Students participated in skills-building workshops, cultural activities, and educational sessions on current labor challenges taught and shared by labor educators, union staff and officers, and worker organization activists.
Given the relative ease of passing the test, the bac's primary function now seems to be to identify and punish the weakest students, the educators' union argued.
A study by a major educators' union, S.N.P.D.E.N., put the "true cost" of the general and technical bacs at a combined $2 billion.
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, an educators union, was in the state Tuesday and described a sense of relief and joy.
For the last several days, policy makers, educators, union officials and charter school advocates have gone to great pains to avoid taking the blame should the state get shut out of the competition for the grants.
Want venal politicians, heroes, greedy tycoons, philanthropists, actors, writers, musicians, designers, educators, union bosses, crime, punishment, redemption, con artists, billionaires, bums, sophisticates, dullards, lunatics, geniuses, immigrants legal or illegal?
Parents, students, educators, unions and community members share a desire for great neighborhood public schools that are safe, welcoming and collaborative.
Pasadenans for a Livable Wage -- a broad coalition of community and civic groups, clergy, low-income workers, nonprofit leaders, educators, unions, and enlightened businesses -- is encouraging local residents to attend this meeting and express their views.
But a broad coalition of low-income workers, middle class professionals, clergy, nonprofit leaders, educators, unions, community and civic groups, and enlightened businesses has come together to transform Pasadena into the City of Raises.
Pasadenans for a Livable Wage (PLW) a broad coalition of low-income workers, middle class professionals, clergy, nonprofit leaders, educators, unions, community and civic groups, and enlightened businesses - is urging Mayor Tornek and the City Council to adopt a plan that addresses this concern.
[Daily News] Educators and union leaders said a state grant program meant to improve struggling schools has failed because of labor squabbles and miscommunication.
