Sentences with phrase «vote on a new teacher»

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A coalition led by the New York State United Teachers and the Alliance for Quality Education is launching a direct mail campaign today slamming Democratic senators who voted «yes» on a budget resolution that included Gov. David Paterson's proposed education spending cuts.

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 IDC, meanwhile, plans to focus on making it easier to vote, expanding pre-kindergarten in New York City for 3 - year - olds, and achieving student loan forgiveness to combat teacher shortages.

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At the Red Room press conference where Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Democratic legislative leaders — minus Skelos — had announced the med - mar deal, Klein said a vote would be held Thursday evening on the bill, along with bills that would create a 25 mph in New York City and adjust the state's teacher evaluation law.

A coalition that includes New York State United Teachers and progressive groups launched a TV ad campaign of more than $ 1 million on Syracuse TV stations singling out Katko and Tenney for their votes.

NEW YORK CITY — City officials voted Wednesday to close five of its struggling schools in The Bronx and Brooklyn despite strong opposition from elected officials, parents, teachers and students who called on the Department of Education to reconsider.

«We disagree with Sen. Flanagan's support for DeVos, but there are only two New Yorkers who will vote on her confirmation and we applaud Sen. (Charles) Schumer and Sen. (Kirsten) Gillibrand for their public opposition to DeVos» appointment,» said New York State United Teachers spokesman Carl Korn.

A Regents panel voted to allow teachers and principals who could be fired based on poor student performance on Common Core exams this year or last year to defend themselves by citing the botched rollout of the tough new curriculum.

First, it determined that VOTE / COPE Committee, which has attacked Republican Assemblyman Sean T. Hanna's positions on hydraulic fracturing, women's health and gun control, is actually the political arm of the teacher's union, New York State United Tteacher's union, New York State United TeacherTeacher.

«This is the last issue we need to crack in New York City and to do that we need to locate the voters who are really concerned and who will vote on charters, vote on parochial schools, vote on the problems caused by the strength of the teachers» unions,» he said.

In a statement released after the vote this afternoon, the union's president, Michael Mulgrew, praised Mr. Espaillat's record on education, and argued the Washington Heights lawmaker «understands what New York schools need and will make sure the voices of teachers, parents and students are heard in Congress.»

Board member Roger Tilles said the board also voted to base another 25 percent of a teacher's evaluations on new local tests.

The clock is ticking until Buffalo teachers meet with the expectation of voting on a new contract, but district and union leaders have not yet agreed on a deal to present to them.

As part of the 2015 state budget lawmakers voted to create the new teacher evaluation system that places a greater emphasis on student test scores when evaluating the job performance of teachers and principals.

New York State lawmakers, at the urging of Gov. Cuomo, voted on March 15 to cut the retirement benefits for future public employees including New York City public school teachers.

Ballots are being sent today to teachers and other UFT staff members in roughly 1,800 schools, and voting is expected to begin Monday on the proposed new contract.

Even more surprising were the results that came from phone polls conducted in January and March of 2003 asking teachers their opinions on ProComp just before the vote to adopt the new program.

The United Federation of Teachers had expected the trustees of the State University of New York to vote at their May 24 board meeting on the union's application to open a 450 - student charter school serving grades K - 5, starting in September.

The district and United Teachers Los Angeles have forged a tentative agreement on the new system — which union members will vote on next week — that does not yet clarify how testing data will be used or how much it will count in the overall rating.

Each WUHSD school designed and voted on a new bell schedule to integrate the daily required tutorial times and to accommodate the one - hour formal weekly collaborative sessions for teachers.

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Teachers in Dade County, Fla., which has gained a reputation for its lucrative and innovative teachers» contracts, will vote this week on a new three - year agreement that focuses mainly on classroom conditions and contains no salary increasesTeachers in Dade County, Fla., which has gained a reputation for its lucrative and innovative teachers» contracts, will vote this week on a new three - year agreement that focuses mainly on classroom conditions and contains no salary increasesteachers» contracts, will vote this week on a new three - year agreement that focuses mainly on classroom conditions and contains no salary increases at all.

