Sentences with phrase «while aft»

While AFT is a new player within Democracy Alliance giving $ 85,000 to the group and its Texas Future Project in 2014 - 2015, NEA has long been one of its key players; the union's executive director, John Stocks, chairs its board.

CEA President Cohen was quoted as saying, «Today's PEAC changes will foster a new climate that moves away from the rigidity and moves toward the healthy flexibility that our schools communities sorely need...,» while AFT - CT President Peters added, «With PEAC's approval of new flexibility options, our state's children will be the primary beneficiaries of this course correction.»

While the AFT and the New Teacher Project (TNTP) have had differences in the past, we are in agreement that the current evaluation system is a blunt instrument that should be replaced by a more precise tool to help teachers grow professionally and serve students better.

While the AFT's L.A. local and its traditionalist allies in were none too fond of this funding, and did as much as they could to characterize the dollars as being akin to carpet - bagging, the likely presence of dollars from the national AFT and its statewide affiliate (as well as the fact that traditionalists have long benefited from national alliances, including the NEA's move last year to pour $ 5 million into successful campaigns to pass Prop. 30 and its $ 50 billion in tax increases as well as defeat Prop. 32) meant that they couldn't play up the outside money angle as effectively as they desired.

Last summer, the NEA — historically the more reticent of the two major teachers unions — demanded Education Secretary Arne Duncan's resignation while the AFT called for Duncan to be put on an «improvement» plan.

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.

Not exact matches

«We have reached out to the AFT to set up a meeting and that's on - going,» Sloan said in response to the questioner, while continuing to defend the bank's decision not to stop doing business with gun makers.

Whether you can get pregnant while breastfeeding; female sterilization; and IUDs, the Pill, and other birth control options aft...

Kano State Governor Alhaji Ganduje has received bodies of the students who died in a road accident while returning to the state aft e taking part in a national quiz competition.

The handlebars can be moved up and down, while the seat is adjustable up and down as well as fore and aft.

While no one wants to a craft a whole new system, overcoming the enormous teacher dissatisfaction with the first plan will make it difficult to revisit the topic, said the AFT's Weir.

Teachers» unions are split: Some local groups, including the Chicago Teachers Union and the New York State United Teachers, oppose the new standards entirely, while the two national unions — the National Educators Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)-- support the Core but want delays in implementation.

While today's reform outfits are still dramatically outnumbered and outspent by the NEA and the AFT, it's remarkable how much difference even modest activity can make.

While Tarbell's villain was Standard Oil, Brimelow's culprits are the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).

Even today, the AFT continues to lend some support to standards - based reform, while the NEA has opposed high - stakes testing, supported parents who boycott tests, and funded researchers to try to undermine standards - based reform.

What the AFT fails to acknowledge is that charter schools are more likely than district schools to promote integration, since in most charter schools white and minority kids take the same courses, while in many district schools minority kids are placed into nonacademic tracks.

While trade unionism was in general decline, the AFT grew from 71,000 members in 1961 to close to one million at the time of Shanker's death in 1997.

While a union defeat in Friedrichs could place sharp limits on the political operations of the NEA, the AFT, and other public employees» unions, the impact would be far from apocalyptic.

As with CCSS, the AFT passed a resolution praising the design of edTPA while lamenting its implementation and the role of Pearson in scoring the assessment.

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the smaller of the two national professional education unions, ranked 25th in campaign spending, with almost $ 12 million, while NEA / AFT collaborative campaigns spent an additional $ 3.4 million, enough to earn the rank of 123rd.

He has particular ire for his fellow principals and school superintendents, who he blames for paving the «path to public education's meltdown,» and for the NEA and AFT, whose efforts in making teaching a lucrative public - sector profession insulated from even desultory performance management, for helping to perpetuate bureaucracies that «feed the egos of adults while squashing the hopes of children».

Perhaps our most exciting news is that Vice Presidential Candidate Tim Kaine joined AFT President Randi Weingarten at a walk - in in Philadelphia, while NEA President Lily Eskelen Garcia participated in a walk - in in North Carolina.

Finally, in what may will recognize as the most bizarre twist of all, while teachers and public education advocates all across Connecticut fight to save teacher tenure and collective bargaining, the American Federation of Teacher's state chapter, the AFT - CT, endorsed Dannel Malloy last week without ever allowing me to meet with their political action committee or their executive committee.

And, concurrently, how can Hillary Clinton chant anti-charter union mantras, Lamb Chop to AFT's Shari Lewis, while Trump — dear Lord, even Trump!

NEA and AFT ramp up attacks on non-existent teacher bashers, while vilifying those who are trying to reform a failing system.

