Sentences with phrase «aft claims»

In short, the AFT claims that test scores of charter school students fall below those of district school students.

Contrary to what AFT claims, however, this is old news.

The AFT claims that test scores of charter school students fall below those of district school students.

The AFT claims its membership is steady, though it has maintained it by affiliating unions outside the field of education, and not by recruiting a horde of new teachers.

The AFT claims that charter schools are more racially homogeneous than district schools, citing research that makes much of very small differences (normally less than 10 percent) between charter and nearby district school student bodies.

For instance, the AFT claims that Humboldt State professor Eric Rofes, in How Are School Districts Responding to Charter Laws and Charter Schools?

The AFT claims that the authors found that charter schools determine pay «in a similar manner to most school districts,» but Podgursky and Ballou in fact found charters far more likely to use merit pay and far less likely to use traditional salary schedules.

Similarly, the AFT claims that for - profit management companies «do not contribute to innovation because they offer a single, «cookie - cutter» school design, curriculum, and technology package to all the schools they operate.»

The AFT claims that the average public school teacher actually spends 8 hours and 15 minutes in school daily.

The AFT claimed the cover «casts teachers as «rotten apples» needing to be smashed by Silicon Valley millionaires with no experience in education.»

Not exact matches

If U.S. Department of Education — Gates — AFT — Fordham pledge to do nothing in the ESEA re-authorization or future Race to the Top to reward, incentivize, encourage or otherwise coerce states and localities to adopt the national curriculum and assessments that are being developed, then this claim might have some credibility.

In a press release posted on the AFT website, she claims,

Randi Weingarten of the AFT responded to the suit by taking potshots at the education reform group that helped file the claims.

Two years later, the AFT has launched another «summer surprise» — a white paper claiming to blow the lid off charter schools.

We'll start with AFT president Rhonda (please call me Randi) Weingarten who pulled in a cool $ 543,150 in total compensation over the last year, all the while railing against the rich because she claims they don't pay their fair share of taxes.

As a result of this, the AFT is less able than ever to claim itself to be the voice of teachers working in the nation's classrooms.

Weingarten's AFT bio claims she taught history at Clara Barton High School in Brooklyn from 1991 to 1997.

All parties claim these actions were completed in consultation and agreement with each other, but with an acting UTD president, another UTD president on paid leave, and an AFT administrator pending, who is really in charge of the United Teachers of Dade?

Claiming to «speak for their members» the AFT endorsed Malloy, despite the fact that he remains committed to a teacher evaluation system that includes the use of unfair, inappropriate and absurd standardized test scores when determining whether a teacher is doing a good job or not.

And if, on the other hand, Malloy, the CEA and the AFT want to claim that Malloy is the «better of two evils,» then at the very least they have the obligation to tell the truth about Malloy's record.

Thought - leaders, policymakers, and advocates have lit up Twitter, and rightfully so, crying foul about a story that supports the tragically irresponsible claim made by the NAACP and AFT (American Federation of Teachers union) last summer.

The company claims the system's control computer can shuffle power fore and aft before the wheels slip.

A Florida condo unit owner has filed a complaint with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, claiming that her condo association has discriminated against her on the basis of religion aft...