Sentences with phrase «vote of teachers»

It's actually the fictionalized story of Locke High School, the struggling South Central LA school that in 2007 - 2008 was wrestled away from the Los Angeles public school system (and the teachers union) by a vote of teachers.

With the general election on the horizon, political parties are seeking to win over the education vote of teachers and parents.

And California law makes it possible for a vote of teachers in a school to turn that school into a charter.

After the release in 2014, Google Classroom is conquering votes of teachers in K12 around the globe.

Not exact matches

Anne Sheehan, head of corporate governance at California State Teachers» Retirement System, which backs the additional climate reporting, said Exxon's letter suggests the voting is at least very close and may be going against the company.

The likes of the Ontario Teachers» Pension Plan, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and British Columbia Investment Management Corp. have policies favouring the principle of one share, one vote.

MIT's first tenured female marketing professor was voted the B - school's «Teacher of the Year» in 2014, an honor she was nominated for three times previously.

Business Insider reported last week, meanwhile, that the California State Teachers» Retirement System, one of the biggest pension funds in the world, was lobbying shareholders to vote against the proposal.

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Anne Sheehan is the Director of Corporate Governance for the California State Teachers» Retirement System (CalSTRS), the largest teacher's public pension fund in the USA, where she is responsible for overseeing all corporate governance activities for the fund including proxy voting, company engagements and managing $ 4 billion placed with activists managers and sustainability managers.

He didn't say make sure someone believes as you do, votes the way you do, or interprets scripture correctly (God knows how many teachers of the law thought Jesus» interpretation of Scripture was WAY off base).

So on the great moral teacher vs son of god question, I vote for none of the above.

Im a Txn who plans to pray that we will soon vote out of office the Repug hardcaseswho so far plan to decimate education, by closing schools & laying off teachers.

Four years later — the year of her retirement — Alice von Hildebrand was voted the top professor, out of eight hundred teachers, and a student body of 25,000.

By a vote of 9 - 8, the court held that Spain did not violate the European Convention on Human Rights when it declined to renew the contract of a public school teacher who had been offering classes in Catholicism.

In short, the closeness of the vote reflects the peculiarities of the Spanish system, in which teachers of Catholicism are state employees, rather than the principle of church autonomy itself.

Six months after firing him as coach, for the Bauman incident, the board of trustees voted him professor emeritus, and Hayes kept his small teacher's office at OSU until the end.

At the very moment when a student might be gearing up to react to the teacher's comments as a threat, a sign of the teacher's personal disapproval or bias, the Post-it gave the student an alternative frame through which to view those comments — not as an attack, in other words, but as a vote of confidence that the student was capable of high - quality work.

Our Trustees are a group of up to fourteen voting members including parents, teachers, and outside community members dedicated to the mission and values of Marin Waldorf School.

CHICAGO (Reuters)- Public school teachers in Chicago voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new three - year contract, ending a bitter dispute with Mayor Rahm Emanuel over school reforms that prompted the first strike of city teachers in 25 years.

But, when there is some comfort level with the teacher you'll want to give your child a vote of confidence, test the waters and leave.

«At the very moment when a student might be gearing up to react to the teacher's comments as a threat, a sign of the teacher's personal disapproval or bias, the Post-it gave the student an alternative frame through which to view those comments — not as an attack, in other words, but as a vote of confidence,» writes Tough.

Members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union voted to join teachers in England and Wales in Thursday's day of action against government cuts.

Only around 40 % of teachers voted in the ballot, but of those that did 82 % backed strike action and 91 % backed action short of a strike.

The group Teachers For Todd reported spending $ 27,794 on mail in the 9th Senate district ahead of Tuesday's vote.

The principal of a Queens middle school twisted teachers» arms to vote for joining a pet program of NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, and launched a revenge campaign after peeking at the secret ballot, a probe found.

He voted for all the testing that parents and kids hate and voted to impose an outrageous evaluation system on teachers, usurping the authority of locally elected school boards.

The United Federation of Teachers, for example, struggles to tell teachers how Teachers, for example, struggles to tell teachers how teachers how to vote.

A SUNY Board of Trustees committee voted Wednesday to let some charter schools certify their own teachers.

The vote came a few months after the state's teachers unions, closely aligned with the Assembly, claimed a victory in December when the Regents, prompted by the governor and Legislative leaders, placed a moratorium on the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

And she has the backing of New York United Teachers, which can spend money and bring out votes that can help in a small turnout race.

The plan, which is expected to be voted on by the full board Tuesday, assumes that such teachers would be of help in dealing with an expected influx of students from those U.S. territories.

Didn't he cave in a couple of years ago after taking thousands of dollars from NYSUT and vote with a «heavy heart» for a budget that included changes in the teacher evaluation law that quite severely tied teacher ratings to test scores?

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Last week, teachers voted to keep the Caucus of Rank - and - File Educators at the helm of the Chicago Teacherteachers voted to keep the Caucus of Rank - and - File Educators at the helm of the Chicago TeachersTeachers Union.

Assembly members Tedisco, Graf, Ra say Assembly Majority more interested in «symbolism over substance» and covering backsides after voting for budget that's outraged parents & teachers than informing parents of their rights to refuse to have their kids take tests

John Mannion, a biology teacher at West Genesee High School, received 67 percent of the county committee's vote Saturday morning.

The city's powerful teachers» union voted today to endorse Bill de Blasio for mayor — after snubbing him during the Democratic primary in favor of Bill Thompson.

In the case of 100 teachers asked to strike, the action would only be lawful if at least 50 teachers voted and 40 of them backed the strike.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has promised the Muslim community that it will promote the study of the Arabic language across the country in addition to its plans to restore allowances for teachers and nurses in training colleges, when voted into power.

One of the TV ads from the New York State Teachers Union's Vote COPE that claimed Hanna approved sales tax increases, was declared inaccurate, as were claimes that O'Brien voted against bridge repair funding.

Nearly 3,000 union delegates for New York State United Teachers voted this weekend to oust president Richard Iannuzzi, electing instead a slate of challengers supported by New York City's United Federation of Teachers.

Katko said he would vote for any bill that would provide federal grants to schools for the hiring of resource officers, but he believes it would be a mistake to also arm teachers.

The Regents were set to vote to delay the effects of Common Core on high school seniors for five more years, until 2022, and to offer teachers some protections if they are fired during the next two years.

The principal of a Queens middle school twisted teachers» arms to vote for joining a pet program of Chancellor Carmen Fariña, and launched a revenge campaign after peeking at the...

«In the midst of a widely recognized teacher shortage,» Success Academy's Eva Moskowitz said in a statement,» [the vote for the rules] ensures that kids of color will have access to great teachers and exceptional educational outcomes.»

But, they postponed a vote on a plan to allow teachers who are dismissed to argue that they were unable to teach properly because of inadequate implementation of the Common Core standards.

At the December Board of Regents meeting, members voted to postpone the effects of the tests on teacher evaluations until for at least four more years.

The charter schools committee of SUNY's Board of Trustees voted to approve regulations that will allow some schools to design their own teacher - training programs and certify their own teachers.

Eva S. Moskowitz, the founder and chief executive of Success Academy Charter Schools, shown last year, said in a statement on Wednesday, «In the midst of a widely recognized teacher shortage, SUNY's vote today ensures that kids of color will have access to great teachers and exceptional educational outcomes.»