Sentences with phrase «civil rights groups»

In the US, Exxon Mobil has pumped millions into more than 40 think - tanks, media outlets and consumer, religious and even civil rights groups in order to spread scepticism about climate change.

«Our coalition of environmental, conservation, public health and civil rights groups has achieved a milestone that few thought possible,» says my colleague Verena Owen, a veteran volunteer leader who co-leads the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign.

Why do civil rights groups strongly support annual testing?

Justice Department calls for review of race - based college admissions, alarming civil rights groups fw.to / ACdNu0P

Civil rights groups are pushing equity into the spotlight by asking policymakers to better address the needs of historically underserved students through resource distribution and in local, state, and federal accountability systems.

While fights and protests over a rough draft we disagree with may feel cathartic, it will not be as effective as working with diverse community, education and civil rights groups to answer this fundamental question and influence the vision for a plan to create great schools for all students.

They have assembled a collection of odd bedfellows — the major teachers unions, which have never been happy with federal testing requirements; civil rights groups; and, interestingly, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

As Dropout Nation noted last month, AFT, along with National Education Association, is struggling to gain support for its efforts against accountability (and, more - importantly, standardized testing) from civil rights groups such as Education Trust and NAACP.

[63] «The coalition extended well beyond teacher unions» [64] to include civil rights groups and social justice organizations.

E4E joins The Education Trust - New York, an unprecedented coalition of education and civil rights groups, in issuing recommendations to ensure ESSA strengthens...

In the wake of a devastating segment by John Oliver on the charter school business, and calls from civil rights groups like the NAACP and Black Lives Matter, the public is finally starting to question the wisdom of funding two parallel school systems when public resources are in such short supply.

Civil rights groups also have raised questions about Obama's proposals, worried that stepping away from No Child Left Behind will ease pressure on states to help poor children perform as well as their wealthier classmates.

Given the dissatisfaction among civil rights groups with the efforts by both the administration and congressional leaders to eviscerate No Child's accountability provisions, the unwillingness of the administration to back away from the effort, and the successful court challenges launched by those opposing implementation of the Affordable Health Care Act, it is quite likely that reformers on both sides of the ideological line will take Obama and Duncan to court.

And civil rights groups are worried dropping the «adequate yearly progress» (AYP) yardstick represents the government giving up on a signature policy piece designed to close the gap between the worst - performing and best - performing students.

That approach isn't playing well in some circles, especially among civil rights groups who consider the subgroups one of the best elements of the «No Child» law.

The decision was strongly condemned by civil rights groups, who said that it would harm already highly vulnerable students, but it was applauded by conservatives, who said the guidelines violated the safety and privacy of all other students.

In addition to scholarly work, he has served as expert witness or special master in more than three dozen class action civil rights cases, on school desegregation, housing discrimination and other issues, and as consultant to many school districts, federal, state and local governments, civil rights groups and teachers organizations.

Today, we must consider looking at the real core of the problem that national civil rights groups are having with the idea of giving up yearly standardized testing.

On Monday, the Maryland State Education Association (MSEA) put out a statement that said, «while the Protect Our Schools Act is supported by teachers, the Maryland PTA, civil rights groups — including the ACLU of Maryland and CASA de Maryland — and leading education scholars, it is only opposed by national school privatization advocates and Governor Hogan's administration.»

That response only fueled the fears of advocates and civil rights groups, already worried California's ESSA plan would shortchange vulnerable kids.

Meanwhile, civil rights groups are concerned that the department's proposed menu of ideas for states on how to pinpoint which schools have groups of students that are «consistently underperforming» is too loosey - goosey.

However, school reform and civil rights groups have questioned whether the extra money is really being effectively spent on the targeted children, and have criticized Brown's hands - off attitude toward monitoring spending and its results.

NEA's historic campaign rallied parents, students, educators, civil rights groups, and other public education advocates — both Republicans and Democrats — to email more than 1 million letters and make more than 80,000 phone calls to senators in Washington and flooded their offices back home.

One area of concern that was raised by civil rights groups, as well as other critics of the temporary regulations, last week had to do with district - wide spending and complaints that the new regulations provided a loophole that could allow districts to use money intended for disadvantaged students on those who are not.

