Topic: Randi Weingarten
The article presents an interview with Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) labor union. Weingarten discusses the need for teacher participation in educational reforms and the promotion of public schools as centers for communities. Conversations Randi Weingarten The ...
Union chief challenges Obama to keep his promise to work with teachers, not against themA teachers' union challenged the Obama administration Monday to live up to its promise of working with teachers and not against them.Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation ...
Randi Weingarten is President of the more than 1.4-million-member American Federation of Teachers, which represents teachers; paraprofessionals and school-related personnel; higher education faculty and staff; nurses and other healthcare professionals; local, state, and federal employees; and early childhood educators. Weingarten also serves ...
As Obama seeks more charter schools, unions push for bigger roleAs the Obama administration pushes for more charter schools, a teachers' union is pushing for a bigger role in them.It's a new development for the charter school movement, a small but growing ...
States should cooperate on ending the glaring inconsistencies among academic standards A new study has confirmed what many critics of the No Child Left Behind federal education law have said all along, that many school districts judged as failures would be judged ...
Michael Bloomberg introduced national teachers union head Randi Weingarten at the National Press Club in D.C. this morning, stressing what he described as a cooperative relationship that should be duplicated elsewhere, and presenting the city's school system as a national model. So ...
Teachers' union receptive to Obama idea to tie pay to student performanceA teachers' union said it is open to President-elect Barack Obama's effort to tie pay raises to student performance.Many teachers dislike the idea; Obama was booed when he mentioned it at ...
Teachers' union sues over NYC policy preventing educators from touting political candidatesThe teachers' union for the nation's largest public school system accused the city on Friday of banning political campaign buttons and sued to reverse the policy, declaring that free speech rights ...
City Hall wants to rid the public school system of bad teachers. How many fit that description? Who knows, but whether it’s one or a thousand and one, the city’s million-plus public school children will be better served without them.The problem, of ...
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Jennifer Granholm talks to Randi Weingarten, president of the American ...2012-02-09 -
AFT Endorses Barack Obama for President
Informed by surveys and conversations with their members, the American ...2012-02-07 -
Randi Weingarten on Tenure
Randi Weingarten, President of The American Federation of Teachers, comments ...2010-10-03
