Sentences with phrase «like aft»

As more people become aware that teachers unions like the AFT and its locals are holding our kids back, expect more and more secretive schemes like this one to keep the campaign cash flowing far from public scrutiny.

Like the origins of labor unions, teachers» unions like the AFT and NEA emerged out of a need to protect teacher's from terrible working conditions, nepotism in hiring, political backlash, and to advocate for intellectual freedom.

(Like the AFT, about one - half of one percent of SEIU political donations go to Republicans / conservatives.)

All of which explains why the labor unions like the AFT (and the NEA) hate charter schools.

CEA endorsed a bully just like your AFT leadership.

If we wanted to push respondents toward Approach B, we could replace «invests» with «at the public expense» and employ additional shenanigans like the AFT poll did (e.g. - «choose the schools with the most enriching curriculum and most effective teachers»).

Not exact matches

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

After a panel that he created said it concurred with the AFT's report recommending a bar - like exam, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, endorsed the idea in his State of the State address on Wednesday, saying that «every teacher» should take such a test and pass it «before we put them in a classroom.»

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.

At one time, the marine projects coordinator was sighted on the aft deck, clinging to equipment, his legs blown straight out behind him like a flag in the wind.

The researchers filmed these organisms as they walked over a force platform which measures forces like a bathroom scale but separates them into 3 directions (upward, fore - aft, and side - to - side).

A government - backed committee is almost certain to prefer what the AFT wants over what Fordham may envision since the teacher unions are like Sony except only 100 times more powerful.

The institute is an offshoot of the 13 - year - old Teachers Union Reform Network of NEA and AFT Locals, or TURN, which brings together like - minded union leaders to exchange ideas on improving schools.

Both the NEA and the AFT support so - called professionalization agendas that aim to make the route into teaching look more like the routes into the legal and medical professions.

NEA staff also may approach theAmerican Federation of Teachers (AFT), to see if that organization would like to participate in the recruitment program.

The standards developers at SAP have met with union representatives like the NEA's director of education policy and practice Donna Harris - Aikens and AFT's Ucelli - Kashyap every couple of months, according to Alberti, to share activities, get feedback, and take a look at what needed to be done next.

Indeed, under the late Al Shanker, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) was known for tough - minded talk on issues like standards, testing, and failing schools.

Education reformers have long recognized the clout of NEA and AFT when it comes to contentious issues like performance pay, charter schools, and testing.

In this 2002 report, and even prior to more recent studies like the 2004 LAO report, which called charter schools «a viable reform strategy,» the AFT demanded a halt to new charter schools «until more convincing evidence of their effectiveness or viability is presented.»

Just as fraudulent as Weingarten's tough talk on bad teachers is a new AFT «poll,» the results of which were reported on solemnly by union cheerleaders like The Washington Post's Valerie Strauss.

The Commission also aligns itself with AFT President Randi Weingarten's call for a national bar - like exam for teachers, a proposal MORE has publicly opposed (see here)-LSB-...]

Now, Massachusetts legislators are trying to curb this sort of behavior by requiring SuperPACs like the one used by BTU and AFT to report their donors more frequently and in text on television advertisements.

«What our union liked about this was these are rank - and - file folks from across the country,» said aft President Randi Weingarten, even as she cautioned that the union may disagree on some «nuances» of the SOS principles.

For help figuring out state plans, reporters can look at the plans themselves, talk to state - based associations, advocates, or union leaders, or contact national outfits like the Alliance for Excellent Education, Fordham, the AFT, or the Education Trust.

Wrong — they have made the difference as to why we are not like other states who have capitulated — they are strong and I am an AFT member but I am amazed as to what they have accomplished and stood for --

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.»

DeVos Accepts Invitation From AFT President and District to Visit School in Ohio ow.ly / UBO730aH59J DeVos praises this voucher - like program.

Not surprisingly, Weingarten (now AFT president) and other union leaders who constantly blab to the media have been very cricket - like about the school's closing.

At stake is the power of public - sector unions like Randi Weingarten's American Federation of Teachers (AFT) to collect forced dues — so - called «agency fees» — from non-members forced to accept their representation in at least 25 states.

The fact that the AFT affiliate, like its counterparts in other districts, have the advantage of bodies on the ground — and in the case of race between Zimmer and Anderson, used it to their advantage — is another reminder that the school reform movement must do a better job of building grassroots support, especially among the 11.7 million single - parent families for whose children the failures of big - city districts such as L.A. Unified prove to weigh most - heavily.

AFT president Randi Weingarten has even gone so far as to describe the rise of charter schools as a form of modern - day segregation in an attempt to undermine one of the biggest threats to her union's power in places like New York.

There's AFT honcho - turned - Albert Shanker Institute boss Leo Casey, who tossed an Reductio ad Hitlerum - like statement against Steve Brill three years ago after the Class Warfare writer accused the AFT and other traditionalists of being «deniers» of the underlying causes of the nation's education crisis.

-- 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.

Those opponents include groups like the American Federation of Teachers, New York State United Teachers (an AFT affiliate), and Alliance for Quality Education (which receives — surprise!

This isn't the radical action of a rogue local, either — the national union led by radical union president Randi Weingarten has also insisted that states refuse to do business with money managers that the AFT doesn't like.

AFT president Randi Weingarten likes to remind audiences that Shanker was one of the first proponents of charter schooling, but that unfortunately some «have shifted the intent of charters from incubating ideas and sharing successes to competing for market share and taxpayer dollars.»

And according to the AFT - CT press release, Kimberly Daly, a Clark School teacher said that, «It feels like someone is trying to stick our community with a «scarlet letter... Calling us a «failing school» to allow outsiders to take - over is no way to treat the community we serve.

In a political move to reward the AFT - CT for ramming through an endorsement of Dan Malloy, without even granting the other candidates [like myself] the opportunity to fill out a candidate questionnaire, meet with the AFT - CT PAC or address the AFT - CT Board of Directors, Malloy announced on August 21, 2014 that he was taking the unprecedented step of appointing Meriden AFT President Erin Benham to a four year position on the State Board of Education.

It is also an issue because, like the Obama administration's signature reform effort, Race to the Top, there is an (implied) emphasis on cooperation with AFT and National Education Association affiliates.

I would sure like to see Charlie Puffers run for president of AFT.

It's worth noting that the first person to come up with the idea of a charter school was AFT president Albert Shanker; but his charter schools, if implemented would look nothing like the ones around today.

Like most classroom teachers, I didn't attend last weekend's AFT convention.

In fact, they often spar and parry over what school choice should look like, how to hold players in education accountable for student achievement, even over whether the NEA and AFT should even have a role in education decision - making.

The radical leadership of teacher unions like American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten are fighting a desperate rearguard action to protect the cushy status quo of de facto jobs - for - life for that fraction of incompetent teachers who (in the words of one union representative) «shouldn't even be pumping gas.»

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».

There are some great details but the inboard aero aft of the doors makes it look like the Disco Volante from the Bind film, as if the front will detatch and drive off from the rear.

In fact, the fore - aft, incline and seat height are set manually, like the good old days, which makes them light, too.

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.

My wife liked the interior appointments, including the leather front bucket seats with lumbar and the rear bench seat that would slide fore and aft like her Nissan cube.

The base 2011 GMC Terrain comes equipped with features like a 182 - horsepower 2.4 - liter four - cylinder engine with six speed transmission, 17 - inch wheels, rear - vision camera, a USB port, six airbags, XM Satellite Radio, OnStar, and a sliding rear seat that can move fore / aft nearly eight inches.