Sentences with phrase «aft used»

Having been on the defensive against school reformers for most of the past decade, NEA and AFT used their considerable coffers to subsidize organizations in exchange for support for their agenda.

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 AFT uses an equally peculiar definition of innovation.

Moreover, the AFT uses a remarkably static definition of accountability.

The AFT uses a PAC to funnel nearly half a million dollars into Boston's mayoral election, questions remain

Not exact matches

That may be going a bit far, but the National Education Association (NEA), together with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), used teachers» dues to bankroll the Democratic Party to the tune of around $ 35

AFT President Randi Weingarten said Astorino is using an anti-Common Core campaign to «cloak» his other positions on education issues that would be far less palatable to public school advocates.

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.

In April 2013, AFT president Randi Weingarten floated the idea of a moratorium on high - stakes uses of the results from new assessments.

In April 2013, AFT president Randi Weingarten floated the idea of a moratorium on high - stakes uses of the results from the new assessments, and the idea quickly gained steam.

The AFT claims that the authors found that charter schools determine pay «in a similar manner to most school districts,» but Podgursky and Ballou in fact found charters far more likely to use merit pay and far less likely to use traditional salary schedules.

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.

L.A. Unified is looking to pilot a teacher evaluation program that will use student test data in measuring performance; Deasy made clear that this will come up during the district's contract negotiations with the AFT.

Learn about the AFT's position on immigration reform, and review several model resources schools can use to publicly call for immigration reform and to uphold the rights of immigrant students.

At Weingarten's direction, the AFT developed a model to transform teacher evaluations from a way of simply rating teachers to a tool for continuous improvement and feedback, and is using this model to align tenure and due process so that tenure serves as a guarantee of fairness, not of a job for life.

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.

Unlike the AFT poll, Rasmussen used straightforward language:

She used standardized test results from 99 percent of the nation's charter schools, while the AFT study that prompted hers surveyed similar results from only 3 percent of charter schools.

Two weeks ago AFT President Randi Weingarten highlighted a new policy brief that showed how school vouchers were used during Jim Crow to segregate school systems.

Luckily for the AFT, its staffers and leaders pay into defined — contribution retirement plans used by the rest of the private and nonprofit sectors.

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.»

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.

Using AFT's analysis, this student is only «average» and Collegium is a «failing» school, but looking at actual academic growth over time shows this charter school to be a big success.

AFT's dark (and illegal) money groups got dinged to the tune of $ 30,000 for «failure to organize as a PAC, failure to disclose finance activity accurately, contributions made in a manner intended to disguise the true source of the contributions, receipt of contributions not raised in accordance with campaign law, and use of wire transfers.»

As reform - minded governors of both parties could use the federal presence (both in the form of Race or the No Child Left Behind Act) to sustain their efforts, so can counterparts in school districts in their face - offs with NEA and AFT locals.

The fact that the AFT affiliate, like its counterparts in other districts, have the advantage of bodies on the ground — and in the case of race between Zimmer and Anderson, used it to their advantage — is another reminder that the school reform movement must do a better job of building grassroots support, especially among the 11.7 million single - parent families for whose children the failures of big - city districts such as L.A. Unified prove to weigh most - heavily.

The AFT website moves into Bizarro territory when it concludes its mini anti-choice rant by informing us that public money used to subsidize private school tuition means «less accountability for taxpayers» dollars, a false hope for a handful of kids, and fewer resources for school reforms that actually work.»

Then in 2010, a year after Schwarzenegger and the Democrat - controlled state legislature took advantage of the leverage given to them by the federal Race to the Top initiative and passed a series reforms (including the nation's first Parent Trigger law and requiring the state's teacher database to be tied to its student data system in order to allow for the use of student data in evaluating teachers), the NEA and AFT spent big to back once - and - future governor Jerry Brown's return to the top office, and successfully back traditionalist Tom Torlakson as state schools superintendent (while defeating longstanding Gloria Romero, the former state senate honcho who worked with Schwarzenegger to pass the reforms).

New York State, for example, is having trouble implementing its new teacher evaluation regime because New York City, Buffalo, and other districts can't reach agreement with AFT affiliates opposed to using student test score growth data in performance management.

While a full - time member's dues money can be used to finance the $ 37.6 million that AFT spent on lobbying and other political activities in 2015, an agency fee payer's dues cover representational operation costs, which cost the union $ 73.8 million.

