Sentences with phrase «aft poll»

If we wanted to push respondents toward Approach B, we could replace «invests» with «at the public expense» and employ additional shenanigans like the AFT poll did (e.g. - «choose the schools with the most enriching curriculum and most effective teachers»).

In another refutation of the biased AFT poll, The Heritage Foundation's Lindsey Burke writes that «Unions Can't Ignore Support for Choice in Education.»

Unlike the AFT poll, Rasmussen used straightforward language:

Education Week's Stephen Sawchuk also had problems with the AFT poll, reminding us to take it «with a grain of salt and examine the questions» phraseology carefully.»

AFT Poll of 800 Teachers Finds Strong Support for Common Core Standards and a Moratorium on Stakes for New Assessments Until Everything Is Aligned

Parents and guardians say that making sure students graduate with the knowledge and academic skills needed to succeed in college is one of schools» most important goals (second only to providing a safe and secure environment for children), according to the AFT poll.

Ninety - four percent of public school parents and guardians approve of expanding access to career and technical education as a strategy to improve public education, according to the AFT poll.

This question is clearly more fair than the AFT poll's since it employs similar wording in each answer.

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AFT's poll found that just 27 percent of respondents said that their district has provided them with the tools and resources necessary to teach to the CCSS — and 53 percent said that they have received either no training or inadequate training to help prepared them to teach to the standards.

AFT's poll showed that 74 percent of respondents are worried that students, teachers and schools will be held accountable for the results of those assessments before they have been fully implemented.

Yesterday, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) released the results of a poll conducted by a Democratic polling firm supposedly showing that American parents don't support a plethora of education reforms, including school choice, and would rather increase funding for public schools.

The polls by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and Phi Delta Kappa International (PDK) found a perceived lack of funding to be the biggest problem facing schools in respondents» communities, with AFT also identifying local and federal education budget cuts as the most worrisome trend in education.

The poll was released as the AFT announced a major effort at the AFT TEACH conference in Washington, D.C., to partner with parents and community to reclaim the promise of public education.

«This Gallup poll shows how important it is to have a strong teacher induction program,» said AFT President Randi Weingarten.

Just as fraudulent as Weingarten's tough talk on bad teachers is a new AFT «poll,» the results of which were reported on solemnly by union cheerleaders like The Washington Post's Valerie Strauss.

Weingarten declined to comment on the sum the AFT spent, but the consultant said that most of the money went to unlimited and unregulated communication with union members, intense outreach to the union's more than 2,000 members in the district and to the between 30,000 and 40,000 AFL - CIO members in Washington, D.C.. Each group received three mailings and several live calls; the union also did its own polling on the race.

AFT President Randi Weingarten is expected to highlight the poll's findings during a speech Monday at the union's annual meeting in Washington.

The poll, conducted by Lake Research Partners on behalf of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the largest number of voters, 76 percent, cited equity in school funding in deciding whom to vote for, with 76 percent saying it was «important» and with 50 percent considering it «very important.»

Declaring accountability - based education reforms as «test and punish» probably polls well for the AFT, but as the writers note, it is misleading.

The AFT recently conducted a poll of a broad array of public school parents.

When parents are asked to choose between charters and neighborhood public schools, as the AFT parent poll released last month found, 77 percent say that ensuring every child has access to a good public school is the best way to improve public education.

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 Lancehead's short battery life is a direct result of that high DPI, polling rate, and AFT — there's always a tradeoff for max performance.