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AFT Connecticut President Sharon Palmer is participating in a roundtable discussion U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. The roundtable is being hosted by Connecticut's 4th District Congressman Jim Himes at Norwalk Community College. Also, participating in the roundtable is AFT Connecticut K-12 Council Chair John Altieri.
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American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and U.S. Department of Education leaders called the recent New Haven Federation of Teachers’ contract a national model for school reform, on Monday.
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In what is being called a first of its kind strategic educational plan in Connecticut, and possibly the country, the City of New Haven and the New Haven Federation of Teachers (NHFT), Local 933, have agreed on a plan for comprehensive school reform.
“The spirit of collaboration has been extraordinary,” said David Cicarella, president of NHFT. “Teachers are being included as an equal partner at the table to help make this a success.”
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The healthcare reform bill that the U.S. Senate Finance Committee passed on Oct. 13 "was developed with good intentions, but it has serious defects that could jeopardize insurance affordability for both the insured and the uninsured," AFT president Randi Weingarten says.
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Documentary maker Michael Moore's new film "Capitalism: A Love Story" is opening in theaters. Moore has been promoting his film by offering free tickets to unions, but the American Federation of Teachers has turned them down because Moore didn't hire any members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.
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Two new reports on teacher compensation put into relief the right and wrong way to create education policy, AFT Randi Weingarten says in commenting on reports released Oct. 1. The reports are "Redesigning Teacher Pay: A System for the Next Generation of Educators," which is volume 2 in the Economic Policy Institute Series on Alternative Teacher Compensation Systems, and "Teacher Compensation and Teacher Quality," a report from the Committee for Economic Development.
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 President Barack Obama delivered a rousing address at the AFL-CIO convention in Pittsburgh Sept. 15, vowing to move forward with policies that will help American workers and rebuild the middle class. |
 The number of people without health insurance grew to 46.3 million in 2008, according to statistics released yesterday by the U.S. Census Bureau. In 2007, 45.7 million Americans were uninsured.
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Call it "Arne Duncan Unplugged," an unscripted Monday afternoon exchange at QuEST between the U.S. education secretary and AFT members on the issues that matter most to education's frontline. The July 13 session began with a drum roll: AFT members' handwritten questions for the education secretary were collected in advance and placed inside an onstage sweepstakes drum. After a few turns, AFT president Randi Weingarten reached in and selected a handful at random, and Duncan took the stage to provide some answers.
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QuEST 2009 Highlights
Highlights from the recently concluded 2009 AFT QuEST conference in Washington, D.C., included AFT president Randi Weingarten's keynote address, a town hall meeting with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, a panel on community schools and remarks from U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis. Daily updates from the conference, as well as video highlights, can be found on the AFT's QuEST 2009 Web site. |
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