Sentences with phrase «by aft»

For those seeking additional support or those unable to attend a local group, we offer a listserv group moderated by parent volunteers who are trained and supervised by AFT.

Based on teacher / administrator Ray Budde's early 1970's thesis and the support by AFT president Albert Shanker, teachers were supposed to start charters as learning laboratories to show their professionalism.

«Peer assistance and review» was invented by the AFT's Toledo local in the early 1980's and has been promoted by the AFT and various of its affiliates ever since.

In a recent survey by the Council of Chief State School Officers of 46 state teachers of the year, 76 percent named family stress and 63 percent named poverty as significant barriers to student achievement.8 And in a Communities In Schools survey, 88 percent of teachers said poverty is a major barrier to learning.9 Additionally, a survey conducted by the AFT in spring 2015 highlighted the workplace stress that teachers face — stress that many educators believe impedes instruction and demeans the profession.

This afternoon I was scrolling through Facebook and came across a couple of postings by AFT President Randi Weingarten regarding the Trump administration's absolute failure in responding to Hurricane Maria and how we can help the families who are still struggling a month after.

Where Community Schools Are Strong By AFT Educational Issues Department, Martin J. Blank, and Lisa Villarreal HTML PDF

Standards - based reform as articulated by the AFT is an ordered process that includes well - developed standards and a curriculum to support their implementation; professional development for teachers; new assessments aligned to the standards; and fair incentives and sufficient resources to help students make the grade.

This soft bigotry perpetuated by AFT and NEA extends beyond teachers.

Palmer, Peters and Randi Weingarten, the national AFT president who was the second - day keynote speaker, all reminded the members of Malloy's support for a broad labor agenda and his defense of locked out health workers represented by AFT at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital.

Those transformations, however, are opposed by AFT and NEA.

Given the presence of these groups, along with the presence of Alliance for Educational Justice (another group backed by AFT), it is little wonder why so much of the «manifesto» focuses on opposing choice and Parent Power, as well as calling for districts to stop hiring recruits trained by Teach For America, the teacher quality reform outfit that has long been the bane of the Big Two's existence.

This includes the early endorsements of Clinton's campaign by both unions, as well as $ 2.2 million in donations made by AFT to the two foundations controlled by Hillary and her husband, the former president, over the past four years.

See also the AFT's press release, written by AFT President Randi Weingarten, here.

Good Morning Yesterday, Dr. Howard Fuller, Derrell Bradford, Darrell Allison, and Kevin Chavous led a media conference call following the astonishing attack on families and education reform advocates by AFT President Randi Weingarten.

Education reform leaders and school choice advocates Dr. Howard Fuller, Derrell Bradford, Darrell Allison, and Kevin P. Chavous held a conference call following an astonishing attack on families and education reform advocates by AFT President Randi Weingarten.

AFT - CT President Peters» comment is an odd one to be sure, considering that the AFT - CT refused to allow me — a pro-teacher, pro-union, pro-public education 3rd party candidate running for governor — to even submit a candidate questionnaire, be interviewed by the AFT - CT endorsing committee or address the AFT - CT Executive Committee before they voted.

WASHINGTON — Statement by AFT President Randi Weingarten on the 2013 Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools:

Do you even know what you mean by AFT backed?

He led New Haven Federation of Teachers, funded by AFT Innovation Fund, to plan restorative practices implementation in New Haven public schools.

Winners were chosen from among applications submitted by AFT affiliates during the summer.

The consortium's 39 diverse public high schools (37 are in New York City, one is in Ithaca and one is in Rochester) are staffed by AFT members and have received waivers from four of the state's five standardized exams (students still take the English Regents test).

The letter, sent in January by AFT President Randi Weingarten to the USDA's Food and Nutrition Service, maps out in detail what the federal government could do to improve school meal programs.

The cost of the trip was shared by AFT's 1.5 million members and the Trade Union of Education and Science Workers of Ukraine.

Remind your colleagues that they may still advance in licensure by completing a dossier; the PED's arbitrary rating system can not negatively affect a teacher's ability to advance thanks to the injunction won by AFT NM / ATF last fall.

As packaged by the AFT, the numbers showed that fourth - and eighth - graders in charter schools were performing about half a year behind students in other public schools.