She voted against a budget bill that requires new teacher performance reviews to rely more heavily on standardized tests.

A Regents panel voted to allow teachers and principals who could be fired based on poor student performance on Common Core exams this year or last year to defend themselves by citing the botched rollout of the tough new curriculum.

The school board has rejected the Chicago Teachers Union's demand to move contract talks to a final stage, setting up a new fight as teachers prepare to vote later this week on whether to authorize their leaders to call aTeachers Union's demand to move contract talks to a final stage, setting up a new fight as teachers prepare to vote later this week on whether to authorize their leaders to call ateachers prepare to vote later this week on whether to authorize their leaders to call a strike.

In New York, the transition has been so rocky that the state's teachers union president said this week that he would pursue a no - confidence vote on education commissioner John King over his handling of Common Core implementation.

A supporter of the United Teachers of New Orleans, a local affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers holds a sign during a demonstration in which hundreds marched across the Mississippi River Bridge on April 1, 2006 in New Orleans, Louisiana for the right of displaced Hurricane Katrina evacuees to vote in the April 22 elections.

The state's teachers» union said it plans to call for a vote of no confidence in state Education Department Commissioner John King on the ongoing controversy over new student testing and teacher evaluations.

New York State education officials voted on Monday to put into effect, for the first time, regulations that teachers be evaluated in part by the progress their students make on standardized tests.

Another group, Teachers for a New Unionism, is gathering signatures to require UTLA members to vote on whether they should agree to a new, «teacher - driven» evaluation system in exchange for a district pledge not to lay off teachers for twTeachers for a New Unionism, is gathering signatures to require UTLA members to vote on whether they should agree to a new, «teacher - driven» evaluation system in exchange for a district pledge not to lay off teachers for two yeaNew Unionism, is gathering signatures to require UTLA members to vote on whether they should agree to a new, «teacher - driven» evaluation system in exchange for a district pledge not to lay off teachers for two yeanew, «teacher - driven» evaluation system in exchange for a district pledge not to lay off teachers for twteachers for two years.

In February the membership of United Teachers Los Angeles will vote on a teacher - led initiative urging union leaders to negotiate a new teacher evaluation system for L.A. Unified.

Although the initiative that all union - member teachers will be voting on in February simply urges UTLA to take an active role in the creation of teacher evaluations, we want to propose that a new evaluation system take into account the following elements:

Teachers sporting «proud to be charter and union» buttons filled almost every seat in Morris Jeff Community School's library on Tuesday in anticipation of the New Orleans campus» board of directors vote to recognize their union.

Next month, members of the teachers union will also vote on a new initiative to demand various things from LAUSD such as better pay, reduced class size, restored funding of early childhood...

Later this week, L.A.'s public school teachers will vote on a new contract with the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Today's meeting was in response to the United Teacher of New Orleans on Monday asking the the National Labor Relations Board to organize and supervise a secret vote of the faculty.

The announcement came as the New York State Senate geared up for a vote on a bill that would end the teacher seniority system and allow the city to conduct layoffs based on merit.

The Chicago Teachers Union voted in favor of a one - day teacher walkout on April 1 in an effort to push Gov. Bruce Rauner and state lawmakers to provide a new funding plan for the district.

In August, a New York State Supreme Court judge invalidated a vote by state education officials that would have let districts base 40 % of teacher evaluations on state test scores, after the state teachers unions sued saying the law allowed for only 20 %.

The House may consider the new definition of a «first class school district» today, and with a party line vote expected, congratulations to DPS and the teachers» union on your victory.

In Ohio, for instance, the state legislature voted in 2014 to decrease the weighting for student growth from 50 to 42.5 percent of a teacher's evaluation.61 In New Jersey, the governor mandated that student performance on statewide exams account for 10 percent — a significant decrease from the previously adopted 30 percent — of a teacher's evaluation in the 2014 — 15 school year.62 Indiana, Hawaii, and Maryland have also decreased the weighting of test - based student growth in teacher evaluations.63 64 65

Ballot papers have gone out this week to Association of Teachers and Lecturers» (ATL) members around the country to vote on forming a new education union with the National Union of Teachers (NUT).