Sentences with phrase «union opened its student»

In September 1992, Cooper Union opened its Student Residence Hall, located across 3rd Avenue from the Foundation Building, as the school's first - ever on - campus housing resource.

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On August 31, 2007, the president of Clemson University opened a letter from the South Carolina chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union that read, «Coach [Tommy] Bowden... has abused his authority as... head football coach by imposing his strong personal religious beliefs upon student - athletes under his charge.»

The New York Civil Liberties Union announced Tuesday morning the settlement of a federal lawsuit against the Buffalo City School District for what it charged was «the open and systematic discrimination of LGBTQ students at McKinley High School.»

Nearly 100 students from Legacy School for Integrated Studies on 34 W. 14th St. gathered in Union Square Wednesday afternoon to ask the Department of Education to keep the school open despite its poor marks.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will halt the hiring process for two open positions affecting the student union until after the board of trustees decides how much autonomy the union should have.

The United University Professions, the union that represents SUNY faculty, has opened the application period for $ 3,000 scholarships for up to four SUNY undergraduates, and one graduate or professional student.

Writing in an open letter to Brown in 2011, Donnelly accused the governor of submitting new contract agreements that «protect the well - paid public employee unions, even at the cost of students, public safety, and jobs.»

I am certainly open to negotiating a residency requirement with the police union, but even more so I than that, I think we should focus on promoting from within: we have the PSLA (Public Service Learning Academy) at Fowler, set up to train Syracuse City School District students who want to go into public service jobs (including police).

Nevertheless, there is still a story to be told, and the essential part of it is that the program that education reformers have tried to promote now for decades — introduce more choices of schools for students, enable competition among schools, open up paths for preparing teachers and administrators outside schools of education, improve measures of student achievement and teacher competence, enable administrators to act on the basis of such measures, and limit the power of teachers unions — has been advanced under the Obama administration, in the judgment of authors Maranto and McShane.

The United Federation of Teachers had expected the trustees of the State University of New York to vote at their May 24 board meeting on the union's application to open a 450 - student charter school serving grades K - 5, starting in September.

Robert Sperber, superintendent of the Brookline Public Schools, opened the meeting quoting from a letter written by a seventh grader to a student in the Soviet Union.

A Silver State Schools Credit Union representative comes to Walter Bracken, and each participating student opens an account with them at the beginning of the year.

When fifth - grade students leave Walter Bracken, their accounts are closed, and they have the option to either cash their savings or open a new account with Silver State Schools Credit Union (SSSC).

Charter advocates in Massachusetts sought to increase the number of urban students who can enroll in charters, and the state had several well - qualified charter operators eager to open new schools, but both efforts failed in the legislature and in a referendum after a fierce campaign by teachers» unions.

The Chicago Teachers Union on Thursday condemned school district plans to close four South Side high schools next year and send current students to surrounding schools before a new, $ 85 million campus opens to freshmen in 2019.

The proposed Mandarin - immersion schools — one in Maplewood, the other in Livingston — would be open to students from Maplewood - South Orange, Livingston, Millburn - Short Hills, West Orange and Union.

She left the Bush administration before his second term ended and has since researched and written about the goals of «reform» that parents and teachers and societies may disagree with — get rid of or render toothless any unions, punish teachers for any failure of a student or a school, close as many public schools as possible in order to open private, for - profit schools run by foundations whose motives and agendas are not fully visible.

Union officials objected in particular to granting school boards wider dismissal powers, saying at the time that the bill would «open teachers to dismissal at the whim of local administrators, who have shown themselves woefully ill - equipped to protect students or teachers.»

Critics particularly questioned why the California Teachers Assn. would be open to Fuentes» proposal to allow school districts to tap funds for teacher evaluations that the union had guarded closely for improvements for low - income students.

Unions picketed the opening of the Broad Museum in downtown Los Angeles in 2015 and later planned protests citywide against the «Great Public Schools Now Initiative,» which sought to raise philanthropic dollars to add 260 charter schools in Los Angeles that would enroll half of the city's students.

But public opinion shifted dramatically as teachers unions and parents of students in traditional schools pounded the theme of potentially dire financial consequences of opening more charters, which they said would cause massive budget cuts.

At issue in «Anderson Union High School District v. Shasta Secondary Home School» was whether the charter school law permits an independent study charter authorized in one district to open a «resource center» to serve students living in other districts in the same county.

