Sentences with phrase «groups of public school parents»

In addition to meeting and talking with groups of public school parents, StudentsFirstNY is building a team of organizers to spread the word within communities.

A group of public school parents has gone to court in hopes of prying from New York State money that they say they were promised for improving their schools.

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As a result, Jewish groups, though usually nervous about evangelicals» intentions regarding public schools, have pointedly distanced themselves from the position of People for the American Way — one of the active liberal advocacy groups — that parents with religious concerns should enroll their children in private schools.

The Tennessee judge (in Mozert v. Hawkins County) ordered in November 1986 that public schools honor a request by a group of parents that their children be excused from using certain readers offensive to their religious convictions.

Battleground: One Mother's Crusade, The Religious Right, and the Struggle for Control of our Classrooms by stephen bates poseidon press, 365 pages, $ 24 The 1983 protest by a group of parents in Hawkins County, Tennessee, against certain stories and themes in the public school reading....

The school was started by a group of committed parents and teachers who believed they could offer a distinct educational alternative by forming a school guided by the Core Principles of Public Waldorf education.

Today he posts about one D.C. public elementary school which may have its food services taken over this fall by a group of D.C. chefs — along with a lot of parent volunteers.

As the chairperson of the nutrition committee of HISD's School Health Advisory Council (SHAC), I'm working with a dedicated group of parents and public health professionals to address the issue of a la carte foods in HISD — both the items sold by the district itself (like the Flaming Hot Cheetos above) and items sold by parent and student groups (usually in violation of state rules) as campus fundraisers.

I was team mom for little league, cheer mom, pta mom, chaperoned school field trips, volunteered as a classroom helper and parent at their schools (when in public school) attended toddler tumbling and mom classes, was a homeschooling parent for one of my kids with leaning disabilities, I didn't have to scramble to figure out what to do about work or where to take my kids for child care if they were sick, I led and was involved with the church groups with my kids, I spent summers with them doing all kinds of things like traveling, visiting grandparents out of town, amusement park trips, swimming, picnics, and hiking, instead of them being stuck with a sitter every summer.

Silver told AQE members that he «respectfully» disagreed with Cuomo's claim in the State of the State last week that New York's public school students lack a lobbyist, adding: «The most powerful lobbying group for our students is their parents.»

In an idea very similar to that proposed by Iain Duncan Smith, the public services policy group will say that parents should have the power to set up new schools to rival those of local education authorities:

Since historically, separationist rhetoric was used to pass Blaine Amendments that forced poorer Catholic parents to send their children to Protestant («public») schools, church - state separation may erroneously seem to exclude certain religious groups from the full benefits of citizenship.

New York City can do much more to address deep segregation in its public schools, such as using more magnet grants to attract a diverse group of parents to segregated schools or moving ahead with an admissions plan aimed at lowering segregation on the Lower East Side, according to a new report.

Renewing their call for an independent monitor to curb violence, a small group of public - school parents blamed Mayor de Blasio for being lax on campus chaos.

Chris Cerrone, a Western New York parent and co-founder of New York State Allies for Public Education, an opt - out activist group, offered a different take on why city districts numbers have remained low or, in the case of Buffalo Public Schools, experienced a significant decrease.

That group makes up the largest proportion of parents in public schools, and they want their children to have a different upbringing than they did.

Across the street, on the west side of Broadway, StudentsFirstNY, the local branch of Michelle Rhee's school - reform group, organized public school parents in favor of the Common Core.

He's a community organizer and education reformist who works with groups including Syracuse's chapter of the National Action Network and Parents for Public Schools.

At the time, Sex and the City was at its zenith, and Nixon threw her star power behind the organization, at one point chaining herself, along with a group of other public - school parents, to the gates of City Hall.

A group of parents filed the challenge, claiming the formulas discriminate against charters in favor of traditional public schools.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

A group of parents with children in schools co-located with Success Academy charters is calling on the New York State Education Department to temporarily halt all construction work in public school buildings by Success Academy Charters chief Eva Moskowitz.

They represented groups including Parents for Public Schools of Syracuse, the Syracuse chapter of the NAACP, the New York Inequality Campaign and the Alliance for Quality Education.

These included changing the format of Panel for Educational Policy meetings to allow for more public comment, revising the city's school closing and co-location processes to make it more difficult for the city to close or co-locate schools, adding parent training centers so that parents in groups like the Community Education Councils can participate knowledgeably in the structures of governance, and restoring a degree of authority to district superintendents vis - à - vis principals.

Chapters take on a variety of work, including: Regularly scheduled events for the public to discuss public education, school board candidate forums, monitoring school board meetings, translating proposed school board policies into other languages for various language groups, providing tours of schools for prospective students and families, working for adequate funding for public schools, engaging with bond elections, helping parents navigate enrollment policies, and in general, being involved in the issues of public schools in their communities.

Foster: Parents for Public Schools was started in 1989 in Jackson, Mississippi, by a group of pParents for Public Schools was started in 1989 in Jackson, Mississippi, by a group of parentsparents.

Yassine's dedication to working on literacy problems both real and theoretical led her to a collaboration between a group of HGSE students and the litigants of the first federal case asserting a right to literacy based on gross inequity in Detroit Public Schools (DPS) that culminated in an on - campus event where parents, teachers, and students from DPS led a conversation.

Advocacy Groups Empower Parents to Act as Catalysts for School Reform A growing number of nonprofit organizations bypass PTAs to force change in public education

Gateway was founded in 1998 by a group of parents whose children had learning differences and who felt that traditional public school education was cheating their kids.

