Sentences with phrase «behalf of public education for»

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In an effort to support you in developing, enhancing, or re-imagining the assessment practices at your school, the Pedagogical Committee, on behalf of the Alliance for Public Waldorf Education, has created the following annotated list of resources for your reference.

Another independent expenditure (or IE) group, New Yorkers for Independent Action weighed in on behalf of CM Cabrera who is a staunch supporter of school choice, charter schools and education tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate to public, private and parochial schools.

In 2007, the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, acting on behalf of the Bronx Committee for Toxic Free Schools, a coalition of parents, neighborhood residents and community organizations, successfully sued the School Construction Authority and the Department of Education for violating the Public Authorities Law and the State Environmental Quality Review Act by not disclosing a Site Management Plan.

In so doing, it partakes of the central assumptions of the education profession itself and risks sliding over the edge into being a professional trade journal for educators, like, say, Phi Delta Kappan or Educational Leadership, rather than a watchdog on behalf of the broader American public.

Charter schools are important intermediaries between individuals (parents who select schools on behalf of their children) and the government (which funds education for the public good).

Through support for pro-public education politicians and advocacy on behalf of education professionals, they seek to bring about good public policy and practice.

The Caucus of Rank and File Educators (CORE) is a group of dedicated teachers, retirees, Paraprofessional School Related Personnel (PSRPs), parents, community members and other champions of public education who fight for equitable public education and hope to improve the Chicago Teacher's Union (CTU) so that it fights both on behalf of its members and on behalf of Chicago's students.

«As the Senate reaches the home stretch for consideration of ESEA, NSBA will continue to advocate on behalf of America's 90,000 school board members for an education law that restores local governance, allocates targeted investments in Title I, and authorizes the resources needed to improve academic achievement for all public school students.»

The bill, first introduced last week by Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.), would set up education savings accounts for parents in the armed forces who could divert a portion of funds that would have been sent to a public school on their child's behalf under the federal Impact Aid program to different schooling options.

On behalf of the children of Wake County Public Schools and across the state, we stand in support of HB 13 to preserve funding for arts education teachers.

Rather than empowering and organizing the rank and file for progressive collective action on behalf of public education and everyday New Yorkers, our leadership pacifies our membership in exchange for feigned political influence.

For students whose needs are not being met in public school, school choice programs, such as Education Scholarship Accounts, allow parents to withdraw their child from public school and utilize the state education funds that would have been spent on the child's behalf on a variety of education purposes, such as private school tuition, tutoring, textbooks, theraEducation Scholarship Accounts, allow parents to withdraw their child from public school and utilize the state education funds that would have been spent on the child's behalf on a variety of education purposes, such as private school tuition, tutoring, textbooks, theraeducation funds that would have been spent on the child's behalf on a variety of education purposes, such as private school tuition, tutoring, textbooks, theraeducation purposes, such as private school tuition, tutoring, textbooks, therapy, etc..

At the urging of Mayor Villaraigosa and his Partnership for Los Angeles School, the ACLU and Public Counsel filed a lawsuit (Reed v. Smith) on behalf of Gompers, Liechty, and Markham Middle Schools arguing that the children's constitutional right to a quality education was being violated due to the disproportionate impact of teacher layoffs at those schools.

Harstad Strategic Research conducted a national telephone survey among 1202 active voters on behalf of Democrats for Public Education from September 11 to 16, 2014.

While Malloy is touring the state claiming that his goal is to «win back» the respect of teachers, parents and public school advocates, later this week, Commissioner Pryor and SDE Turnaround Director Morgan Barth will be handing the microphone over to the Connecticut Council for Education Reform, a corporate funded lobby group that has spent over $ 160,000 lobbying on behalf of Malloy's «education reform» inEducation Reform, a corporate funded lobby group that has spent over $ 160,000 lobbying on behalf of Malloy's «education reform» ineducation reform» initiative.

