Sentences with phrase «include education activists»

AERO members include education activists, researchers, parents, students, and teachers that support AERO's mission.

Critics, including education activists, say potential changes in might jeopardize a steady steam of funding in the future, and gradually widen the gap between wealthy and poor districts.

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At 4 p.m. Tuesday, Black Lives Matter activists will rally in front of the Department of Education to deliver a list of demands to Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, which include ending zero tolerance programs, ending «black teacher pushout,» and a mandatory K - 12 black history curriculum.

During the Saturday morning rally, SBU and Coalition activists joined with politicians, including Assemblyman Jose Rivera and City Council Members Joel Rivera (the majority leader and Jose's son) and Robert Jackson (head of the Council's Education

Other honorees included Brooklyn Nets Center Jason Collins, former Stonewall, transgender Latina LGBTQ organizer Bianey Garcia, education activist Christine Marinoni, Campaign to Stop the False Arrests founder Robert Pinter, Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club President Allen Roskoff and theater producer and LGBTQ activist David Rothenberg.

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.

Other names have been floated, including actress and education activist Cynthia Nixon and former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner.

The letter is signed by world - renowned scholar Noam Chomsky, along with journalist Naomi Klein, Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and a host of other prominent scholars and activists, including some of the most established pro-public education voices.

Hawkins was polling 9 % statewide even before a widely - praised debate performance, and has earned endorsements from a spectrum of people and organizations, including Ralph Nader, Seattle socialist city council member Kshama Sawant, education analyst Diane Ravitch, and former Mobil Oil VP - turned - renewable energy activist Lou Allstadt; as well as Albany weekly paper Metroland, 6 teachers» unions, 6 Democratic Party clubs, Socialist Alternative, and a number of groups leading the fight against school privatization, such as United Opt Out and the New York Badass Teacher Association.

His guests will include two Michigan residents who will talk about the damage to their state's public schools caused by the DeVos privatization agenda — Detroit parent activist Wytrice Harris and outgoing president of the Michigan State Board of Education John Austin.»

An education activist in New York for years, Ms. Nixon has also been studying up on other policy areas, including transportation, according to people familiar with her activities.

Subjects in the issue include the importance of natural selection, the sources of genetic variability, human evolution's past and future, pop evolutionary psychology, everyday applications of evolutionary theory, the science of the game Spore, and the ongoing threat to science education posed by creationist activists.

Prominent speakers have included U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, historian Noam Chomsky, edX President Anant Agarwal, mindfulness guru Jon Kabat - Zinn, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Colin Powell, filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, autism activist Temple Grandin, media mogul Oprah Winfrey, Khan Academy founder and director Sal Khan, and Whistling Vivaldi author Claude Steele.

In the summer of 2000, a group of St. Louis education activists, including two Washington University social work professors, was moving full speed ahead with plans to open a new charter school in the Walnut Park section of the city.

Prominent speakers have included U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, historian Noam Chomsky, edX President Anant Agarwal, mindfulness guru Jon Kabat Zinn, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Colin Powell, filmmaker M.Night Shyamalan, autism activist Temple Grandin, media mogul Oprah Winfrey, Khan Academy founder and director Sal Khan, and Whistling Vivaldi author Claude Steele.

The Oklahoma Education Association union, which is quite obviously orchestrating the whole event, has used its Twitter account to document their many non-education-union supporters and paid activists, including the Teamsters, OEA's national parent the National Education Association union, and the George Soros - backed group The Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools.

A native of Barbados and father of four children, Michael is a school - reform and community activist serving on numerous committees and Boards including the School Leadership Team of Bard High School Early College, Bed Stuy Piranhas at Bedford Stuyvesant YMCA, Coalition of Community Charter Schools (initial Board) and the Education and Youth Committee of Community Board 3.

Tea party activists (including Dan Forest) have attacked the standards for being not much more than a government take - over of education.

It sure is, say local opt - out activists, who oppose so - called school reform measures — including high - stakes tests used to evaluate teachers — that they say are designed to foster private alternatives and ultimately dismantle public education.

Conservative organizations, think tanks, and other right - wing activists backed by corporate donors including the Koch brothers, the family of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, and the Bradley Foundation, have long been preparing for a case like Janus as part of a larger campaign to break unions.

Moreover, I got to sit down many of the influential and founders of the organization including activist and multicultural education advocate William Ayers and «founder supreme» of NAME, Dr. Cherry Ross Goodin.

Panelists will include Jesse Turner, who has just completed his walk from Connecticut to Washington to protest federal education policies; National Education Association Vice President Lily Eskelson; Chris Janotta, founder of the Million Teacher March; and parent activist Leonie Haimson, of Class Sizeeducation policies; National Education Association Vice President Lily Eskelson; Chris Janotta, founder of the Million Teacher March; and parent activist Leonie Haimson, of Class SizeEducation Association Vice President Lily Eskelson; Chris Janotta, founder of the Million Teacher March; and parent activist Leonie Haimson, of Class Size Matters.

