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Please sign this petition demanding public community schools that have a proven record of success.

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Eric Pickles has become the latest minister to demand a return of Christianity in Britain's public life, as he outlined a new community cohesion strategy today.

«Public corruption is unacceptable and our community is demanding more accountability and transparency,» he said.

As the public continues to bear the brunt of pain after budget cuts to services, schools, and safety net programs, community leaders came together to demand that our elected leaders in the State Senate and Assembly ensure the priorities of Central New York are met by passing Fair Elections.

City Councilman Daniel Dromm held a press conference with other elected officials and community members Thursday to demand that the Department of Education designate Diwali as a day off for public school students.

HARLEM — Community Board 9 has joined the chorus of voices demanding that the group distributing $ 150 million in funds from Columbia University's community benefit agreement with West Harlem disclose their finances to thCommunity Board 9 has joined the chorus of voices demanding that the group distributing $ 150 million in funds from Columbia University's community benefit agreement with West Harlem disclose their finances to thcommunity benefit agreement with West Harlem disclose their finances to the public.

Rockland County residents say that repeated solicitation by real estate agents begging them to sell their homes has gotten completely out of hand, and demanded answers at a public meeting at Rockland Community College on Wednesday.

Chin added, «Today, I join Manhattan Borough President Brewer to renew our demand that our city provide the Two Bridges community a real opportunity to shape the future of their neighborhood... In order to turn the tide against out - of - control overdevelopment across our city, we need to act decisively and close loopholes that would allow for the construction of out - of - scale luxury towers without a robust and transparent public review.

With schools and other public services threatened with more budget cuts this year, UFT President Michael Mulgrew joined fellow labor leaders and representatives from community and education advocacy groups at a «99 New York» rally on Oct. 17 on the City Hall steps demanding that the state millionaire's tax be extended.

Rice said any community benefits from the plan «seem like an afterthought» and that VLTs will increase crime, traffic and demand for public services.

We join other community, environmental, and good government groups in demanding that all permits for this dangerous project be rescinded, the project be shut down, and public hearings be held to determine what fully transpired.»

The global public health community has become increasingly sensitive to the problem of forecasting the developing world's actual demand for medicines, as opposed to the raw need.

Other objectives include addressing the condition of educational assets and making assets available for community use where demand exists, to optimise the infrastructure and resources for public services.

To help meet an increasing demand for his crisis - counseling skills, John Dudley, the supervisor of counseling services for the Lincoln, Neb., public schools, has written a book to help school communities cope with tragedy.

At the community level, support for schools might also be enhanced under a regime of public school choice, because fewer people would feel compromised, silenced, or alienated in an environment where well - intentioned school officials are forced to accommodate conflicting constituent demands and wind up doing so in ways that favor the most vocal, affluent, or well - organized.

In response to widespread demands for better public education and for more choice among public schools, a number of state legislatures in the early 1990s permitted educators and local communities to develop charter schools.

The message of persistence, says Terry Croy Lewis, the executive director of the Colorado Charter School Institute, was clear: «Legislators knew the issue wasn't going away, that every year the reform community would come back demanding that local revenues be shared equally with all students attending public schools,» she said.

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Particularly in urban communities that have few, if any, high - quality public school options, the demand for charters can be significantly higher than there are seats available.

While the two massive victories mean a great deal to the education justice community who've been demanding the legislature fully fund public schools, the state education funding formula bill will now have to be passed in the House where it faces a serious uphill battle.

Demand that they support plans to grow North Division to its full potential as a PUBLIC COMMUNITY SCHOOL.

On Wednesday, hundreds of teachers and community members in Chicago protested at City Hall to demand fair funding for the city's public schools.

Finally, we heard repeatedly that Baltimoreans believe that parents and community members becoming more active supporters of schools is an important step in demanding more from our public education system.

RISE is working to ensure that families and communities are active leaders with a voice to define, demand, and lead systemic change to transform our public schools.

Educate and empower parents, teachers, and community members to demand excellent public schools;

While pedagogical excellence begins during training, the demands of the public sector are such that the transformation often associated with Montessori professional formation requires an extended period of apprenticeship supported by a professional community that is equipped to induct novices through modeling, collaborative child and lesson study, and ongoing reflection, coaching, and targeted professional development.

To meet growing public demand and to address the alarming problem of racial tension and unrest in our communities, which is rooted in the harmful effects of school segregation, we urge Congress to appropriate $ 115 million to the Magnet Schools Assistance Program in Fiscal Year 2017 as requested by President Obama.

In this new presentation by Public Impact, nine strategies are proposed to address these Read more about Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic School Change -LSB-...]

«We are very disappointed in today's vote, as it is out of touch with the increase in demand by parents and communities across the state to open charter schools for better choices in public education.»

