Sentences with phrase «union against the district»

The acrimonious negotiations have pitted the 5,000 - member union against the district and the Ohio education department, which took over the financially troubled district last year.

Not exact matches

Hostess, its lenders and the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union agreed to mediation at the urging of Bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain of the Southern District of New York, who advised against a more expensive, public hearing regarding the...

Meanwhile, on Tuesday, in a federal district court in Washington, D.C., the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a brief requesting that a federal judge not dismiss a case of litigation against senior CIA and military officials for the 2011 targeted killing of Anwar al - Awlaki (a suspected al - Qaeda leader) and his 16 - year - old son, both U.S. citizens.

A hearing scheduled for Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Albany will be the first courtroom encounter between Paterson — represented by lawyers from the attorney general's office — and four state workers unions that brought suit against the governor's plan to force employees to take a one - day - a-week furlough until the state's budget plan is finalized.

The New York Civil Liberties Union announced Tuesday morning the settlement of a federal lawsuit against the Buffalo City School District for what it charged was «the open and systematic discrimination of LGBTQ students at McKinley High School.»

Biviano is running a catch - up campaign against Jo Anne Simon, district leader for the past decade, and Pete Sikora, legislative director for the communication workers union, to replace long - time Assemblymember Joan Millman.

Unions representing law enforcement officers in central New York are throwing their support behind former federal prosecutor John Katko in his race against Democratic incumbent Rep. Dan Maffei for the 24th Congressional District seat.

Meanwhile, the PAC supported by the New York State United Teachers union is launching a $ 312,000 TV ad purchase to bolster Terry Gipson, the former senator who is running against Serino for his old seat in the 41st district.

In other districts informal civic groups will organize a slate of «reform» candidates for school board, and in at least one exurban Colorado school district, a bunch of people who were also leaders in the county Republican party where the school district was located put together a slate of unofficially Republican school board candidates to square off against a teacher's union slate of candidates.

Union leaders say the district is retaliating against the teachers, while the district says the cuts are needed to balance the building's budget, as the aides hired to perform those supervisory duties cost an additional $ 571,000.

Carriage drivers from the Teamsters union struck back against Queens Councilman Danny Dromm today, rallying in his district against a proposed ban on horse - drawn carriages that the lawmaker enthusiastically endorses.

Hettie Powell, an attorney who got a third of the vote when she ran against Wills in 2013, has been endorsed by the Working Families Party, healthcare workers union 1199 and the Teamsters, while David has the backing of Communications Workers of America District 1.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about an update in the New York State Attorney General's case against Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove and remarks regarding the Voorheesville School District.

The union went against the status quo in the race for Democrat James Sanders» 31st Council District seat and the race Republican Eric Ulrich's seat in the 32nd Council District.

Cattaraugus County: After two threats at the Chatauqua Lake School and Randolph Academy Union Free School District, Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered state police to increase patrols around schools to protect against copycat shooting threats.

The union, which has a statewide membership of 600,000, also endorsed Paul Tonko (NY - 20) and Zephyr Teachout, the Fordham University law professor who is running against Republican John Faso to replace outgoing Rep. Chris Gibson in New York's 19th Congressional District.

A Rensselaer County judge has appointed Albany County District Attorney David Soares as special prosecutor in the criminal case against former Troy police union president Aaron Collington, after two other prosecutors recused themselves from the matter.

Mr. Rechnitz began testifying last week in Federal District Court in Manhattan in a government case against Norman Seabrook, the former head of the correction officers» union, who is charged with investing millions of dollars of retirement funds through a hedge fund in exchange for promised kickbacks.

Alcantara is a community activist and union organizer running for the 31st Senate District in northern Manhattan against Robert Jackson and Micah Lasher.

Meanwhile, attention may shift to a lawsuit filed against Cobb County on 21 August in U.S. District Court by the American Civil Liberties Union, calling the March agreement on textbook inserts unconstitutional, says biologist Sarah Pallas of Georgia State University in Atlanta.

In 2013, the parents of two students at a school in Encinitas, California filed a lawsuit against the Encinitas Union School District (EUSD) claiming that yoga is a religious practice that should not be taught in public schools.

Public - sector unions were told by their attorneys that their members could sue if they did not defend the teachers in court against school district management seeking to deprive them of their jobs.

Last August, the American Civil Liberties Union won the latest in a series of lawsuits against single - sex public schools in a district where, it argued, children were given no other choice.

U.S. District Judge Adrian Duplantier of New Orleans has postponed the American Civil Liberties Union's suit against Louisiana's «scientific - creationism» law until a separate suit on the issue before another federal district court has been District Judge Adrian Duplantier of New Orleans has postponed the American Civil Liberties Union's suit against Louisiana's «scientific - creationism» law until a separate suit on the issue before another federal district court has been district court has been decided.

As reported in the L.A. Times, «school district and union leaders had previously said they were against shortening the school year because it would hurt instruction and amount to a pay cut for teachers.

Schwarzenegger also stepped into a dispute over the future of the state's largest school district, Los Angeles Unified, siding with Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa against the district's board and the teachers union (see «Power Struggle in Los Angeles,» forum, Summer 2007).

One of his first acts as chief executive was to settle a lawsuit filed against the state by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of students in 18 districts around California, most in poor communities.

