Sentences with phrase «schools issue campaign»

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A new «independent issues advocacy group» backed by Michael Sacks will launch a campaign to tell Chicago about how schools are getting better.

Tim ran campaigns around food access, school funding reform, ex-offender issues, and youth homelessness.

And as a result of this happy alliance, school food — historically a bipartisan issue — suddenly became a politically charged topic, even spilling over into this year's presidential campaign.

The story features my successful Change.org petition in 2012 regarding the use of lean, finely textured beef (aka «pink slime») in school food, and goes on to discuss subsequent petition campaigns on food - related issues.

In a personnel memo dated May 1, 2009, principal Robert Mcmullen wrote, in part, «Your continued campaign has caused disruption to the normal operations of the district Food Service Director, district Finance Director, myself, your colleagues and the school... Therefore, I am issuing the following directive:

It was also the issue that motivated my successful campaign against «pink slime» in school food ground beef last year.

This article from a local Boulder, CO paper discusses the newly - launched fundraising campaign, and points up the very issue we've been talking about so much in recent weeks here on TLT: namely, can a district offer the kind of healthful food that Chef Ann champions without extra funding (over and above what the USDA reimburses schools)?

And finally, I just learned about the Healthy Schools Campaign, a non-profit organization that addresses not just food but general issues of environmental health and wellness in sSchools Campaign, a non-profit organization that addresses not just food but general issues of environmental health and wellness in schoolsschools.

Several are also the subject of the AFL - CIO's leaflett and canvass campaign accusing lawmakers of breaking promises to union members on a host of issues — support of charter schools among them.

After making her remarks at the Hilton Albany, Nixon, who has made education one of her key issues in her campaign, held a roundtable discussion with public school parents to talk about the conditions their students face.

Some of these proposals have come and gone over the years, and they are a reminder that budgets, school funding, ethics and campaign finance reform aren't the only issues politicians deal with.

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Green Party of New York Gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins talks about key campaign issue and introduces Lee, a public school teacher and union activist, who discusses the importance of Education to the campaign.

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She said the state could have tackled a range of issues, from fully funding public schools to fixing the beleaguered subway system and enacting campaign finance reform.

Those who support a convention say dramatic action is required to address corruption charges that have forced more than 30 officials out of office in a decade as well as issues such as New York's high taxes, unequal funding of schools, and the influence of big - money donors in campaigns.

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She says she hopes to run a campaign on the issue of more support for public schools and infrastructure, and reducing income disparities.

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Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

She then briefed on Cuomo - related issues, including him failing to close campaign finance loopholes, failing to veto any incumbent protection gerrymandering, not doing enough for election reform, for looting public schools to give tax cuts to banks and not taking a stance against fracking.

«As I said during the campaign, I intend to focus on important fiscal and environmental issues, and to make sure we're doing all we can to have safer schools and sensible gun reform laws,» Clements added.

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AFT President Randi Weingarten said Astorino is using an anti-Common Core campaign to «cloak» his other positions on education issues that would be far less palatable to public school advocates.

«Her Excellency Aisha Buhari has appealed to the ruling party All Progressives Congress, APC not to renege on their campaign promise of paying N5, 000 to 25 million unemployed Nigerians and giving school children one free meal a day,» read a statement issued on her behalf by Adebisi Olumide, her media aide.

Conference calls upon the National Executive to: (a) consider issuing a specific action instruction on interventions and teaching outside the school day; (b) strengthen the Action Short of Strike Action guidance to members, reminding them of their rights regarding working time and (c) continue to campaign for inspection bodies in the UK to include the inspection of work / life balance and workload in their frameworks.

ALBANY — After years as a pro-charter school operative, Democratic state Senate candidate Micah Lasher is adopting a more union - friendly attitude on education issues, vowing in his campaign literature to «ensure that charter schools have to play by the same rules.»

One source said the major outstanding issues involve charter schools, an anti-corruption package, campaign finance reform and the DREAM Act.

Healthcare is the primary issue of the Mittman campaign, as he advocates setting turning medical schools into hubs and paying up to 75 percent of a student's medical school tuition in exchange for ten years of service in an underserved community.

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Throughout this year's campaign, Gipson and Serino sparred over issues ranging from the Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement (SAFE) Act, to school funding and the voting records of each while in office.

A campaign official for Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin issued a quick apology after an email that contained a fundraising link was sent to city school workers on their work accounts.

«I think that along with the schools, this is the biggest issue in the campaign,» Hawkins explained.

Major issues during the 2015 legislative session included lifting the cap on charter schools, increasing the minimum wage, criminal justice reform, campaign financing, and ethics reform.

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It was also noticeable that he called for a national campaign against the reintroduction of grammar schools - one of the few issues around which the Parliamentary Party is united.

ALBANY — Nearly a month after the Parkland, Fla., school mass shooting, Gov. Cuomo is set to kick off a gun - control campaign touting his work on the issue and targeting seven New York congressional Republicans.

James noted that Nixon has experience on campaigns, has long been an advocate of public schools and is knowledgeable about education issues.

Other areas of our work that also have human rights and equalities angles include our campaigns around state - funded religious schools, religious education, for public service reform, and on ethical issues such as abortion and assisted dying.

ALBANY — American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten said Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino is using an anti-Common Core campaign to «cloak» his other positions on education issues that would be far less palatable to public school advocates.

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.

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Nixon pointed to issues like campaign finance reform, criminal justice reform, renewable energy and school funding as «the kind of stuff we want to be doing in New York.»