He set up a demanding schedule, reserving time in every faculty, parent, student council, and community meeting for the remainder of the year to imagine a better public school.

The demands include calling for an end to high - stakes testing that labels schools, punishes students, and evaluates teachers; corporate interventions in public education; and economically and racially segregated school communities.

Working with the Pittsburgh Federation Teachers, SEIU 32BJ, SEIU Health Care PA, and Action United Pittsburgh, PIIN will begin building public awareness about the community schools model and organizing a large - scale public demand for community schools to be Pittsburgh's turnaround model.

It combines their demand for charter school accountability with a call for full, fair funding to support public community schools, which provide wraparound services for students and their families.

Councils can demand cash from developers for public amenities — including new schools — under the terms of the community infrastructure levy.

While the report recognized a robust national demand for more charter schools from parents and local communities, it found that 17 percent of charter schools reported academic gains that were significantly better than traditional public schools, while 37 percent of charter schools showed gains that were worse than their traditional public school counterparts, with 46 percent of charter schools demonstrating no significant difference.

In fact, one can advocate for a much more expansive definition of public education: one that offers greater parental choice in a system that is responsive to local community and parental demand, while absolutely shunning for - profit elementary and secondary schools.

Innovate Public Schools is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to build the parent and community demand for world - class public schools, and to accelerate the growth of these schools, particularly for low - income students and students of Public Schools is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to build the parent and community demand for world - class public schools, and to accelerate the growth of these schools, particularly for low - income students and students of public schools, and to accelerate the growth of these schools, particularly for low - income students and students of color.

The demand for charter public schools in communities across Illinois continues to grow.

«The data suggests that — despite what is arguably the most remarkable decade of academic progress of any school system in history — we haven't really seen much change in demand from middle class community to enroll their children in public schools,» Kleban said.

We must continue to build coalitions and bring our message to more communities in order to demand that more state lawmakers support our children and their public schools.

And while the findings reinforce that most public school parents (62 percent) like their local schools — more give their community schools an A grade than at any time in more than 40 years of PDK polling — there is also considerable demand among the general public for schools to provide more work readiness via career skills classes, licensing and certificate programs, and technology and engineering classes.

Principals have to manage, lead, and are held accountable for: common core; technology initiatives; social and emotional learning; referendum initiatives; math implementation; science implementation; special education, community outreach; reading; testing (local and state); effective instruction; transportation; public relations, parent custody issues, residency; student and staff discipline, evaluations; hiring; parent complaints; bullying; safety issues; budgeting; human resources issues; immigration questions / concerns; school safety, visibility in and out of school; championing the never ending requests and demands from the central office (one of the biggest challenges); the constantly increasing demands around social media and communications; and the barrage of emails / texts demanding immediate response 24/7, just to name a few.

Meanwhile, the press release quoted the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCAN), which was founded by Achievement First's Jonathan Sackler [the same Jonathan Sackler who held a $ 40,000 fundraiser last May for the political action committee affiliated with Governor Malloy] as saying, «We welcome [the New York charter school association] and look forward to working with the Network to further ensure that the voices of communities, families and students who demand more quality public school choices are heard loud and clear in Connecticut.»

I think I am going to show up at my community's next meeting on bridge building and repairs and demand to speak about a subject I know nothing about and demand the city leaders implement my design elements; to hell with the citizens» public safety.

The city's thriving community of artists, designers and collectors and its avid and growing art - engaged public are driving Miami's demand for a world - class museum and dynamic center of visual arts education.

Washington, D.C. (January 18, 2018)-- Today the New York Public Service Commission (NYPSC) passed a stop - gap measure to enable continued community solar development in three utility service territories in the face of high customer demand.

We've followed the small living movement in our «Tiny house trends series,» which has featured traditional homebuilders switching over to tiny homes, companies finding untapped demand in the small home market, residents of the first public tiny house community in the country seeing the movement evolve, and an architect who wants to adapt the trend to address problems of urban infill and a lack of affordability.

Public and private citizens or institutions who service and anticipate a role in maintaining support for vulnerable populations in Northeast cities and communities indicated that they are making plans to judge the demand for adaptation services.

Our opportunity here isn't only about protecting the ocean waters of America, marine life, a favorite surf break, jobs or a given beach community; it's about demanding that our government utilize the best available science and data and listen to the massive outpouring of public opposition to destructive offshore oil and gas development, to shift the tides of energy development instead away from fossil fuels and toward renewables; it's about holding our President and federal agencies accountable for decisions they make about the management of the ocean; it's about protecting the ocean and every coastline from the atrocity and injustice of offshore drilling and exploration; it's about protecting clean water, air and beaches now and for the future; it's about protecting one another, and the Earth.

The Innocence Project supports the forensic community in its ongoing fight for the funding it deserves as caseloads grow and the public becomes more demanding.