Sentences with phrase «affiliated national federations»

The International Judo Federation has 200 affiliated National Federations in all five continents.

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The groups include the Rochester - based Unshackle Upstate (the Rochester Business Alliance, now led by former Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy, is an affiliate organization) as well as the National Federation of Independent Business and the state Business Council, which endorsed Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year.

They are culled from a variety of sources — including our state affiliate, New York State United Teachers, and national affiliate, the American Federation of Teachers — that you are entitled to as a union member in good standing; others are DOE discounts or discounts from individual companies.

The books, all brand new, came as a result of NYSUT's partnership with their national affiliate, American Federation of Teachers, and an organization called First Book, which provides free books donated by book publishers to organizations that work with kids in Title I schools.

WHEREAS Victory Inc.'s union - busting campaigns have targeted charter school educators at Merrick Academy Charter School in Queens, Sisulu - Walker Charter School in Harlem and New York City Charter High School for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industries (AECI) in the Bronx, chapters of the New York City United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and charter school educators at the Charter School of Educational Excellence in Yonkers, a chapter of the Yonkers Federation of Teachers (YFT), all of whom are affiliated with the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT); and

In addition, Sayer is affiliated with the following: Co-Founder, Exosome Media Group, Reviewer and Editor, The International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Steering Committee Member of the Global GMO Free Coalition (GGFC), Board of Governor, National Health Federation, Advisory Board Member, Fearless Parent, Co-founder, Alliance for Vaccine Awareness

Randi Weingarten, 50, who adds the national presidency of the AFT to her current responsibilities as head of the United Federation of Teachers, its New York affiliate, has had much more on - stage experience in the theatre of American politics.

In California, Florida, Washington, and Wisconsin, affiliates of the National Education Association and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees have either agreed, or tentatively agreed, to forgo competing for the bargaining rights of school workers already organized by the other.

The state affiliates of the National Education Association, American Federation of Teachers, and AFL - CIO testified and lobbied aggressively against it.

The Minnesota affiliates of the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association have each approved resolutions this spring that establish a timetable for merging.

Barbara Cheadle, president of the National Organization of the Parents of Blind Children, an affiliate of the National Federation of the Blind, has been working for several years with Guide Dogs for the Blind to extend the outreach of both organizations into schools.

A story about the Florida gubernatorial race in the Sept. 4, 2002, issue of Education Week («Teachers» Unions Pass Over Reno and Reich») should have said that the Florida Education Association is affiliated with both the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers.

Cambridge, MA — A first - ever national analysis of state spending per teacher on political advocacy by the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) released today found that the national teachers unions and their state affiliates spent more than $ 100 per teacher in five states, with Oregon at the top of the list at $ 360 per teacher during the 2007 - 08 electionational analysis of state spending per teacher on political advocacy by the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) released today found that the national teachers unions and their state affiliates spent more than $ 100 per teacher in five states, with Oregon at the top of the list at $ 360 per teacher during the 2007 - 08 electioNational Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) released today found that the national teachers unions and their state affiliates spent more than $ 100 per teacher in five states, with Oregon at the top of the list at $ 360 per teacher during the 2007 - 08 electionational teachers unions and their state affiliates spent more than $ 100 per teacher in five states, with Oregon at the top of the list at $ 360 per teacher during the 2007 - 08 election cycle.

From a quite different place on the political spectrum, the New York affiliate of the National Education Association has withdrawn its support for the Common Core as implemented in that state, and the American Federation of Teachers is calling for a moratorium on all consequences attached to student test results while the standards are being implemented, a policy that has been affirmed in California.

National organizations such as EdChoice (formerly the Friedman Foundation, established in 1996) and the American Education Reform Foundation (founded in 1998) and Alliance for School Choice (founded in 2004), which later became affiliated with the American Federation for Children (founded in 2009), were the most prominent voices in state capitols, providing early leadership on choice - related policy and working to counter choice policy myths.

Important partners in this effort are the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA) and their affiliates in the participating communities.

Most of these locals are either affiliates of the American Federation of Teachers, or jointly affiliated with AFT and the National Education Association.

The new union, in the works for two years, is the second state - level merger of affiliates of the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers.

While more than 13 schools have either launched or expanded school voucher and tax credit programs in the past two years, efforts by National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers affiliates to shut them down, either by voter referendums (as in Florida) or through lawsuits, are reminders of the challenges to expanding choice that remain.

