Sentences with phrase «grassroots education activists»

More Than a Score features the voices of students, parents, teachers, administrators, and grassroots education activists, including: Wayne Au, Carol Burris, Nancy Carlsson - Paige, Sarah Chambers, Mallory Clarke, Jeanette Deutermann, Alma Flor Ada, Rosie Frascella, Alexia Garcia, Emily Giles, Helen Gym, Nikhil Goyal, Jesse Hagopian, Brian Jones, Alfie Kohn, Amber Kudla, John Kuhn, Jia Lee, Karen Lewis, Malcolm London, Barbara Madeloni, Cauldierre McKay, Mark Naison, Monty Neill, Diane Ravitch, Aaron Regunberg, Mary Cathryn D. Ricker, Stephanie Rivera, Kirstin Roberts, Peggy Robertson, Falmata Seid, Tim Shea, Phyllis Tashlik, Dao X. Tran

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Parents and students across New York, including grassroots activists organized by education reform advocacy organization StudentsFirstNY and Derrell Bradford, executive director of NYCAN, view Governor Cuomo's reforms as critical to improving public school options.

The broad - based coalition, encompassing more than two dozen organizations, is encouraging and coordinating the efforts of grassroots peace education and anti-military activists across the country.

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.

Unlike other players in the school reform movement, Parent Power activists are grassroots - oriented players, often coming from backgrounds outside of education and policymaking circles, and have actually have dealt day - to - day with traditional districts which have treated them as little more than nuisances and pests.

Most of us grassroots activists don't have the millions of dollars to lobby legislators like the Corporate Driven Education Reformers do.

Working with grassroots activists on the ground to provide parents buses that can inform families about the quality of choice options (along with information on, for example, what a child should know by third grade) would not only improve data quality, but also bolster support for school choice and education reform overall.

San Francisco Bay Area, CA About Blog Breast Cancer Action (BCAction) is a national grassroots education and activist organization working to address and end the breast cancer epidemic.