The AFT's press release, entitled «Charter School Scores Mostly Trail Achievement in Regular Public Schools Casts Doubt on Wisdom of Conversion to Charter School...» shows a pattern by the AFT to stop the expansion of the charter school movement.

Yesterday, Dr. Howard Fuller, Derrell Bradford, Darrell Allison, and Kevin Chavous led a media conference call following the astonishing attack on families and education reform advocates by AFT President Randi Weingarten.

At least two bills have been introduced in the House of Representatives to retreat to grade - span testing: One got public support from the NEA, and the other was saluted by the AFT.

WASHINGTON — Statement by AFT President Randi Weingarten on the series of landmark education amendments passed by delegates during the final drafting session for the Democratic Party platform in Orlando, Fla..

Currently the president of the United Federation of Teachers in New York City, Ms. Feldman, as anticipated, was selected unanimously by the AFT's executive council to serve out the remainder of Mr. Shanker's term.

As a result, the studies cited by the AFT compare many charter schools in their first or second year with district schools with decades of experience and deep pockets behind them.

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.

(Correction: Eugenia Kemble points out to me that the document is being issued by the AFT - affiliated Albert Shanker Institute and not by the AFT.

Scott Milliman and I found, after correcting for this and other errors, that one of the key studies cited by the AFT as alleging racial concentration in charter schools in fact found charter schools no more segregated than district schools, with the notable exception of those charters that had converted from private schools.

Michael Podgursky responds: Collective - bargaining agreements negotiated by the AFT in large urban districts typically include language restricting the contractual teaching workday to little longer than the school day for students.

In 1996, only three states had promotion policies based on standardized tests; in 1999, 13 states had such policies, according to Making Standards Matter 1999: Executive Summary, an annual report by the AFT.

It was a sound strategy, but it didn't solve the problem, as evidenced by the AFT's 2012 survey showing that teachers still considered their education overly theoretical.

Highlights of the conference include include debates and resolutions about controversial teacher testing, charter schools, and a proposal by AFT president calling for an extra year of high school to help prevent high school - dropout rates from climbing.

At the union's own convention in Chicago, the centerpiece of Weingarten's acceptance speech was the repudiation of the federal No Child Left Behind law (NCLB), once warmly welcomed by the AFT.

In his State of the State speech on Jan. 9, Gov. Cuomo announced an ambitious education agenda for 2013 that includes full - day pre-kindergarten in the poorest areas, community schools such as those being piloted by the UFT this year, and a «bar - like exam» to qualify future teachers that was first proposed by the AFT.

StudentsFirstNY's Acting Executive Director, Glen Weiner, released the following statement in response to remarks by AFT President Randi Weingarten at the Association for a Better New York.

Not exact matches

The conclusion I want to pull out of these considerations is this: if there is at least one actual entity in the world characterized by at least one eternal object, one specific form of definiteness, then this actual entity provides all the ontological ground required for the realm of eternal objects — an appeal to God is not necessary.11 And, indeed, in Whitehead, as in Aristotle, there is an eternity and an abeternity of becoming so that within the terms of the system it is inconceivable that there be any region of the extensive continuum, no matter how far it be extended fore or aft, where there is not a generation of actual entities exhibiting concrete forms of definiteness.

Such challenges are being addressed by NASA Advanced Food Technology (AFT) scientists.

They are fueled by oversize gas tanks fore and aft with a total capacity of 1,610 gallons, four times the amount carried by a standard offshore racing boat.

Thursday's demonstration is part of a national day of action, co-sponsored by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools (AROS).

PEF's national affiliate, the AFT, has said no to a request by former Secretary - Treasurer Carlos Garcia's request to investigate the June 2015 vote in which he and former President Susan Kent were ousted.

The next day, Oct. 29, AFT Solidarity 527, a Washington - based committee funded by NYSUT's other parent union, the American Federation of Teachers, also gave $ 100,000 to the DSCC.

From noon to 2 p.m., state Education Commissioner John King Noon and AFT President Randi Weingarten discuss efforts and proposals to overhaul public schools during a lunch organized by Teaching Matters and moderated by Columbia University Prof. Jeffrey Henig; Harvard Club of New York City, 32 W. 45th St., Manhattan.

«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