Sentences with phrase «aft represented»

The AFT represents 1.7 million teachers, paraprofessionals, higher education faculty, and health care workers, among others.

The AFT represents more than 1 million teachers and other school - related personnel.

Many of those schools are located in urban areas, and the AFT represents a significant number of urban locals.

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 represents 1.7 million pre-K through 12th - grade teachers; paraprofessionals and other school - related personnel; higher education faculty and professional staff; federal, state and local government employees; nurses and healthcare workers; and early childhood educators.

It's also hypocritical because her one - percenter salary is paid by teachers who are forced to join her union in just about every school district that AFT represents.

Not exact matches

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.

A sister union under the all - university AFT umbrella represents the administrative staff.

An extra, transitional year of high school, taught by teachers especially trained to accelerate the basic skills of teenagers and young adults, is part of a multifaceted dropout - prevention plan proposed this morning (July 3) by Sandra Feldman, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), an organization representing 1 million teachers and school - related personnel.

The AFT takes an expansive view of which public - service workers it can represent.

Moreover, AFT often represents non-certficated education employees in addition to teachers.

Randi Weingarten is the President of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), which represents educators and healthcare professionals to make sure that fairness and democracy prevails.

Because they represent people working with children, NEA and AFT benefit from residual good will in a way that the Teamsters and United Auto Workers do not.

Eighty - five senators, 359 representatives, the National Governors Association, the Council of Chief State School Officers, the School Superintendents Association, civil rights groups, many parents and parent groups across the country including the PTA, our brothers and sisters in the National Education Association, and the people I represent in the AFT, cheered what President Obama called a Christmas miracle.

Randi Weingarten serves as the current president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the nation's primary labor union, which represents nearly 1.6 million teachers.

Those on the right increasingly believe that the Common Core represents severe federal overreach into state sovereignty over education; those on the left, including the AFT, are pushing back not against the standards themselves, but against their implementation and use in newly adopted high - stakes teacher evaluation systems.

Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, defends the law on the grounds that «unions have a right to collect a fair share from the people [they] represent» regardless of whether the people want to pay, so that the AFT can «ensure that we're able to speak for all workers.»

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.

Other organizations represented included: AFT, Consortium for Educational Change, The Dolan Group, Florida Education Association, Marlboro School District (NY), MASE TURN, National Education Association, Rochester Federation of Teachers, and Alliance for Pubic Schools.

The reality is that for all the talk from the NEA and AFT about how they represent teachers, the reality is that their defense of seniority - and degree - based pay scales, reverse - seniority layoff policies, and near - lifetime employment privileges through tenure do little for the younger, more reform - minded teachers who realize the damage these policies do to their profession and, ultimately, to the children in their care.

The AFT is the nation's second - largest teachers union and represents school employees in most of the major urban school districts.

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.»

Since Bain v. CTA was originally filed in federal district court in April 2015, the plaintiffs, represented by Gibson Dunn Crutcher, LLP, have traded numerous legal filings with a legion of lawyers representing NEA, AFT, CTA, CFT, UTLA and other interested parties.

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.

For example, AFT Local 4053 represents more than 51,000 members covering upstate New York and is based in the state capital of Albany.

PEAC includes representatives of a long list of groups, including CEA and AFT - Connecticut as well as organizations representing principals, superintendents, school boards, and higher education.

AFT President Randi Weingarten will co-present a shareholder resolution signed by more than 100 pension funds, labor unions and individuals, representing 193,000 Pearson shareholders, including UNISON, Trade Union Fund Managers and the Chicago Teachers» Pension Fund.

In 2012, when Newark's AFT local inked a contract with performance pay and peer review, you told me it represents «a system of the future,» a «professional compensation system,» and evidence «that collective bargaining really works.»

No, AFT and CEA will be singing Malloy's praises and not representing us, the teachers.

In New York State, NYSUT — a federation of more than 1,200 local unions representing more than 600,000 members — a union that is affiliated with both the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA) has become a leading example of the critically important role that teachers and their unions can play in supporting parents, students and public education.

Begun in 1900, the American Federation of Teachers earned the right to represent more than 1.5 million members because the AFT leadership has always been dedicated to developing a union focused on improving the conditions for teachers and the public schools that educate America's children.

And in opposing the dismissal of allegedly criminally negligent teachers such as Berndt, the NEA and AFT affiliates make it clear that their concerns have less to do with supporting the work of the honorable men and women they represent.

Palmer, Peters and Randi Weingarten, the national AFT president who was the second - day keynote speaker, all reminded the members of Malloy's support for a broad labor agenda and his defense of locked out health workers represented by AFT at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital.

Such naivete explains why the Obama Administration has continually promoted case studies of reform - minded school leaders working closely with NEA and AFT locals, why Class Struggle author Steve Brill floated the laughable idea of Weingarten becoming chancellor of New York City's traditional district three years ago, and why organizations such as Educators4Excellence and Teach Plus — which represent younger, reform - minded teachers who now make up the majority of NEA and AFT rank - and - filers (and are staffed by teachers who are themselves centrist and progressive Democrats)-- work so hard to aim to lead reform from within union ranks.

Arts for Transit and F+V represented artist, Loren Munk, included on the AFT Tumblr for his work from Downtown Brooklyn - Fulton Mall to his solo exhibit, «You are Here.»