Sentences with phrase «black educators said»

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Bloomberg's appointment of Black, a magazine executive who has no previous experience working in education, is unfair to the kids, the parents and educators, protesters said Thursday.

This morning, Paterson said he thought the situation with outgoing Chancellor Joel Klein, who was granted the same waiver Black is now seeking in 2002, was different because he had «compiled a threshold of... education credentials» despite the fact that he wasn't a career educator.

Steiner cited Black's «exceptional record of successfully leading complex organizations and achievement of excellence in her endeavors,» saying this warrants her certification for service as long as she will be supported by a «team of experienced educators.»

The official, David M. Steiner, the state education commissioner, said he would consider granting Ms. Black, a publishing executive, the waiver she needed to take office only if Mr. Bloomberg appointed an educator to help her run the system.

Nearly every student in America has learned something since a jury virtually exonerated four white police officers accused of severely beating the black motorist Rodney G. King and rioters took to the streets in Los Angeles, educators said last week.

A federal study that shows black children die from asthma at a higher rate than white children demonstrates that many African - American families lack adequate medical care, child - health experts and educators said last week.

«Boston hires 49 percent of black teacher graduates and 24 percent of Latino educators» who come out of the state's teacher colleges, says Ceronne Daly, the district's managing director of recruitment, cultivation, and diversity programs.

Mr. Reardon said that educators in these schools may subliminally — or consciously in some cases — track white students into gifted courses while assigning black and Hispanic students to less rigorous courses.

«In a district whose student body is 86 % Latino, Black, and Asian American, it is high time our students see themselves better reflected in the front of the room,» said Edith Bazile, President of the Black Educators Alliance of Massachusetts (BEAM).

The result being incremental increases among educators of Latino and Asian descent, and a troubling decline of Black educators who have been the hardest hit over the past 15 years by the lack of intentionality in the district's recruitment, selection and retention practices,» said Tanisha Sullivan, President of the NAACP — Boston Branch.

Many thousands of educators will be wearing shirts to school that say, «Black Lives Matter at School» and will teach...

... We agree with the Sept. 21st letter to the NAACP from 170 black educators and leaders, which said that «a blanket moratorium on charter schools would limit black students» access to some of the best schools in America and deny black parents the opportunity to make decisions about what's best for their children.»

We will have meaningful indicators to show us in black and white what educators have been saying all along: Not all students have what they need for success.

The wave of charter schools in New Orleans brought about «the single largest displacement of black educators post-desegregation,» she said.