Although they recognize that benefits may flow through teachers to their students, teachers unions fail to emphasize a child - first message in their public discourse, making it appear that unions see children as a by - product and opening them up to further attacks.

The latest battle, over Hua Mei and Hanyu International — which would start in 2012 with 200 kindergarten through second - grade students drawn from Millburn, Maplewood, Livingston, South Orange, West Orange and Union — has divided neighbors and has spurred calls for legislation to require voter approval to open charters.

I loved how your line sums things up so well: «Although they recognize that benefits may flow through teachers to their students, teachers unions fail to emphasize a child - first message in their public discourse, making it appear that unions see children as a by - product and opening them up to further attacks.»

The opening sets us firmly in the Thatcher era, with college student Mark Renton joining a union protest, thinking he'll score some street cred; in the bloody melee that follows, he acquires both a cynical eye and a nagging back complaint.

Some banks and credit unions will allow those as young as 12 to open a student checking account (although, in many cases, minors will need to have a joint account with a legal guardian or parent).

Join the Student Credit Union and during the first five months from when the new account is opened, you'll earn $ 5 each month when five or more purchases are made with your new Visa Debit Card.

Many other accounts, including Nationwide Bank's Member Checking, First Bank's Student Checking Account and San Diego County Credit Union's Free Checking require only a $ 25 opening deposit.

Students under the age of 18 who live, work, or go to school in Burbank, Calif., can open a Student Savings account at UMe Federal Credit Union.

These additional touchpoints will be distributed in student unions across the UK to ignite conversations with messages such as «Here's to opening minds over opening beers» and «The best ideas begin on the back of a beer mat».

These additional elected alumni and student trustees on the board, together with the new faculty and staff observers, will bring fresh ideas, add resources and open up new and beneficial channels of communication with the larger Cooper Union community.

Be advised that each school at The Cooper Union offers certain electives that are open to all students; consult each school's course listing.

At the Cooper Union, we have basketball, soccer, tennis and volleyball teams that are open to all students.

Special lectures are open to all interested Cooper Union students, faculty and staff.

Cooper Union's founder, industrialist Peter Cooper, told students in 1864 that he started the school in order to offer instruction that is «open and free to all.»

Tehrani will meet with faculty, get to know students, and has high hopes to «make a Cooper Union that's an open environment for debate, for discourse and competing agendas,» and perhaps eventually, «we may be able to build some kind of bridge between its legacy and different paths that maybe it has not yet addressed.»

Founded on namesake Peter Cooper's belief that education should be available to all willing and qualified students regardless of their social status, Cooper Union has historically provided each admitted student with a «full tuition scholarship» since opening in 1859.

Cooper Union was free, just as CUNY was in 1970 (following an occupation by Black and Puerto Rican students demanding open admissions).

Litia Perta, an adjunct professor who has taught on and off at Cooper Union since 2006, opened up the discussion by saying that she's currently on unemployment and collects more money — «kind of by a lot» — than she has as an adjunct, and that while on unemployment she had the additional benefit of being able to defer her own student loan payments.

[120] Foundation - level art courses are completed by all students within their first year at The Cooper Union, leaving the remaining three years completely open for elective studio courses which can be chosen from departments including sculpture, painting, video, photography, traditional and computer animation, graphic design, typography, printmaking, and new media.

These meetings are held in a Cooper Union Classroom and are open to all alumni, faculty and students.

Cooper Union's annual End of Year Show opened on Monday May 21, featuring work from students in the college's art, architecture and engineering schools.

His work has been commissioned for events such as the Millennium Celebrations in Mexico City (1999); the Cultural Capital of Europe in Rotterdam (2001); the UN World Summit of Cities in Lyon (2003); the opening of the YCAM Center in Japan (2003); the Expansion of the European Union in Dublin (2004); the memorial for the Tlatelolco Student Massacre in Mexico City (2008); the 50th Anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2009); and the Winter Olympics in Vancouver (2010).

Cooper Union senior Victoria Sobel, one of the students occupying the space, told the Free Press that the group is not open to negotiating their demands with the administration.

At the beginning of November, Cooper Union students held an «Open Forum» outside their Foundation building on Cooper Square.

That «good strategy» includes having clear goals (a free, accessible and transparent Cooper Union), identifying allies and constituents, targeting someone who can give protesters what they want (in this case, President Bharucha and the board of trustees), then deploying tactics that can get protesters close to their goals (petitioning the student and faculty bodies for a vote of «no confidence» and an open, rolling occupation).