Sentences with phrase «as education activist»

This has been hailed as a major achievement of the new legislation, but, as education activist Jeff Bryant noted: «It's a sign of dysfunction, rather than a triumph of bipartisanship, to see officials in Washington, D.C. celebrating legislation that significantly curtails the influence of officials in Washington, D.C.»

«While no longer a candidate, I will continue to passionately and relentlessly pursue a reform education agenda as an education activist, a columnist and blogger, and as the co-owner of the influential political news organization,» Allon said in a statement.

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I first heard of homeschooling as a child growing up in a college town in New England, when the only people who homeschooled their children were hippies living on communes in the country or academics and political activists protesting against the regimented and regimenting education «the system» provided for its own repressive purposes.

Thus, by abandoning the man - woman distinction in favor of the heterosexual - homosexual distinction, homosexual activists demand not parenthood (paternity or maternity), but the right to some new abstract parental status that reduces the role of the «parent» to the exercise of certain functions such as education.

It's not entirely clear what Spitzer would do as comptroller for education, but he has indicated he would use the office's audit authority over much of the city's bureaucracy in a more activist role.

Nixon, an education activist, is a de Blasio ally and would be seen as testing Cuomo from the political left.

But she is a longtime political activist who has lobbied for better education funding, marriage equality and women's rights, and she has campaigned for such politicians as President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

The 51 - year - old New York native and Grammy, Emmy and Tony winner has never held public office, but as an activist she has lobbied extensively for better education funding and advocated for gay rights.

As an activist for education, a member of several anti-common core groups, and the administrator of the Stop Common Core In NYS Dutchess County page, I spent considerable time and effort in promoting the Stop Common Core ballot line.

«The Koch brothers donated $ 87,000 to Andrew Cuomo when he first ran in 2010 because they knew a good investment when they saw one,» the 51 - year - old said at the event, where she also touted her history as an activist on education, women's rights and LGBTQ rights.

ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

New York, NY — As final negotiations wrap up on the state budget, public school parent activists and students today rallied outside Tweed Courthouse to urge legislators to pass the meaningful education reforms outlined in Governor Cuomo's education Opportunity Agenda.

Parents and students across New York, including grassroots activists organized by education reform advocacy organization StudentsFirstNY and Derrell Bradford, executive director of NYCAN, view Governor Cuomo's reforms as critical to improving public school options.

National political strategist L. Joy Williams, who was recently appointed as a senior adviser for education activist and actress Cynthia Nixon's gubernatorial campaign, weighed in on what made her join the Nixon campaign and her thoughts on Nixon's advocacy toward people of color and other marginalized groups, on Tuesday night.

As a progressive activist, she has been a spokesperson for the Alliance for Quality Education, a group that has criticized Cuomo's education Education, a group that has criticized Cuomo's education education policies.

Dozens of students, parents, educators and activists are urging the U.S. Senate not to confirm John King, President Obama's choice to succeed Arne Duncan as education secretary, because he pushed education policies when he was education commissioner of New York State that they say were «ineffective and destructive.»

Hawkins was polling 9 % statewide even before a widely - praised debate performance, and has earned endorsements from a spectrum of people and organizations, including Ralph Nader, Seattle socialist city council member Kshama Sawant, education analyst Diane Ravitch, and former Mobil Oil VP - turned - renewable energy activist Lou Allstadt; as well as Albany weekly paper Metroland, 6 teachers» unions, 6 Democratic Party clubs, Socialist Alternative, and a number of groups leading the fight against school privatization, such as United Opt Out and the New York Badass Teacher Association.

Beyond citing his work as a City Councilmember, a State Assemblymember, the city's Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs, and as the appointed Chair of a National Education Commission, he also pointed to humbler beginnings as a community activist and schoolteacher.

Hawkins said he recruited NYC education activist and socialist Brian Jones as his running mate in order to focus attention on schools.

When actor and activist Cynthia Nixon held her first news conference as a gubernatorial candidate, at a Pentecostal church in Brownsville, Brooklyn, she was introduced by Zakiyah Ansari, an education activist and longtime ally.

As an educator and activist, Brian has become a leading voice in discussions about public education.

With a background as a civil rights activist and as an early leader of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, Perales would be a plus with Latinos, one of the fastest - growing groups of New Yorkers.

She described herself as a progressive activist who advocates for reforms in public education.

An ice expert turned politician, Adams is well respected in his caucus — the Government Caucus on Post-Secondary Education and Research — and is a leading expert in his field, as well as a life - long community activist.

Journalist Talks of Time at «Straight Camp» Harvard Crimson, April 29, 2011 «Ted Cox, a journalist and activist, described what he views as the absurdity of religious camps aimed at turning gay people straight to a full room at the Graduate School of Education yesterday.»

