HA Secondary News

Teaching History;  June 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Committee members provide guidance to teacher members around the country on diverse issues...Secondary Committee to reflect our teacher members' views at the highest level. The Secondary...high quality CPD to our secondary teacher members is a crucial part of our membership...

Fairfax Teachers' Leaders Vote No Confidence in Spillane

The Washington Post;  May 18, 1989 ;     485 words ......Career Advancement Review Board who was one of its four teacher members, quit last week, protesting Spillane's reversal of one-third...her resignation from the board yesterday. The other two teacher members, Betty Costello of South Lakes High School and Gloria Thorpe...

Membership Matters!

Teaching History;  December 1, 2003 ;     135 words ......Professional Development Manager, AIf Wilkinson, inviting you to send him your ideas about how the HA can best support its teacher members. A FREEPOST envelope is enclosed, so do feel free to write on the back of the letter and send it straight to Alf. Alternatively...

We must put pupils first.(Letters)

Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England);  February 8, 2002 ;     250 words ......proposal, regardless of whether the school is failing or not. While the union has a duty to look after the interests of its teacher members, it is surely a narrow minded approach. Equally, polititians are using the pupils as a political football, and Cllr Joe...

Solidarity in Omaha!

NEA Today;  November 1, 1999 ;     217 words ...Solidarity in Omaha! Teacher members of the Omaha (Nebraska) Education Association, working without a contract since last spring, rallied September 20 before the school...

NSW: Catholic school teachers win 12% payrise

AAP General News (Australia);  June 10, 2004 ;     128 words ......NSW: Catholic school teachers win 12% payrise The Independent Education Union says it's not surprised that its Catholic teacher members have won a 12 per cent pay increase. But the union says it doesn't think it's fair all around. Its acting deputy secretary...

150,000 more pay maximum taxes

Sunday Star-Times;  September 23, 2007 ;     309 words ......pushed an extra 150,000 New Zealanders into the top income tax bracket. The PPTA says 75% of its 18,000 secondary school teacher members are earning more than $60,000, the theshold for the 39c top rate of tax. When Labour won office in 1999 it promised just...

Teachers' vote lifts tests chaos threat.(Education)

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  December 18, 2003 ;     403 words ...Byline: By Cathy Spencer A planned boycott of school tests for seven-year-olds has failed. National Union of Teacher members threatened to cause chaos across the country by boycotting next year's SATs tests. More than 86 per cent of the 35,000...

NEA rejects outline by Bush for schools; Says plan would have adverse...

The Washington Times;  July 3, 2003 ;     593 words ...Byline: George Archibald, THE WASHINGTON TIMES NEW ORLEANS - National Education Association officials and teacher members criticized President Bush's school accountability program yesterday at the union's annual convention, just a day after the...

Good turnout in General Teaching Council elections.

M2 Presswire;  April 13, 2000 ;     419 words ......turnout in General Teaching Council elections (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:13042000 The names of the 25 elected teacher members of the General Teaching Council - the new voice for teachers - were announced today by Carol Adams, Returning Officer for...

MERIT PAY DESERVES SUPPORT OF TEACHERS.(EDITORIAL)

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  July 7, 2000 ;     454 words ......National Education Association, which has been meeting in Chicago this week, often seems to put the selfish interests of its teacher members ahead of the interests of the children they teach. However, in a key vote, this time the teachers' union moved toward a...

Teacher-bashing critics ignore deeper problems Don't force charter schools...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  March 14, 1997 ;     493 words ......of teacher-bashing must cease. Daniel Grego's self-serving attack on the Wisconsin Education Association Council and its teacher members was merely the latest in an unending series of attacks on public education in Wisconsin. (In My Opinion column, March 3...

School reform faces showdown on naming teachers to councils

Chicago Sun-Times;  July 10, 1991 ;     291 words ......showdown vote on Chicago school reform could take place this week when lawmakers are asked to support a plan calling for teacher members of local school councils to be appointed, not elected. Sen. Miguel del Valle (D-Chicago) said Tuesday that the measure...

District 62 Board reaffirms its strong support for Supt. Willis

Des Plaines Times (IL);  March 7, 1996 ;     492 words ...In response to last week's vote of no confidence by the teacher/members of the Des Plaines Education Association (see story, page 7), the District 62 Board of Education issued the following statement...

NEW SCHOOL COUNCIL TRAINING INFORMATION AVAILABLE

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 21, 2006 ;     414 words ......Kentucky Department of Education issued the following news release: With school council elections for parent and teacher members coming up soon in many of Kentucky's public schools, the Kentucky Department of Education and the Kentucky Association...