Sentences with phrase «elected parent leaders»

«As elected parent leaders we demand that the irregularities be worked out,» said Upper West Side dad and CEC 3 president Noah Gotbaum, who said the elections should be delayed until the end of the school year and wants oversight of all parent groups, including parents» associations, transferred from the DOE.

Not exact matches

For nearly seven years we have worked hard to set the stage for a healthier next generation of kids by engaging stakeholders on all levels - parents, child care providers, schools, chefs, local elected officials, faith - based leaders, museums, and more.

The Junior League undertook a $ 26.6 million capital campaign and led a statewide team of educational partners, community and business leaders, elected officials, parents, volunteers, children and nationally recognized children's museum experts to plan, develop and build a one - of - a-kind, state - of - the - art, statewide children's museum.

At 2:30 p.m., state Sen. Martin Golden joins parents, community leaders, business owners, residents and elected officials to protest the potential construction of a 63 - room hotel on a vacant lot, 9116 Fifth Ave., Brooklyn.

«For months we have been engaging with elected officials, community leaders, and parents, so we can best serve the needs of students in this neighborhood,» Deputy Chancellor for Portfolio Planning Marc Sternberg said in a statement.

Local authorities would be given a strategic role as «champions» for parents and pupils, but the Lib Dem leader said the plans did not give councils any power to do this, and consequently took power away from locally - elected politicians.

A radio ad thanking parents, teachers, elected officials and community leaders for fighting back against the threat of teacher layoffs started airing on June 30.

Adams and Diaz formed the task force in January to study issues surrounding G&T, and the group is made up of the elected officials and three parent leaders from each borough.

Tim Kremer, with the New York State School Boards Association, said it's a turning point in what has become a battle between schools, teachers, parents and New York's elected leaders over standardized testing and its effects.

UFT Family Child Care Providers Chapter Chair Tammie Miller joined Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and other elected officials and labor leaders for a Manhattan town hall meeting on May 25 to discuss the impact of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed $ 51 million cut to child care funding on children and low - income working parents.

Elected officials met with parents, educators and community leaders to discuss achievement gap.

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.

«What has traditionally made this country great is that the leaders don't have to be the elected officials,» says Olson, the president of the Parents for Public Schools national board of directors.

The two - day summit brought together educators, parents, policymakers, elected officials, business leaders, students and others to discuss...

In an initiative now being piloted in six cities across the country, communities are working to redesign their municipal systems and form new citywide partnerships so that everyone — elected officials, nonprofit leaders, healthcare professionals, social workers, parents, business owners, and educators — takes on the responsibility of supporting children and closing the opportunity gap.

Educators, community leaders, elected leaders and parents across the country are standing up in support of the principles of expanded learning each day.

Parents must be empowered with access to data and other information to hold educators, leaders and elected officials accountable for their performance.

Whatever the inadequacies of the engagement efforts, shouldn't we focus our criticism first and foremost on those elected officials, union leaders, and activists who were pursuing a strategy of deception and vitriol — who woke up every day seeking to thwart positive change for kids, seeking to prevent the expansion of schools that were getting outsized success for children, seeking to undermine policies designed to increase equitable access to the district's better schools, seeking to gum up efforts to empower parents with choice, and seeking to thwart all efforts aimed at fostering an honest conversation about which educators were truly superlative and which were badly underserving children?

Stand utilizes a multi-pronged advocacy strategy to elect education champions, lobby for legislative reform, and develop parent and educator leaders who work to persuade elected officials and voters to support education reforms that will improve outcomes for students.

The courtroom was packed with parents, advocates, faith leaders, school and elected officials, and community members from across the state.

We recently stood together with charter schools in Buffalo and Rochester to demand that lawmakers hear us — parents and charter high school students registered to vote, emailed, called, Tweeted and Facebooked their elected leaders.

It can help teachers, parents, and elected leaders understand how well our schools are working to meet the needs of children.

No school can succeed for long without doing so, but, especially for community schools, success depends on the quality of the relationships that school and district staff maintain with various partners, including teachers, counselors, social workers, parents, clergy, elected officials, business leaders, volunteer tutors, and others.

Across the U.S. parents, students, teachers, community leaders and, increasingly, local elected officials, are saying «Enough is enough!»