Through community outreach, a chapter of the national advocacy group Parents for Public Schools (PPS) found that many Pitt County parents were frustrated by the kindergarten enrollment and transition pParents for Public Schools (PPS) found that many Pitt County parents were frustrated by the kindergarten enrollment and transition pparents were frustrated by the kindergarten enrollment and transition process.

Leaders of the new effort, «Project Appleseed,» hope to establish strong state - level Parents for Public Schools organizations comparable in stature to the state affiliates of the national teachers» unions and other groups.

Others are involved with parent - based community groups: the Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation (working to create a dialogue among parents on local education issues, including assignment processes for schools), the Black Ministerial Alliance (working to improve the quality of Boston public schools), and City Life / Vida Urbana (working with a group of Latina mothers advocating for their special - needs children).

These questions include the potential value of having a socially and economically diverse group of children together prior to kindergarten; supporting families with working parents who require full - day care and education for their young children; and where best to serve children with special needs whose early education costs already are fully assumed (regardless of family income) by the public schools (based on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act [IDEA]-RRB-.

A parents» group can not sue the Denver school district over an allegedly «abysmal pattern of poor performance» in the city's public schools, a state appeals court has ruled.

That's why a group of parents and students in Connecticut, with support from the nonprofit students» rights organization Students Matter, filed a case last month in federal court challenging their state's laws «that knowingly and actively prevent students from accessing even minimally acceptable public school options.»

Over the past three decades, mayors such as Richard Riordan and Antonio Villaraigosa have fought to place reform - minded players on the district's school board, while grassroots reformers such as Green Dot Public Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots gPublic Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots gpublic schools into charter school operators and grassroots schools into charter school operators and grassroots groups.

For instance, a study by the group Public Agenda found that 85 percent of teachers and 73 percent of parents felt the «school experience of most students suffers at the expense of a few chronic offenders.»

Community groups and parents had also expressed concern about locating a new charter within a few blocks of an existing public school, Oakland Technical High Sschool, Oakland Technical High SchoolSchool.

Teske and Schneider note that the existing empirical work on school vouchers is quite positive on a variety of issues: academic considerations appear paramount when parents choose schools; voucher recipients are more satisfied with their schools than their peers within public schools; and vouchers lead to «clear performance gains for some groups of students using the vouchers, particularly blacks, compared with the control group.»

A core group, consisting of a nurse, teacher, administrator, parent, nutritionist, and food service and district public relations employees coordinated contests, high school and community ambassadors programs, a milk and cookie break activity, posters, and publicity in the school and local media.

Under NCLB, for the first time, schools were required to measure improvement in student achievement across all groups of students, and each state, district, and school was required to lay the results out on the table for parents and the public to see.

The authors conducted focus group sessions with parents of school - age children enrolled in traditional public and charter schools.

Schools Superintendent Paul Vallas said a representative from the National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector recently approached his office and told him they were partnering with a group of Bridgeport parents to develop and submit an application.

A group of parents protested outside before the vote, and Ron Rice of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools wrote a great piece: NAACP's Anti-Charter Vote Was Disheartening — but What Happened on the Streets of Cincinnati Wasn't.

Their hope is that students, parents, citizens and public school advocacy groups will use the film to help start an important conversation about the role and value of public education in America.

The Caucus of Rank and File Educators (CORE) is a group of dedicated teachers, retirees, Paraprofessional School Related Personnel (PSRPs), parents, community members and other champions of public education who fight for equitable public education and hope to improve the Chicago Teacher's Union (CTU) so that it fights both on behalf of its members and on behalf of Chicago's students.

The International School of Louisiana (ISL), receiving the Achievement Gap Award, was founded in 2000 by a group of parents who envisioned a public school offering a foreign language - based academic program with a global perspeSchool of Louisiana (ISL), receiving the Achievement Gap Award, was founded in 2000 by a group of parents who envisioned a public school offering a foreign language - based academic program with a global perspeschool offering a foreign language - based academic program with a global perspective.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income famiSchool in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income famischool's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income famischool year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income famischool year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

Parents Win Right To Intervene In Charter School Lawsuit September 28, 2016 by Steve Wilson Watchdog.org Hinds County Chancery Court Judge Dewayne Thomas ruled Wednesday that a group of parents, the state's charter school association and Midtown Public Charter School can intervene in a lawsuit that threatens funding for Mississippi charter sParents Win Right To Intervene In Charter School Lawsuit September 28, 2016 by Steve Wilson Watchdog.org Hinds County Chancery Court Judge Dewayne Thomas ruled Wednesday that a group of parents, the state's charter school association and Midtown Public Charter School can intervene in a lawsuit that threatens funding for Mississippi charter scSchool Lawsuit September 28, 2016 by Steve Wilson Watchdog.org Hinds County Chancery Court Judge Dewayne Thomas ruled Wednesday that a group of parents, the state's charter school association and Midtown Public Charter School can intervene in a lawsuit that threatens funding for Mississippi charter sparents, the state's charter school association and Midtown Public Charter School can intervene in a lawsuit that threatens funding for Mississippi charter scschool association and Midtown Public Charter School can intervene in a lawsuit that threatens funding for Mississippi charter scSchool can intervene in a lawsuit that threatens funding for Mississippi charter schools.

«It's been so disruptive to the community,» parent advocate Lyn Hoyt, who is founder and president of TREE, Tennesseans Reclaiming Educational Excellence, a group dedicated to fighting for strong and equitable public schools, told N.C. Policy Watch.