Sentences with phrase «earlier education activists»

Earlier education activists had thought to achieve outcomes through targeted spending on the theory that where funding flows, school improvement flourishes.

Not exact matches

Roads leading to the 20 - year - old education activist's home in Mingora were blocked off earlier in the day.

But it also served a dual political purpose: It jabbed at the tradition of mayoral control of New York City's schools, and it also allowed the governor to take an aggressive stand on the issue of educational equity — a marquee issue of Ms. Nixon, a longtime education activist who has placed the issue squarely at the heart of the early stages of her campaign.

With a background as a civil rights activist and as an early leader of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, Perales would be a plus with Latinos, one of the fastest - growing groups of New Yorkers.

We'll leave the argument for prisons to sociologists and political activists, though it was early education reformer Horace Mann who noted, «Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.»

Earlier this week a poll of more than 1,600 teachers by the National Education Union and UK Feminista — a prominent feminist activist group — revealed that 27 per cent of secondary teachers would not feel confident tackling a sexist incident at school.

A native of Barbados and father of four children, Michael is a school - reform and community activist serving on numerous committees and Boards including the School Leadership Team of Bard High School Early College, Bed Stuy Piranhas at Bedford Stuyvesant YMCA, Coalition of Community Charter Schools (initial Board) and the Education and Youth Committee of Community Board 3.

Parent Power activists such as the Connecticut Parents Union are already gearing up for a fight with the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association over expanding the reach of the state's Parent Trigger law; the fight is particularly tinged by revelations earlier this year of the AFT's presentation on how it unsuccessfully attempted to kibosh the passage of the Parent Power law and how it exacted revenge by ousting Jason Bartlett, the legislator who led the passage of the law and the neutralizing of his former colleague, Gary Holder - Winfield.

Negotiators on the platform committee met this past weekend in Orlando (you can watch here, starting at the 31st minute) and changed an earlier draft of the K - 12 education plank (one of five education sections) that had drawn criticism from activists who wanted the Democrats to take a stand against some of the key elements of corporate reform, including on charter schools and test - based accountability.

Appearing in early March at the Network for Public Education conference in Texas, Lewis gushed on the practices of left - wing activist teacher Bob Peterson, who also serves as the president of the Milwaukee teachers union.

Their conclusions challenge the assertions of activists that breeders directly and indirectly produce an «overpopulation» of pets and provide testimony for early intervention through education, a solution that breeders, breed clubs, kennel clubs, and the American Kennel Club have promoted for years.

Public Legal Education (PLE) began to take shape in Canada in the late 1960s and early 70s as various agencies responded to the legal information needs of activists, protesters, drop - outs, and the otherwise disenchanted who saw that the law was affecting their lives in a direct way.