While many education advocates are grateful that the frontrunner's advisors this time around include actual educators, the more militant activists see something nefarious.

And given that the Obama administration has shown a willingness to ignore congressional critics of the waiver gambit (including Miller and House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline, who, despite his protests, benefits greatly from the evisceration of No Child), reformers and activists in those states will have to organize on the ground and battle to make graduation rates more accurate.

Black and Hispanic religious leaders and civil rights activists, including Martin Luther King III, implored the Florida Education Association to drop its lawsuit challenging the voucher - like program that serves about 75,000 students.

Opponents that include ultra conservative tea partiers like Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, as well as House Speaker Thom Tillis, some teachers, and some progressive education activists like Diane Ravitch — are fighting to take down what some see as either a government takeover of the nation's schools or a platform for excessive testing and corporate profit.

This manual was written to help guide education stakeholders — including parents, students, school board members, community activists, administrators, policymakers and attorneys — in their efforts to promote racial diversity and avoid racial isolation in suburban school systems.

Many of us education activists (and yes, this includes folks of color) challenge the fundamental assumption that high - stakes, standardized testing provides ``... fair, unbiased, and accurate data...» as the civil rights organizations assert in their statement, and we challenge this assumption on historical grounds, empirical grounds, pedagogical grounds, political - ideological grounds, cultural grounds, and technical grounds, amongst others.

Negotiators on the platform committee met this past weekend in Orlando (you can watch here, starting at the 31st minute) and changed an earlier draft of the K - 12 education plank (one of five education sections) that had drawn criticism from activists who wanted the Democrats to take a stand against some of the key elements of corporate reform, including on charter schools and test - based accountability.

Somehow, I got included in an email conversation between Ed Johnson, well - known education activist from Atlanta, Georgia, and a group of professors who study education issues.

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

The leaders he alludes to, including NYC Opt Out activist and mother Johanna Garcia (featured in the video above), have spoken and written powerfully about how a test - focused education system is particularly harmful for children of color and children living in poverty and have drawn explicit connections between high - stakes testing and the school - to - prison pipeline.

Public school activists charged that the three were part of a reform movement trying to privatize public education and started a recall effort that attracted national attention, including money from outside the state from partisans on both sides.

Other parent leaders participating will include Julie Woestehoff of Parents United for Responsible Education (PURE) in Chicago, Dora Taylor of Seattle Education 2010, Caroline Grannan of San Francisco, Pamela Grundy, a parent activist from North Carolina, Sharon Higgins of Oakland, whose blogs include The Broad Report and Charter School Scandals, and Mark Mishler from Albany, N.Y.

To be fair, I would ask you to conduct due diligence and read what Mercedes Schneider, a New Orleans teacher, education activist, and the author of three books on «education reform», including her most recent: School Choice: The End of Public Eeducation activist, and the author of three books on «education reform», including her most recent: School Choice: The End of Public Eeducation reform», including her most recent: School Choice: The End of Public EducationEducation?

In addition, the Informal Education Homepage (www.infed.org /) is an excellent source for historic descriptions of core educational philosophers and activists who are associated with these alternatives, including Paulo Freire, Carl Rogers, Maria Montessori, John Dewey, and many others.

Two separate education groups, which include teachers, parents and activists, last week endorsed the use of student test scores as one measure of instructors» effectiveness.

The board is dominated by Hogan appointees and includes some noted education reform activists.

She has been an activist for public education and underrepresented populations at the national, state, and local level, including marching on Washington on a «Journey for Justice», presenting at conferences, giving testimony at legislative sessions, and being published on topics related to educational equity.

Speakers will include young people who will share how various education policies have impacted their lives; Aliya Moore, a Detroit parent and organizer with Keep the Vote, No Take Over; Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, Lily Eskelsen Garcia, president of the National Education Association, and Tara Stamps, a Chicago public school educator and education policies have impacted their lives; Aliya Moore, a Detroit parent and organizer with Keep the Vote, No Take Over; Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, Lily Eskelsen Garcia, president of the National Education Association, and Tara Stamps, a Chicago public school educator and Education Association, and Tara Stamps, a Chicago public school educator and activist.

Particularly for school choice activists of a conservative or libertarian bent (including University of Arkansas» Jay P. Greene and Greg Forster at the Milton & Rose D. Friedman Foundation), thinking through these issues means challenging their own ideology — especially their misguided belief that choice alone will lead to improvements in school quality and serve as the best form of accountability — as well as their own financial concerns as members of a sector of American public education.

The other members include activist Maria Seda - Reeder, education director of the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center Jaime Thompson and Wave Pool director Cal Cullan.

To wrap up the Summit, poet, activist, and former peer educator Sonya Renee delivered an inspiring message, including lessons for youth who want to change the world through peer education.