Sentences with phrase «aft report»

Although the public presentation of charter school research today is nearly as contentious as it was when the AFT report made waves in 2004, beneath the radar screen is a growing convergence on a set of findings that fit neither the rosy predictions of the early advocates nor the dire fears of the early critics:

An AFT report «Passing on Failure» delineates several reasons for student failure: «immaturity, weak curriculum and instruction, excessive absenteeism, lack of effort, failure of teachers and administrators as well as parents to use practices that promote high achievement, and failure due to a combination of factors listed above.»

The AFT report also showed that 68 percent of charter school students are performing at or above basic levels in math, the same level as in the broader public school system.

In addition, the AFT report cites «serious problems and significant costs» associated with retention, including student alienation from school, serious classroom discipline problems, and a significantly increased school dropout rate.

Social promotion, says the AFT report, is «rampant» in this country.

According to the AFT report, Passing on Failure: District Promotion Policies and Practices, the practice of social promotion contributes to the very problems that can make it seem necessary.

The AFT report concludes: Children can achieve when they are taught the basics early; when they are challenged by high standards and a rich curriculum; and when caring, firm adults pay strict attention to the quality of students» work and behavior.

The AFT report points out that, for much of the 20th century, school districts have alternately embraced and abandoned two responses to student failure — social promotion and retention.

The AFT report states that charter schools do spend less money than other public schools.

As City Comptroller John Liu recently pointed out and the AFT report confirms, public employees» overall compensation — when education and age are taken into consideration — is lower than that of private employees.

A new AFT report, «Raising the Bar: Aligning and Elevating Teacher Preparation and the Teaching Profession» has won praise from many quarters, including Arne Duncan.

Finally, in an extremely muddled discussion, the AFT reports that charter school student - to - teacher ratios «generally match or exceed» those of their host districts.

Further on, the AFT reports that charter schools spend more on administration and less on instruction than traditional schools.

Not exact matches

At 1:15 p.m., the National Institute for Early Education Research releases its annual «State of Preschool Report» for the 2014 - 15 school year, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is scheduled to speak, along with Deputy Assistant Secretary of Education for Policy and Early Learning Dr Libby Doggett, AFT President Randi Weingarten and others, Sugar Hill Museum Preschool, 898 St. Nicholas Ave., Manhattan.

After a panel that he created said it concurred with the AFT's report recommending a bar - like exam, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, endorsed the idea in his State of the State address on Wednesday, saying that «every teacher» should take such a test and pass it «before we put them in a classroom.»

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.

AFT President Randi Weingarten responded to the report with a three - page press release.

An AFT committee is studying the performance - pay issue and plans to release a report in the spring.

In fact, foundation president Chester E. Finn Jr. wrote that the AFT's report «reeks of error, distortion, and untruth about charter schools.»

Just as Delaware was releasing its report, Fordham's hosted a panel discussion, Traversing the Teacher - Evaluation Terrain, with four experts to discuss developments in the world of educator - evaluation reform: Sandi Jacobs of NCTQ, Alice Johnson Cain of Teach Plus, Chet Linton of the School Improvement Network, and Rob Weil of the AFT.

In 1996, only three states had promotion policies based on standardized tests; in 1999, 13 states had such policies, according to Making Standards Matter 1999: Executive Summary, an annual report by the AFT.

Or a copy of the report might be ordered for $ 5.00 prepaid from the AFT Order Department, 555 New Jersey Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001.

The AFT uses data from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), which contain information on about 30,000 job offers, not 2,600 as Podgursky reported, to update a 30 - year time series for the earnings of new college graduates who found full - time jobs in the private sector.

The report expressed the AFT's apprehensions about the design, content, and potential for punitive use of assessments and vowed to ensure that educators continue to have a «significant voice» in implementation of the standards.

The AFT produced a report in 2011 that outlined an action plan and issued recommendations for what the union and others needed to do.

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.

Without Shanker, the AFT was likely to have joined the opposition, potentially crippling the report.

The AFT's strategy of selective reporting also colors its approach to the question of whether competition from charter schools has forced changes in district schools.

Similarly, the AFT misstates the findings of a report by economists Michael Podgursky and Dale Ballou.

The AFT correctly reports that most kids in charter schools seem to do about as well as in district schools, controlling for demographic factors.

Context is a major issue in the AFT's reporting on student achievement as well.

The AFT responds The American Federation of Teachers» report Do Charter Schools Measure Up?

Not long after it was published, AFT President Randi Weingarten responded to the report with a three - page press release.

A report released yesterday by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and prominently covered in yesterday's New York Times actually showed that students in California's public charter schools are doing as well and even slightly better on student achievement than those in California's broader public school system.

In this 2002 report, and even prior to more recent studies like the 2004 LAO report, which called charter schools «a viable reform strategy,» the AFT demanded a halt to new charter schools «until more convincing evidence of their effectiveness or viability is presented.»

In July 2002, the AFT released a report entitled Do Charter Schools Measure Up?

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.

Representatives of the Connecticut Education Association (CEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Connecticut submitted a Minority Report detailing the problems with SBAC.

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 Center for Education Reform, a Washington, D.C. — based organization supported by conservative foundations, coordinated the placement of a full - page ad in the New York Times, in which a number of prominent researchers both criticized the methodology of the AFT study and took the newspaper to task for failing to subject the report to a more rigorous and skeptical review.

The article described a report that the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) had released on the performance of charter schools, a rapidly expanding mechanism of education reform.

Now, Massachusetts legislators are trying to curb this sort of behavior by requiring SuperPACs like the one used by BTU and AFT to report their donors more frequently and in text on television advertisements.

Last night the report from the AFT convention was that Hillary Clinton once again spoke about how charter schools provided traditional public schools with innovation.

Back in July 2002, during a slow news period, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), a school employee labor union, issued a widely cited report «showing» that charter schools — autonomous public schools of choice — do not work as well as the traditional district public schools.

According to the latest labor department reports, 2015 saw NEA present a $ 250,000 gift to EPI, only to be outdone by the smaller AFT, which kicked in $ 300,000 to the organization.

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.

One such executive, AFT's Kombiz Lavasany, asserted that the report was «sadly dishonest [because the] vast majority of union dues support things universally supported,» such as «work to represent and work for better pay, work conditions, professionalism.»

«The StudentsFirst report cards are merely political scorecards designed to push the organization's state legislative agenda,» wrote Carolyn Fiddler from AFT in a statement released Monday.

This has been borne out by Dropout Nation in five years of reports on NEA and AFT spending: Often times, the two unions and their affiliates list what often turns out to be political spending under the category of «representational activities».

A 2014 audit report AFT filed in California, writing to reflect an arbitrator's decision between objecting teachers and the union's United Teachers Los Angeles unit, made a slightly more conservative estimate of 66 percent of the revenues going toward «chargeable» expenses.