Sentences with phrase «with teachers protesting»

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Alex Wind, one of the student activists with the #NeverAgain movement, high - fived his protesting teachers just before everyone filed back into school.

This May 1, 2018, file photo, shows Arizona teacher Aurelia Ionescu, front right, chanting with other teachers as protest organizers at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix.

In home schooling, women are the chief teachers, and one may think that their decision to stay at home with the kids is a protest against regnant feminisms.

The Nigeria Labour Congress is currently leading over one thousand workers in Kaduna state in a protest in solidarity with the 21,000 teachers sacked by the Kaduna State government.

This warning came on the heels of the planned protest by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, Kaduna State chapter to express solidarity with the over 21,000 teachers recently sacked by the state govTeachers, NUT, Kaduna State chapter to express solidarity with the over 21,000 teachers recently sacked by the state govteachers recently sacked by the state government.

Besides showing scheduled meetings with political over-tones, such as attending protests against President Donald Trump (R) on Jan. 19 and against the now - defunct Independent Democratic Conference, or IDC, on Feb. 16, Councilmember Dromm's 2017 calendar also showed scheduled meetings with officials with special interest groups Queens Community House, on Jan. 27; the United Federation of Teachers on several occasions; and NY - CLASS, on Nov. 28.

Teachers have also held more low tech rallies, with instructors coming after the school day was done to protest at the Capitol.

«Our members are all dedicated and committed members of staff, but they have been left with no choice but to make this strong protest «All that is needed to avoid this strike action is a commitment by the employer to genuine negotiation and to listen to the concerns of teachers.

The teachers union rebelled, with protests, and one fifth of students statewide opted out of the exams.

ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

Outside the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center on Thursday was a protest with students and parents rallying to keep the teachers.

The ranks of the anti-Cuomo protestors were stronger, with more than 1,000 teachers and public education advocates marching through the Empire State Plaza concourse, clogging security checkpoints into the Capitol and rallying on the Million Dollar Staircase in a boisterous protest of the governor's plan.

«We're going to fight this,» said Brooklyn Councilman Charles Barron, as he gathered with some two hundred elected officials, teachers, parents and activists on the steps of Tweed Courthouse, at the latest in a series of protests against Black Thursday evening.

Before the New Year even began, the state's largest teachers union was already making its displeasure with Governor Andrew Cuomo known, by protesting outside the governor's mansion.

Buffalo teachers will set up informational pickets outside city schools this week to protest the lack of a contract with the school district.

The victory, after weeks of cliffhanger budget negotiations and literally hundreds of protest actions by concerned parents and educators, was sweet indeed for teachers who can now close up their classrooms with the knowledge that they'll see their students again in September.

[Here's a follow - up on a post from last week about Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's meeting with Long Island teachers who protested his appearance at the Suffolk County Democrat Party dinner.]

At rallies and protests, parents and teachers argued that Moskowitz's charter schools have a poor track record of sharing space with other public schools.

Following a school year marked by statewide protests to recent changes in the testing procedures and teacher evaluation methods — with 20 percent of New York's students opting out of standardized tests — administrators at Minerva Central are preparing for a year of growth and collaboration, Farrell said in an interview.

The «Bourne Identity» star walked with teachers to protest the use of standardized tests.

While she complained, according to Education Week, that the school district should have granted her a leave of absence, a letter writer to the newspaper reminded the teacher of her history: «While civil disobedience and legal protest have long been used as ways of attracting attention to a cause, civil disobedience is unique because it has always carried with it the obvious risk of arrest and possible imprisonment.»

At a packed meeting, and with members of the local teachers» union protesting outside, the board voted 5 - 2 on June 8 to reduce the number of «local districts» from 11 to eight.

Greenawalt tells us that a decision by teachers to use one series of readers rather than another in response to parents» protests «would be uncontroversial [constitutionally] if the parents» reasons had nothing to do with religion.

Courts in Iowa and Maryland last week denied requests from local teachers» unions to bar two children with herpes from attending school, sparking parents to withdraw their children from class in protest.

Teachers must be willing to not only teach youth, but also march with youth, protest with youth, and show commitment to developing and improving as educators.

