.