Sentences with phrase «aft gave»

The $ 300,000 NEA and AFT gave to Al Sharpton's National Action Network in 2014 - 2015, for example, hasn't stopped the controversial civil rights activist from being a strong supporter for expanding public charter schools, while outfits such as the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights have sparred with the Big Two over federal accountability rules contained over the now - abolished No Child Left Behind Act.

The same AFT gave over $ 4 million to the successful «Yes on Prop. 30» campaign, which raised taxes on all Californians.

In 2014, the AFT gave the group $ 350,000.

Not exact matches

The next day, Oct. 29, AFT Solidarity 527, a Washington - based committee funded by NYSUT's other parent union, the American Federation of Teachers, also gave $ 100,000 to the DSCC.

Given his relationship with the AFT / UFT, it's not surprising that the opinionated Rev. Sharpton has been silent on teacher evaluations, incompetent and pervy teachers and teacher tenure.

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But the foundation has also given $ 4 million to the AFT and $ 500,000 to the NEA to fund similar projects.

Along the way, Brill gives background on Albert Shanker and the rise of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the 1983 report of President Reagan's National Commission on Excellence in Education and what presidents have done since, the creation of TFA by Wendy Kopp, and on David Levin and KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) and other successful efforts to create charter schools.

(Although let's give a shout out to AFT Michigan, whose hard work has led to a 90 percent recommit rate.)

Given the public conversation about bias and injustice — especially recently — several prominent national education organizations including the NEA, AERA, NCTE and AFT have called for addressing equity in schools and society, specifically recommending that educators and school leaders «receive the tools, training, and support they need to build curricula with substantive exploration of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination.»

In Florida, where the affiliate the NEA controls with the AFT is battling fiercely with Gov. Rick Scott and reformers unified under Scott's predecessor (and rival), Jeb Bush, the union gave $ 250,000 to progressive outfit Florida Watch Action, and handed over $ 500,000 to the state affiliate's Public Education Defense Fund.

«Of all the things in the Race to the Top guidelines, this is the one that's given us the most pause, the most concern,» said AFT president Randi Weingarten.

But as seen in California, where the AFT's United Teachers Los Angeles has struck a joint affiliation deal with NEA, the AFT's larger locals are realizing that such triangulation gives them stronger influence over education policy at state and local levels.

The United Neighborhood Organization in that city is giving the AFT contact information for 400 teachers and agreeing to a union meeting on school grounds, Newsmax reported.

The National Education Association (NEA), American Federation of Teachers (AFT), National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), and National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) all assembled teachers to give feedback and input on the standards.

It was a little surprising to see the AFT take a stand against the edTPA teacher licensing test given President Randi Weingarten's support for similar «bar exams» for teachers, and it got me thinking about «professionalizing» teaching in general.

Given the role of NEA and AFT affiliates as prime campaign financiers of state legislative campaigns, along with the fact that districts are often the centers of political power in southern states, the federal lever is critical to advancing systemic reform.

Given the AFT's longstanding efforts to co-opt progressive groups, AFT will likely give even more money to Democracy Alliance this fiscal year.

Now that the NEA and AFT can count on Schwarzenegger's successor (and once - and - future governor) Jerry Brown and the state legislature to be at their proverbial beck - and - call (and the AFT now assured of a majority on L.A. Unified's board), Supt. John Deasy has had to roll back efforts to expand choice and has had to hope on lawsuits by reformers to give him the edge in revamping the district's woeful teacher evaluation system.

Then there's also state laws forcing districts to bargain with NEA and AFT locals; the collective bargaining laws, along with the campaign dollars the two unions deploy, essentially give union bosses a level of influence over districts that supersedes that of the voting public.

Another flaw with AFT's proposal is «that a teacher could not show up for weeks, give no excuse, and still wait out a 100 day hearing process, collecting pay all the while, and still might not be let go.»

The AFT also gave $ 200,000 to the Clinton Global Initiative, which is the other non-explicitly political wing of the Clinton family's always - political efforts.

So expect Emanuel to push the AFT hard on traditional teacher compensation, especially given that the three - to - four percent annual pay hikes the union has demanded and received is one culprit in the massive underfunding.

And this report did give the AFT and The Times the opportunity to mutter dark insinuations about how the federal government has «repeatedly delayed» the release of the charter - school results.

Given the reality that the current appeals process all but protects failing teachers from losing their jobs (fewer than one percent of teachers sent to the infamous «rubber rooms» under the city's current agreement with the AFT ever lost their jobs no matter how deserving), one can easily understand why Mayor Michael Bloomberg is rightfully opposing the union's demand.

In fact, having given the group $ 58,650 in 2013 - 1014, AFT is the USAS» biggest funder.

