Sentences with phrase «education justice»

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MASSACHUSETTS This week The Boston Globe highlighted the «ready for battle» Massachusetts Education Justice Alliance after the group sent a letter to all 200 state lawmakers urging them not to lift the cap on the number of charter schools in the state.

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«Chicago is the birthplace of Free Minds, Free People, and one of the most important sites in the fight for education justice in this country.

We discuss equal access to education with Christian D'Andrea, an education policy analyst with the John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy in Madison, Wis., and Kyle Serrette, director of education justice campaigns at The Center for Popular Democracy.

Jason Langberg is an attorney who works on education justice issues.

She is currently a Lead Organizer with Students for Education Reform, organizing college students around education justice issues in her home district.

Detroit, MI — November 20, 2014 Leaders from the Michigan Education Justice Coalition staged a «Walk with Me» event to highlight the injustices imposed on students and their families by Detroit's unaccountable and mostly unregulated school governance model.

During this day - long event, you will hear from a number of expert guests, including keynote speaker and education justice advocate Clint Smith, as well as the teachers and students championing this work.

«Compared to other states, North Carolina has a pretty good fiscal capacity for spending — but it isn't spending its money on public schools,» said Molly Hunter, director of the ELC's Education Justice program, noting that the Tar Heel state was very last in terms of the «effort» it put into school funding.

For over two weeks, a dozen parents, teachers and community members have been leading a hunger strike to save Dyett High School in Chicago — and in so doing they have inspired education justice organizers across the country.

At Great Public Schools Pittsburgh we have worked hard over the last three years to elect education justice - minded candidates to the City School Board.

Keron suggests that the fight for Dyett is a call to action for all who care about education justice.

By providing parents, students and teachers with a way to engage in the process, set districts priorities and lift up our democratically elected School Board, we are giving education justice a fighting chance against education «reformers» who seek to privatize and profit off our public schools.

After becoming a mother at a young age, Daniela's passion for education justice only intensified and she began to fight for an equitable education for all children, regardless of background or zip code.

Pro charter organization issues report on Washington D.C. Education Justice.

Education justice organizations pledging to make fundamental change in communities have the opportunity and responsibility to engage parents at a deep level as true partners in building the necessary power to create and sustain change.

I live in the Bronzeville community on the south side and entered the fight for education justice when CPS closed my grandbaby's elementary school, Anthony Overton.

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Shane Evans is the Manager of Student Engagement at Parkville College's Education Justice Initiative (EJI), based at the Melbourne Children's Court, who works with young people who have disengaged from education.

The Boston Education Justice Alliance calls for more counselors and student supports in the district school budget.

In almost four hours of hearings, CPS and our allies in the Massachusetts Education Justice Alliance made numerous compelling arguments for the above bills.

In many cities, such as Chicago, segments of the event will focus on education justice — targeting school districts, banks and billionaires that support school closings, austerity budgeting and privatization.

Jane writes and speaks frequently on issues of education justice and access, the impact of poverty on children's life outcomes, the policy and practice implications of concentrated poverty and trauma on children, school climate, student discipline and attendance.

As the discussion and debate over next year's Boston Public Schools budget begins, the Boston Education Justice Alliance is fighting for the schools our communities deserve.

And today, the most powerful and energetic movements for education justice — fighting for fair funding, strong neighborhood public schools, and restorative justice — are those that take an intersectional approach to organizing.

In a news release Thursday, the group said the People's March for Education Justice will focus on the similarities between the Trump - DeVos agenda on public education and Governor Andrew Cuomo's.

Long - standing programs such as San Francisco State University's Project Rebound, the Bard Prison Initiative, the Inside - Out Prison - Exchange Program at Temple University, Boston University's Prison Education Program, and the Education Justice Project at the University of Illinois - Urbana - Champaign, to name a few, are still proving the benefits of higher education in prison.

A longtime instructor affiliate with the Education Justice Project, which provides higher educational opportunities to students at the Danville Correctional Center in central Illinois, Castro engaged one of her incarcerated students, Michael Brawn, in a dialogue exploring the challenges of educating a population within the constraints of a carceral system...

The «Blowouts» of 1968 launched a legacy of struggle for education justice that inspired the Chicano / Chicana student movement across the Southwest.

This includes serving as PI of a Ford Foundation funded project to create a research hub to support the education justice movement, and as a member of the Schools of Opportunity project leadership and the Education Justice Network.

While the two massive victories mean a great deal to the education justice community who've been demanding the legislature fully fund public schools, the state education funding formula bill will now have to be passed in the House where it faces a serious uphill battle.

The Save Our Public Schools campaign, coordinated by the Massachusetts Education Justice Alliance, has been mobilizing thousands of community members to knock on doors and make phone calls to defeat the measure.

Members of the Massachusetts Education Justice Alliance (MEJA) celebrated huge victories last week as the Senate Ways and Means Committee passed an annual budget bill that increases education spending.

The City of Boston is also refusing to pay up for schools that thrive, charges Ruby Reyes, director of the Boston Education Justice Alliance (BEJA).

And what do they hope to accomplish with this weekend's People's March for Education Justice?

Also in Massachusetts: As the charter school debate heats up, MTA president Barbara Madeloni penned a great column for The Boston Globe highlighting a call from the Massachusetts Education Justice Alliance to institute a three - year moratorium on new charter schools.

Nov. 10: The Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools is calling all warriors for education justice to join the Fight for $ 15 campaign for a national day of action.

Jan. 14: The Boston Education Justice Alliance will hold an emergency town hall to discuss the impact of new citywide initiatives, school closures, and a charter school ballot initiative.

A Detroit native, his transdisciplinary scholarship explores a variety of equity and education justice - related topics, including the following: school climate and discipline; school integration and choice; culture and education; vulnerable learners; and intersections among race, gender, and education.

This campaign brings together people who are already fighting for one or another of the elements of community schools and weaves together these strands of the education justice movement in the form of a practical demand that reflects our democratic values.

«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.