Sentences with phrase «teachers union wants»

Posted on September 24, 2015 · The head of the teachers union wants the board to ask the community for their input before starting a national search.

«The rank - and - file teachers that have liberal Democratic views are not going to vote for this Republican because the leadership of the teachers union wants to hold Steve Sweeney hostage.»

The teachers union wants to keep these abysmal schools open to preserve jobs for their members.

Naturally, the state teachers union wants to kill the program.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley says New York State's largest teachers union wants to offer assistance.

Pataki was Sheldon Silver's bitch year after year on anything SEIU and the teachers unions wanted.

Almost all of this firepower is employed to the benefit of Democrats, whose constituencies already incline them to favor policies the teacher unions want - more spending, higher taxes, higher public employment, more regulations, more job protections, more restrictions on competition, more collective bargaining - and who, with union backing and pressure, can usually be counted on for support.

Which is precisely what the teacher unions want.

Larry, another reason the teacher unions want to protect incompetent and negligent teachers is because these individuals are their most loyal union operatives.

Teachers unions want a reduced emphasis on testing and more investment in public schools, including social services for the increasing number of students living in poverty.

The parasitic Wall Street protesters and teachers unions want to destroy it.

As a follow up to my post of last week (Anti-Choice Teachers Unions Want to Take Control of O.C. Board of Education), former State Senator Gloria Romero has penned another excellent op - ed piece in the O.C. Register.

If public sector teacher unions want a higher minimum wage, this can only result in taxpayers paying for such an increase — turning the «needs of real people» into «higher taxes.»

If public sector teacher unions want a higher minimum wage, this can only result in taxpayers paying for such an increase.

«It would mean that if teachers unions want their members» money, they'd better come up with an attractive, responsible, user - friendly organization that listens to its members and provides services that are focused on working conditions for its members, not politics and social issues.»

Not exact matches

«If same - sex marriage is enacted into law what will happen to the teacher who wants to tell pupils that marriage can only mean - and has only ever meant - the union of a man and a woman?

House Speaker Michael Madigan blamed teacher unions on Friday for killing a proposal to send tax dollars to private schools, claiming the powerful lobby doesn't want competition for Illinois public schools.

And how about the teachers unions that protect teachers who teach what the want to teach instead of teaching their curriculum.

Chicago Teachers Union officials want to make their case directly to aldermen to counter the blitz Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration has undertaken to institute a longer school day.

«We want Ekiti State workers to note that Fayose is nobody's friend; that is teachers, civil servants, public servants, local government workers, artisans, driver unions etc must note that Fayose is not your friend.

Commenting on Nick Clegg's announcement of summer «catch - up» schools in his speech to the Liberal Democrats Conference, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said this: «In the National Union of Teachers we want every child to have the best possible opportunities and that means investing in education across the bUnion of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said this: «In the National Union of Teachers we want every child to have the best possible opportunities and that means investing in education across thTeachers, the largest teachers» union, said this: «In the National Union of Teachers we want every child to have the best possible opportunities and that means investing in education across thteachers» union, said this: «In the National Union of Teachers we want every child to have the best possible opportunities and that means investing in education across the bunion, said this: «In the National Union of Teachers we want every child to have the best possible opportunities and that means investing in education across the bUnion of Teachers we want every child to have the best possible opportunities and that means investing in education across thTeachers we want every child to have the best possible opportunities and that means investing in education across the board.

«Now when this national committee was established, we expected them to have written to us, as we hold the collective bargaining certificate, that look; teacher unions, we are setting up a national implementation committee and therefore we want you to send us a representative.»

Speaking about the federal models for schools identified as Persistently Lowest Achieving, Mulgrew said that the union could not come to an agreement with the DOE on the transformation or turnaround models because the UFT wanted a teacher to be able to discuss an informal observation write - up with an administrator, but the DOE refused to require that.

He stressed that his union holds the largest teacher population in basic and second cycle schools, «therefore if you want to take any decision that affects education in Ghana, you can not sidestep us.»

