Sentences with phrase «democratic education work»

«Making Democratic Education Work.»

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The universalizing of work has been an important factor in the growth of democratic education.

Last month, just before the state budget was approved, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon made her first visit to Albany, appearing with education advocates she has worked closely with in recent years.

Education activist Christine Marinoni won't be able to vote for her actress wife in September's Democratic primary because she isn't a registered Democrat but is one of the nearly 42,000 members of the state's left - leaning Working Families Party.

The League of Conservation Voters Education Fund (LCVEF) works with our state LCVEF partners, educates the public, media and elected officials about key environmental issues, works to increase voter participation in the democratic process and mobilizes a diverse network of activists to advocate for sound environmental policies.

The Working Families Party last night released a video online featuring several Democratic state lawmakers criticizing Gov. Andrew Cuomo's education proposals.

The Education Fund is the nonprofit research and public education affiliate of Citizen Action, which has a political action committee that works to support Democratic takeover of the state Senate, and is a key player in the labor - backed Working FamiliEducation Fund is the nonprofit research and public education affiliate of Citizen Action, which has a political action committee that works to support Democratic takeover of the state Senate, and is a key player in the labor - backed Working Familieducation affiliate of Citizen Action, which has a political action committee that works to support Democratic takeover of the state Senate, and is a key player in the labor - backed Working Families Party.

Bloomberg's opponent was Democratic and Working Families Party nominee Bill Thompson, who had been New York City Comptroller for the past eight years and before that, President of the New York City Board of Education.

Although polls indicate that de Blasio, a Democrat, is likely to win re-election easily on Nov. 7, his unpopularity in the 43rd Council District in Brooklyn is such that he has not campaigned for the Democratic candidate, Justin Brannan, who worked on the mayor's pre-K program as a political liaison at the NYC Education Department.

John lobbying firm and a vice chair of the State Democratic Party, Peter Ajemian, who is State Senator Brad Hoylman's chief of staff, Brian Ellner, who was a Bloomberg appointee at the Department of Education and later played a leading role in the marriage equality fight in Albany, Matthew McMorrow, who is an aide to Mayor Bill de Blasio on gay issues, and Dirk McCall, who works for Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr..

The new leaders will play a key role in formulating and implementing the Democratic majority's agenda, which Looney said will focus on «supporting working families, fighting for seniors, promoting small businesses and continuing to improve our education system to maintain Connecticut's competitive position in a demanding economy.»

And while the exact contours of Mr. Felder's demands are not clear, Carl E. Heastie, the Democratic speaker of the New York State Assembly, suggested on Friday that the budget was «99.9 percent» done and that the remaining issue, touted by Mr. Felder, «should be worked on in partnership with stakeholders and educational experts at the state Education Department, which we would fully support.»

While enumerating what she believes were worthy achievements of the former Education Minister during the administration of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Joyce Bawa Mogtari said Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang's «diligent works and strong educational reforms have raised Ghana's image in education to enviable heightEducation Minister during the administration of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Joyce Bawa Mogtari said Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang's «diligent works and strong educational reforms have raised Ghana's image in education to enviable heighteducation to enviable heights.»

The statement is signed by former Lopez aides Leah Hebert, Rita Pasarell and Tori Burhans Kelly; Kellner's former chief of staff, Eliyanna Kaiser, and his ex-administrative assistant, Danielle Bennett; and Erica Vladimer, who worked as an education policy analyst and counsel for the Independent Democratic Conference, which Klein leads.

A professional freelance writer with wide - ranging interests in medicine, fitness, health, psychology, tech, and fashion, Kim's unique composition of life experiences includes working as an aide for a Democratic member of Congress, a senatorial nomination to West Point, extensive work with women's relief and aide organizations, and a life - long commitment to helping others obtain and further their education goals.

Democratic senator Mary Landrieu, a cosponsor of the «Three R's» bill, worked tirelessly, and against considerable opposition from members of both political parties, to increase the targeting of federal education dollars to low - income communities and schools in an effort to better support their school reform efforts.

While working under Kennedy, Rodriguez managed the Democratic education agenda for the committee and led policy development and strategy for legislation addressing early childhood education, elementary and secondary education, higher education, and adult education.

Mike Kirst's review of our book, A Democratic Constitution for Public Education, is insightful and constructive and raises important questions about how our proposal would work in practice.

Washington — The National Education Association has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commission, alleging that the National Right to Work Committee, an anti-union organization, violated federal campaign - finance laws by hiring investigators to infiltrate the Democratic Presidential campaign.

For one thing, the concessions needed to win enough Democratic votes would quickly alienate Republicans (who aren't all that thrilled about voting for a federal education bill, anyway), so I'm not sure the math would work.

The Democratic governor also said that he and legislators «have worked to provide every child with a world - class education» in the Sooner State by raising teacher pay, setting up a state lottery to pay for education, and providing full - day kindergarten for all youngsters.

Widely known for her work on justice and citizenship in both ancient Athens and modern America, Allen is the author of The World of Prometheus: the Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens (2000), Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown vs. the Board of Education (2004), Why Plato Wrote (2010), and Our Declaration (2014) and co-editor (with Rob Reich) of Education, Justice, and Democracy (2013).

For the nearly 500 teachers» - union members attending the Democratic convention as delegates here last month, the nomination for President of a Governor known nationally for his work in education and the adoption of a platform echoing the candidate's detailed education agenda were causes for jubilation.

Since the mid-1990s, in addition to Sir Ken Robinson and Heidi Hayes Jacobs, several key figures have stoked the discussion of integrated studies through their own work and influential books, including James Beane, author of Curriculum Integration: Designing the Core of Democratic Education; Julie Thompson Klein, author of Crossing Boundaries: Knowledge, Disciplinarities, and Interdisciplinarities and Mapping Interdisciplinary Studies; and Robin J. Fogarty, author of How to Integrate the Curricula and Integrating Curricula with Multiple Intelligences: Teams, Themes, and Threads (the latter coauthored with Judy Stoehr).