We do know for sure that black families in particular and civil rights groups in general were definitely bamboozled into adopting the ideas behind No Child Left Behind.

It is no doubt this record of positive intervention at the federal level and of state delays in implementing equality of opportunity that motivated civil rights groups to endorse annual testing in NCLB and to stand with it today.

And so some civil rights groups are saying that equity must be ensured by testing every child every year.

Democrats, civil rights groups and teachers unions oppose Title 1 portability, arguing it would hurt high - poverty schools.

In contrast, some testing advocates — including representatives of civil rights groups — said that assessment, accountability and reporting should be maintained in order to force schools to do better in their efforts to educate low - income students and students of color, and reduce achievement gaps.

We have measured these practices against standards derived from the Principles and Indicators for Student Assessment Systems, a 1995 publication by a coalition of education and civil rights groups working together through the National Forum on Assessment.

Civil rights groups have been tepid in their support for the legislation because they fear that some states will revert to the neglect of minority students that drove Congress to pass No Child Left Behind.

«The court order was lifted in 2009 over the objections of civil rights groups and students, who pointed to continuing inequities in Chicago schools.

Click here» The NAACP, one of the nation's most prominent civil rights groups, released a major report on charter schools today.

But as noted earlier, NAACP is one of the few old - school civil rights groups on which NEA and AFT can count on as a reliable ally.

COPAA is one of more than 25 civil rights groups and education advocates who have released principles for re-authorization of ESEA entitled, «The Federal Role Must be Honored and Maintained.»

Members of teachers unions, civil rights groups and parents organizations who jammed Senate phone lines say they plan to keep the spotlight on the Michigan mega-donor and advocate for charter schools — and to devote their energy to scrutinizing the Education Department.

This document was developed by the National Forum on Assessment to help guide assessment reform and has been signed by over 80 education and civil rights groups (see Appendix F).

Such sanctions and focus, however, aren't enough for civil rights groups, which are bristling at the bill's elimination of specific subgroup student achievement targets.

Education Trust and a cadre of civil rights groups (including the United Negro College Fund and NAACP) deserve praise for issuing a statement today calling for a reauthorization of No Child that effectively keeps in place the Adequate Yearly Progress provisions that have shined light on the consequences of the nation's education crisis on children from poor and minority households.

But as Education Week's Alyson Klein reports, many civil rights groups that praised the requirement when it was included in ESSA are not happy about the delay.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan and civil rights groups were tugging from the opposite side, demanding the law retain its yearly testing regime and do more to ensure states and schools focus on educating low - income students.

Reactions by teachers» unions and civil rights groups to the department's equity plan, however, have been positive overall.

The odds are greater that it will, but too many problems stand in the way: the opposition to «all things Obama,» a spending freeze on the part of Republicans, the consternation among civil rights groups fearful that Congress will remove things like annual testing and reporting results by race and income, or the disagreement among conservatives about what the conservative thing to do is.

Meanwhile other old - school civil rights groups are rife with constituencies who are charter school supporters — and in fact, started their own schools; integration - minded constituents can rile up anger all they want, but the groups can't afford to alienate school reformers within their own groups without endangering their own pockets.

-- The proposals come amid concerns from civil rights groups about the potential harm of heightened law enforcement for students of color and those with disabilities.

The fact that the work was being funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation also offered some possibility that the grand dame of old - school civil rights groups would offer a school reform agenda that would actually meet the educational and civil rights challenges facing Black America today.

Success in creating diverse schools requires early and thoughtful action at all levels — within schools and school districts, local governments, civil rights groups, the media, state governments, and via federal policy in education, civil rights and housing.

But as school year 2016 - 17 rolls out, the charter industry finds it faces formidable new challenges from many unexpected corners, including prominent civil rights groups, grassroots organizers, and an increasingly skeptical Democratic party.

It draws in liberal thinkers and civil rights groups trying to do what is right for society — unknowingly putting children at the mercy of the almighty dollar.

WASHINGTON — Opposing any delay in the implementation of the Equity in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) regulations, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and 38 civil rights groups sent a joint letter to the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services (OSERS) at the U.S. Department of Education.