«Cameron's passion is adult education, and as a student - activist at HGSE, he followed through on his passion for adult learners by establishing a new organization dedicated to this overlooked population of learners.

There is also a strong social - justice component to teacher education, with teachers cast as «activists committed to diminishing the inequities of American society.»

Many students became more activist - oriented as the civil rights movement raised the nation's consciousness to inequalities in the American education system.

There is an urgent and ongoing need for more information and education that can help youth activists, especially novices, make informed choices as they participate in upcoming actions.

When asked for steps on how students can enable their own agency as activists, Jackson highlighted the importance of taking education seriously, doing research to shine light onto issues, and taking necessary steps to act with intentionality.

«The L&T cohort has been enriched and inspired by the life and career choices Sedia has made, and they have been inspired further by her enthusiasm and positive «can - do» activist attitude that celebrates education as a vehicle for the improvement of the lives those who are most in need.»

According to Byrne, and several other activists, many administrators are initially resistant to establishing GSAs, even though the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has encouraged them ever since 1993, when the department (then called the State Board of Education) recommended the establishment of GSAs across the state as one means of providing a supportive environment for LGBT students.

Hrabowski — a child of prominent Civil Rights activist of the 1960s — has long advocated for minority rights and education throughout his career as an activist, educator, administrator, author, and consultant.

Perhaps leaders of the NAEA push an activist agenda not because they want arts teachers to become activists themselves, but because they believe that high - sounding epithets such as «social justice» and noble visions of «equity» will advance the cause of arts education.

Two Projects Win Social Entrepreneurship Conference Harvard Crimson, 5/4/15 «Judges named two intiatives, Educational Justice Activists and Prepped, as winners at an educational entrepreneurship conference on Friday for students enrolled in the Harvard Graduate School of Education course A132: Educational Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship in Comparative Perspective.»

We will focus on applications to the practice of education, from classroom teaching to school leadership, so that we are equipped to reflect upon and improve our work as educational practitioners, scholars, and activists.

In her new book from Harvard Education Press, Brooklyn Dreams, author and educator Sonia Nieto tells the story of her life in education — as a student, teacher, and Education Press, Brooklyn Dreams, author and educator Sonia Nieto tells the story of her life in education — as a student, teacher, and education — as a student, teacher, and activist.

Union activists often depict the Gates Foundation as the mastermind behind corporate education reform.

This difference manifests itself as two messages: an internal one, meant for the unions» leaders and activists, and an external one, meant for education policymakers and the public at large.

We'll leave the argument for prisons to sociologists and political activists, though it was early education reformer Horace Mann who noted, «Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.»

He received his training in education as a fellow at the Broad Superintendents Academy, an 18 - month program funded by the Broad Foundation of Los Angeles that trains executives from inside and outside education to become activist superintendents for urban districts.

But it must be done and it means working harder as well as more - closely with activists outside of education policy whose efforts also touch the lives of our children.

Alice Cardona was a Puerto Rican whose advocacy for women's rights and bilingual education, as well as her efforts as founder of various organizations for Latinas, have distinguished her in New York activist communities.

Conservative organizations, think tanks, and other right - wing activists backed by corporate donors including the Koch brothers, the family of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, and the Bradley Foundation, have long been preparing for a case like Janus as part of a larger campaign to break unions.

Leonie Haimson's career as a New York City education activist started when her older child was assigned to a first - grade class with 28 other students.

Chris Stewart, a national school choice activist and the director of outreach and external affairs at Education Post said: «As a longtime member and supporter...

Opponents that include ultra conservative tea partiers like Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, as well as House Speaker Thom Tillis, some teachers, and some progressive education activists like Diane Ravitch — are fighting to take down what some see as either a government takeover of the nation's schools or a platform for excessive testing and corporate profit.

As the crisis over public education escalates, activist teachers are experimenting with new approaches.»

Just as importantly, eight decades of court rulings — driven by the courtroom work of civil rights activists and school funding equity advocates — also provides reformers with the legal arguments necessary to challenge tenure laws and other policies that impede the constitutional obligation of states to provide children with high - quality education.

Parent Power activists such as the Connecticut Parents Union are already gearing up for a fight with the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association over expanding the reach of the state's Parent Trigger law; the fight is particularly tinged by revelations earlier this year of the AFT's presentation on how it unsuccessfully attempted to kibosh the passage of the Parent Power law and how it exacted revenge by ousting Jason Bartlett, the legislator who led the passage of the law and the neutralizing of his former colleague, Gary Holder - Winfield.