Sentences with phrase «aft convention»

Like most classroom teachers, I didn't attend last weekend's AFT convention.

Anyone who was looking for the Chicago Teachers Union grievance department staff on Thursday, January 10, would have been better off paying the $ 18 to park at Navy Pier (a lot less than parking for $ 40 or more at one of the convention hotels) and go upstairs to the Registration Area of the AFT convention.

The problem came to a head in June 2002, when FEA was forced to dig into its own coffers to pay UTD's national dues, so that UTD delegates could be seated at the 2002 AFT Convention in Las Vegas.

Walking into the AFT convention at Navy Pier as the American Federation of Teachers began its bi-annual convention on July 10, 2008, the first thing a curious delegate Continue...

Last night the report from the AFT convention was that Hillary Clinton once again spoke about how charter schools provided traditional public schools with innovation.

Not exact matches

At 1 p.m., AFT President Randi Weingarten and AQE advocacy director Zakiyah Ansari hold a press conference on California Supreme Court's decision in the Vergara case, Room 504, Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 South Figueroa St., Los Angeles.

Feldman told members this morning during a live Webcast from the AFT's 76th annual convention in Philadelphia that she is concerned about those students who have not benefited from high standard reforms in their early school years and now lack the basic literacy and math skills they need.

At the union's own convention in Chicago, the centerpiece of Weingarten's acceptance speech was the repudiation of the federal No Child Left Behind law (NCLB), once warmly welcomed by the AFT.

In July, the two major teachers unions entered a rare planetary conjunction, with both the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) choosing new presidents at their national conventions barely a week apart.

The AFT was careful not to say anything against the standards themselves, and spent time before and after the convention making sure that its external partners, funders and nonprofits, knew the nuances behind its statements.

The media and observers across the ideological spectrum were surprised and, in some cases, disconcerted in July 2014 when at the annual American Federation of Teachers (AFT) convention in Los Angeles, the union's leadership team announced that its Innovation Fund grants of $ 20,000 to $ 30,000 were going to be made available to state and local affiliates to critique the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the massive multistate effort to improve student achievement.

Current AFT president Sandra Feldman explained to journalist Sara Mosle that when advance copies of Risk were circulated on the eve of a union convention in 1983, «We all had this visceral reaction to it.

At the height of the war between Ronald Reagan and organized labor, the AFT invited the president to speak at its convention, and Reagan accepted.

She was overwhelmingly elected to that position in July 2014 at the AFT's biennial convention.

She was elected to that position in July 2014 at the AFT's biennial convention in Los Angeles.

Chris Stewart aka Citizen Stewart blessed us with live tweets from the AFT session at the NAACP convention and blogger Erika Sanzi put them into a Storify.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), addresses delegates on the first day of the Democratic National Convention at Wells Fargo Center on July 25, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsyvania.

At its annual convention Friday in Los Angeles, AFT president Randi Weingarten is expected to announce that the union will underwrite $ 20,000 to $ 30,000 grants for teachers» projects designed to rewrite and improve the Common Core standards, according to a press release.

Weingarten is presiding over the AFT's convention in the City of Angels just a month after a California judge handed down his ruling in Vergara v. California ending the near - lifetime employment laws upon which the AFT's influence (and that of the NEA) is dependent.

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) kicks off its annual convention in downtown Los Angeles tomorrow bringing more 3,500 national union delegates to the home of LA Unified, the second largest school district in the country.

Duncan's refusal to do so — and, in fact, move to double down on his original comments — led the AFT as well as the NEA to pass resolutions at their respective conventions demanding the Obama Administration to fire him.

Weingarten earned a 98 percent margin in her recent re-election to lead the AFT, while García earned 94 percent of her convention's vote.

The internal war among Democrats over education policy escalated another notch this weekend at the annual convention of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) union in Los Angeles.

In a major address to the 3,000 delegates to the national convention of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), outgoing AFT President Ed McElroy announced that the union was no longer in Continue...

In a speech to her union's convention Thursday, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten asserted that «The real pioneers of private school choice were the white politicians who resisted school integration.»

At 7:00 p.m. on July 11, 2008, U.S. Senator Barack Obama was hosting a $ 2,000 - a-plate fundraiser at Chicago's Regency Hyatt Hotel, one of the two main hotels for the national convention of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).

Despite being the only pro-public education, pro-teacher candidate in the race for Governor, the AFT - CT refused to allow me to fill out a candidate questionnaire, refused to allow me to speak to the AFT - CT candidate endorsing committee, refused to allow me to address the AFT - CT executive committee and even prohibited me from speaking to the AFL - CIO's annual endorsing convention, a meeting in which Randi Weingarten was the keynote speaker.

At the convention, Badass Teacher leaders, Marla Kilfoyle and Jamy Brice - Hyde, shared the results of this year's BATS / AFT Quality - of Worklife survey of 30,000 educators http://www.aft.org/news/survey-shows-need-national-focus-workplace-stress.

The AFT is governed by its elected officers and by delegates to the union's biennial convention, which sets union policy.

Although the AFT has scheduled a «labor action» during the convention (Sunday afternoon), instead of protesting against the Chicago attack on the teachers in six schools (and a few others not as complete or dramatic), the nation's teacher union will be protesting at a hospital (St. Joseph's) on the lakefront in support of the nurses and other hospital staff trying to organize medical workers at Resurrection hospitals in Chicago.

This was made clear by Weingarten's willingness to abandon her own moderate reform rhetoric (and her triangulation strategy) during the AFT's recent national convention.

This includes announcing in March that the AFT and its foundation wing would no longer take money from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, whose eponymous founder spoke before the union's convention four years ago.

For centrist and progressive Democrat reformers, the AFT's recent convention is another reminder that their desire for reform - minded teachers» unions isn't ever going to pass.

The union's first victory came in the form of the Democratic Party platform at the 2016 convention, which, at the personal request from AFT President Randi Weingarten, was amended to be more anti-charter than ever.