Sentences with phrase «urban league president»

Kaleem Caire, Urban League president, has vocally supported the charter school bill.

That prompted this comment from a local Urban League president: «Everyone's getting paid, but Raheem still can't read.»

But for school reform movement to sustain its solutions, more of them must be on the ground working with what former Urban League president Hugh Price would call these impromptu activists.

New York Urban League President and CEO Avra Rice explains why a moratorium would be a big mistake for parents and students.

National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial discusses why the Common Core standards are critical for American education.

The winning regions will be picked by a panel of five people: Secretary of State Cesar Perales; RoAnn Destito, commissioner of the state's Office of General Services; Bruce Katz, who directs Brookings» metropolitan policy program; Urban League president Marc Morial and Susan Christopherson, the chair of Cornell's department of City & Regional Planning.

Urban League President and CEO Brenda McDuffie refused to comment for this story.

Besides Giannoulias, Democratic candidates reportedly eyeing the seat include Chicago Urban League President Cheryle Jackson and Chicago businessman Christopher Kennedy.

Buffalo, NY — The Erie County Industrial Development Agency Board of Directors Wednesday elected the agency's first female Chair, unanimously choosing Buffalo Urban League President and CEO Brenda McDuffie for the one - year term.

Urban League President President McDuffie, who paced the hearing room with supporters, was dismissive of the comptroller's report.

Urban League President Brenda McDuffie said the comptroller's report was «filled with factual and procedural errors» and that had harmed the agency's reputation.

Buffalo Urban League President Brenda McDuffie outlined her group's legal notice against Erie County Comptroller Stefan Mychajliw.

New York Urban League President and CEO Avra Rice explains why a moratorium would be a big mistake for parents and students.

Rev. Al Sharpton, Gayle King, Maurice Dubois, National Urban League President Marc Morial and Georgetown professor Michael Eric Dyson all lobbed questions at the Commish, which sources told us Bratton digested «earnestly» and «in good stride.»

After an audit by the Erie County Comptroller's office bore out whistleblowers» claims of inflated billing and inadequate training, Urban League President Brenda McDuffie and her supporters say it's a political witch hunt.

Urban League President Brenda McDuffie said the comptroller's report was «filled with factual and -LSB-...]

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«Everybody's getting paid, but Raheem still can't read,» Vivian Cox Fraser, president of the Urban League of Essex County in New Jersey, told the magazine.

«Ferguson was an awakening for all of us to really take a hard look in the mirror, and try to turn what was a tragedy into a triumph,» said Michael McMillan, President and CEO of the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, one of Starbucks key community partners in the initiative.

It's also in the south and would pull in talent from an area that's often overlooked by tech firms, said Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, a civil rights organization.

There are some wonderful speakers on the agenda including Wayne Sutton (@socialwayne) and Marc Morial, President and CEO of the National Urban league.

Owner and Advisor of Strategic Advice Services and former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Tucson Urban League, has over 25 years experience working within the community development field facilitating projects, coalitions, and alliances at the neighborhood, citywide, regional, national and international levels.

At 7 p.m., — Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Sens. Brian Benjamin and Kevin Parker join AARP NYS Director Beth Finkel, state NAACP President Hazel Dukes and NY Urban League Executive Director Arva Rice to address disparities hurting New York's communities of color on WBLS's «Open Line» with Judge Bob Pickett and Bob Slade, Schomberg Center for Research for Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd., Harlem.

What to do about the Buffalo Urban League and its president and CEO, Brenda McDuffie?

«Hazel Dukes, NAACP New York State Conference Director; Arva Rice President and CEO, the New York Urban League; Phil Banks President, 100 Black Men New York Chapter; H. Carl McCall, Former New York State Comptroller; Bill Thompson, Jr., Former New York City Comptroller; Senator Ruth Hassell - Thompson, 36th SD; Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, New York's 57th AD; Assemblyman Karim Camara, New York's 43rd AD; Assemblyman Carl Heastie, New York's 83rd AD; Assemblywoman Helen Foster, New York's 16th CD; Councilwoman Letiticia James, New York's 35th CD; Councilman Jumaane Williams New York's 45th CD; District Leader Eric Stevenson, 79th AD

In 1996, Aaron R. Dare became president and CEO of the Albany based Urban League of Northeastern New York.

State Assemblywoman Inez Dickens and Arva Rice, the president of the New York Urban League, sit down with In Focus Host Cheryl Wills to talk about economic challenges facing African - Americans in New York.

It just so happens that Brenda McDuffie, president of the Buffalo Urban League, is also chairperson of the Erie County Industrial Development Agency, thanks in part to support from Poloncarz.

The selection committee will include: Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown; Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz; Hon. John LaFalce, ECIDA Chairman; Cheektowaga Supervisor Mary Holtz, Tonawanda Supervisor Anthony Caruana and Brenda McDuffie, President and CEO, Buffalo Urban League.