For example, AIR helped develop the Career and Technical Education Early Warning System on behalf of Chicago Public Schools to feed real - time information from district databases into a single location that supports more than 20,000 students participating in career and technical education courses across the Education Early Warning System on behalf of Chicago Public Schools to feed real - time information from district databases into a single location that supports more than 20,000 students participating in career and technical education courses across the education courses across the district.

Campaign for Quality Education v. California was filed that same summer by the nonprofit law firm Public Advocates on behalf of a coalition of community groups serving low - income and minority students.

Previously, she served as Chief of Staff for the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, informing the Administration's P - 20 policy and programmatic efforts on behalf of the nation's Latino students and families, including helping to secure over 150 private - and - public sector commitments with a collective investment of over $ 335 million to build on and accelerate federal, state, and local investments in high - quality education for the nation's Hispanic community, and launching the Federal Interagency Working Group to strengthen and align federal policy efforts with local initiatives.

January 5, 2018 (Los Angeles, CA)- On behalf of Great Public Schools Now, I thank Michelle King for her dedication to improving education for all students in Los Angeles.

In this way, superintendents became endowed with the unique responsibility of defending public education, whether protecting it from the critics who sought to dismantle the system or advocating on behalf of more money for schools.

Maria Morelli - Wolfe, a lawyer with Greater Hartford Legal Aid Inc., which last year filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights on behalf of children with disabilities at the public charter school, said that very often those students spend too many hours out of the classroom — suspended in school or out of school — because of behaviors they weren't necessarily able to control.

«This bill is not one that has ever been discussed in open community meetings, in meetings of the Boston School Committee, which I attend regularly, in the local press or in any other public way,» said Wolf, who spoke on her own behalf, not as a representative of the parent group Quality Education for Every Student (QUEST), of which she is a member.

Last week, a hard - fought legal case brought on behalf of nine California public - school students resulted in a stunning and, for many, exciting decision: A number of the state's teacher - tenure violate the state constitution by depriving California students of the equal opportunity for a quality education.

Full disclosure: I have never been a member of any union; and, I have never been compensated for my advocacy work on behalf of true public education.

In practice, he's not always adhered to the principle, but has been particularly stubborn about applying it to the state's six - million - student public education system, rejecting demands of education reformers for more state intervention on behalf of «high - needs» students.

For her strong leadership on behalf of democratic control of public education, Judge Carmen Lopez joins the honor roll as a hero of public education.»

According to the Department of Education, «Parents who received a Direct PLUS Loan may qualify for forgiveness of the PLUS loan, if the parent borrower — not the student on whose behalf the loan was obtained — is employed by a public service organization.»

Teachers across the nation become members of the National Education Association, which advocates on behalf of public school educators and provides resources for use both in and out of the classroom.

• Promote efficient and responsible government • Provide the veterinary profession with political credibility and visibility • Speak on behalf of the veterinary profession in Florida in a strong and unified voice • Help candidates sympathetic to our profession achieve or maintain public office • Encourage members to participate in the political process • Build and maintain key relationships in both local and state government • Strengthen the political education of our membership providing awareness of government, candidates and important political issues • Provide a bipartisan means for the FVMA and our lobbyists to advocate for the veterinary profession, small business owners and the animals entrusted in our care

The Advertising Council The Ad Council (www.adcouncil.org) is a private, non-profit organization that marshals talent from the advertising and communications industries, the facilities of the media, and the resources of the business and non-profit communities to produce, distribute and promote public service campaigns on behalf of non-profit organizations and government agencies in issue areas such as improving the quality of life for children, preventive health, education, community well - being, environmental preservation and strengthening families.

The Court's standard of review should be whether the price meets the economic objectives set forth in the Settlement, i.e., «(1) the realization of revenue at market rates for each Book and license on behalf of Rightsholders and (2) the realization of broad access to the Books by the public, including institutions of higher education.

The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health is the only national organization working on behalf of the reproductive health and justice of the 20 million Latinas, their families and communities in the United States through public education, community mobilization and policy advocacy.