Sentences with phrase «teachers union allies say»

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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.