Sentences with phrase «aft worked»

Also in 2011, AFT worked hard to eviscerate a Parent Trigger law in Connecticut.

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 worked hard to shift the focus away from testing back to teaching, to push school decision - making back to states and communities, and to continue to direct federal funds to the public schools that educate the kids who need the most.

The AFT worked hand - in - glove with the IBM Foundation to hone this tool and see how it empowers teachers and benefits students.

AFT works to provide post-adoptive information, education and support for people touched by adoption.

Not exact matches

«Our delegates chose to take action in the governor's race on Saturday because they're tired of the non-stop attacks on working people,» AFT Connecticut President Jan Hochadel said in a written statement.

«By working together and recognizing their shared responsibility to all Los Angeles public school students, United Teachers Los Angeles and the district were able to keep more than 4,000 teachers in classrooms, preserve early childhood education and prevent class - size increases,» said AFT President Randi Weingarten.

RESOLVED, that the UFT work with the AFT by supporting the PFT in calling for a restoration of all education cuts, and be it further

The cherry juice twice a day in a yogurt drink — one in the aft, one before bed — works so well for us.

None of this mentions the work of the AFT, National Education Association, national foundations, teacher preparation institutions, assessment consortia (Smarter Balanced and PARCC), or other groups with a stake in the successful implementation of the Common Core.

The AFT seems to have misinterpreted my own work.

The AFT has worked with the business community in the past, and is interested in the NEA recruitment proposal, Jamie Horwitz, an AFT spokesman, told Education World.

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.

At the same time, Duncan maintained at least a cordial working relationship with the Chicago Teachers Union, and both the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) backed his nomination.

Working with 26 representatives from the state chapters of the American Federation of Teachers (aft), the National Education Association (nea), the Parent - Teacher...

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

Where strong charter laws exist, as in Arizona and a few cities, considerable peer - reviewed research (not cited by the AFT) finds that districts do in fact respond to competition by working to improve.

First, school turnarounds seldom work (contra the recent statement from AFT president Randi Weingarten), and closures stop us from continuing to send kids to chronically underperforming schools.

Among those working to build support were AFT president Al Shanker, a key force behind the idea from the earliest days, and Mary Futrell of the NEA.

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.

(Although let's give a shout out to AFT Michigan, whose hard work has led to a 90 percent recommit rate.)

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

In August, the AFT was forced to offer several apologies to school reformers (including one from its president, Randi Weingarten, during a face to face meeting) after education news magazine Dropout Nation revealed the union's presentation on how its Connecticut affiliate worked unsuccessfully to kibosh that state's parent trigger law.

O'Neill also asked that the membership of the existing Minority Teacher Recruitment Task Force and the new Minority Teacher Recruitment Policy Oversight Council include teachers of color from both CEA and AFT - Connecticut so that the insights and experiences of these teachers are reflected in the groups» work.

If he had followed the principles of Uplifting Leadership and built a healthy balance between competition (push) and collaboration (pull), he would have worked with the AFT and NEA rather than against them.

Some of this certainly has to do with NEA and AFT affiliates, which have worked hard to beat back any efforts at systemic reform especially in the area of overhauling teacher quality.

Philadelphia's state - appointed school board (called the School Reform Commission) recently suspended the expired contract that city's local of Randi Weingarten's American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has been working under for two years.

Since 1916, AFT has worked to continually strengthen teacher quality, promote higher standards and better ways of gauging student learning, and implement classroom and school improvements.

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.

The AFT has also endorsed a promising way to get rid of bad teachers: peer - review programs in which excellent teachers work with struggling ones to improve performance - but in many instances end up recommending termination of employment.

Coalition Members: PCAPS (Philadelphia Coalition Advocating for Public Schools) includes: Action United, AFT Pennsylvania, AFL - CIO Central Labor Council, Fight for Philly, Boat People SOS, Jewish Labor Committee, Jobs With Justice, Juntos, Media Mobilizing Project, Neighborhood Networks, Occupy Philadelphia Labor Work Group, Pennsylvania Working Families Organization, Philadelphians Allied for Responsible Economy (PHARE), Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT Local 3), Philadelphia Home and School Council, Philadelphia Student Union, SEIU 32BJ Local 1201, UNITE HERE Local 634, Working America and Youth United for Change (YUC)

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.»

In the Public Interest — a perfect partner for AFT — is a project of The Partnership for Working Families (PWF), which is an ACORN - like group that hates anything capitalist and is a card - carrying member of the «Occupy Wall Street» movement, whose raison d'être is to bash «one percenters.»

Most writers and bloggers who have written about the incident have focused on a pdf (originally a PowerPoint, posted on the AFT website), which very honestly and cynically describes the process by which the union did its dirty work.

The AFT, working with Reading Rockets and experts in ELL instruction, developed a new «For Educators» section of the website, which provides tips and strategies for teachers and paraprofessionals working with ELLs.

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.»

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.»

CEC works with NEA, AFT and independent affiliates.

To counter the manpower advantage held by defenders of traditional public education such as the NEA and AFT, school reformers — especially Beltway - based players — need to be working the community centers, church pews, and the extensive local networks.

TURN is a nationwide network of more than 200 union locals from the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA) that work together to promote progressive reform in education and teacher union practices.

As a result of this, the AFT is less able than ever to claim itself to be the voice of teachers working in the nation's classrooms.

Meanwhile in Pennsylvania, the AFT has worked with its Keystone State affiliate to challenge school reform efforts as well as take on moves by Gov. Tom Corbett to reduce education spending.

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Especially for the AFT, the ruling makes it even harder for the union, which works in the big cities that are the most - fervent hotbeds for revamping traditional teacher compensation and implementing other reforms), to keep the grand bargain it has long struck with Baby Boomers and other teachers to keep their profession the most - comfortable (as well as best - paid) in the public sector.

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).

Last month, via Mike Antonucci, we were treated to a Washington Post letter - to - the - editor from Elizabeth Davis, president of the Washington Teachers Union (an AFT affiliate), and Delvone Michael, director of DC Working Families.

She explained that the union was opening two charter schools so that it could «reclaim» the original charter school model conceived by former American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Albert Shanker, who said «charter schools could help teachers work without the stifling bureaucracy and stifling micromanagement.»

And the AFT and its affiliates are exploring ways to accurately determine what measures best serve as a proxy for our work.»

Currently, given that NEA and AFT affiliates are more - concerned with serving members and perpetuating its existence, and the concerns among poor and minority families that they are shunted aside in education decision - making, better working relationships between parents and teachers will remain a struggle.

We look forward to working with her in her new role at the AFT to make Board certification the expectation and the norm in the profession, so that every student in America can benefit from accomplished teachers.»