Sentences with phrase «education advocates attended»

A grand total of three teachers and two public education advocates attended the NC Department of Public Instruction's public hearing on the proposed model teacher contract, which local school districts will use to award the top 25 percent of teachers with 4 - year contracts that may come with $ 500 bonuses for each of those four years — as long as those teachers give up their tenure.

More than 100 parents, teachers, students, administrators and education advocates attended a meeting at PS 58, Staten Island, on Nov. 29 to strategize ways to prevent further budget cuts to schools

Not exact matches

The fight over Cuomo's education agenda will resume Thursday morning with a rally attended by Mulgrew, other union advocates and elected officials who will call on the state to fulfill its Campaign for Fiscal Equity obligations.

Ms. Kittredge is the parent of public school children who attend P.S. 101Q and The Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School and has been a strong advocate for education for all of our City's children.

3:30 pm — Public Advocate Letitia James Attends the Amsterdam News Education Foundation Luncheon.

President Akufo - Addo, who attended the event in his capacity as co-Chair of the Group of Advocates of Eminent Persons of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), stated, in his remarks, at the event, that there is no part of the world that does not recognise the importance of education.

Last week I attended # 140Edu, the first ever 140 Characters Conference (# 140conf) dedicated to education, hosted by Chris Lehman (principal of the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia) and Jeff Pulver (thought leader, author, and social media advocate).

Addressing the large audience of New England - area teachers and parent - activists attending the meeting at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the speakers nevertheless urged advocates of education programs for the gifted to lobby local and state officials for the expansion of gifted - education Education, the speakers nevertheless urged advocates of education programs for the gifted to lobby local and state officials for the expansion of gifted - education education programs for the gifted to lobby local and state officials for the expansion of gifted - education education programs.

Many of the schools these teachers attended trace their origins back to the colonial education system laid out by British politician Thomas Macaulay, whose 1835 Minute on Indian Education advocated replacing Arabic and Sanskrit schools with Engleducation system laid out by British politician Thomas Macaulay, whose 1835 Minute on Indian Education advocated replacing Arabic and Sanskrit schools with EnglEducation advocated replacing Arabic and Sanskrit schools with English ones.

Advocates on one side believe teachers should prepare for their classroom careers in the traditional way: attending schools of education where they learn a lot about teaching technique (but often spend too little time learning academic content).

• Ruth Wattenberg (Ward 3) attended a special education workshop along with members from the SBOE's Office of the Student Advocate.

Education advocates are invited to attend an important and free Community Conversation on EARLY LEARNING SUCCESS THROUGH COLLABORATION

D.C. Council members, advocates and parents raised questions Monday about Mayor Vincent C. Gray's push to reduce the number of special - education students who attend private schools at public expense.

A decade ago, Labour government policies increasingly advocated «inclusive education» through which all children would attend their local mainstream school.

He attended the Principals» Center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and was greatly inspired by its founder, Roland Barth, an early advocate of the collaborative culture that defines PLCs today.

«It has been both a personal and professional mission of mine to advocate for postsecondary education since I attended college as a first generation college - going student.»

Advocates argue that charter schools will improve education for everyone, even for those who don't attend them, but that's not what the research says.

by Tony Bui, CFJ Student Leader On January 16th, 2014 hundreds of administrators, parents, students, and advocates attended the State Board of Education meeting to voice their opinions on the proposed regulations for the Local Control Funding Formula, a new way of funding schools.

Education advocates from the Open Society Institute and the Maryland Disabilities Law Center who attended Tuesday's board meeting praised the board's action.

Try to attend a city council meeting and advocate for better education funding and restructuring the curriculum to benefit student interests.

Since its inception in 2011, more than 1,500 parents and other caregivers have attended the sessions, which are part of a growing array of efforts to build the capacity of parents and caregivers to become informed advocates and partners in their children's education.

But the question of whether a handful of children get a wink and a nod pales in comparison to the larger number of students who are effectively excluded from attending, public education advocates say — the children who arguably most need help.

A mother of two daughters that attend New Britain Public schools, she has been a vocal advocate for dual - language programs and the elimination of the high - stakes testing that is contributing to the demise of public education.

Advocates for Children of New York (AFC), with the help of pro bono partner Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, brought these cases to court, challenging the New York City Department of Education's (DOE's) failure to provide free breakfast and lunch to children with disabilities who would ordinarily be entitled to receive meals in school, but who had to attend special education private schools because the DOE did not offer them an appropriate public school eEducation's (DOE's) failure to provide free breakfast and lunch to children with disabilities who would ordinarily be entitled to receive meals in school, but who had to attend special education private schools because the DOE did not offer them an appropriate public school eeducation private schools because the DOE did not offer them an appropriate public school educationeducation.

Dawne regularly attends continuing legal education programs offered by The Advocates» Society, Canadian Defence Lawyers and the Law Society of Ontario involving topics such as advocacy and trial tactics, expert evidence, and municipal law.

Dustin attends continuing legal education seminars and programs offered by The Advocates» Society and the Thunder Bay Law Association.

Kate attends continuing legal education seminars and programs offered by The Advocates» Society, the Ontario Bar Association and the Thunder Bay Law Association.

Eugene frequently attends continuing legal education programs offered by The Advocates» Society, Canadian Defence Lawyers and the Law Society of Ontario involving topics such as advocacy and trial tactics, expert evidence, insurance coverage disputes and motor vehicle legislation.

In addition, the education budget is also tapped to assist individual judges wishing to attend important education programs offered by other judicial education organizations, including the Canadian Association of Provincial Court Judges, the International Association of Women Judges, the Advocates» Society, the Association for Family Court Mediation, the Cambridge Lectures (offered by the Canadian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies), Osgoode Professional Development, and the NJI — to name a few.

In 2010, he chaired for Washington Governor Christine Gregoire her Higher Education Funding Task Force, and in 2011 he helped advocate for the successful adoption by the legislature of the task force's recommendations, including tuition - setting authority and increased accountability for the state's public universities and for the nation's first private - public funded endowment to enable more students to attend college.

With 87 percent of high school students graduating on time, 62 percent of children attending preschool, New Jersey is second only to Massachusetts on its education measures, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the nonprofit child and family research organization which produces the Kids Count report with Advocates for Children of New Jersey.