Sentences with phrase «district urged parents»

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If you are the parent of a home schooled student who has been or may be identified with a disability and you reside within the boundaries of Lake Bluff School District 65, you are urged to attend.

Legislator Danny Liedka of East Syracuse, who represents the 7th District, said smoking killed both his parents and he urged other legislators to approve the bill.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley says the Buffalo District Parent Coordinating Council, educators, community advocates and High Achievement New York are urging students in grades 3 - 8 to take next week's ELA state assessment.

Noah Gotbaum, president of the Community Education Council in District 3 on the Upper West Side, urged parents to continue to fight regardless of who ends up in charge.

Elected and parent leaders urged Albany not to back down from efforts to achieve bold, structural change to expand access to high - quality schools — district or charter.

Samuel Radford of the District Parent Coordinating Council joined Superintendent Pamela Brown and others in urging the state legislature to support Cuomo's plan to invest $ 1.5 billion over five years to implement full - day, universal pre-K.

So when the president of the district's Parent Advisory Council (PAC) offered to create an online survey so community members could evaluate Dr. Garcia's performance, the superintendent urged him to do it.

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson has urged black parents to follow the example of the three Hartford, Conn., parents who have been charged with «stealing an education» because they enrolled their children in school across district lines in suburban Bloomfield.

C3S plans to hold parent training workshops, facilitate meetings with elected officials, as well as urge parent advocates to pursue positions on their district Community Education Councils.

Underscoring warring perspectives within the district, a Brooklyn public school on Friday sent a notice to parents urging them to protest the release, saying: «OUR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS ARE NOT TEST SCORES!!»

Ms. Magee urged parents to opt out of the tests to subvert the rating system, though state education officials said districts would have to come up with alternative methods of evaluating teachers who did not have enough test scores.

«We want YOU,» the old Desert Trails district website says, urging parents to follow their former principal, David Mobley, to West Creek Elementary four miles away with free busing, or to choose another district - run school.

Duncan said he is committed to working with the GOP on a rewrite of the 14 - year - old law, itself a reauthorization of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and gave a nod to the growing national movement against standardized testing, urging Congress to set limits on how much time students should spend on state and district standardized testing — and to report to parents if they blow past those limits.

A pair of advocacy organizations, the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy and the Campaign for a Commercial - Free Childhood, have released a toolkit that urges parents to be more vigilant in questioning school districts» and ed - tech companies» data - privacy policies.

The district identified all students reading below grade level and urged parents to sign their children up via letters, emails and phone calls.

A number of parents of students from the Compton elementary school and the Los Angeles - based Parent Revolution appeared before the state board Wednesday urging adoption but also complaining about defense tactics being employed by the school district.

In drawing the fault lines between white parents and Asian parents in the district, the Times completely overlooks the local elections that were held this past November, where the candidate (a graduating high school student, actually) who was demanding higher standards and higher quality lost to the candidate urging a more holistic approach (exactly what the superintendent is now enacting).

Parent Revolution, the group who initially urged hundreds of McKinley parents to seize their kids» school from the district, in a proud press release yesterday.

As part of Education Commissioner Dianna Wentzell's «leadership strategies,» designed to urge superintendents to «encourage» parents to have their children take the SBAC test rather than to opt out, the commissioner called in superintendents from public school districts across the state to the department's Hartford headquarters for a «training session» on how effectively to communicate with parents.

COPAA, the Council of Parents, Attorneys and Advocates, released a statement after the Parkland shootings urging us not to use yet another school shooting tragedy as an impetus to marginalize students with emotional issues and mental illness but to remind us that school districts need to address these students» issues.

NYC teachers have been warned against sharing their professional analyses of the educational appropriateness of state tests and former Chancellor Farina told parents at a private meeting in District 15 that she herself would in fact opt out in certain cases yet declined to share this with all NYC parents, despite D15 parents» strong urging that she do so.

Parents and advocates urged the board to signal to districts the importance of student well - being and parent engagement by giving them a placeholder status.