Sentences with phrase «against school administrators»

The case that went against school administrators — really two cases, one from Seattle and a companion from Jefferson County, Kentucky — involved school districts» classifying and assigning students by race in order to achieve racial balance.

Nabozny, with the help of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, won a landmark federal lawsuit (and eventually settled for close to $ 1 million) against school administrators in his home state of Wisconsin who failed to a spate of stop brutal anti-gay bullying at his school of which he was the target.

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While some school administrators may frown on the practice of using borrowed cash for non-school expenses — and taking out student loans for risky investments seems like a great way to graduate with even more debt — per Student Loan Report there aren't any rules against it.

At least 11 school districts that originally planned to apply for state pre-K grants won't seek the funding, and it's likely more will decide against participating as local administrators struggle with the timing and reimbursement structure of the program.

Library System Director Mary Jean Jakubowski, New York State Senator Mark J. Grisanti, Erie County Legislator Edward Rath, Erie County Clerk Chris Jacobs, Press Secretary to the Erie County Executive - Peter Anderson, Buffalo Deputy Mayor Ellen Grant, Buffalo Public Schools administrator William Keresztes, Buffalo State College student Lyndsay Raymond and writer / performer Annette Daniels - Taylor unveiled details of «Bullying Stops Here» by signing a banner pledging their support in the stand against bullying.

McIntyre, who ran unsuccessfully last May for an at - large - school board seat, said it's important for the Buffalo Teachers Federation and its members to realize advise from the parent group is not against teachers or administrators.

Former Bronx City Councilwoman Maria Baez challenging administrators at her grandson's elementary school in New Rochelle, saying the school did little to stop violent bullying against the 4th - grader.

The governor says he's not against teachers, though, only the bureaucracy that's grown up around the teacher's union, school boards and administrators.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- Dozens of school administrators gathered in protest outside City Hall on Wednesday evening against the Buffalo Public School District and Superintendent Krinerschool administrators gathered in protest outside City Hall on Wednesday evening against the Buffalo Public School District and Superintendent KrinerSchool District and Superintendent Kriner Cash.

A national education expert told Long Island school administrators Tuesday that they should join parents in the revolt against Common Core.

The Innovator's Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity George Couros's 2015 jeremiad against cultures of compliance within the school system emphasizes empowerment instead, stressing the importance of questioning, creativity, and wonder for students, teachers, and administrators alike.

The reconstituted Supreme Court of President Bush and Chief Justice John G. Roberts rendered two significant constitutional decisions about schools in its October 2006 term, one «for» and one «against» school administrators.

School administrators in Miami - Dade County were honored for developing a board policy that forbids discrimination against gay and lesbian students and teachers; for providing awareness training for teachers; and for providing counseling and clubs for gay and lesbian students.

But the 82 - year - old retired school administrator — whose 1977 move to charge the families of undocumented children here $ 1,000 per student to attend public schools sparked a federal lawsuit — has more than made his peace with the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against him and the school system in Plyler v. Doe.

• Epstein says the DOJ and ED err when arguing against disciplinary policies on the basis of «disparate impact,» a phrase with a legal history that, «when applied to schools, imputes race - conscious behavior on the part of school administrators.»

Katie Sierra, a sophomore at the 700 - student Sissonville High School near Charleston, filed a complaint against the school board after she was suspended for three days last month for attempting to form the club against the wishes of school administrSchool near Charleston, filed a complaint against the school board after she was suspended for three days last month for attempting to form the club against the wishes of school administrschool board after she was suspended for three days last month for attempting to form the club against the wishes of school administrschool administrators.

Tilles colleagues Kathleen Cashin, a retired New York City school administrator, and Betty Rosa, who also has an extensive list of education credentials, also voted against the new evaluation regulations, for many of the same reasons Tilles enumerated.

Inevitably, many school administrators find themselves scrambling against short deadlines to fill classrooms with qualified teachers.

Keeping such a policy in mind will ensure that we fundraise in a manner appropriate to the ethos of the school whilst protecting ourselves against potentially embarrassing revelations after the fact About the author Kathy Roddy is a trainer for Fundraising Skills, which has developed an online course for bursars, business managers and administrators leading to the Certificate in school fundraising & income generation.

Well before April's school shootings in Jefferson County, Colo., teachers, administrators, and parents struggled to find effective strategies against the wave of violence that has hit the nation's schools with tsunami force.

But the DOJ and ED err in arguing against the policies on the basis of «disparate impact,» a phrase with a legal history that, when applied to schools, imputes race - conscious behavior on the part of school administrators.

Not surprisingly, district administrators are highly sensitized to how well their schools are performing against state proficiency standards and Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) targets.

A robust set of classroom and school - level reports that detail student usage and progress, as well as reports that group students by proficiency, give teachers and administrators insight into how students are moving through the curriculum, with up - to - date achievement levels against multiple standards.

Los Angeles Unified's teachers union has filed an unfair labor practice charge against the school district, saying administrators failed to negotiate key changes to a controversial performance evaluation system now being used to review educators.

Teachers and Rutherford County administrators have also seen some low - performing children sent away from the charter and back to the traditional public school system just before end - of - grade tests, an important measure of how schools stack up against each other, said Dr. John Mark Bennett, the chair of the county school board and a local family physician.

Barth points to five obstacles: administrator resistance, the taboo in teaching against elevating oneself higher than one's peers, the fact that teachers» plates are full, the adversarial relationship that often exists between principals and teachers, and the new push to bring business model thinking into schools.

