Sentences with phrase «aft president»

Based on teacher / administrator Ray Budde's early 1970's thesis and the support by AFT president Albert Shanker, teachers were supposed to start charters as learning laboratories to show their professionalism.

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.

AFT President Randi Weingarten has become such an important player in the Clinton family universe that Clinton Global allowed her to use one of its events last September to announce the union's latest Trojan Horse for unionizing the early childhood education sector.

AFT President Randi Weingarten cites that case as having a chilling effect on further investigations.

As AFT president for almost three years, I continue to seek common ground on schools, and our members continue to make extraordinary sacrifices to serve kids through very tough economic times.

This week in a blog entitled, The Opt Out End Game, the President of the National Education Association, Lily Eskelsen Garcia, joined AFT President Randi Weingarten, in her support for the legal right of a parent to opt their child out of the Common Core assessment.

AFT President Randi Weingarten advocated for the amendment, saying it would help make testing «more fulsome» and schools «places of joy for children again.»

Former AFT President Al Shanker called for the creation of such a board in a 1985 National Press Club speech.

In fact, AFT President Randi Weingarten took advantage of that opportunity last month when she made an appearance with former President Clinton at Clinton Global Initiative's annual winter meeting in New York City.

It's worth noting that the first person to come up with the idea of a charter school was AFT president Albert Shanker; but his charter schools, if implemented would look nothing like the ones around today.

In this New York Post op - ed, NECSN CEO Kyle Rosenkrans responds to AFT President Randi Weingarten and Mayor Bill de Blasio touting the city's new PROSE schools as innovative public...

Last week AFT President Randi Weingarten hosted teachers from Newark, Perth Amboy, North Bergen, and Garfield for a meet - and - greet with gubernatorial shoo - ins Phil Murphy and his lieutenant governor running partner Sheila Oliver, reports

This afternoon I was scrolling through Facebook and came across a couple of postings by AFT President Randi Weingarten regarding the Trump administration's absolute failure in responding to Hurricane Maria and how we can help the families who are still struggling a month after.

AFT President Randi Weingarten says it is because teachers (90 % of who voted to strike) feel «completely disrespected.»

Less than 24 hours later, AFT President Randi Weingarten, a close personal friend of Hillary Clinton and a member of Hillary Clinton's «Super-PAC,» announced that that AFT was endorsing Hillary Clinton for President.

AFT President Randi Weingarten: «Houston developed an incomprehensible, unfair and secret algorithm to evaluate teachers that had no rational meaning.

Palmer, Peters and Randi Weingarten, the national AFT president who was the second - day keynote speaker, all reminded the members of Malloy's support for a broad labor agenda and his defense of locked out health workers represented by AFT at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital.

Update: After posting this piece, AFT President Weingarten and Malloy spoke at the AFT Get - Out - The - Vote rally and Weingarten tweeted: «@DanMalloyCT has apologized; affirmed pledge to coll barg.»

More reaction to AFT President Randi Weingarten's attacks against those who -LSB-...]

He has called public education advocate Diane Ravitch a racist on dozens of occasions and has made similar statements about AFT President Randi Weingarten and other teacher union officials.

Besides counting NEA and AFT among its members, the coalition includes vassals such as the Schott Foundation for Public Education (which collected $ 725,000 from the two unions between 2013 - 2014 and 2014 - 2015), and Center for Popular Democracy (a recipient of $ 1 million in teachers» union money in that same period whose board includes AFT President Rhonda (Randi) Weingarten on its board).

I speak in particular of AFT President Randi Weingarten, who reportedly pulled in an AFT income of over half a million dollars in 2014, while the average teacher salary in the United States has declined by 2.3 percent since 2000 to $ 56,689.

See also the AFT's press release, written by AFT President Randi Weingarten, here.

In a political move to reward the AFT - CT for ramming through an endorsement of Dan Malloy, without even granting the other candidates [like myself] the opportunity to fill out a candidate questionnaire, meet with the AFT - CT PAC or address the AFT - CT Board of Directors, Malloy announced on August 21, 2014 that he was taking the unprecedented step of appointing Meriden AFT President Erin Benham to a four year position on the State Board of Education.

And AFT President Peters concluded her commentary piece with the observation, «And until the department can demonstrate that it can, the State Board of Education should deny the outgoing commissioner's request.»

But putting aside, for the moment, AFT President Melodie Peters's anti-charter school editorial of November 17, 2014, when the real vote on the motion to adopt the Malloy administration's proposal to fund eight more charter schools was taken, it passed the State Board of Education unanimously....