Adjunct Lecturer Linda Nathan's class Building a Democratic School was incredible space for conversations and really pushed me to detail out the future education work I want to do in the slums in Bangalore.

Her research interests include language education, language diversity, and multilingualism, in addition to more recent work on democratic and alternative education.

For that reason, our work part from a new ethical approach based on the Freirean values of consciousness and it promotes a democratic and accountable education in schools, where teachers attitude plays a very important role as actors democratization of responsibility and sustainability, they are agents of awareness and training of the educational community, and especially for children and young people.

«The Bush administration took the Clinton administration's ideas and ran with them,» said one bemused Democratic congressional aide who worked at the Department of Education under Clinton.

President - elect Obama can look forward to working with a beefed - up Democratic majority in Congress when he seeks to enact his education agenda after taking office in January.

According to the last set of federal and state campaign finance reports, Governor Malloy, the champion of the corporate education reform industry and the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers working in the poorest schools has received well over a quarter of a million dollars from leaders and political action committees associated with the national education reform and privatization effort.

The Democratic challenge slate went on to win the election and with the help of the Working Families Party members unseated Finch's campaign treasurer, Reverend Kenneth Moales, Jr. last night as the Chairman of the Bridgeport Board of Education, replacing the disgraced pastor with a pro-public education advocate named SaudEducation, replacing the disgraced pastor with a pro-public education advocate named Saudeducation advocate named Sauda Baraka.

Drawing from the work of educators across the country, the book demonstrates that manageable standards — when married to practical approaches to instruction and assessment — can prepare students to perform well on state tests while preserving the democratic traditions of U.S. education.

They are «dedicated to public education as the cornerstone of a democratic society [and to] education policy and actions that allow students, teachers, families, and communities to work together to meet the needs of all children.»

Elimination of General Fund support for the Hunt Institute, a think tank founded by former democratic Governor Jim Hunt that works to develop statewide education policy solutions.

We look forward to working with everyone in forging a path of democratic, equitable public education for every student.

Founded in 1901 on the tenets of progressive education, the school currently enrolls 940 students and employs 200 dedicated faculty and staff members who, in addition to assistant teachers, substitute teachers and coaches, work together to ensure that the School lives up to its Mission to «educate students to think and act with empathy, courage and clarity as responsible citizens and leaders in a democratic society and global community.»

John Bangs, chair of the OECD's trade union advisory committee working group on education said: «One of the contradictions of some democratic governments, particularly England, is that they feel they have to make their mark with reforms.

EmpowerDC.org: A citywide membership - based organization, Empower DC is dedicated to effecting social change through a democratic, self - help empowerment approach to community organizing working on issues including affordable housing, quality affordable child care, preserving public property and improving public education.

For instance the descriptions of the Democrats for Education Reform during the Democratic National Convention in 2008 and the work to pass Colorado's landmark teacher effectiveness legislation (S.B 191) were mostly accurate in their implications but missed key aspects of what and how they occurred.

I am hopeful that we can sit alongside each other and do the hard work of answering the questions most central to our democracy: What is the purpose of public education in a democratic society?

Educators now understand what a truly democratic and revitalized teachers union, working arm in arm with parents and students, can do to protect public education in New York City,» Kit Wainer public school teacher and MORE member, said.

Bryan says he's been working out his plan with Republican and Democratic lawmakers, as well as consulting with education groups.

Melvoin, an attorney and former middle - school teacher, campaigned last year for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton; Gonez, a seventh - grade science teacher, worked for two years as an education policy adviser for the Obama administration.

The corporate education reform industry, riding high off a successful anti-teacher tenure lawsuit in California, is targeting the single most important element of academic freedom and working conditions for public school teachers and now the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure is saying that his abusive language about teachers «Wasn't about them.

Citizenship education should empower students to work together with others to participate in public life, and, according to Parker (1990), should be «rigorous yet feasible, multi-valued and multi-voiced yet unified through shared commitment to democratic ideals» (p. 21 - 22).

That said, the fact that Connecticut's Democratic leadership, including Governor Malloy and Lt. Governor Wyman, either supported or remained silent as Mayor Finch and the «education reformers» worked to remove the fundamental right of Bridgeport's citizens to choose members of their Board of Education is a sad and disgusting reminder that for some, principles and values are a thing of the past — fallen by the wayside — in the face of political exeducation reformers» worked to remove the fundamental right of Bridgeport's citizens to choose members of their Board of Education is a sad and disgusting reminder that for some, principles and values are a thing of the past — fallen by the wayside — in the face of political exEducation is a sad and disgusting reminder that for some, principles and values are a thing of the past — fallen by the wayside — in the face of political expediency.

Weingarten, along with the leadership of the American Federation of Teachers — Connecticut Chapter and the Connecticut Education Association have endorsed Malloy despite the fact that Governor Malloy remains the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose repealing tenure for all Connecticut public school teachers and unilaterally eliminating collective bargaining rights for a teachers working in the state's poorest schools.

Northeastern PAA affiliates have been working locally, statewide and nationally to promote quality public education, focusing on issues that include high - stakes testing, student privacy, democratic governance and equity.

In response, Maryland's Democratic - controlled legislature has been working with teachers unions and education advocates on legislation that would shape the direction of the state's accountability plan, effectively limiting how much Hogan's appointees could decide on their own.

At the Institute for Democratic Education in America (IDEA), a national network of activists and educators are working to mobilize action to advance meaningful learning and build a more just and sustainable democracy.