Sentences with phrase «interests of our public school»

We commend Governor Brown for bringing forward a proposed budget that protects the interests of all public schools while securing fairer funding for students attending charter schools.
So long as education policy continues to be shaped by the interests of corporate profiteering and not the interests of our public school children, we will resist these unjust testing laws.
In reality it is a privately funded group that works against the best interests of our public school and educators that work in community schools.
Before a single child's information is turned over to any 3rd party, policymakers should give assurance to parents and educators that no harm will come to Tennessee school children by adopting the following principles: The state and districts should be required to publish any and all existing data sharing agreements in printed and electronic form, and include a thorough explanation of its purpose and provisions, and make it available to parents and local school authorities statewide; The Department of Education should hold hearings throughout the state or testify before the legislature to explain any existing data agreement, and answer questions from the public or their representatives, obtain informed comment, and gauge public reaction; All parents should have the right to be notified of the impending disclosure of their children's data, and provide them with a right to consent or have the right to withhold their children's information from being shared; The state should have to define what rights families or individuals will have to obtain relief if harmed by improper use or release of their child's private information, including how claims can be made; and finally, any legislation must ensure that the privacy interest of public school children and their families are put above the interests of any 3rd Party and its agents and subsidiaries.
«The resignation of Cathie Black represents and extraordinary public acknowledgement by City Hall that her appointment did not serve the best interest of our public school children,» he said in a statement released this afternoon.
Teachers - union members were even more blunt in their opposition: «Let's be very clear and dispel any notion that the school board majority, representing more than $ 15 million in political donations from the charter lobby, is here in the best interest of our public schools,» charged United Teachers Los Angeles secretary Arlene Inouye.
One of GCI's findings indicates that 77 percent of charter schools engage in questionable financial practices; most would agree that Arizona does not have sufficient funds for public education to risk having money used for expenses that are not in the financial interests of public school students.

