Sentences with phrase «ties with the teachers union»

Elected leaders of the 60,000 - student school district immediately south of Denver, Colo., unanimously voted to cut ties with the teachers union, and to keep taxpayer dollars and district resources from underwriting union politics.

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The nation's second - largest teacher's union has ended a promotional program with Wells Fargo, citing the bank's continued ties to the gun industry.

But this year, Cuomo has sought to bolster his ties with organized labor both in the private and public sectors, with the teachers union being a major politically active constituency, especially in Democratic primary politics.

Indeed, mailers had circulated throughout the 142nd District in recent days sponsored by groups with teacher union ties.

But many of his proposals — such as toughening up evaluation systems teachers barely agreed to in the first place, firing teachers with bad ratings, tying tenure to evaluations, and increasing the cap on charter schools — are sure to be met with ire from politically powerful state and city teachers union.

Jackson is an African - American with historically close ties to teachers unions, Rangel's Harlem machine and to an array of predominantly white liberal clubs in the southern reaches of the district.

VOTE - COPE, a PAC with ties to the New York State United Teachers, a union with ties to the left - leaning Working Families Party, has spent $ 4 million on this year's Senate races, records show.

The rules for rating teachers are set by the state, but elements of the implementation must be negotiated with the teachers union — which has resisted efforts to tie student performance to teacher reviews.

This year alone, the groups saw major elements of their platforms come to pass, such as tying teacher evaluations more closely to test scores, adding hurdles to earning tenure and increasing the number of charter schools, measures all unpopular with the unions.

Moskowitz also spoke about the perceived failings of the public school system, saying even the most talented teachers «are really working with their hands tied behind their backs and their feet tied together,» due to teachers» union restrictions.

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

According to Politico, United for Affordable NYC's other donors were unions with close ties to City Hall, including the United Federation of Teachers ($ 125,000), the municipal union District Council 37 ($ 30,000) and health care workers» union 1199 SEIU ($ 25,000).

Elia says her style will be «collaborative», and she says she will work with the teachers and their union and seek their input designing the tests, which will be administered by a new company, Questar, after the state severed it's ties with another company after criticism about the process.

In the final days leading to the primary, the New York State United Teachers, a powerful teachers» union with ties to the left - leaning Working Families party, used its independent expenditure political action committee to fund $ 178,000 in mailers and ads claiming Grisanti wasn't conservative enough for the dTeachers, a powerful teachers» union with ties to the left - leaning Working Families party, used its independent expenditure political action committee to fund $ 178,000 in mailers and ads claiming Grisanti wasn't conservative enough for the dteachers» union with ties to the left - leaning Working Families party, used its independent expenditure political action committee to fund $ 178,000 in mailers and ads claiming Grisanti wasn't conservative enough for the district.

This model, in which principals are no longer hog - tied by elaborate bureaucratic or confining union rules, proved attractive to teachers eager to take over campuses, but who equate charters with privatization of school management.

The organization works with ALEC to write and promote education reform policies such as school grades, mandatory grad retention, high stakes testing, unmitigated charter growth, corporate tax scholarships, competency based education, personal learning accounts, virtual learning, tying student test scores to teacher evaluations, weakening teachers unions and attacking the constitutional authority of school boards.

After several years in which teachers» unions have been hammered on the issue of tenure, have lost collective bargaining rights in some states and have seen their evaluations increasingly tied to student scores, they have begun, with some success, to reassert themselves using a bread - and - butter issue: the annual tests given to elementary and middle school students in every state.

Many folks were at first bewildered when Sharpton — who has ties, both financially and ideologically, to teachers» unions» groups — started advocating for charter schools; they were later shocked, shocked to learn that a mega-billions hedge fund linked to conservative school reform had channeled a $ 500,000 donation to Sharpton's National Action Network when the organization was struggling with tax woes.»

Hess» comment about sidelining the teachers union has its roots in 2012 when the Dougco board cut ties with the Douglas County Federation of Tteachers union has its roots in 2012 when the Dougco board cut ties with the Douglas County Federation of TeachersTeachers.

With pressure from both unions, the department of education has already removed a measure that tied teachers to data from students they never taught, as well as data that was more than a year old.

But Race to the Top, with its emphasis on tying teacher evaluations to student performance, is challenging the unions.

He followed up with his hyperbolically titled May 2010 New York Times Magazine feature «The Teachers» Unions Last Stand,» which admired the Obama administration's attempt to pressure states to tie teacher evaluation and pay to students» standardized test scores.

The fact that both the NEA and AFT have become so fearful of the implications of last month's decision in Vergara v. California ending near - lifetime employment and reverse - seniority layoff rules — including the likelihood that teachers, now realizing that the two unions can no longer hold up bargain they struck with earlier generations in the profession — show how tied they are to this outdated model of unionism.