Sentences with phrase «education activist came»
The progressive party's decision to endorse the actor and public education activist came the day after the governor's campaign said it would not seek the party's endorsement.
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In this edition of the EdCast, Camila Vallejo and Noam Titelman, education activists in Chile, shine light on the Chilean Students Movement and how it is attempting to transform a broken system for generations to come.
Other items had nothing at all to do with education but, being champions of «social justice,» the activists came up with an NBI which proposes to inform the public about the dangers of fracking, another that calls for the end of «food deserts» (don't ask) and one that wants President Obama to investigate the continued incarceration of Leonard Peltier, a man who was convicted of first - degree murder in the slaying of two FBI agents in 1977.
«Chicago activists, educators, students, academics and parents are coming together June 2 to talk about how we can use Free Minds, Free People, the powerful national gathering on education justice, to support the development of a national education movement.
Unlike other players in the school reform movement, Parent Power activists are grassroots - oriented players, often coming from backgrounds outside of education and policymaking circles, and have actually have dealt day - to - day with traditional districts which have treated them as little more than nuisances and pests.
From opposing the expansion of high - quality charter schools and other school choice options, to its opposition to Parent Trigger laws and efforts of Parent Power activists in places such as Connecticut and California, to efforts to eviscerate accountability measures that hold districts and school operators to heel for serving Black and Brown children well, even to their historic disdain for Black families and condoning of Jim Crow discrimination against Black teachers, both unions have proven no better than outright White Supremacists when it comes to addressing the legacies of bigotry in which American public education is the nexus.
Some of the test opposition is coming locally through Elyria school district teacher Dawn Neely - Randall, whose criticisms of tests have landed in Washington Post blogs and also caught the ear education activist Diane Ravitch.
In response to the confiscation and physical destruction of books at Occupy Wall Street, a group of activists have created a virtual library and education center that provides a list of primer books; hand - selected articles and commentary; author interviews and more to come.
Liberty activists around the country have come together for a general education outreach campaign this fall in Washington, D.C..
Coming from a family of strong female activists and as a longtime supporter of Planned Parenthood, March spends a significant amount of time traveling globally for causes benefiting women and education.