Sentences with phrase «defense of public education»

It's also a call to arms and a well - argued plea for educational equity and a thoughtful defense of public education, the teaching profession and student - centered learning.

Ten members of APPS attended this meeting; nine of them spoke in defense of public education.

We are a collective of audiovisual producers formed during a student strike in defense of public education, free and quality in the highest seat of learning in Latin America: the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM).

Grant attacked government support for schools run by religious organizations and called for the defense of public education «unmixed with sectarian, pagan or atheistical dogmas,» according to Mark Edward DeForrest, writing in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.

There will be lots of important allies in the defense of public education — superintendents, principals, public school parents and students, civil rights groups — but only the teachers unions have the political muscle to defend the institution of public education that is so vital for our democracy.

And my supreme delight is derived from seeing the critics realize what I have known since all the essays were first submitted to me by the many parent, student, teacher, and administrator contributors to the book: There is a new leadership emerging across the country, with stirring stories of personal courage, in defense of public education.

Those of us on the SEE RESPECT ticket in the election know that our union needs to become more powerful in its defense of public education.