Sentences with phrase «aft members»

AFT members will not rest until we prevent military - style weapons from getting into the hands of people who want to massacre children and educators,» Weingarten said.

Many AFT members who work in charter schools in cities across the country have similar stories.)

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.

In a recent survey of AFT members, 42.9 percent of food service workers said they expected school meal costs to exceed revenues.

The consortium's 39 diverse public high schools (37 are in New York City, one is in Ithaca and one is in Rochester) are staffed by AFT members and have received waivers from four of the state's five standardized exams (students still take the English Regents test).

According to Randi Weingarten, the union's president, «by a ratio of 4 to 1 (69 % to 16 %), AFT members chose working for professional standards and good teaching as the higher priority.»

Among those helped by the change are tens of thousands of AFT members, she said.

An alternate candidate in the field, Sen. Bernie Sanders, a declared socialist with a track record of full - throated support of unions, makes a better candidate, according to some NEA and AFT members.

Come to some of the places AFT members are working their hearts out for our students.

Weingarten is no less committed to the primacy of her union, a commitment she credits to her mother, who as an AFT member and a teacher in Nyack, New York, participated in a seven - week strike even at the cost of «material sacrifice for our family.»

With the new year, let's throw less at them, support them more and remember the words sometimes attributed to Albert Einstein, an AFT member: «Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything we count, counts.»

With the new year, let's throw less at them, support them more and remember the words of Albert Einstein, one of the finest inventors and professors of our time and an AFT member: «Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything we count, counts.»

Wrong — they have made the difference as to why we are not like other states who have capitulated — they are strong and I am an AFT member but I am amazed as to what they have accomplished and stood for --

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Among those present were former New York State Governor David Paterson; Congressman José Serrano; 1199 SEIU President George Gresham; United Federation of Teachers (UFT) President Michael Mulgrew; NAACP New York State Conference President NAACP Hazel Dukes; American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten, and members of Make the Road New York and New York Communities for Change.

AFT President Randi Weingarten inspires PEF members on the importance of unionism Wednesday March 16, 2016 at 03:05 pm

The AFT is a key affiliate member of the AFL - CIO, the largest union federation in the country, and the White House may have recognized that Weingarten could present problems for their economic agenda.

State Representative and Retired NEA - NH Board Member Mark King, President of Nashua Public Library Local 4831 - AFT * Kim Hayes, American Postal Workers Union Wayne Alterisio, Fmr.

The UFT was founded in 1960 as Local 2 of the now 1.4 million - member American Federation of Teachers (AFT).

Worse: The AFT apparently didn't ask its own rank - and - file members.

Affiliated with both AAUP, the professional society for college and university teachers, and AFT, a national labor union within AFL / CIO, this hybrid group represents all of Rutgers's faculty members, research associates, and graduate student employees.

The 1.3 million - member AFT announced at its annual meeting late last month that it would stay with the AFL - CIO, and, in fact, AFT President Edward J. McElroy played a critical role in negotiating with leaders of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the other groups before they decided to split.

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.

The San Juan - based FMPR, which has more than 32,000 members, has had ties to the 1.3 million - member AFT since 1965; the AFT won the exclusive representation of public school teachers in the U.S. commonwealth in 1998.

AFT President Proposes Extra Year of High School About 4,000 members of the American Federation of Teachers are gathering in Philadelphia this week for its 76th annual conference.

Union members reviewed the system in a 1997 report, www.aft.org./research/models/dougco/pppwebar.htm Developing a Performance Pay Plan for Teachers: A Process, Not an Event, available on the AFT Web site.

For well over a quarter century, the NEA and the AFT have been the most powerful groups in the politics of education — with more than four million members, formidable sums of money for campaign contributions and lobbying, well - educated activists manning the electoral trenches, and organizations that blanket the nation, allowing them to coordinate all these resources toward political ends.

Militancy worked, however, and teacher unionization spread rapidly: the AFT signed up thousands of new members.

While trade unionism was in general decline, the AFT grew from 71,000 members in 1961 to close to one million at the time of Shanker's death in 1997.

The analysis uses the 2009 U.S. Digest of Education Statistics for the total number of K - 12 teachers in each state, though the NEA and AFT represent non-teacher members as well.

The AFT, with its large plurality of members from New York State, inevitably endorsed Hillary Clinton.

If the Supreme Court decides to strike down agency - fee laws nationwide, the NEA and the AFT would be forced to recruit their members one by one; additional teacher hiring would not automatically swell the unions» ranks.

Ricker served as president of the Saint Paul (Minn.) Federation of Teachers since 2005, as an AFT vice president since 2012, and a member of the AFT K - 12 Teachers program and policy council since 2006.

She has served as a national trainer for AFT (Thinking Mathematics K - 2, 3 - 6, 6 - 8 Common Core, collaborator and national trainer for Thinking Mathematics 6 - 8), member of the PARCC assessment team, serves on the Advisory Board of Digital Promise, SREB Teacher Prep Commission, P21 Executive Board, and the Executive Board of the Trump Foundation of Israel.

The AFT is hardly likely to allow any change that disfavors it's current members.

That's apparently what happend at a recent New Organizing Institute event when members of the AFT and Parent Revolution both showed up and — I'm speculating here — didn't much want to be put at the same table brainstorming ideas together.

She created the AFT Innovation Fund, a groundbreaking initiative to support sustainable, innovative and collaborative education reform projects developed by members and their local unions.

In September 2008, Weingarten led the development of the AFT Innovation Fund, a groundbreaking initiative to support sustainable, innovative and collaborative reform projects developed by members and their local unions to strengthen our public schools.

But it's not enough for the AFT and our members to walk the walk.

Through the AFT Innovation Fund, our members are doing some of the most progressive thinking on implementing the standards.

Ricker has served as president of the Saint Paul (Minn.) Federation of Teachers since 2005, as an AFT vice president since 2012, and as a member of the AFT K12 Teachers program and policy council since 2006.

CTU President Karen Lewis and her leadership team, with whom the AFT worked closely throughout this process, have represented their members well and made clear that their concerns go beyond wages and benefits to include all the issues affecting their students» education.

The AFT has over 1.5 million members.

The AFT fought hard for rights of their African American members including equal pay, rights to be elected to a school board, and the right for all African American students to attend school.

All AFT Connecticut healthcare members strive to provide the highest quality patient care.»

A majority of the faculty and eligible staff at Chavez Prep voted to become members of the AFT, which, pending certification of the election by the National Labor Relations Board, would make the school the only charter school in the District of Columbia with a union.

Then there is AFT president Randi Weingarten, who as a member of George Soros» left - wing Democracy Alliance (whose president is NEA executive director John Stocks), was criticized for her participation in the dark money group.

For more information, this is the email the American Federation of Teachers — New Mexico (AFT NM) and the Albuquerque Teachers Federation (ATF) sent out to all of their members yesterday:

A member of the national American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Program and Policy Council, she has served on AFT committees studying and recommending policy on various topics, including high school reform, teacher evaluation, and Common Core state standards.

The AFT has 1.6 million members and generated $ 233 million in revenue (net of borrowing) as of 2013 - 2014, according to this week's Dropout Nation analysis of financial data; the NEA had 3.1 million members and national revenues of $ 387 million in 2012 - 2013.

Even as NEA and AFT affiliates rallied rank - and - file members to the state capital in order to remind legislators that they will attempt to make them pay for opposing the union's will, Parent Power groups such as Black Alliance for Educational Options rallied members to call state senators and made clear that families would no longer sit on the sidelines.