Sentences with phrase «aft largesse»

Other members include the Philadelphia Student Union (which collected $ 20,000 from AFT last fiscal year and whose board includes Anissa Weinraub, a flunky with the union's City of Brotherly Love local), Youth United for Change (another Philadelphia - based outfit which picked up $ 60,000 from the union last year), and ACTION United, the beneficiary of $ 49,120 in AFT largesse for helping the union stall systemic reform of the traditional district there.

The Annenberg Institute for School Reform, a recent beneficiary of AFT largesse (in exchange for opposing the expansion of charters) to the tune of $ 49,963), is one of Journey for Justice's «allied organizations, as is AFT.

Considering that the old - school civil rights group has long been better - known for defending traditionalist thinking — including opposing the expansion of charter schools and other forms of school choice — and that it has been a prime recipient of NEA and AFT largesse, the reversal was definitely not welcomed in traditionalist circles.