Sentences with phrase «among education activists»

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Social activist Geoffrey Canada, who is among that number, is creating a new education project that goes beyond schools, and tries to better children's lives in the community.

The governor is seeking to quickly shore up support among his left - leaning Democratic base — a group with which he has not always seen eye - to - eye — particularly since Nixon, also a public education activist, announced she would challenge him in a primary in September.

Liberal activists who have been critical of Cuomo on education and other issues think an insurgent with greater name recognition could provide a stronger challenge, even though polls say Cuomo is still popular among Democratic voters statewide.

Believing he was among friends, UFT boss Mike Mulgrew showed what he's really made of during a closed - door meeting with union activists — spewing hatred toward education «reformers» and charter schools, and even admitting he sabotaged teacher evaluations.

Believing he was among friends, UFT boss Mike Mulgrew showed what he's really made of during a closed - door meeting with union activists — spewing hatred toward education «reformers» and charter...

The governor outpaces the actress and education activist among both men and women, in every region of the state and across every age group.

Then in 2008 and 2009, his political ambitions on hiatus, Gingrich joined some odd bedfellows, among them civil rights activist Al Sharpton and former Democratic Colorado governor and Los Angeles schools chancellor Roy Romer, in a yearlong initiative to push education reform nationwide.

Education activists, teachers, lawyers, a PTA leader and a woman who used to work with charter schools in California are among the applicants to the new state commission that is expected to approve some of Washington's first charter schools...

Education Week's Daarel Burnette II reports that a «tricky financial - transparency requirement» in ESSA has «cranked up tensions among state politicians, school district administrators, and civil rights activists over public understanding of how districts divvy up their money among schools.»

Education historian and activist Diane Ravitch said that language was unacceptable and that, among other things, the Democrats needed to make a statement opposing corporate replacements for neighborhood public schools.

Among the presenters will be former Education Secretary John B. King, Jr.; civil rights activist and former Baltimore schools administrator Deray McKesson; Kaya Henderson, former chancellor of D.C. schools; and Brittany Packnett, vice president of national community alliances for Teach For America; as well as several others.

discussion of science education, and putting aside Edward Greisch's denigration of the humanities, and putting aside the fact that among the most ardent and activist proponents of action against AGW there are many musicians, writers, artists and filmmakers, and putting aside the fact that among the most obstinate and willfully ignorant denialists there are a considerable number of engineers and other technical types who have exactly the sort of educational background that he suggests as an antidote to denialism: