Sentences with phrase «education activists hold»

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The 51 - year - old New York native and Grammy, Emmy and Tony winner has never held public office, but as an activist she has lobbied extensively for better education funding and advocated for gay rights.

When actor and activist Cynthia Nixon held her first news conference as a gubernatorial candidate, at a Pentecostal church in Brownsville, Brooklyn, she was introduced by Zakiyah Ansari, an education activist and longtime ally.

Chicago, IL — November 20, 2014 At 10:30 a.m. over 120 educational justice activists in the Grassroots Education Movement (GEM) in Chicago held a press conference on the 5th floor of City Hall demanding that Mayor Rahm Emanuel support 50 sustainable community schools.

When executives at Pearson, the world's largest for - profit education company, held their London shareholder meeting Friday, they were greeted by activists from the American Federation of Teachers, urging them to oppose so - called «gag orders» restricting teachers from revealing information about Pearson's Common Core tests.

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.

But given the deeply - held opposition to vouchers from both education traditionalists and some elements within the school reform movement itself, voucher supporters and school choice activists can not simply hope that bad news goes away.

During the demonstration, the activists held Occupy Wall Street - style workshops and teach - ins, and staged a mock «funeral» for the «death of education.»