Sentences with phrase «treated teachers and unions»

They were turned off by the way the movie treated teachers and unions.

Not exact matches

Charter school teachers need a union for the same reason as other teachers — to have a voice, to be able to advocate for students without fear of losing their jobs, and to be treated like the professionals they are.

OECD's Lessons from PISA for the United States noted, and I want to quote this exactly: «The higher a country is on the world's education league tables, the more likely that country is working constructively with its unions and treating its teachers as professional partners.»

Media and policy elites are increasingly treating teachers union claims with the same skepticism that they used to apply only to other interest groups.

Since traditional union contracts make it virtually impossible to replace an ineffective teacher, liberal education reformers and conservatives alike disagree with teachers» unions and their allies, which have generally treated any kind of reform as an existential threat.

Weingarten, you see, is the president of the American Federation of Teachers, and for much of his book, Brill treats Weingarten the way reformers always treat her and her union: as the enemy.

But it is shameful that school districts and teachers unions in California have colluded to treat teachers as interchangeable widgets with no acknowledgment of teacher quality.

The only news is that people, including the news media, public intellectuals, and policymakers, continue to treat the teacher unions as if they were credible actors in education policy discussions.

The teachers unions» raison d'être will suffer if teachers started being treated as professionals and not interchangeable widgets.

Mrs Morgan said she would work with teachers» unions and representatives to discuss problems with workload - and to «treat them as the professionals they are».

One group of critics went so far as to place a full - page newspaper ad claiming teachers unions are «treating kids like garbage» and depicting a child's legs sticking out of a trash can.

Last month, via Mike Antonucci, we were treated to a Washington Post letter - to - the - editor from Elizabeth Davis, president of the Washington Teachers Union (an AFT affiliate), and Delvone Michael, director of DC Working Families.

In fact, all parents should have a right to sidestep the tricks of the traditionalists and teachers unions, knock down doors and demand the best education treat possible — a choice of a public or private school for their children — and let the edu - dollars follow the student.

And just how do the teachers unions, which demand defined benefit pension plans for its members, treat their own employees?

With so much evidence, it's difficult to understand why the cause for teacher rights and professionalism has to go to the U.S. Supreme Court for the public to recognize that labor unions which create and defend laws that treat all teachers the same are at odds with sound social science and what it takes to effectively teach kids.

Teachers, aides, campus supervisors and the other classified staff members at Northlake Hills Elementary School were treated to Sweet Beams Ice Cream Wednesday in honor of Castaic Union's Staff Appreciation Celebration.

The governor who treated trial lawyers and teachers union leaders as enemies of the state?