Sentences with phrase «teachers strike just»
B.C. teachers strike just months after court ruled government «preoccupied with strategy to provoke strike, did not bargain in good faith», Vancouver Sun
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Chicago has had a pretty painful year — it just experienced its most violent summer in recent memory and the teacher's union strike in September paralyzed schools as they prepared to open.
Lear uses the example of a teacher who is suddenly and inexplicably struck with perplexity, not just about this or that aspect of teaching but about the very meaning of teaching.
On December 26 an English teacher named Munwan was buying fish on the ferry dock of his town on the east coast of Sri Lanka when he noticed the ocean suddenly rise — just what an American magazine he had read described water doing before a tsunami strikes.
May 14, 2018 • Recent graduates Cristina Chase Lane and WinnieHope Mamboleo will be joining the profession just as teacher strikes sweep the nation.
Should the Supreme Court strike down disparate impact, it would end the most mischievous and destructive policies imposed by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and would also stop pernicious lawsuits (like one just decided in New York) that seek to eliminate basic standards for new teachers.
A new NPR / Ipsos poll finds that just 1 in 4 Americans believe teachers in this country are paid fairly and 3 in 4 Americans believe that teachers have the right to strike.
The California court, noting that education is a fundamental right of California youth, struck down the law that requires administrators to make essentially lifetime decisions after a teacher has been in the classroom for just 16 months and has yet to complete an induction program.
Prior to the ruling, unionized Seattle teachers went on strike just as the school year began, leaving charter schools the only public schools in the city open for business.
Lewis and her team had been steamrolled in Springfield just a few months before, when the state legislature passed a bill that limited Chicago teachers» ability to strike.
Take this striking finding: 43 % of private school teachers say that most students in their high school graduate having learned «to be tolerant of people and groups who are different from themselves» compared with just 19 % of their public school counterparts.
Back in their classrooms after a nearly three - week strike that ended just before Thanksgiving, teachers in Billings, Mont., approved a hard - fought contract last week that will give them 2.5 percent pay raises and additional help with health insurance.
In fact, Andrew Cuomo helped move the student score needle up, writing in a letter to the Regents just before their May vote, «This change would ensure that greater balance is struck between using objective teacher evaluation measures... and subjective teacher evaluation measures.»
Teacher unions think this law is just another strike against teacher proteTeacher unions think this law is just another strike against teacher proteteacher protections.
Without remedying teacher pay and benefits, the quality of the teacher workforce and the pipeline leading to it will continue to suffer in not just those states that are striking but in all states where teacher and educational conditions are weak.
That's one of the clearest take - aways from the just - concluded teachers strike in Chicago.
The Chicago Teachers Union was depriving the city's children of their right to an education not just during the strike, editorialists argued, but also every day — by refusing to bow down to standardized tests.
Continue reading Teachers and Parents of Puerto Rico Launch Historic Strike & Boycott against Standardized Testing: «We want a just, equitable world for our children.»
I was spat upon and sworn at as a seven year old kid crossing the picket line during a teacher's strike just because I wanted to attend school and get an education.
«The number of states that have moved so far forward on teacher evaluation is just striking — more than 40 states now require student achievement to be a factor in teacher evaluations is very different from where we were before,» Sandi Jacobs, the group's vice president, said in an interview.
Many Chicago teachers are worried about just how the strike will affect their students, but their union has made it clear dissenters will not be tolerated.
The summary evaluations reported by Superintendent Contreras were striking: Just two percent of Syracuse teachers were rated highly effective, and an additional 58 percent were deemed effective.