In Ohio, the long - running DeRolph suit is closed to further litigation, and in their federal suit, the unions will be going headlong against San Antonio School District v. Rodriguez (1973), in which the Supreme Court declined to invalidate educational inequalities resulting from reliance on the local property tax.

But other Democrats and teachers unions, a powerful constituency within the party, have railed against charters, which operate free of many district constraints and usually have non-unionized teachers.

Public Advocates joined the American Civil Liberties Union in filing a complaint last year against the Los Angeles Unified School District, accusing the giant district of «undermining» the LCFF by diverting $ 450 million in money for disadvantaged students in 2014 to cover special - education costs for students with disabDistrict, accusing the giant district of «undermining» the LCFF by diverting $ 450 million in money for disadvantaged students in 2014 to cover special - education costs for students with disabdistrict of «undermining» the LCFF by diverting $ 450 million in money for disadvantaged students in 2014 to cover special - education costs for students with disabilities.

District decision - makers, including union leaders, must carefully weigh the cost - benefit ratio of any financial commitment against their ability to sustain and enhance locally popular schools and broadly popular and impactful programs.

Rank - and - file members of the Seattle teachers union formally ended their strike against the state's largest school district, voting Sunday evening to ratify a proposed three - year contract.

This lawsuit was brought against the largest California school districts that had bargaining agreements that prohibited student test scores in teacher evaluations, according to Students Matter: Antioch Unified, Chaffey Joint Union High School District, Chino Valley Unified, El Monte City School District, Fairfield - Suisun Unified, Fremont Union High School District, Inglewood Unified, Ontario - Montclair School District, Pittsburg Unified, Saddleback Valley, San Ramon Valley Unified, Upland Unified and Victor Elementary School District.

The case was filed against the district by the American Civil Liberties Union and others, and alleged students were being deprived of their constitutional right to an equitable education.

They seemed to offer a hopeful glimmer of how an urban district could win out against resistance from teachers unions and community pressures by sticking with student - centered policies.

«We believe in publicly funded public education and we believe that we can have a system in Chicago that is equal to or exceeds school districts in Finland or Japan,» she says of the colleagues with whom she has reshaped the Chicago Teachers Union into a leading force in the fight against school privatization, closures, cuts and the gimmickry that too often passes for education policy.

Los Angeles Unified's teachers union has filed an unfair labor practice charge against the school district, saying administrators failed to negotiate key changes to a controversial performance evaluation system now being used to review educators.

The lawsuit was brought against the largest school districts that had collective bargaining agreements that prohibited student test scores in teacher evaluations, Lipshutz said: Antioch Unified, Chaffey Joint Union High School District, Chino Valley Unified, El Monte City School District, Fairfield - Suisun Unified, Fremont Union High School District, Inglewood Unified, Ontario - Montclair School District, Pittsburg Unified, Saddleback Valley, San Ramon Valley Unified, Upland Unified and Victor Elementary School District.

Snyder can point to the lawsuit filed earlier this year by the American Civil Liberties Union's state branch against the Highland Park district (and the state) for educationally failing the children in its care as one example of why the state must overhaul school funding and expand choice.

With an assist from some local school boards and 275 district superintendents, the union's main arguments against the proposition are their usual ones — charters drain money from traditional public schools, charters cherry - pick their students, yada, yada, yada.

The Connecticut Parents Union, for example, has helped Marie Menard, file suit against the Stratford school district after it charged her with what can laughingly be called stealing education for allowing her daughter to claim her home as a residence for her two grandchildren in order to avoid sending them to failure mills.

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Even an officer of the district's teachers union wasn't so much against the state's intervention as much as pleading that teachers and residents be given a real say in the process.

Earlier this year, as the truly repulsive story of Mark Berndt (warning: the link is not for the faint of heart)-- an elementary teacher in the L.A. Unified School District accused of committing unspeakable acts against his students — came to light, I noted here on Public Sector Inc. that the failure to prevent his crimes owed in part to the influence of the California Teachers Association, the teachers union that is the state's most powerful special interest.

As I chronicled here, the district was caught flat - footed earlier this year when a scandal involving a teacher sexually abusing students revealed that, under the terms of a contract negotiated with United Teachers Los Angeles (the local union), complaints against educators that don't result in disciplinary action are disregarded after only a few years (unsurprisingly, the teacher in question had a long paper trail).

In August 2013, the Anderson Unified School District («District») filed a complaint against the Shasta Secondary Home School («Shasta»), a nonclassroom - based charter school authorized by the Shasta union High School District, alleging that Shasta did not have legal authority to open a resource center within the District's boundaries because of the geographic site restrictions found in the Charter Schools Act, Education Code sections 47605 and 47605.1.

Union mail against Anderson accused her of leading a Republican stampede intent on a district «takeover.»

He added that the union is considering filing an Unfair Labor Practice against the district.»

We asked a couple of experts to weigh in and they came up with three possible scenarios: a fine or other finding against the district, permission to implement a new plan unilaterally without the union's approval, or the use of some sort of outside third party to handle things.

An informal conference to discuss a possible settlement in one of the teachers union's unfair labor practice charges against the LA Unified School District has been postponed; it was supposed to have taken place Thursday.