Sentences with phrase «union stranglehold»

I want every child to have quality school choices, I want stronger (and broader) external standards, I want more open paths to becoming an educator, I want empowered school leaders (really empowered, in ways that would also break the union stranglehold) who are compensated like CEOs, I want super pay for great instructors and no pay for incompetents, and I want a complete makeover of «local control.»

Not exact matches

We have to escape «public sector unions» stranglehold on state and local governments,» agreed Mort Zuckerman, billionaire editor of U.S. News & World Report, «or it will crush us.»

What is forgotten is that trade unions voted for this change because the current system gives parliamentarians, not trade unions, a stranglehold on the vote.

Mr. Cuomo has made clear that breaking the stranglehold that entrenched interests, including unions, have on political leaders in Albany is a major priority.

He and Secretary Duncan see eye to eye, he said, about needing to «break the tenure stranglehold that the teachers» unions have had all across the country.

This means not only fighting to loosen the stranglehold of the teachers» unions, as many reformers have tried to do for years, but also rethinking some of the premises and timeworn organizational arrangements of the American system of education.

Labour's decision to drop its opposition to free schools — a direct challenge to the local authority stranglehold over state schooling — is likely to anger trade unions, although union bosses yesterday welcomed moves to outlaw teachers without formal qualifications.

It has been suggested that a revolution may be necessary to loosen the stranglehold that government and its union allies have on public education.

Instead, he talked about accountability, which is code for breaking the stranglehold of teachers» - union work rules.»

Pridemore, unabashedly conservative, nevertheless says that Act 10's potentially debilitating effects on unions creates an opportunity for a candidate who will challenge what he sees as organized labor's stranglehold on public education.

It's about not treating students like dirt and breaking the stranglehold the unions have over any kind of meaningful change like longer school days or school years, etc..

«She did have reason for highlighting the possibility of global warming because the biggest threat to the UK energy security at the time was the stranglehold the Marxist National Union of Mine Workers had on the coal industry.

Blockchain - based transactions are already loosening that stranglehold and eating into the market share of firms like Western Union.