Sentences with phrase «when teacher union leaders»

Seattle — What happens when teacher union leaders step up to support teachers, students, parents and public schools

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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.

But in Oklahoma — unlike West Virginia — when state union leaders called members back to school, teachers returned, even though the legislature had budged no further.

When he officially took the helm as leader of the city school system he certainly inherited a number of challenges: poor graduation rates, gaps in special education services, burned bridges between his predecessor, Jean Claude Brizard, and the teachers union and the school board, among a host of others things.

Teacher union leaders, school administrators and state officials harmonized last week over a proposed teacher evaluation system.But Tuesday when Gov.Dannel P. Malloyannounced plans to reduce red tape and to «empower local school districts» — steps Teacher union leaders, school administrators and state officials harmonized last week over a proposed teacher evaluation system.But Tuesday when Gov.Dannel P. Malloyannounced plans to reduce red tape and to «empower local school districts» — steps teacher evaluation system.But Tuesday when Gov.Dannel P. Malloyannounced plans to reduce red tape and to «empower local school districts» — steps that...

«There is something fundamentally wrong when the union leaders, representing our teachers, refuse to even discuss my proposal to bring more accountability to our school system,» she said.

It's all too easy to make mistakes when you're emotional about the rigged teachers» contract by an incompetent Board of Education majority who sold out the school district as payback to teacher's union leader Phil Rumore for his election support.

Certainly not a major teachers union leader at a time when the national movement is toward holding teachers accountable.

Union leaders often invoke norms of justice when seeking to ensure that veteran teachers continue to enjoy the same perks and protections they were implicitly promised when they entered the profession a quarter century ago — despite intervening changes in the larger world, in the needs of students, and in management and organizational practice.

DS: Well, first of all, when I discuss the idea of a state wide curriculum with the leaders of both the NYSUT and the UFT [teacher unions], they were and are enthusiastic.

Unions deserve their share of the blame for making it tough to remove lousy teachers, but the fact that 99 % of teachers are routinely rated as satisfactory can be chalked up almost entirely to school and district leaders failing to do their job when it comes to evaluating personnel (unless you happen to believe we have 3.4 million phenomenal teachers).

When schools were «stigmatised» by bad Ofsted reports, recruiting staff and pupils became more difficult and schools could be «trapped in cycles of underperformance», said Mr Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers» union.

Malcolm Trobe, leader of the ASCL head teachers» union, said that heads would be «extremely disappointed and angry» that the extra funding announced had not stayed in the education budget, when «schools are so hard pushed».

The Argus Leader reported that «school boards and the teachers union balked when [the law] made that evaluation system mandatory; they argued local school boards know best» (Verges, 2012, p. 3).

But when you talk to progressive union leaders and the teachers at the vanguard of this new movement, it's striking how much they have in common — even accounting for disagreements around specific policies.

Randi Weingarten — who should be prepping for her Red Carpet appearance — and other teacher union leaders talk such a good game, but when the curtain is drawn back, all that's there is a self - serving agenda.

The schools minister was defiant when he appeared in front of the House of Commons education committee on Wednesday, following almost 90 minutes of evidence from teacher training experts and union leaders.

Another 300 teachers joined the TLI in 2014.55 All participating teachers learn skills associated with three kinds of leadership: instructional leadership, or how teacher leaders can improve the systems that support teachers and students within schools and districts; policy leadership, or how teacher leaders can influence policymakers at local, state, and national levels; and association leadership, or how teacher leaders can advance the goals of their local and national unions.56 When they return to their districts, these teacher leaders work to address leadership challenges that they identified through their training.

Over the last several years federal and state accountability legislation has come under attack from a duo of strange bedfellows: Tea Party / Trump - ish acolytes who wave the banner of local control and teacher union leaders who disdain objective measurements of student learning, at least when they're tied to teacher evaluations and job security.

These inspiring fights will leave a more lasting impression when teacher leaders use them to build their unions into powerful forces for social transformation.

The union views itself as «the co-equal fourth branch of government,» said Oakland Democrat Don Perata, a former teacher who crossed swords with the group when he was state Senate leader.