(Interestingly, the teachers unions are biting the corporate hand that feeds them: Gates has given the NEA and AFT over $ 20.7 million in grants since 2008.)

Then in 2010, a year after Schwarzenegger and the Democrat - controlled state legislature took advantage of the leverage given to them by the federal Race to the Top initiative and passed a series reforms (including the nation's first Parent Trigger law and requiring the state's teacher database to be tied to its student data system in order to allow for the use of student data in evaluating teachers), the NEA and AFT spent big to back once - and - future governor Jerry Brown's return to the top office, and successfully back traditionalist Tom Torlakson as state schools superintendent (while defeating longstanding Gloria Romero, the former state senate honcho who worked with Schwarzenegger to pass the reforms).

Currently, given that NEA and AFT affiliates are more - concerned with serving members and perpetuating its existence, and the concerns among poor and minority families that they are shunted aside in education decision - making, better working relationships between parents and teachers will remain a struggle.

The Houston Federation of Teachers, AFT's Texas state affiliate, recently slammed Texas gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott's plan to give bonuses to high - performing teachers.

The NEA gave $ 250,000 to the Economic Policy Institute, whose reports (including the shoddy work of its Broader Bolder Approach unit) always dovetail with the views of the union and the rival AFT.

From where Casey sits, the criticism of Brown and others about the unwillingness of the AFT to embrace any reform of the obsolete process for teacher dismissals — including the Big Apple affiliate's successful opposition to Bloomberg's effort this year to give the city's schools chancellor final say over dismissing those alleged and convicted of criminal misconduct (and those engaged in inappropriate behavior with students)-- amounts to» a vicious slander» geared to «chip away at public support for the due process rights» and to «distract» people from the city's failures to put more effort into firing such teachers.

Bronfenbrenner says that based on her 25 years of labor research, the AFT was right to conclude that the vote would fail given the drop in public commitments to vote in favor.

The optics of canceling a vote that teachers wanted to hold doesn't look great for the AFT, given that union officials regularly make a point to say that workers should have the freedom to decide for themselves if they want to be represented by a union.

When we decided to participate in TALIS, the US, after the first international summit, we sat down in a room with people from the NEA and the AFT and we together went through the draft survey questionnaires and gave our comments and thoughts and input into the process with OECD.

Given their dependence on NEA and AFT money — and that both unions are pushing their vassals to embrace their so - called social justice efforts — it wouldn't be shocking if the outfits merely signed what the two unions placed before them.

AFT, in particular, gave $ 71,410 to Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation, the organization that defends the poor practices of ed schools, during its 2017 fiscal year.

In 2010, the Gates Foundation gave $ 4 million to the AFT Innovation Fund and another $ 4.4 million in 2012.

Given the presence of these groups, along with the presence of Alliance for Educational Justice (another group backed by AFT), it is little wonder why so much of the «manifesto» focuses on opposing choice and Parent Power, as well as calling for districts to stop hiring recruits trained by Teach For America, the teacher quality reform outfit that has long been the bane of the Big Two's existence.

To that end, AFT CT is interviewing politicians before giving endorsements for the fall.

While friends can disagree on even the most important issues, it is shameful that Malloy's challengers weren't given the opportunity to make their case to AFT members as to why students, parents, teachers and all of public education would be better off with a new governor,» Pelto concluded.

The traditional district bureaucracies, often influenced by NEA and AFT locals through campaign donations, that do everything possible to oppose Parent Trigger measures and other tools that give black families lead decisionmaking roles in the schools that serve their children.

Taken together with CEA's little sister teachers union, AFT - Colorado, 99.9 percent of their combined reported political giving benefited Democrats.

Given the current context for the development and implementation of standards - based reforms, the AFT recommends the following:

While I regret the incident at our TEACH Conference, in an ironic way, it has given me and the AFT the opportunity to promote our belief in working in partnership with anyone who wants to help improve public education.

I have already informed the President of HFT that, should Melodie Peters (President of AFT - CT) give Malloy our Union's endorsement, I will not only withhold that portion of my union dues going to AFT - CT but will lead demonstrations in front of AFT - CT's office.

The presentation, given at an AFT conference, was created and delivered by a staffer from our Connecticut affiliate — and was one of more than 100 conference workshops and sessions attended by more than 2,000 educators.

The closer you look at the list of signatories, the more you realize that Journey for Justice is just another AFT front group for the union's other villeins, giving the union (and other traditionalists) cover.

While AFT is a new player within Democracy Alliance giving $ 85,000 to the group and its Texas Future Project in 2014 - 2015, NEA has long been one of its key players; the union's executive director, John Stocks, chairs its board.

At the end of the day, reformers must give up on the fanciful notion that NEA and AFT leaders can embrace systemic reform on anything other than a tepid level.