Sentences with phrase «telling teachers and union»

For at least two and a half decades, political leaders and opinion makers have been telling teachers and union leaders like me that it is high time to move away from the single salary schedule.

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«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?

Punitive and discriminatory anti-gay laws are fuelling rising homophobia around the world, the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, told the TUC Congress in Liverpool.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier today told Susan Arbetter on «The Capitol Pressroom» that the 2010 teacher evaluation law, now the subject of a contentious lawsuit between teachers unions and the state Education Department, was flawed because it's too complicated.

He's accused of breaking the rules of an executive session of the board, and telling a local paper the details of confidential talks with the teachers union over a new contract.

Villaraigosa's chief rival in the June 5 primary is Lt. Gov. and former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who told the teachers» union that he would push for a freeze on charter school expansion.

«We have to find a way to dial down the tone of the rhetoric and high volume as it relates to discussions with the teachers union,» she told the crowd gathered in an auditorium at the Fordham Law School for the «2013 Mayoral Candidate Forum.»

«I remember being scared witless as an 11 - year - old by a fire - and - brimstone history teacher who told us we would all be dead by Christmas because the Soviet Union urgently needed access to warm water ports for some reason, and the Red Army was going to sweep through Europe,» he wrote.

Following the submission today of the NASUWT response to the Department for Education consultation on «Proposed Increases to Contributions for Members of the Teachers» Pension Scheme», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The Coalition Government should tell the public the truth about why it is seeking to raid the pensions of millions of ordinary public service workers and why it is taxing public sector workers who are acting responsibly by trying to save for their retTeachers» Pension Scheme», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The Coalition Government should tell the public the truth about why it is seeking to raid the pensions of millions of ordinary public service workers and why it is taxing public sector workers who are acting responsibly by trying to save for their retteachers» union in the UK, said: «The Coalition Government should tell the public the truth about why it is seeking to raid the pensions of millions of ordinary public service workers and why it is taxing public sector workers who are acting responsibly by trying to save for their retirement.

Society also had to work harder to foster and support teachers and ensure their wellbeing, he told the Annual Conference of the NASUWT — The Teachers» Union, being held in Birteachers and ensure their wellbeing, he told the Annual Conference of the NASUWT — The Teachers» Union, being held in BirTeachers» Union, being held in Birmingham.

Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson told NY1 that the ad rollout was meant to counter-balance a string of attack ads by the teachers» union and other critics.

and many teachers who live in Queens are upset and are telling the union leadership to take a hike.

I remember being scared witless as an 11 year old by a fire - and - brimstone history teacher who told us we would all be dead by Christmas because the Soviet Union urgently needed access to warm water ports for some reason, and the Red Army was going to sweep through Europe.

Political parties must commit to ending the social and economic policies which are damaging children's education, the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, has told the TUC Congress in Liverpool.

«Because of the government's non adherence to the rule of law, it told the world that the court and the union were late and went ahead to sack the teachers.

The Big Dog, however, was willing to end welfare as we know it, infuriating the left; Cuomo has passed up the chance to challenge Democratic orthodoxy and tell the teachers unions that seniority protections need to end because the archaic rules are damaging the unions» credibility even more than they're hampering what goes on in the classroom.

Etter was reportedly scolded and told by the principal to «stick to the curriculum» according to the teachers union.

She also shares her experiences getting up to speed as a new committee chair, and tells Alan what she thinks of charter schools and teacher's unions.

But he said he'd never tell them who to support and that it was «delusional,» as the United Federation of Teachers said, to believe the governor would tell the unions who to support.

The 93 staff members of the sole high school in Central Falls, R.I., the state's poorest school district, were told they would be dismissed, using federal regulations as a justification, after negotiations between the district superintendent and the teachers» union broke down over...

Today, American teachers want to be viewed as professionals, but their experience tells them they need their membership in the union and the clout that they have in the state legislature, even in states that do not allow them to organize.

He reminds his readers that «charter schools have had mixed success in elevating academic standards» and devotes a lengthy (and inaccurate) paragraph to telling us that DC Superintendent Michelle Rhee «stridently» took on the teachers union.

Nevertheless, there is still a story to be told, and the essential part of it is that the program that education reformers have tried to promote now for decades — introduce more choices of schools for students, enable competition among schools, open up paths for preparing teachers and administrators outside schools of education, improve measures of student achievement and teacher competence, enable administrators to act on the basis of such measures, and limit the power of teachers unions — has been advanced under the Obama administration, in the judgment of authors Maranto and McShane.

WASHINGTON — Teachers» unions L violate non-members rights to free dom of speech and association when they use the fees that non-members are compelled to pay for activities unrelated to local collective barL gaining, a lawyer for six Michigan college instructors told the U.S. Su preme Court last week.

We've done a few debriefings and at one, a teacher from Ohio told us that she couldn't believe she was sitting with a team of teachers, superintendents, union leaders, and principals, all as peers.»

