Sentences with phrase «education justice initiative»
Fundraising Campaign for the Elected School Board Lawsuit Please share the link to spread the word and donate to this crowd - funded education justice initiative https://rally.org/ChiElectSchoolBoard
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(Washington, D.C., June 5, 2013) Kerry Kennedy, president of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights (RFK Center), announced the launch of a groundbreaking new initiative of the RFK Center, RFK Project SEATBELT: a comprehensive set of evidence - based tools, developed in partnership with the Making Caring Common Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, to help schools, parents, and communities prevent bullying before it starts.
Duhon has directed higher - education service - learning programs, taught at the high school and college levels, and led and collaborated on several community, social justice, and faith - based initiatives in New York and Cleveland.
The initiative expresses the commitment of Saul Zaentz, an acclaimed music and film producer, to education and social justice.
Jan. 14: The Boston Education Justice Alliance will hold an emergency town hall to discuss the impact of new citywide initiatives, school closures, and a charter school ballot initiative.
In October, the White House and four federal agencies — Education, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, and Justice — launched the cross sector Every Student, Every Day initiative with a goal of reducing chronic absenteeism by 10 percent a year.
For over 10 years, NIRN has led and engaged in national and global implementation initiatives and capacity building across human services, including education, child welfare, early childhood development, health, and criminal justice.
And, you know, speaking to education and justice, in 2011, the u.s. department — the departments of education and justice launched a supportive school discipline initiative to reduce exclusionary discipline policies, practices and their impact on youth of color and youth with disabilities.
The Early Career Leadership Fellow (ECLF) initiative is a collaborative effort between the National Education Association (NEA) and CEC, which connects early career teacher leaders to union leadership, particularly around professional and social justice issues.
The Representative assembly also decided that discussions and recommendations regarding ministry initiatives should be consistent with Federation policies, including the Federation's goals of education, the principles of learning, and the BCTF's social justice lens.
Kyle Serrette Director of Education Justice Campaigns Center for Popular Democracy Shital C. Shah Assistant Director, Education Issues American Federation of Teachers Bela Shah Spooner Program Manager, Afterschool Initiatives Institute for Youth, Education, and Families National League of Cities Joann Weeks Associate Director Netter Center for Community Partnerships University of Pennsylvania Ira Harkavy Chair Emeritus Associate Vice President and Director Netter Center for Community Partnerships University of Pennsylvania
«Paul Ramírez Jonas: Half - Truths» is the second iteration of the Department of Education and Public Engagement's annual R&D Summers, a research and development initiative that foregrounds the New Museum's year - round commitment to community partnerships and public dialogue at the intersection of art and social justice.
Since then, through its public education, direct advocacy, and law reform initiatives, CAMWL has endeavoured to help shape a legal profession that is responsive to our collective obligation to promote substantive justice and equality.
We can not understand why initiatives such as the Pre-Application Judicial Education (PAJE) course, which has seen considerable investment over a number of years from both the Bar Council and partners across the legal profession, including the Ministry of Justice, and indeed was a recommendation in the Lammy report, has been omitted from the Government's plan to address inequalities.
The Legal Education Foundation (LEF)- the charitable arm spun out of last year's sale of the College of Law - has formally launched with a series of six grants to initiatives supporting pro bono, social mobility and access to justice.
The fundraising drive was just one of several initiatives undertaken by the firm's regional branches as part of a co-ordinated strategy by the firm to boost access to justice through pro bono work; access to finance through microfinance initiatives; and access to education.
Delivering access to justice demands change and action on a very broad range of initiatives — pro bono work by the private bar, fair and adequate funding of legal aid, collaboration among all system participants (clients, lawyers, courts, agencies, NGO's), legal education (and its financing), e-filing and case data standards, court forms, court interfaces to self - represented litigants, unbundled legal services, virtual law practice, multistate practice, law practice ownership and investment, limited practice licenses, unauthorized practice of law rules, lawyer advertising rules, and lawyer discipline.
This initiative is unique because it brings together justice sector institutions as partners in the creation of a large - scale online public legal education resource.
Funded by a generous grant from the Law Foundation of British Columbia, West Coast LEAF's newest education initiative Only Yes Means Yes aims to inform post-secondary students about the law of sexual assault and consent through a social justice lens.
I promised at the beginning of this podcast that I want to talk about our member benefit initiative, just as voting and veterans and education are very basic, that's how we feel about member benefits, and we are going to be looking back to basics that the ABA does incredible things for access to justice for the legal community, for the court system, but we are going to also do incredible things for our members and potential members.
Joshua participates in various legal education, access to justice, and legal technology initiatives, including Evolve Law, the previous Reinvent Law movement, and Legal Hackers initiatives.
One of his key responsibilities was the delivery of education for the justices of the peace and he tackled that portfolio with a variety of initiatives.
4) COMPUTER COURSES: In 2006, a position of Education Librarian Consultant to the Ontario Court of Justice and the Superior Court of Justice was established as a joint initiative of the two Courts.
The campaign, «Justice for All», is designed to increase the public's awareness and interest in justice issues and to connect them to local public legal education and access to justice initiJustice for All», is designed to increase the public's awareness and interest in justice issues and to connect them to local public legal education and access to justice initijustice issues and to connect them to local public legal education and access to justice initijustice initiatives.
She works on mental health, special education, early childhood expulsion, child welfare and juvenile justice, and workforce development initiatives and issues at the Ounce.
The Social Justice Report 2007 examined some of the positive Indigenous community education and community development initiatives undertaken in response to family violence and child abuse.
The Department of Children and Youth Affairs focuses on harmonising policy issues that affect children in areas such as early childhood care and education, youth justice, child welfare and protection, children and young people's participation, research on children and young people, youth work and cross-cutting initiatives for children.
In order to be effective, any community justice initiatives will also involve a considerable investment in community consultation, participation and education: the emphasis should be on devolving power to the communities.