Doug Pratt of the Michigan Education Association protested, «When you walk into a building in the middle of winter, the flu bug that's going around and sidelining students and staff can spread like wildfire... Do you want a teacher whose parent or partner is undergoing chemotherapy that morning — and because of the reasonable amount of time they've bargained — gets to be with their family member and take care of what they need to?

Teachers felt that reforms like the Common Core and the incorporation of student test scores in teacher evaluations were being done to them, rather than with them, said Rich Ognibene, a former New York State Teacher of the Year who signed onto an open letter to Cuomo earlier this year protesting his leadership on eduteacher evaluations were being done to them, rather than with them, said Rich Ognibene, a former New York State Teacher of the Year who signed onto an open letter to Cuomo earlier this year protesting his leadership on eduTeacher of the Year who signed onto an open letter to Cuomo earlier this year protesting his leadership on education.

States where teachers are protesting have among the largest pay discrepancies when compared with similarly educated private - sector workers.

In what one organizer described as a»60s - style protest rally with guitar music and singing, a group of striking California child - care providers demonstrated on the grounds of the state Capitol in Sacramento last week, saying low wages are keeping good teachers from staying in the field.

The protest, ahead of next week's Budget, has been organised by regional groups of head teachers representing schools with 3.5 million pupils in 30 local authorities from Cornwall to Cumbria.

«We have coordinated this with the school district and the superintendent's office,» said Alex Caputo - Pearl, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, which is leading the LA part of the nationwide protest.

The recent dust up with American Federation of Teachers» prez Randi Weingarten and the disappointing education news out of the NAACP meeting in Baltimore are no exception; African American educators, advocates, moms, and dads from all over the country have raised their voices in protest and I am so grateful that they did.

In affluent and high - performing schools, PTA parents — with booster club money, political clout and enough free time — will march into the principal's office, file petitions with the district and protest until someone does something about a poorly performing teacher.

With a smaller crowd than predicted, at just 3,000 people, teachers and anti-reform advocates rallied to protest everything from No Child Left Behind, to standardized tests, and everything in between somehow labeled as education reform.

A few days after the posh parties with the likes of Reese Witherspoon, Orlando Bloom, Ed Ruscha and Frank Gehry to celebrate the opening of the new Broad Museum, the LA Unified teachers union, UTLA, is planning a protest at the museum on Sunday, aimed at its namesake: Eli Broad, one of LA's leading philanthropists.

I first came across Moore's work a while back, when he covered the tensions with teachers unions at the Black Lives Matter protests.

But schools may actually want teachers out with their students during the protests.

The transition to reading and math tests aligned with the Common Core in 2013 caused the number of students passing to plummet, unsettling parents, teachers and administrators, and leading many to protest that the standards were too high.

We must use this week to stand together in solidarity with teachers who have protested or are protesting currently.

The union still can organize job actions, as when schools had to be closed for four days last year during the Capitol protests, or influence board action by crowding School Board meetings, as when elementary teachers were unhappy with proposed changes to their planning time last spring.

A protester chants along with thousands of others as they participate in a protest at the Arizona Capitol for higher teacher pay and school funding on the first day of a state - wide teachers strike Thursday, April 26, 2018, in Phoenix.

Another sign of the determination of Jindal and his allies: the howls of protest that teachers» unions made over the speed with which reforms were enacted.

Following on the inspiring events of Arab Spring, tens of thousands of Wisconsin teachers, public employees, and supporters surprised the nation with weeks of massive protests in the state capital.

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In February 2011, with the protests being carried out daily, the Wisconsin Democratic Party claimed that the five states that outlaw collective bargaining for teachers all ranked below 44th in the nation in test scores, while Wisconsin ranked second.

Today, all 22 of our schools and our network office will travel to the state capital with parents, scholars, teachers and others to protest this decision and request equity in funding and facilities for public charter schools.

Working the contract: Teachers in Hillsborough County will protest their contract dispute with the district by «working to the contract» for the week after Thanksgiving.

The protests there have explicitly focused on prospective negative changes to teachers» retirement benefits, but educators have made it clear that better teacher compensation is intertwined with school quality.

With teachers coming to Raleigh on Wednesday to protest for higher wages and more school funding, people can expect to see plenty of numbers and rankings being thrown around by both supporters and critics of the protesters.

When the crowd, filled with teachers from every discipline, protested, he explained his thinking.