If Weingarten and the leadership of the AFT and CEA were serious about persuading Connecticut's teachers, parents and public school advocates to get out to vote on Election Day and vote for Malloy they would use this opportunity to ensure that Malloy finally renounces his 2012 anti-teacher proposal.

Claiming to «speak for their members» the AFT endorsed Malloy, despite the fact that he remains committed to a teacher evaluation system that includes the use of unfair, inappropriate and absurd standardized test scores when determining whether a teacher is doing a good job or not.

In addition to reversing their position on the SBAC test, the CEA and AFT - CT have been working extremely hard to get the Connecticut General Assembly to pass Senate Bill 380 which would prohibit the state from using the results from the Connecticut's Mastery Testing program in the state's teacher evaluation program — a proposal that Malloy and his education reform allies strongly oppose.

In a recent post, I wrote that Randi Weingarten, the current president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), has (finally) expressed her full opposition against the use of value - added models (VAMs) to evaluate and measure teacher effectiveness.

«As Criticism Continues, NCTQ Corrects Some Teacher - Prep Scores Main AFT's Weingarten Backtracks on Using Value - Added Measures for Evaluations»

As just posted on Diane Ravitch's blog, Randi Weingarten, the current president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), has (finally) expressed her full opposition against using value - added models (VAMs), the statistical measures of utmost interest on this blog, for teacher evaluation, accountability, and merit pay purposes.

This includes the new teacher evaluation pilot program that is part of the revised version of Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform package contained in what is now Public Law 116, which will only involve eight - to - 10 districts; the fact that NEA and AFT affiliates are still opposed to this plan and are also battling reformers over another evaluation framework that uses student test score data that the unions had supported just several months earlier also raises questions as to whether Connecticut can actually earn the flexibility from federal accountability that has been gained through the waiver.

For too long the NEA, as well as the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), have been hiding their intentions behind the guise of student advocacy, using children as human shields to block criticism.

Meanwhile AFT, along with NEA, are using their ties to progressive groups within the Democratic National Committee to attempt to reshape the party's stances on key education policy issues.

AFT President Randi Weingarten has become such an important player in the Clinton family universe that Clinton Global allowed her to use one of its events last September to announce the union's latest Trojan Horse for unionizing the early childhood education sector.

Expedition uses a second - generation independent design with five - link design for better control of fore / aft and lateral load forces, monotube shocks which allow for more precise tuning and a better ride, and a stabilizer bar with high - precision bushings and low - friction ball joint links for improved on - center steering feel.

Its sleek look comes at the expense of the way back passengers, however, because the second row can be moved fore and aft, it offers plenty of space and flexibility in using that seating position.

The back - seat is not flash if all the front - seat fore / aft travel is being used up, and though it's comfortable, it isn't all that conducive to holding passengers laterally in place either.

The RC - F has the same love it or hate it look and great leather buckets as the F - Sport with lots of adjustment fore and aft, a cool LFA - inspired gauge cluster, a touchpad that takes some getting used to for infotainment and a bunch of buttoned - up and tightly gapped materials on the dash and armrest.

In our test car, it's the Variable Torque Distribution kind, which uses a continuously variable electronically controlled transfer clutch to sluice power fore and aft as wheel slip dictates.

A new manual front seat mechanism was used for fore / aft adjustments.

The company also moved the jog dial aft of the shifter, so one doesn't have to reach around to use the functions.

[10] The lever is operated in a straight «fore and aft» plane (without any «dog - leg» offset movements), and uses an additional button to help prevent an inadvertent selection of an inappropriate shift lever position.

Reversing camera with guidance lines, Storage Package,Rain - sensing windscreen wipers, Rear armrest, Tyre pressure monitoring system, Rear seat fore / aft adjustment, Automatic climate control, Headlamps - projection beam, Vehicle freight packaging without tie - down loops, Technical modifications (06), 20.3 cm (8 - inch) TFT display, Heated windscreen washer system, Storage compartment under drivers seats, Storage compartment under passenger seat,Easy - Pack load - securing kit, Technical preparation for the use of Live Traffic Information, DYNAMIC SELECT, 17 5 - spoke light - alloy wheels, Tyres with optimised rolling resistance, 12 V Socket in luggage compartment,

In a nutshell, the modifications include the use of additional side - sill reinforcements, so - called joint plates where the sills meet the A-pillars, and longitudinal arms that extend fore and aft along the body of the car.