Sentences with phrase «aft end»

Fold - down platforms encircle the aft end of the vessel providing ample comfortable and safe access to the water.

Note also the small side flaps along the aft end of the running boards, something downright Formula Uno - looking.

11 Although it tapers downward slightly to the rear, the roofline is almost straight from the B - pillar to the black sunshield / spoiler at the aft end of the upper structure.

Bcause Baby Boomers remain in control of leadership posts within both unions (and thanks to rules that allow retirees to vote in union elections), the NEA and AFT end up defending seniority - based privileges and layoff policies that hurt the younger, more reform - minded teachers who make up the majority of their respective memberships.

I need more omega so I can stop my incontinence and control my aft end so I can speak from like I normally do.

Not exact matches

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) cut ties with Wells Fargo Thursday over the bank's refusal to end its relationship with the NRA.

The AFT supports Louisiana's policy to end social promotion.

The settlement ends a dispute that began in 2002, when teacher Nathan Saunders II filed a federal lawsuit against former top union officials, the union's former board of trustees, the AFT, and a local bank.

For well over a quarter century, the NEA and the AFT have been the most powerful groups in the politics of education — with more than four million members, formidable sums of money for campaign contributions and lobbying, well - educated activists manning the electoral trenches, and organizations that blanket the nation, allowing them to coordinate all these resources toward political ends.

The AFT accrued more than $ 10 million from the Gates Foundation, until internal pressures forced the union to end some of the grants.

Parents and many others have joined the AFT's efforts to end the overuse and misuse of standardized tests, and to fix — not close — struggling schools, something Weingarten has advocated since her involvement in the creation of New York City's Chancellor's District, which dramatically improved achievement in what had been some of the city's lowest - performing schools.

These two leading organizations are clearly responding to the pressure to reduce or end testing emanating from the AFT, former President Clinton, Secretary Duncan, and others.

Some of AFT's local chapters, including Chicago, have called for the union to end its support for Common Core entirely.

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.

The AFT clearly has its eyes on the 2016 presidential campaign, and more - importantly, on ending the sway school reformers currently have over education policy within the Democratic National Committee.

Weingarten is presiding over the AFT's convention in the City of Angels just a month after a California judge handed down his ruling in Vergara v. California ending the near - lifetime employment laws upon which the AFT's influence (and that of the NEA) is dependent.

When a fast - growing splinter group pushed unions to militantly oppose reform, the AFT spent millions on a «national day of action» to that end.

The AFT formally asked President Obama to implement a «secretary improvement plan» that would urge Duncan to press for higher funding, support teachers and end the «test and punish» system of education reform.

The AFT has called for an end to the testing obsession and for a moratorium on the high - stakes consequences attached to the Common Core State Standards - aligned assessments until the more rigorous standards have been implemented properly.

Two other proposals, both backed by the NEA and AFT, would do nearly the same by ending annual standardized testing.

Trump will likely appoint a justice to the U.S. Supreme Court, reviving the effort to end the ability of NEA and AFT (as well as other public - sector unions) to forcibly collect dues from teachers regardless of desire for membership.

To that end, AFT CT is interviewing politicians before giving endorsements for the fall.

Another top NAACP board member is Adora Obi Nweze, the president of the group's Florida branch, which joined the NEA's and AFT's Florida affiliate in its unsuccessful suit to end that state's school choice program.

A friend is going to wash them a dozen times between now and the end of the AFT's Chicago visit, just to see how fast the red becomes pink becomes shreds.

This week in a blog entitled, The Opt Out End Game, the President of the National Education Association, Lily Eskelsen Garcia, joined AFT President Randi Weingarten, in her support for the legal right of a parent to opt their child out of the Common Core assessment.

The fact that both the NEA and AFT have become so fearful of the implications of last month's decision in Vergara v. California ending near - lifetime employment and reverse - seniority layoff rules — including the likelihood that teachers, now realizing that the two unions can no longer hold up bargain they struck with earlier generations in the profession — show how tied they are to this outdated model of unionism.

At the end of the day, reformers must give up on the fanciful notion that NEA and AFT leaders can embrace systemic reform on anything other than a tepid level.

To that end, even the standard three - position rear bench's 60 / 40 - split sections slide fore and aft, and the seatbacks recline.

Aft of the coupe - style front end — with its wider, flatter grille — the TT Sportback shares fastback styling cues with that of Audi's A5 and A7 Sportbacks, though features like the wide wheel arches and arched roofline hark back to, in Audi's words, «the TT's formal idiom».

2 In plan view, the front end is arrow - shaped, with a graceful curve at the corner where the upper surface overhangs the sides to channel air aft.

To that end, the V - 8 is mounted completely aft of the front axle and the dual - clutch transmission is a transaxle mounted in the rear.

The curb appeal is improved by handsomely revised front - and rear - end treatments, reshaped side glass and big vents aft of the front wheel openings.

Judging from Wayne's final parking job, the car could have fit into an even smaller spot without touching the fore and aft pylons, but both competitors were happy to end it at this point.

If, it has a loft over the tongue, you are adding a fair amount of weight to the hitch, and if the loft is over the real end (aft) the weight will diminish.