In the wake of the CCJEF ruling, charter school parents, leaders, and elected officials came together last week to call for charters to be part of a new, equitable school funding system.

Chico, Fresno, Oakland, San Jose and San Diego hosted more than 1,000 students, parents, charter leaders, elected officials and community supporters during several exciting celebrations.

During the school year, I would make it a priority to discuss the limitations and flaws of standardized testing with teachers, school and central office leaders, the board, elected officials, parents, students, and the community.

This was a rare opportunity for parent leaders to meet one another as well as make connections with Elected Officials and community leaders in CB 3, which covers all of Bedford Stuyvesant Brooklyn.

From teachers and parents to elected officials, community leaders, employers, and on and on, everybody has a stake in decisions about their local school budget.

But, public schools need to have transparency and publicly elected leaders that can be held accountable by parents and educators.

Stand for Children Washington is a membership organization working to advance public education, empower parents, and elect courageous leaders.

This Saturday, thousands of New York City teachers will be in Washington, D.C., with the parents, community groups and clergy with whom we work so closely, our friends in the civil rights movement, elected leaders from the City Council and state Legislature and tens of thousands of others from across the nation for a historic march for jobs and justice on the eve of the unveiling of the new Martin Luther King Jr..

More than 300 school leaders, supporters, parents, and students met with elected officials yesterday to discuss key legislation impacting charter schools during CCSA's annual Advocacy Day.

Democratically elected leaders creating school choice bills to allow parents to decide where to send their own kids.

Engage parents, civic and elected leaders, local businesses, clergy members and the libraries, museums and service providers.

Union - led reform can't be accomplished without collaboration, and NEA members at priority schools across the country are teaming with parents, principals, community organizations, and elected leaders to raise student achievement.

Elected leaders, educators, parents and students need to get these tasks done.

GO informs, organizes, and supports leaders at every level of our education system — grassroots (students, parents, educators) to grasstops (elected leaders, education leaders, community leaders).

About 150 charter school leaders and parents will attend the California Charter Schools Association's (CCSA) 20th Anniversary Advocacy Day and will meet with elected officials to discuss the impact charter schools are having on students and how current legislative policy will impact future success.

Our standards in the state of Texas must be adopted by our elected State Board of Education with the direct input of our parents, teachers and business leaders in our state.

School leaders, parents, students, and teachers, will join community leaders and elected officials to discuss how Louisiana's school choice options contribute to student success.

That's why I'm encouraged by the Louisiana Senate's proposals in SB 432, which is the product of collaboration among local school leaders, parents, stakeholders, advocates and elected officials who have come together to find a lasting solution.

We are #ThankfulFor all of these individuals — the parents, teachers, elected officials, community leaders, and other supporters who joined efforts to improve schools for students in New York and across the country.

Families That Can educates, empowers and mobilizes parents to hold our elected leaders accountable for ensuring every child has access to a high - quality public education.

-- About 150 charter school leaders and parents will attend the California Charter Schools Association's (CCSA) 20th Anniversary Advocacy Day and will meet with elected officials to discuss the impact charter schools are having on students and how current legislative policy will impact future success.

But in spite of our financial challenges, our commitment to providing every child in every community with a high - quality education is as strong as ever, and the district, parents, teachers, principals, community members, local elected officials and business leaders must work together to protect investments in student learning that will maintain the tangible progress being made by our students.

Each day of the week has its own theme — celebrating parents, education support professionals, and substitute educators — and on Thursday, November 20, elected officials and community leaders are encouraged to serve as «educators for a day,» participating in hands - on school experiences.

A major part of NECSN's advocacy is to provide opportunities to connect parents and school leaders with their elected officials who represent them in Albany.

In Connecticut, the SBAC disaster was slowed by a handful of dedicated and committed public school superintendents who recognized that parents had the fundamental and inalienable right to opt their children out of the destructive SBAC test, but the majority of local education leaders (and elected officials) kowtowed to the Malloy administration and engaged in an immoral and unethical effort to mislead parents into believing that schools had «no degrees of freedom» on the SBAC testing issue.

We call on elected officials and other community leaders to embrace solutions that are proven, that will provide students and parents more and better educational options, and that help meet the need now.