In most of the countries, students said they participated in
classroom and school elections.
Not exact matches
Across the country, students, teachers, principals,
and staff members are helping each other make sense of the mix of raw emotions happening in communities,
schools,
and classrooms in the wake of the 2016
election.
But as the
school year takes off
and the
election draws nearer, rejecting political conversations in the
classroom will likely be impossible —
and unwise, according to educators we interviewed.
Ahead of city
elections in May, the Philadelphia Coalition Advocating for Public
Schools has released a powerful platform uniting their call for equal opportunities in the
classroom with citywide demands for economic
and racial justice.
The Labor Party has pledged to create a A$ 280 million research institute to «take politics out of the
classroom»
and «put an end to decades of ideological battles about
school education», if it wins the next federal
election.
As the emails from my daughter's
school began to flood my inbox, offering assurance
and reassurance around plans for
classroom discussion, I did the only thing I could think to do, which was to provide them with the
Election Listening Circle Morningside Center had proactively created.
The recent
election showed there is strong public support for improving district accountability, creating better educational outcomes, supporting students beyond the
classroom,
and making sure every child in every neighborhood has access to a great
school.
«I hope Marylanders will take advantage of several opportunities — including the new Maryland College -
and Career - Ready Standards, the PARCC assessments, the selection of our next State Superintendent of
Schools, and the election of the next Mayor of Baltimore — to put policies in place that will get more resources, and the power to use them, out of bureaucracies and into schools and clas
Schools,
and the
election of the next Mayor of Baltimore — to put policies in place that will get more resources,
and the power to use them, out of bureaucracies
and into
schools and clas
schools and classrooms.
Instead of reflecting on how the millions we spend distorting truths, attacking
and bullying one another could help real kids in real
classrooms today, the California Charter
Schools Association is simply reloading their guns for the Spring
School Board
elections.