Dr. Collymore co-founded the Urban League of Westchester and organized the the United Republican Club, and the White Plains / Greenburgh branch of the NAACP, serving as its president for many years.

The teams also include numerous minority leaders, including Hazel Dukes, the president of NAACP New York, Marc Morial, the president of the National Urban League, Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, and Elinor Tatum, who heads the Amsterdam News.

State Assemblywoman Inez Dickens and Arva Rice, the president of the New York Urban League, sit down with In Focus Host Cheryl Wills to discuss the impact of mass incarceration and the affordable housing crisis.

Brenda W. McDuffie, the Buffalo Urban League's president and chief executive officer, is expected to be named the new chairwoman of the Erie County Industrial Development Agency next week.

«The Sumer Youth Employment Program is a unique opportunity to provide youth with valuable knowledge and skills required in the workplace with the direct involvement of area employers,» said Brenda McDuffie, President and CEO of the Buffalo Urban League.

With the unemployment rate for African - American youth in urban areas at 39 percent, and 36 percent for Latinos, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand joined Rep. Charles Rangel and Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, on Tuesday to call for the passage of the Urban Jobsurban areas at 39 percent, and 36 percent for Latinos, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand joined Rep. Charles Rangel and Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, on Tuesday to call for the passage of the Urban JobsUrban League, on Tuesday to call for the passage of the Urban JobsUrban Jobs Act.

A panel of experts will evaluate the proposals: Bruce Katz of the Brookings Institution; Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League; Cesar Perales, New York Secretary of State; Susan Christopherson, professor and chair of city and regional planning, Cornell University; and RoAnn Destito, commissioner of the Office of General Services.

Hugh B. Price, former president of the National Urban League, joins EdNext editor - in - chief Marty West to discuss his new memoir, «This African American Life.»

• Anya Kamenetz education reporter for NPR and author of «The Test: Why Our Schools Are Obsessed with Standardized Testing — But You Don't Have to Be» • Elaine Weiss national coordinator of the Broader Bolder Approach to Education • Matthew Chingos senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and research director of its Brown Center on Education Policy • Chanelle Hardy senior vice president for policy and executive director of the National Urban League Washington Bureau

From 1994 to 2003, Price served as president of the National Urban League, where he launched a national campaign to raise the academic achievement of black youth.

Jim Buford, president of the St. Louis Urban League and founder of the Black Leadership Roundtable, explained, «public schools are engrained into the fabric of the community.»

Mr. Price is a former president and chief executive officer of the New York City - based National Urban League.

In a speech Thursday to the National Urban League in Washington, the president offered a rebuttal to such criticism, saying the steps the program encourages states to take, including lifting caps on charter schools and using student data to inform teacher evaluation, are the right ones.

President Barack Obama exits the stage after speaking on education reform at the National Urban League 100th Anniversary Convention in Washington on July 29.

Few would argue with the need, as Hugh Price, president of the National Urban League, says, to «know whether or not children are learning, and whether they're performing on grade level or better or way below.»

In an excerpt from his new memoir This African - American Life, former president of the National Urban League Hugh B. Price describes his elementary and secondary education in Washington, D.C. Price focused on his studies and dreamed of playing major - league baseball — all while he and his schoolmates made history in some of the city's first integrated classrooms after the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decLeague Hugh B. Price describes his elementary and secondary education in Washington, D.C. Price focused on his studies and dreamed of playing major - league baseball — all while he and his schoolmates made history in some of the city's first integrated classrooms after the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decleague baseball — all while he and his schoolmates made history in some of the city's first integrated classrooms after the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.

In addition to heading NAACP organizations at the local level, he has served as a trustee emeritus of Western Michigan University, as the president and a member of the national board of directors for the Boy Scouts of America, and as a board member for the National Urban League, the United Negro College Fund, and the Aspen Institute.

High Achievement New York, a statewide coalition of parents, teachers, administrators as well as community and business leaders in support of Common Core, is promoting the tests statewide, including statements from Brenda McDuffie, president and CEO of the Buffalo Urban League, and Samuel Radford, president of the District Parent Coordinating Council of Buffalo.

Good Morning Great listen — LFC president Ann Duplessis appeared Tuesday on the Urban League of Greater New Orleans» «Urban Speaks» on WBOK - AM.

LFC president Ann Duplessis and the Urban League of Greater New Orleans» Ethan Ashley discuss public education issues on «Urban Speaks».

«Everyone's getting paid,» said Vivian Cox Fraser, president of the Urban League of Essex County in Newark, «but Raheem still can't read.»

Good Morning LFC president Ann Duplessis will appear on the Urban League of Greater New Orleans» new radio show, «Urban Speaks».