And it should be no surprise that, as we have these confusions on assessment types, that the state teachers» union is running TV spots on how horrible testing is and how there is nothing a test can tell a parent that a teacher can't already relAnd it should be no surprise that, as we have these confusions on assessment types, that the state teachers» union is running TV spots on how horrible testing is and how there is nothing a test can tell a parent that a teacher can't already reland how there is nothing a test can tell a parent that a teacher can't already relay.

Staffers for the Bush campaign say the report isn't fair or accurate; the Gore camp trumpets its education platform; and teachers unions and other education experts say «I told you so.»

General secretary, Chris Keates, told teachers at the Union's Scotland Annual Conference that «Scotland recruits around 500 teachers a year from the EU and that current recruitment issues in the profession will be worsened if Brexit prevents or deters their appointment to posts in Scotland's schools and colleges».

The most telling example may be in New York, where the simultaneous effort to change testing and accountability fueled intense concerns about how the tests would affect teacher job security, engendering fierce backlash and strong teachers union support for the «opt - out» movement.

Unions have claimed the new freedoms for schools to decide details regarding teacher wages has led to a «wild west» situation, whereby inconsistent guidance and budget pressures has meant that less teachers are being told about their pay awards.

All told, the two national teachers unions distributed $ 71.7 million on candidate and issue campaigns from California to Florida, Massachusetts to South Dakota.

Eva Moskowitz, the CEO of the Success Academy public - charter chain and a target of de Blasio's, told me that she believes de Blasio has been blinded to alternate approaches by his ideology and by his loyalty to the teachers union.

Here is something big - city school, superintendents, school boards, and teachers» unions know but don't tell: districts spend less money per pupil in the schools» serving the poorest children.

Whether he is successful or not, Saunders» quest highlights the unfairness and un-American nature of forced unionism that exists in 27 states and D.C. Interestingly, teacher union leaders are always telling its members how much they have done for them.

«Even if she says things that today sound supportive, she's not going to be a steadfast friend of organized labor,» Jamie Rinaldi, a teacher from Newton, Mass. and a union activist told Politico.

A Harkin staffer told The Huffington Post that the changes resulted from conversations with teachers, teachers» unions, and HELP committee members.

She told the annual conference of the National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) last that there was «no reverse gear» when it came to the government's education reforms.

John Roberts, chief executive of the teachers» union alternative Edapt and a consultant for education companies, told Schools Week the new products represent a change in the education technology market.

The teachers took the opportunity to tell DCPS and Washington Teachers» Union leaders just how they felt about proposed contract teachers took the opportunity to tell DCPS and Washington Teachers» Union leaders just how they felt about proposed contract Teachers» Union leaders just how they felt about proposed contract reforms.

It used to be, the teachers union leader told the crowd, that it didn't take much to win a school board race: a short statement in the election handbook, a little money for some mail and the shoe - leather to knock on doors and talk to voters.

But what Rall and his teacher union buddies don't tell you is that, in California, for example, about ten teachers a year out of nearly 300,000 -LRB-.003 percent) who have attained «permanence» lose their jobs.

I do agree with this comment but the problem is that this government does not and will not listen to teachers nor parents.There have been many contentious issues over the past ten years and the government just ploughs on regardless.There needs to be a massive demonstration by society in order to protect the interests of students first.Politicians are notorious for telling us what we need and what is good for us and they have no clue what goes on in schools.I do not see a solution to this but the teacher unions must be much more vocal and really speak up for the teachers and parents in this country.

He was told what to do by Commissioner Gist and the EDUreformers and billionaire neo-liberal bully boys who are always standing in the shadows when it comes to teachers, unions and public education.

Kevin Courtney, deputy general secretary of the NUT told Schools Week: «We are disappointed that one union has chosen to enter into behind the scenes negotiations with the government in Jersey, and the other teacher unions will be working together to seek a meeting for urgent clarification of matters with the States.»

But a headteachers» union warned the tests would not tell teachers «anything they don't already know about their children», and will increase pressure on schools «already cluttered with tests and checks».

When even union supporters are telling AFT and its fellow teacher unions that fixes to the tenure system are needed, how long can Randi and her radical allies continue their trench warfare against America's schoolchildren?

«If you tell me a kid comes to school hungry and we feed them, I don't need a database to tell me that's a good thing,» said Michael Mulgrew, president of the teachers» union.

Will the teachers unions tell the kids that in California, they have done everything within their abusive power to maintain the failing status quo by trying and mostly succeeding to kill every effort at education reform that would have benefited students?

Public school teachers have been told for years that they are only respected by the general public because Big Union fights for them and gets them that respect.

• Unions tell teachers directly and indirectly that they are disrespected — a «teachers vs. the world» mentality and that the union is there to save them, to fight for them, etc..