Sentences with phrase «fighting school closures»

Find out if there's a local organizing group in your community fighting school closures.

Little Rock fights school closures.

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Professor and activist Cornel West has vowed to fight against the school's closure, as have Harlem Councilwoman Inez Dickens and State Sen. Bill Perkins.

The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.

While de Blasio has been a harsh critic of former mayor Michael Bloomberg's policy of closing long - struggling schools, he has sought to differentiate his school closure policy from his predecessor's by arguing that schools be given a fighting chance before they are closed, and that the administration closes schools quickly rather than dragging out the process via phase out.

A broad network of parents from across West Northumberland have launched a campaign to fight against the proposed closure of 16 rural schools.

«We fought very hard against the attempt by the previous Labor - Green Government to forcibly close schools, and we remain categorically opposed to forced closures,» he said in a statement.

The authors contribute arguments for pushing forward with school closures even if the community is fighting to keep these schools open.

She joined a coalition of parents that successfully fought to keep the school open, and became a member of ESP Vision (Educators, Students and Parents for a Better Vision for Seattle Schools), a citywide organization founded to oppose the district's school closure policies.

Abstract: This article highlights the effort of citizens working together to strengthen their fight to save five of their local schools from closure.

«We believe in publicly funded public education and we believe that we can have a system in Chicago that is equal to or exceeds school districts in Finland or Japan,» she says of the colleagues with whom she has reshaped the Chicago Teachers Union into a leading force in the fight against school privatization, closures, cuts and the gimmickry that too often passes for education policy.

Education Minister Jeremy Rockcliff has long fought against such closures stating, «In many instances, schools are the lifeblood of regional communities, and we firmly believe it is up to local communities to determine their future, not have it imposed from on high against their wishes.»

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Parents are fighting to save a Devon school from closure despite a damning Ofsted report finding it inadequate in all areas.

A community activist is making a unique protest, in hopes of rallying people in Albion to fight the closure of their high school.

In addition to school closures and charterization of the island's school system, FMPR is also fighting proposed cuts to public sector pensions, which the board has suggested should be cut by 25 percent.

We are proud that we have been able to use these tools to fight against school library closures and librarian layoffs and that we've won so many of them.