Not exact matches
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who is seen as a close
ally of the mayor, walked a more cautious line, but
said that Bloomberg's hostile relationship with the
teachers union had become counter-productive.
ALBANY — The Working Families Party is talking to a potential gubernatorial candidate who is a close
ally of the
teachers»
union, sources
said.
Billy Easton, with the Alliance for Quality Education, an advocacy group to increase school funding that is
allied with the
teachers unions,
says his group is happy that the governor has created the commission.
A Heastie spokesman did not rule out the introduction of a new bill to address the situation, but
said the Assembly first wants to see the outcome of a lawsuit seeking to block the rules brought last week by the city and state
teacher unions, who are powerful
allies to the Assembly Dems.
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, whose Democratic conference is most closely
allied with the
teacher's
union,
says that's not happening.
But the Democratic members — many of whom are closely
allied with the
teachers»
unions, and are at odds with Cuomo's push to make
teachers ratings more heavily contingent on testing —
said they had not seen exact language to describe what Heastie was proposing.
«By threatening to oust incumbent Regents and rile up stakeholders, the
teachers union and their
allies are forcing the Regents to tamper with the state's new evaluation system, which was enacted with the full consent of the
union,»
said StudentsFirstNY Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.
But
teachers deserve better than that trade - off,
say the Democratic governor and his
allies in the state
teachers»
union.
Over the protests of its traditional Democratic
allies and some of its own members, the New Jersey Education Association has endorsed Sweeney's Republican rival, who voted for President Donald Trump and has supported the deeply unpopular Christie, who once
said a national
teachers union deserved a «punch in the face.»
The two - term board member, who is closely
allied with the
teachers union,
said he cancelled due to scheduling issues, but an editorial in the LA Times questioned whether politics could have been a factor: the forums were hosted by the United Way - Los Angeles and ten other community and education groups that often don't see eye to eye with Kayser.
President Barack Obama has taken on
teachers unions — traditionally partisan
allies — over
teacher improvement issues, while many Republicans, including Wisconsin Governor - elect Scott Walker,
say they support reform in
teachers» pay.
«By threatening to oust incumbent Regents and rile up stakeholders, the
teachers union and their
allies are forcing the Regents to tamper with the state's new evaluation system, which was enacted with the full consent of the
union,»
said StudentsFirstNY Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.
Our
allies in the Chicago
Teachers Union have
said their education system is broke on purpose.
And I want to
say hello to my friends from Illinois - Ed Geppert, the President of the Illinois Federation of
Teachers; Marilyn Stewart, the president of the Chicago
Teachers Union; and AFT Vice President Jim Dougherty, and all my
allies with whom I've worked so closely.