Mr. Murdoch wrote: "Bloomberg's bold teacher proposals today terrific.
But he had some choice words for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo: "Bloomberg's bold teacher proposals today terrific.
On the day of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's state of the city address, Mr. Murdoch praised the mayor's "bold teacher proposals" then asked, "How will chicken Cuomo respond?" Chicken-baiting politicians is not what you'd expect from a man who runs a company with a market capitalization of almost $50 billion, but it is in line with the run-and-gun spirit of Twitter.
The teachers' proposal includes extending the instructional day to make up for lost classroom time.
But they may encourage teachers elsewhere to seek to dilute the reforms.Silvia Romero, Guerrero's education minister, says that any law coming from the teachers' proposals might be challenged on constitutional grounds.
"The teacher testing proposal he has enunciated is simply yet another way to get around tenure and due process," Ms. Weingarten told the assembled teachers as Mrs. Clinton looked on and nodded.
But many details were not known, including a final agreement on raises for teachers — one proposal had suggested an average teacher get 16 percent over four years — and on benefits.
B1 Lawmaker Assails Board Plan The speaker of the New York State Assembly, Sheldon Silver, attacked a teachers' union proposal for an expanded New York City Board of Education that would have a majority appointed by the mayor.
And the union has tried to save the city money, by accepting a less generous pension plan for new teachers, a proposal that, to Mr. Bloomberg's chagrin, has stalled in the Legislature.
But Bridge, which has expanded at such a rapid rate in six years that it is present in more than 400 locations across Kenya and Uganda, faces a potent threat to its survival in the shape of radical new teacher training proposals that would drive up the cost and put it beyond the reach of those that need it most.
