Sentences with phrase «of grassroots»

RSCT efforts include education, research, advocacy, and building the capacity of grassroots leaders and community - based organizations to positively impact rural school reform.

A similar kind of grassroots reform is taking root in Los Angeles Unified School District, where pioneering teachers started designing their own school reform plans as part of a program called Public School Choice.

TCSA has been able to make significant gains for students as a result of these grassroots advocacy campaigns.

«They try to sell it as a piece of grassroots legislation,» said another parent about the so - called «parent trigger» law, but «It's more astroturf.»

The founder of a grassroots public school advocacy group based in northern Wisconsin says Rep. Mary Czaja backs «draconian» budget cuts to public education at the behest of Republican party leadership.

Now, members of a grassroots group are asking the legislature for the legal backing to break away from Anderson Community Schools and start their own district.

Julie Cavanagh, a public - school teacher in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and a member of the Grassroots Education Movement, said a move toward OATH hearings would be a mistake.

She is also concerned that the voice of grassroots opponents will be drowned out by moneyed interests.

In what amounted to a sort of grassroots uprising, however, educators at all grade levels in many types of communities have embraced MI theory with a genuine passion.

Given the success of this grassroots approach, why the need for an organization?

Five years on, and as a result of this grassroots engagement, the UN joint programme has 1,730 dedicated community health volunteers, 86 per cent of whom are women, who are not only reaching 32,000 households but also empowering the community to hold the future in their hands.

The next year, Minnesota passed the nation's first charter school law, the culmination of years of grassroots efforts helped by non-traditional political alliances.

ASCEND is one of more than a dozen small, autonomous schools that have opened in Oakland, California, as part of a grassroots effort to reform the ailing school system.

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.

A key aspect of the grassroots campaign involved organizing the parents of the 40,000 children in charter schools as well as the 40,000 on charter school waiting lists.

EARTH DAY 2015 For the 45th year celebration of Earth Day, the Earthsavers has organized a convergence of performance and media arts for a broadcast mass outreach of a climate change education paradigm in line with the Earth Day objectives to underscore the value of a grassroots call to action to rally world -LSB-...]

As part of this new group, Warren and colleagues will research the power of grassroots organizing and its ability to impact education policy and communities.

It seems that the support of nonconservative charter advocates depends, in part, on the fact that up to now the movement has been composed mostly of grassroots, community - based schools — not franchises of profit - seeking companies.

It has a small staff of around a dozen individuals, a mix of grassroots organizers and political activists.

Again, schools will need to demonstrate how the project will support the growth and retention of grassroots football.

During the hearings, teachers and principals expressed their support for the standards, showing legislators that the standards had a groundswell of grassroots support.

Are any of you seeing a similar kind of grassroots, brushfire opposition?

Partners are renown organisations like Global Campaign for Education, Global March Against Child Labour, Plan International, UNICEF and dozens of grassroots organisations in the Global South.

For the 45th year celebration of Earth Day, the Earthsavers has organized a convergence of performance and media arts for a broadcast mass outreach of a climate change education paradigm in line with the Earth Day objectives to underscore the value of a grassroots call to action to rally world leaders to forge the global agreement to prevent the irreversible threshold of 2 ° Celsius signaling the catastrophic implications of climate change.

We're doing a combination of grassroots outreach along with general marketing.»

Though the two subjects have decidedly different origins and audiences — Harding being part of a national and tabloid - friendly scandal, Wiseau having accumulated more of a grassroots notoriety — both movies are clearly aware of the novelty status that comes with taking a closer look at real people who have become figures of fun.

Focusing its primary gaze on Michoacán, a Western Mexican state in the grip of the Templar Knights cartel, Cartel Land is a complex, harrowing documentary about drug gangs» grip on Mexico (and the Mexican - American borderlands) that doubles as a portrait of the difficulties of grassroots revolutionary movements.

It takes place in the early 1990s, following a group of grassroots activists in Paris trying to combat public and bureaucratic indifference with regard to the AIDS epidemic, for which potential pharmaceutical remedies are being sidetracked by sociopolitical obstacles.

Corey Stoll is thrown into the mix as a Philly rep named Peter Russo with a taste for the ladies, for drugs and for alcohol, Kristen Connolly plays his assistant / girlfriend, and later Sandrine Holt enters as the head of a grassroots organization who Claire wants to hire.

The tightly edited action sequences are redolent of the old «Cops» TV show with their swaggering, spiralling confrontations, whereas the shots of townspeople voicing support for the Autodefensas present a sobering dramatisation of grassroots politics.

The picture (like LOL) immediately became a sensation and turned Gerwig into a screen favorite among enthusiasts of grassroots independent filmmaking.

The UK, the EU and beyond About Blog Say Yes 2 Europe is an alliance of grassroots campaigns working to ensure that there is a decisive majority in favour of the UK remaining in the EU in the forthcoming referendum.

took off as part of a grassroots movement toward greater Internet security.

Cynthia is the Board Treasurer for the Canadian Epilepsy Alliance (CEA), a Canada - wide network of grassroots organizations dedicated to the promotion of independence and quality of life for people with epilepsy and their families, through support services, information, advocacy, and public awareness.

Global environmental problems are likely to provide the main motivation for the revival of grassroots science.

And there's plenty of grassroots material, too.

Last week, a group of grassroots organizers officially announced that a March for Science would be held on 22 April in Washington, D.C..

Members of these grassroots outfits, often operating at the risk of arrest or harassment, press for environmental improvements through public demonstrations and the limited legal action allowed.

The group's mission is to support communities» use of grassroots action to create informed, sustainable neighborhoods free from industrial pollution.

Although Hust and Rodgers talked to adolescents before the start of the #MeToo campaign, the researchers noted that the young women they spoke with shared stories similar to those shared on social media as part of the grassroots campaign.

Both are from the Corbynite left: Jennie Formby of the Unite union and Jon Lansman, a former adviser to Tony Benn and founder of grassroots campaign group Momentum.

But it would be wrong to say there aren't many MPs who share the anxieties of the grassroots.

Brought to London by the «Blue Labour» community guru Maurice Glasman, on his first meeting with Ed Miliband in 2011 Graf urged him to appoint someone he trusted to tour Britain talking to civic leaders, headteachers, unions, churches and voluntary organisations and thus assess the mood of the grassroots.

MIDTOWN — Backers of the grassroots effort to build an AIDS memorial in the West Village need only $ 500,000 to reach their $ 4 million fundraising target.

The senator's guest for the speech was a representative of a grassroots movement of young women holding Congress and the system accountable for keeping college campuses safe.

Maffei said it's one reason why he is supporting the two bills that would put dollar limits on donations, provide public financing of campaigns and amplify the impact of grassroots donations from average citizens.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand with her guest Emma Sulkowicz, a representative of the grassroots movement holding Congress accountable for sexual assault on college campuses.

Leading the pack in contributions and endorsements are Brad Lander, the director of the Pratt Center for Community Development; Josh Skaller, a leader of grassroots political and neighborhood organizations; and Bob Zuckerman, who runs environmental nonprofits.

The National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC) and Organizing for Action (OFA) are launching an exciting new partnership that will channel the energy of grassroots activists into efforts to restore fair representation to Congress and state legislatures.

This victory was years in the making - the product of grassroots support from New Yorkers in all five boroughs who responded to the excesses of stop - and - frisk, and the surveillance of Muslim communities, with a forceful call for change.