He created Project S.A.M.E. a US - Soviet Youth Exchange that brought students from the US and USSR together to advocate for peace; founded Students Concerned about Bias in Society (SCABS) who fought for implementation of Title IX in Maine schools; directed the University of Maine Aspirations Project and launched 35 statewide student leadership teams to bring students» voices to educational reform; conducted program evaluation research on the effects of the Maine Civil Rights Teams Project whose 50 student teams fought against bigotry and intolerance in Maine communities; founded the Center for School Climate and Learning and worked in hundreds of schools supporting students, teachers and administrators to bring youth voice to school reform in the US; co-authored two books, The Respectful School, and Transforming School Climate and Learning to share what I have leSchool Climate and Learning and worked in hundreds of schools supporting students, teachers and administrators to bring youth voice to school reform in the US; co-authored two books, The Respectful School, and Transforming School Climate and Learning to share what I have leschool reform in the US; co-authored two books, The Respectful School, and Transforming School Climate and Learning to share what I have leSchool, and Transforming School Climate and Learning to share what I have leSchool Climate and Learning to share what I have learned.

With congressional efforts underway to reauthorize No Child Left Behind, a burgeoning movement of educators, school administrators, parents and students has blossomed in the fight against high - stakes standardized testing.

(Reuters)- A backlash against high - stakes standardized testing is sweeping through U.S. school districts as parents, teachers, and administrators protest that the exams are unfair, unreliable and unnecessarily punitive - and even some longtime advocates of testing call for changes.

That contradiction was most glaringly revealed in the race for state superintendent of schools in California, where incumbent and former teacher Tom Torlakson squared off against Marshall Tuck, a charter school administrator with a background in finance.

Our goals for this week were to galvanize charter school educators and administrators against teachers» union pressures for strikes and walkouts, dispel false claims to set the record straight in the media, reenergize parents and students, and bring urgency to legislators to pass strong charter laws and fund the ones already passed.

The groups that represent local school districts and ISD administrators sent their leaders to testify against the legislation, saying that there's no feasible way to redirect federal special education dollars.

The charter schools bill pits the new GOP leadership against public school teachers and administrators.

Clearly, a backlash against high - stakes standardized testing is sweeping through U.S. school districts as parents, teachers, and administrators protest that the exams are unfair, unreliable and unnecessarily punitive.

Hopefully more Connecticut school administrators will join education leaders like Madison, Connecticut Superintendent Thomas Scarice and stand up, step forward and speak out against the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Test (SBAC), the overuse of standardized testing in Connecticut's public schools and the right of parents to opt - out their children from these unfair, unnecessary, expensive and destructive tests.

The PM Growth Platform collects and analyzes student data and measures progress against school, district, and state goals, giving administrators and educators unique insight into opportunities for improvement.

Meanwhile, Malloy's Commissioner of Education is not only preparing to take the stand against Connecticut's children in the critically important CCJEF School Funding Lawsuit, but she is leading the Malloy / Wyman administration's inappropriate attack on students, parents and the public school administrators who were honest and truthful, last spring, about a parent's right to opt their child out of the disastrous Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing sSchool Funding Lawsuit, but she is leading the Malloy / Wyman administration's inappropriate attack on students, parents and the public school administrators who were honest and truthful, last spring, about a parent's right to opt their child out of the disastrous Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing sschool administrators who were honest and truthful, last spring, about a parent's right to opt their child out of the disastrous Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme.

A federal court ruled against three high school students who harmed a school administrator through a phony MySpace page.

While such a comment would get any other public school administrator, teacher or student arrested, fired or suspended, neither the Hartford superintendent of schools nor the Hartford Board of Education took any disciplinary action against Perry for his actions.

Despite the reluctance of school administrators to speak up and push back against this ludicrous accountability exercise that has been promoted by politicians and corporate education reformers who have many self - interested reasons for maintaining this misguided testing endeavor, it is well - known that the «standardized» testing mandate only serves to continue the false narrative of failing American public education in order to drive the profit - making agenda of those who seek to privatize education and undermine the public trust.

Stephen Dunne, the law school grad who filed a federal lawsuit against Massachusetts bar administrators after failing the bar exam, is now apologizing to the gay community for his «misguided» action.

Our firm has successfully litigated a case in the Federal Court of the Western District of Pennsylvania against a Pittsburgh suburb high school and a number of its administrators for their actions relating to the sexual assault of one of their students.

Born 1950; lawyer (1974 - 80); law degree from the University of Athens (1973); diploma of advanced studies (DEA) in labour law from the University of Paris II, Panthéon - Sorbonne (1977); national expert with the Legal Service of the Commission of the European Communities (1988 - 1990), then Principal Administrator in Directorate General V (Employment, Industrial Relations, Social Affairs)(1990 - 1994); Junior Officer, Junior Member and, since 1999, Member of the Greek Council of State; Associate Member of the Superior Special Court of Greece; Member of the Central Legislative Drafting Committee of Greece (1996 - 98); Director of the Legal Service in the General Secretariat of the Greek Government (1996 - 1998); Judge at the General Court of the European Union (1998 to 2010, President of Chamber from 2004 to 2010); Member of the Supreme Council for Administrative Justice (2011 - 2012); Member of the Special Court for Disputes relating to the Remuneration of Judges and of the Special Court for Actions against Judges (2013 - 2014); Member of the Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights (2014 - 2015); Member of the Committee responsible for giving an Opinion on Candidates» Suitability to perform the Duties of Judge at the European Union Civil Service Tribunal (2012 - 2015); Lecturer in European Law at the National School for the Judiciary (1995 - 1996 and 2012 - 2015); Judge at the Court of Justice since 7 October 2015.

Sutter found a cache of information containing lawsuits filed by former Gordon Indian Residential School students against the federal government and the school's top administrator, William Peniston School students against the federal government and the school's top administrator, William Peniston school's top administrator, William Peniston Starr.