The competing measure, Proposition 1A, is sponsored by two unions, Service Employees International Union Local 925 and American Federation of Teachers, a national teachers» union affiliated with AFL - CIO.

In fact, it is that very scrutiny that has led so many suburban districts to join alongside National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers affiliates (as well as other traditionalists) to complain about No Child in the first place; they didn't want to be held accountable for serving up mediocrity to the kids they have subjected to educational malpractice for far too long.

An education reform group (along with four public schoolteachers) has sued the state's two teachers unions, affiliated with the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers (AFT).

Oregon, Michigan, Kansas, and New York State have gained waivers without either having put their teacher evaluation plans in place or rolling them out beyond a pilot stage; this leaves the possibility that the plans will be scuttled by opposition from National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers affiliates generally opposed to using objective student performance data in performance reviews.

They discuss their recent protest efforts in the districts of state legislators who, at the behest of National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers affiliates, have all but eviscerated Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform plans.

Thanks to state laws that force districts to bargain with National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers affiliates, and the considerable political heft that the two unions bring to bear in the form of lobbying and $ TK million in campaign donations to state legislators, reform - minded districts are often outmanned and outgunned at the state level.

There are a few reasons why affiliates of the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers continue to cling on to declining influence over education policymaking.

Thanks to the state's archaic and religiously - bigoted Blaine Amendment, families would not be able to use school funding to put their children to high - quality private and parochial schools; although disappointing, it is understandable that Snyder won't go further given the opposition to the plan that is already emerging from affiliates of the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, and traditional districts.

A few examples — all of which are in cities dominated by Stutman's national affiliate, the American Federation of Teachers:

Individual school turnarounds are hard to do because principals usually don't control budgets (which usually means teachers) or personnel decisions (also teachers)-- those are governed by the central office, by state laws influenced by lobbying by affiliates of the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, and collective bargaining agreements that protect veteran teachers regardless of their performance.

Meanwhile in the Empire State, the New York State United Teachers — an affiliate of both the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association — is already bearing its teeth in opposition to a set of proposals from state Assemblyman Sam Hoyt to end the state's ban on using test scores in evaluating the performance of probationary (pre-tenure) teachers and lift the cap on charter school expansion.

As Dropout Nation has documented over the past few weeks (and, actually, longer than that), decades of dealmaking between states, districts, and affiliates of the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers is rearing its ugly head just as state governments must also deal with increasing Medicaid costs driven by the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

And although teachers unions opposed the legislation in Colorado, the state chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, in an unexpected twist, endorsed it after securing several amendments that both the AFT and the Colorado Education Assn., an affiliate of the National Education Assn., had pushed.

When it comes to stopping systemic reform, the California affiliates of the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers will spend as much money as they can to do so.

Partly based on the belief that supposed experts in education (including principals and superintendents) should be the ones to make decisions in schools and districts, as well as driven by the efforts of National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers affiliates to maintain their declining influence (as well as maintain the grand bargain of sorts between the unions and its members that drive NEA and AFT revenues), traditionalists tend to argue that the perspectives of teachers are the ones that matter most.

It is affiliated with the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS), the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), the National Middle School Association (NMSA), and the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP).

The teachers would be represented by United Teachers of New Orleans, which is affiliated with the national union the American Federation of 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 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 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.

Prohibits the FHSAA from unreasonably withholding its approval of an application to become an affiliate member of the National Federation of State High School Associations submitted by any other organization that governs interscholastic athletic competition in this state

Both the California Teachers Association (CTA, an affiliate of the National Educational Association) and the California Federation of Teachers (CFT, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers) plan to appeal the court's decision.

And thirdly, they defend choice against the entreaties of traditionalists such as the Florida Education Association, the affiliate of both the National Education Association affiliates and the American Federation of Teachers that just filed suit this week against the Sunshine State's expansion of vouchers for kids trapped in special ed ghettos.

There's usually one or more in each state, and you can check with the American Federation of Aviculture (AFA), as many clubs are affiliated with this national organization.

The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) is the United States» largest private, nonprofit conservation education and advocacy organization, with over four million members and supporters, and 47 state and territorial affiliated organizations.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) provides support for Planned Parenthood affiliates across the country, with national offices in New York City and Washington, DC.

A lot of smaller care providers are consolidating or being absorbed by regional and national firms, to better manage risk and meet hospital systems» increased requirements for quality of care, says James Michel, senior director of Medicare research and reimbursement at the American Health Care Association, a non-profit federation of affiliate state health organizations.