Sentences with phrase «against public school closings»

The fight against public school closings has become the new civil rights battle in this country — and rightfully so.

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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.

The four mayoral hopefuls — Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, City Comptroller John Liu, and former comptroller William Thompson — spoke out against the city's school closing policy at the press conference, which was sponsored by the Coalition for Educational Justice.

As a current example of ever - larger traditional public schools, the Chicago Board of Education is closing fifty traditional schools at one time and sending their students out of their neighborhoods to ever - larger schools against continuing parent protests.

, the two books in this set that come closest to the familiar jeremiads against comprehensive public high schools.

Career reformers might start with Meredith Maran's Class Dismissed and Elinor Burkett's Another Planet, the two books in this set that come closest to the familiar jeremiads against comprehensive public high schools.

And of course Ravitch, Cody and their ilk are against closing any public schools no matter how awful they are, no matter how empty they are because parents refuse to send their children there.

Below, I have provided a table which compares Utah and its current elected State School Board model against the states which utilize Model IV in the following areas: ACT / SAT scores, graduation rates, graduation requirements, AP passage rates, charter schools, public education climate for growing businesses, and closing the achievement gap.

An explicit UFT policy against school closings, the proliferation of charter schools, and forced co-locations of charters in public school spaces.

Fact 3: Charter schools are closing the achievement gap against the rest of the state and are, on average, outperforming their traditional public school counterparts according to the latest available PARCC data.

On May Day, thousands of Puerto Rican teachers, parents, and students launched strikes and boycotts to push back against austerity measures that would close nearly 300 schools, lay off 7,000 teachers, convert public schools into privatized charters, and cut public sector pensions.

Skyway «Network» elementary schools came out strong on Thursday, February 7, 2013 to defend their schools against the claim that many of them should be closed because Chicago Public Schools face an «underutilization crisis&schools came out strong on Thursday, February 7, 2013 to defend their schools against the claim that many of them should be closed because Chicago Public Schools face an «underutilization crisis&schools against the claim that many of them should be closed because Chicago Public Schools face an «underutilization crisis&Schools face an «underutilization crisis».

Moreover, the change in the stifling use of standardized tests as a weapon against public school teachers will deal a deadly blow to the corporate education reformers in the country who relied on these tests for denigrating teachers as well as for closing public schools and for the expansion of charter schools.

More than 125 Chicago - area Attorneys Sign «Letter of Conscience» Against Massive Chicago Public School Closings

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