Unions are corporations people, so if you want GOP Businessman to not be able to donate, then you better be prepared to end the ability of AFL - CIO, Teachers Unions etc. from donating.

«No one wants to show their cards unless they have to,» said United Federation of Teachers president Mike Mulgrew, whose organization has an interest in seeing a working Democratic majority, which would presumably be friendlier to the union's interests than the Republican majority has been.

The state's teachers union is already gearing up for a major fight this budget season on education issues after Cuomo declared he wanted to end the «public monopoly» on education through a strengthening of charter schools.

Who would have guessed that the Assembly, acting on behalf of the teachers unions, would want to destroy the cap by adding exemptions to it that would render it useless..

Commenting on the publication by the Department for Education (DfE) of «National Standards of Excellence for Headteachers», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «With increasing difficulties in recruiting new headteachers, and with record numbers of teachers wanting to leave the profession, the Coalition Government has failed to recognise the damaging effect of its policies on the morale and confidence of teachers and school leaders.

New York State United Teachers, a statewide teachers» union, will hold its first contested election in recent memory this weekend; Cuomo wants to avoid negotiating the changes twice, in case current president Richard Iannuzzi is rTeachers, a statewide teachers» union, will hold its first contested election in recent memory this weekend; Cuomo wants to avoid negotiating the changes twice, in case current president Richard Iannuzzi is rteachers» union, will hold its first contested election in recent memory this weekend; Cuomo wants to avoid negotiating the changes twice, in case current president Richard Iannuzzi is replaced.

A veteran lawmaker close to the city and state teachers» unions and Mr. de Blasio, Ms. Nolan is the shrewd Cuomo antagonist the liberals in the body would want.

«The teachers» union and the bureaucracy does not want to do this.

She cites recent media reports that showed the state teachers union sought to give the Suffolk County Democratic Committee $ 100,000 that the union wanted earmarked for Democratic Senate candidate Adrienne Esposito, who ultimately lost her 2014 race.

You've got a teachers union that has made it clear from day 1 that they wanted no part of any agreement on teacher evaluations, and yet, he blames the City equally for the intransigence of the union.

The real problem, in Magee's eyes, is that wealthy New Yorkers are trying to dismantle the publicly funded school system — complete with the powerful teachers unions — because they don't want to pay their «fair share» in taxes to support the education of all children, not just the «elite.»

Buffalo's school board is setting the ground rules for what it wants from negotiations with the union representing city teachers.

Misinformation and outright lies are spread by those who want to take away rights from teachers and destroy teacher unions.

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.

New York teachers union chief Michael Mulgrew wants those 5,000 charter teachers sending dues to him.

Her critics, however, argue she cherry picks students and wants to break the teachers» unions by circumventing workplace protections.

If Lib Dems, resourceful and determined activists and councilors some of them, decide they want to throw every spanner they can at the free schools movement they could be useful allies for the teacher unions and others already engaged in that campaign.

That leaves Rumore well aware that some people want him out of the job, if for no other reason than so they can step in and lead the state's second - largest — and politically influential — teachers union.

Yet pay now averages $ 94,000 for these teachers that no one wants — an embarrassment for the union.

The Democratic - controlled Assembly, with close ties to teachers unions, wants to block the «windfall,» as the governor describes it.

Cuomo has also criticized the teachers union over performance reviews, and said he wants to break the «public school monopoly.»

A frustrated principal, bent over by the teachers» union, James has a speech early on: «I don't wan na be swallowed up in anonymity.

The bottom line is that the teacher unions» greatest power is not the ability to get what they want, but rather the ability to stifle reforms that threaten their interests.

My purpose here is to provide a simple overview of the pivotal roles that teacher unions actually play in public education - and to suggest why, if Americans want to improve their schools, something needs to be done about the unions and their extraordinary power.

A government - backed committee is almost certain to prefer what the AFT wants over what Fordham may envision since the teacher unions are like Sony except only 100 times more powerful.

Much of what the teacher unions do in politics is not about winning the policies they want.