Not exact matches

Parents are increasingly interested in providing private school funding for their children 1) because they see the value and importance of good education and 2) because of frequent public school closings.
Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.
Given Osiris's strong five - year record of growth and profitability, Bowers was able to help make Miller's wishes come true: he structured a deal that raised $ 13 million from a large local pension fund — the Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System (see «What Pension Funds Want,» [Article link]-RRB--- by selling a package of subordinated debt and convertible preferred stock, which included a fixed interest rate and dividend yield.
Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson worked with the city of Philadelphia on a grant for public high school students interested in entrepreneurship.
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Michael Useem, a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, says this is a «catastrophic moment» for Facebook and predicts the Cambridge Analytica data breach will continue to be a source of «great public interest and intense scrutiny going forward.»
The company, which recently airdropped a massive cache of XRP into US public school coffers is hoping to stimulate interest in the creation of applications that use its currency and blockchain, which has attracted a lot of interest as a back - end technology in the banking industry, but has only been adopted by one other Coin thus far — the somewhat mysterious Allvor.
Detroit school students, represented by the Los Angeles - based public interest firm Public Counsel, filed suit last month against the state of Michigan, claiming a legal right to literacy based on the 14th Amendment to the Constitpublic interest firm Public Counsel, filed suit last month against the state of Michigan, claiming a legal right to literacy based on the 14th Amendment to the ConstitPublic Counsel, filed suit last month against the state of Michigan, claiming a legal right to literacy based on the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
The country is $ 70 billion in debt, schools are closing by the hundreds, and infrastructural services — like the overburdened electricity system — have been overlooked in order to make way for debt payments to Wall Street creditors, according to Juan Cartagena, President and General Counsel of LatinoJustice PRLDEF, a public interest law firm.
His office has receivedrequests for copies of the document from dioceses in the United States, Canada, Australia, France (interesting), and Malta following a public endorsement by Archbishop Mauro Piacenza, Secretary for the Congregation for Clergy, who sent Bishop O'Donoghue the Congregation's congratulations on his «courageous examination of the state of evangelisation and catechesis in the diocese of Lancaster's schools and colleges» and for developing a positive programme for action in harmony with the «operative Magisterial documents».
These inner - city Catholic schools are «public schools» in the best sense of the term; they're open to the public (not just to Catholics), and they serve a genuine public interest, the empowerment of the youthful poor.
But because its governing interest is «religious,» theological schooling on the model of paideia has characteristically been disengaged from the public realm in the sense of the realm of political, social, and economic power, its arrangement and its management.
The issue that aroused the greatest public interest and a good deal of irrational zeal on both sides involved the problem of Bible - reading and the saying of prayers in public schools.
Tracing the interest of the bishops of the Catholic Church in obtaining federal monies for parochial schools, the magazine recalled that the church leaders had sought to obtain funding and avoid the «impending danger of a judicial establishment of secularism from public life.»
They are the same people who fight nondenominational prayers in public schools, the use of public school facilities for meetings of high school religious - interest groups, and state support of private schools.
Part of the reason for this is that so many choose to send their kids to private school and have no interest whatsoever in improving the public schools.
Janis Groomes, food service director at Northport Public Schools, knows the power of school gardens to get kids interested in eating fruits and vegetables, even ones that are unusual...
For those interested, the White House has now released the complete transcript of First Lady Michelle Obama's remarks yesterday at the presidential signing of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, which took place at a public school in Washington, D.C.
In other business, the district voted unanimously to renew its contract with the South Cook Organization for Public Schools, a group that has lobbyists in the Statehouse in Springfield to represent the interests of south and southwest suburban elementary sSchools, a group that has lobbyists in the Statehouse in Springfield to represent the interests of south and southwest suburban elementary schoolsschools.
When the school lunch program was institutionalized across the country in 1946, Congress voted 9 cents for every child in the country eating school lunch, according to Victoria Leonard, director of Children «s Nutrition for the Center for Science and Public Interest, a Washington - based consumer activist group.
Two years ago here on BrightonYourHealth, we focused a lot of energy on this topic and fueled the public's interest by providing a successful analysis comparing thirty days of typical school menus in France to America (interested in seeing these articles click on category: school lunch on top of this page).
I briefly told you about the Get Food Education in Every School initiative when it was announced in May, but now you can read more about it in this week's Huffington Post editorial by Michael Jacobson of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (the folks behind Food day).
I do not bemoan public interest in school lunch issues and sketchy additives, but it is crucial to not lose sight of the big picture — «pink slime» is one of many symptoms of a broken food system.
Similarly, James Weill, president of Food Research & Action Center, a leading anti-hunger group, referred to the bill in a press release as «ill conceived» and «deeply flawed,» while Margo Wootan, Nutrition Policy director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, stated that the bill «would roll back key progress that schools, health advocates, and the Administration have worked so hard to achieve over the last six years.»
Her longtime interest in the political process and public policy came to a head in January of 2011, when the new USDA proposed rules came out and Sandi realized how many changes school nutrition professionals would be facing.
«The new school meal standards are one of the most important advances in nutrition in decades,» said Margo Wootan, nutrition policy director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Ask if copies of the Center for Science in the Public Interest's Constructive Classroom Rewards can be distributed to teachers and other school staff.
During his first official meeting as a Buffalo School member, a Buffalo woman brought her own bat during the public comment session to «combat any actions that are not in the best interest of the students.»
As part of that collective bargaining, the association fights for public schools to remain central in the education system to protect the interests of its members.
Some are calling her support for charter schools, a growing alternative to public education, as a conflict of interest much like Pruitt's.
«I applaud those students for speaking up, I applaud the students for taking action and I think the calls of the students and parents have captured the attention of the administration of the Buffalo Public Schools and the teacher's union and I'm hoping that those two entities can come together in the best interest of the education of the children at City Honors,» he said.
The Chairman of the Public Interest Accountability Committee (PIAC), Joseph Winful, has expressed doubts about the capacity of the Heritage Fund in its present stage, to meet the needs of the Free Senior High School policy.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- Interested applicants who reside in Buffalo's Park District have until September 1 to apply for the vacant seat on the Buffalo Public School's Board of Education.
«Given the strong interrelationship between the economic success of the city and the health of its real estate industry, and that REBNY is one of the city's leading trade associations, the organization historically has spoken out on matters of important public interest, like mayoral control of NYC public schools,» Chin - Lyn said in a statement.
A party for those whose priorities include the Welfare State, workers» rights, trade unionism, the co-operative movement, consumer protection, strong communities, conservation rather than environmentalism, fair taxation, full employment, public ownership, proper local government, a powerful Parliament, the monarchy, the organic Constitution, national sovereignty, civil liberties, the Union, the Commonwealth, the countryside, grammar schools, traditional moral and social values, economic patriotism, balanced migration, a realist foreign policy, and a base of real property for every household to resist both over-mighty commercial interests and an over-mighty State.
They say their interest was piqued when it became public through state financial disclosure forms that the wife of Joe Percoco, Governor Cuomo's former close associate and a former middle school teacher, received between $ 75,000 and $ 100,000 from a consultant to Competitive Power Ventures.
Representatives of nonprofits or public schools interested in applying for MCAP grants are asked to direct questions to Sam Levine, Budget Director for the Borough President's Office, [email protected] or 212.669.4814.
A new scholarship for graduates of the Buffalo Public Schools interested in studying human rights - will be available at UB next year.
The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, will today reaffirm its strategy to continue to defend the interests of pupils, schools and the teaching profession from the assault by the Government and administrations across the UK on our public education service.
The activists say their interest was piqued when it became public through state financial disclosure forms that the wife of Joe Percoco, Governor Cuomo's former close associate, and a former middle school teacher, received between $ 75,000 and $ 100,000 from a consultant to Competitive Power Ventures (CPV), the company building the power plant.
He found a renewed interest in public policy and enrolled at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Afpublic policy and enrolled at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public AfPublic Affairs.
«We look forward to working with officials in Albany and New York City to minimize the effects of these proposed cuts on our classrooms, and to protect the interests of the city's public school children,» said UFT President Michael Mulgrew.
In the interests of progress we call upon Mr. Paladino to resign and further suggest that board members that align themselves with his destructive agenda reconsider their support of an individual that jeopardizes the mission of the Buffalo Public Schools and the futures of this city's children.
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