Good Morning Yesterday, Dr. Howard Fuller, Derrell Bradford, Darrell Allison, and Kevin Chavous led a media conference call following the astonishing attack on families and education reform advocates by AFT President Randi Weingarten.

And to drive home the special relationship between the AFT and Malloy — and Malloy and the AFT — AFT President Weingarten, AFT - CT President Peters and Malloy started their day with a tour and press conference at a Meriden public school, with none - other - than the newest member of the State Board of Education, Meriden AFT President Erin Benham.

Education reform leaders and school choice advocates Dr. Howard Fuller, Derrell Bradford, Darrell Allison, and Kevin P. Chavous held a conference call following an astonishing attack on families and education reform advocates by AFT President Randi Weingarten.

AFT president Al Shanker was possibly the first person to call for the creation of a national standards board for teaching in a 1985 National Press Club speech.

In any event, the gifts will ensure that AFT president Randi Weingarten will have HRC on speed - dial.

AFT president, Clinton BFF and reportedly her favorite candidate for Secretary of Education Randi Weingarten added, «Today's speech on education repeats the same flawed ideology anti-public education zealots have been shilling for years.

AFT President Randi Weingarten returned today from Egypt, where she met in Cairo with leaders of Egyptian unions that were instrumental in the recent political and governmental changes there.

For immediate release Contact: Sharon Rubinstein, 212-870-3505, ext. 8, cell 703-901-7947, [email protected] AFT President Randi Weingarten and NYSED Commissioner John King to Exchange Ideas at Teaching Matters» Annual Luncheon, Oct. 23 (New York, NY)- October 15th, 2013 What: Teaching Matters» Champions of Education and Innovation luncheon will feature a moderated conversation...

«This is a turning point,» says AFT president Randi Weingarten.

WASHINGTON — Statement by AFT President Randi Weingarten on the 2013 Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools:

«The current accountability system has led districts to fixate on testing and sanctions, has squeezed out vital parts of the curriculum that are not subjected to testing, and has sacrificed much - needed learning time,» AFT President Randi Weingarten said.

John and AFT President Randi Weingarten appeared in conversation on December 14, 2011 at the JCC in Manhattan; it was part of the ongoing Learning Matters conversation series.

«In vision, in experience and in leadership, Hillary Clinton is the champion working families need in the White House,» said AFT President Randi Weingarten.

Not only does AFT President Randi Weingarten have a weak partner in the WTU, but a white union president trying to stir up a cap - the - charters movement here radiates the wrong racial optics.

AFT President Randi Weingarten will co-present a shareholder resolution signed by more than 100 pension funds, labor unions and individuals, representing 193,000 Pearson shareholders, including UNISON, Trade Union Fund Managers and the Chicago Teachers» Pension Fund.

9) Puerto Rico / Virgin Islands / National: At an event hosted by the Albert Shanker Institute, which supports public education and the role of unions, lawmakers and AFT President Randi Weingarten backed a bill that would provide $ 3.16 billion in aid for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in fiscal 2018 for education and Head Start.

Washington — Statement of AFT President Randi Weingarten on the growing privacy and security concerns regarding inBloom's database and other data collection efforts by parents, teachers and others.

«The MET findings reinforce the importance of evaluating teachers based on a balance of multiple measures of teaching effectiveness, in contrast to the limitations of focusing on student test scores, value - added scores, or any other single measure,» AFT President Randi Weingarten said in a statement.

AFT president Randi Weingarten told The American Prospect that in addition to working on the legal and legislative fronts to «defeat VAM,» the AFT is fighting for more constructive evaluation systems that actually help teachers improve their practices.

«Despite the fact that we're in a different climate, our work doesn't change,» AFT President Randi Weingarten told CSI participants, some from as far away as California, Florida and Texas.

«[AFT President Randi] Weingarten's former boss and mentor Al Shanker is actually credited with proposing charter schools.»

Texas AFT President Gayle Fallon offered the following lame and insulting excuse: «If that happened no one would want to teach in low income schools or a class that was behind grade level.»

Consider legendary American Federation of Teachers President Albert Shanker endorsing reforms in the wake of the 1983 report A Nation at Risk; or current AFT President Randi Weingarten pushing the anti-reformers within her caucus; or new National Education Association President Lily Eskelsen García showing humor as a parent and grace as a social justice advocate.

«The Solution - Driven Unionism prize is rooted in solving problems and successfully meeting the many challenges facing our communities, often in the most difficult of environments,» says AFT President Randi Weingarten.