Another flaw with AFT's proposal is «that a teacher could not show up for weeks, give no excuse, and still wait out a 100 day hearing process, collecting pay all the while, and still might not be let go.»

While districts under control of mayors such as New York City and Chicago can count on the considerable political heft of municipal chief executives (and in the case of the Big Apple, the wallet of Mayor Michael Bloomberg) to beat back traditionalists in Albany and Springfield, districts with traditional school board governance structures often have few tools at their disposal against NEA and AFT locals with waning - but - still - more considerable political influence in statehouse corridors.

We'll start with AFT president Rhonda (please call me Randi) Weingarten who pulled in a cool $ 543,150 in total compensation over the last year, all the while railing against the rich because she claims they don't pay their fair share of taxes.

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).

Weingarten earned a 98 percent margin in her recent re-election to lead the AFT, while García earned 94 percent of her convention's vote.

-- major funding from AFT), who together launched a website calling DFER and its supporters «Democrats in name only,» while insinuating that the organization is a kind of political Trojan Horse backed by wealthy GOP donors like the Koch Brothers and Betsy DeVos.

After a nearly hour - long debate, AFT committed to supporting Common Core, while acknowledging its flaws and demanding corrections.

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.

While DCFT struggles to find continued relevance as a privileged middleman between teachers and district leaders, the Board of Education now looks to shake off the AFT - organized backlash and focus ahead on reforms that raise the bar of excellence for students, and improve communication with parents.

But while New York teachers, along with teachers in Massachusetts, Chicago, Washington State, Oregon and dozens of other locations join parents in support of the opt out movement, neither the Connecticut Education Association (CEA) nor the American Federation of Teachers — Connecticut Chapter (AFT - CT) have taken any meaningful action in support of parents who are opting their children, or trying to opt their children, out of the Common Core SBAC test.

I speak in particular of AFT President Randi Weingarten, who reportedly pulled in an AFT income of over half a million dollars in 2014, while the average teacher salary in the United States has declined by 2.3 percent since 2000 to $ 56,689.

The $ 300,000 NEA and AFT gave to Al Sharpton's National Action Network in 2014 - 2015, for example, hasn't stopped the controversial civil rights activist from being a strong supporter for expanding public charter schools, while outfits such as the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights have sparred with the Big Two over federal accountability rules contained over the now - abolished No Child Left Behind Act.

While Gov. Andrew Cuomo is threatening to both the Big Apple and the AFT to propose a law allowing the state education department unilaterally put the new evaluations in place, the fact that the AFT's Big Apple and Empire State affiliates are among the most - influential donors to state legislators (including Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos) makes Cuomo's threat a rather empty one.

While friends can disagree on even the most important issues, it is shameful that Malloy's challengers weren't given the opportunity to make their case to AFT members as to why students, parents, teachers and all of public education would be better off with a new governor,» Pelto concluded.

While I regret the incident at our TEACH Conference, in an ironic way, it has given me and the AFT the opportunity to promote our belief in working in partnership with anyone who wants to help improve public education.

It's interesting to me that, while Melodie Peters of AFT - CT has loudly proclaimed that Malloy is negotiating in good faith to abolish his absurd and immoral teacher evaluation system and other aspects of his education reform program, he still retains Pryor as his Commissar of Education.

There's no transmission funny business since one gear ratio does all the work, while the suspension action is very carefully managed to minimize fore - and - aft rocking motion and both firmly and predictably manage side - to - side roll.

A trio of air vents sits atop the dashboard, below which is a line of secondary buttons and controls, while the touchpad controller for the MMI infotainment system resides aft of the shifter on the center console.

The large apertures aft of the side windows are the source of air for the engine, while the ducts ahead of the rear wheels direct air into the glass - covered engine compartment.

While the Hennessey Venom GT's «cockpit» is sourced from the lightweight Lotus Exige, everything fore and aft of the passenger compartment is all - new.

But while there have been some suggestions of a trimming - off of some rear overhang, there's no real indication here — although it's certain that an imaginary stripping away of the roofline aft of the C - pillar would reveal a distinct taper to give the desired BMW X6 - style coupe - like profile.

While the live rear axle and floorpan aft of the front seats remained largely the same, ninety percent of the Firebird's parts were all - new.

The middle row seats are a 40:20:40 split folding type bench which can slide fore and aft to vary legroom between the middle and third row, while the third row has a 50:50 split.

Their height can be raised by up to 65 mm, while their fore and aft range extends to 280 mm, allowing all drivers and passengers to find their ideal seating position.

A new storage compartment below the floor aft of the third - row seats gives the new Navigator L a bit of added storage flexibility, too, while the second - row doors — longer on the L model than on the regular - length Lincoln Navigator — facilitate easier ingress and egress to rear passengers.