Sentences with phrase «other education activists»
In cities around the country, teachers and other education activists are strategizing how the lessons from Chicago's strike can be applied to their specific situations.
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Liberal activists who have been critical of Cuomo on education and other issues think an insurgent with greater name recognition could provide a stronger challenge, even though polls say Cuomo is still popular among Democratic voters statewide.
We were Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Black, White, Latinx, Asian, straight, gay, citizen, DREAMers, activists in the areas of housing, criminal justice, LGBTQI rights, immigration, education, racial justice, women's rights, and many other issues.
At 11:45 a.m., formerly incarcerated people and other activists march to Cuomo's NYC office demanding funding for in - prison education, 633 3rd Ave., Manhattan.
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.
National political strategist L. Joy Williams, who was recently appointed as a senior adviser for education activist and actress Cynthia Nixon's gubernatorial campaign, weighed in on what made her join the Nixon campaign and her thoughts on Nixon's advocacy toward people of color and other marginalized groups, on Tuesday night.
Other names have been floated, including actress and education activist Cynthia Nixon and former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner.
Nixon has been an outspoken activist for public education and other progressive causes.
Many activists joined efforts to reform local government, public education, medicine, finance, insurance, industry, railroads, churches, and many other areas.
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.
Nixon has been an outspoken activist for public education and other progressive causes, and is close to Mayor de Blasio, who has been at war with Cuomo.
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.
In the Open Ceremony of the World Education Forum 2015 on May 19 there were more than 100 government ministers, along with high - level government officials, Nobel Prize Laureates, heads of international and non-governmental organizations, academics, representatives of the private sector, researchers, youth leaders, media activists, and other key stakeholders.
Making this information available, I believe, will have a catalytic effect, empowering school boards, taxpayer groups, and other activists to push for greater productivity from our sheltered and bloated education bureaucracy.
Working with the Education Redesign Lab, mayors of each city will create and lead «Children's Cabinets» composed of superintendents, heads of health and social services, recreation, cultural and arts activists, and other key community leaders.
According to Byrne, and several other activists, many administrators are initially resistant to establishing GSAs, even though the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has encouraged them ever since 1993, when the department (then called the State Board of Education) recommended the establishment of GSAs across the state as one means of providing a supportive environment for LGBT students.
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.
Many others, led by education activist Diane Ravitch, are dismayed by Common Core's corporate backers.
Other items had nothing at all to do with education but, being champions of «social justice,» the activists came up with an NBI which proposes to inform the public about the dangers of fracking, another that calls for the end of «food deserts» (don't ask) and one that wants President Obama to investigate the continued incarceration of Leonard Peltier, a man who was convicted of first - degree murder in the slaying of two FBI agents in 1977.
Leonie Haimson's career as a New York City education activist started when her older child was assigned to a first - grade class with 28 other students.
It means talking with parents and community activists worried about children with greater needs having access to fewer resources, local business leaders concerned about protecting the critical contributions of public schools to their local workforce and economy, and many others who have a stake in public education and our country's future.
Just as importantly, eight decades of court rulings — driven by the courtroom work of civil rights activists and school funding equity advocates — also provides reformers with the legal arguments necessary to challenge tenure laws and other policies that impede the constitutional obligation of states to provide children with high - quality education.
Certainly the fact that Native groups are an important (and increasingly activist) political constituency for the administration played a part in the decision, as did President Obama's signing of Executive Order 13592 (which requires the Department of Education, the Department of Interior and other agencies to collaborate on improving education for Native sEducation, the Department of Interior and other agencies to collaborate on improving education for Native seducation for Native students).
Education historian and activist Diane Ravitch said that language was unacceptable and that, among other things, the Democrats needed to make a statement opposing corporate replacements for neighborhood public schools.
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.
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.
Even more importantly, when will parents, activists, education leaders, and other reform advocates demand that classroom teachers reflect the communities they serve?
Likewise, for conservative politicians and activist - profiteers disproportionately bankrolled by these and other monied interests, the «reform» argument gives them a way to both talk about fixing education and to bash organized labor, all without having to mention an economic status quo that monied interests benefit from and thus do not want changed.
Among the presenters will be former Education Secretary John B. King, Jr.; civil rights activist and former Baltimore schools administrator Deray McKesson; Kaya Henderson, former chancellor of D.C. schools; and Brittany Packnett, vice president of national community alliances for Teach For America; as well as several others.
Likewise, for conservative politicians and activist — profiteers disproportionately bankrolled by these and other monied interests, the «reform» argument gives them a way to both talk about fixing education and to bash organized labor, all without having to mention an economic status quo that monied interests benefit from and thus do not want changed.
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.
From opposing the expansion of high - quality charter schools and other school choice options, to its opposition to Parent Trigger laws and efforts of Parent Power activists in places such as Connecticut and California, to efforts to eviscerate accountability measures that hold districts and school operators to heel for serving Black and Brown children well, even to their historic disdain for Black families and condoning of Jim Crow discrimination against Black teachers, both unions have proven no better than outright White Supremacists when it comes to addressing the legacies of bigotry in which American public education is the nexus.
Although these findings resonate with education activists and an increasing number of parents across the nation, they have fallen on deaf ears with leadership in our state, even while many other states have dropped their membership with the consortium or removed tying results to high stakes until such findings are substantiated.
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.
A key Senate committee voted Tuesday to approve the nomination of Betsy DeVos, a school choice activist and billionaire Republican donor, to be secretary of education, despite the fierce objections of Senate Democrats, teachers unions and others.
Anti-Common Core activists have expressed similar concerns about Jeb Bush (who created the pro-Common Core Foundation for Excellence in Education), Bill and Melinda Gates, Rex Tillerson of ExxonMobil, and others who seek to reshape public education to fit their view of the workforce, but exclude from decision - making conversations the parents of the kids whose education they want to «transforEducation), Bill and Melinda Gates, Rex Tillerson of ExxonMobil, and others who seek to reshape public education to fit their view of the workforce, but exclude from decision - making conversations the parents of the kids whose education they want to «transforeducation to fit their view of the workforce, but exclude from decision - making conversations the parents of the kids whose education they want to «transforeducation they want to «transform.»
Like Woestehoff, many education activists believe other alternatives offer more parental control than parent trigger laws.
Activist Artifacts Signs, posters, videos, twitter feeds, images, websites, barricades, banners, fliers, costumes, diagrams, and other material rooted in the higher education struggle against bloated administrations and boards, class, gender, and race marginalization, tuition and fee hikes, militarization and surveillance of campuses, privatization, socially unconscious investment and profiteering.
The other members include activist Maria Seda - Reeder, education director of the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center Jaime Thompson and Wave Pool director Cal Cullan.
discussion of science education, and putting aside Edward Greisch's denigration of the humanities, and putting aside the fact that among the most ardent and activist proponents of action against AGW there are many musicians, writers, artists and filmmakers, and putting aside the fact that among the most obstinate and willfully ignorant denialists there are a considerable number of engineers and other technical types who have exactly the sort of educational background that he suggests as an antidote to denialism: