Sentences with phrase «other public school advocates»

Here are two more opportunities to join with other public school advocates, share the truth about our schools, and plan some action to support and protect public education.

We have Jesse Turner and tens of thousands of other public school advocates, activists and supporters.

Not exact matches

While some evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin College, at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).

On the other side of the equation, numerous leading public health advocates and organizations are strongly opposed to weakening school meal standards.

For 20 years, I have deliberately invested my life in teaching public - school kids, coaching them, and advocating for the ones who don't have the same support that other kids have.

Philip Blonde takes an almost Democratic Republican ideology towards public service reform in advocating using social entreprises to manage schools, hospitals, sure start centres etc, which would be democratically connected to all other schools etc through out the country and collectively elect the central management who allocate budget spending to each and every school etc. http://www.respublica.org.uk/publications/ownership-state It sounds more like a radical libertarian socialist solution to public services than a free market conservative solution to public services.

Public school parents and other advocates rallied on the steps of City Hall on Thurs., Dec. 7 to call on the city to increase the level of...

At 11 a.m., NYC Coalition Against Hunger Executive Director Joel Berg, NYC Public Advocate Tish James, City Councilman Stephen Levin and other officials hold a news conference to criticize changes in participation of city schools in school breakfast programs; steps, City Hall, Manhattan.

AFT President Randi Weingarten said Astorino is using an anti-Common Core campaign to «cloak» his other positions on education issues that would be far less palatable to public school advocates.

Actress Cynthia Nixon has advocated for an increase in funding for public schools, breast cancer awareness and gay rights, among many other things.

She's advocated for an increase in funding for public schools, breast cancer awareness and gay rights, among other things.

ALBANY — American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten said Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino is using an anti-Common Core campaign to «cloak» his other positions on education issues that would be far less palatable to public school advocates.

The fight has escalated in recent weeks, with Cuomo claiming the mantle of charter - school advocate to position himself against de Blasio, who halted plans to allow three of eight charter schools run by former councilwoman Eva Moskowitz to move into traditional public school buildings and share space with other students.

Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Parents and advocates called out State Senator Chris Jacobs Monday for his vote last week which they say gutted the Foundation Aid formula and shortchanging Buffalo and other high needs public schools.

It's one of the biggest concerns among lawmakers and public employee unions as well as advocates for school districts, hospitals and other public services.

Throwing down the gauntlet before the governor's budget address, parents and other education advocates on Jan. 10 called on the state to pay the billions of dollars it owes New York City public schools.

Throwing down the gauntlet before the governor's budget address on Jan. 13, parents and other education advocates on Jan. 10 called on the state to pay the billions of dollars it owes New York City public schools.

«The UFT has been meeting with Bill de Blasio on education and other issues important to New Yorkers since he was on the District 15 community school board, a member of the City Council, and then Public Advocate.

Protestants, secularists, and public - school advocates proposed (and sometimes enacted) regulations that charged children with truancy if they attended Catholic schools; taxes on Catholic school property; bans on private schools that taught children in a language other than English; and constitutional amendments forbidding the use of public dollars to support even the secular instruction provided by a Catholic school.

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).

DoE staff members — and public school advocates outside the department — could also try to sway DeVos's handling of other department responsibilities, such as discrimination complaints filed against universities, and investigating sexual assaults on college campuses under Title IX.

Except, unlike other charter schools, traditional public school advocates like those supporting Nixon are not calling for its closure.

(New York, NY)-- Hundreds of public school parents joined education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and other advocates on the steps of City Hall today to urge new Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza to hit the reset button on Mayor Bill de Blasio's failing education agenda.

In 2002, Dick DeVos addressed the Heritage Foundation, emphasizing the need for his audience (wealthy, white conservative donors and activists) to remain behind the scenes and have other faces as the public advocates of school choice.

Along with many other advocates with a passion for ensuring that students with IEPs are served at high levels in charter schools, I look forward to working with all stakeholders in public education to ensure that is accomplished.

The school choice movement is on the rise in North Carolina, where advocates hosted a celebration Tuesday to mark their gains and to press for more opportunities for families to attend options other than traditional public schools.

Together, they started the Great Lakes Education Project (GLEP) which has worked to provide funding and private training to state legislators to advocate for the redirection of public funds from traditional public schools to other options, including charter schools, private schools, parochial schools (private schools with a religious affiliation) and online schools.

Moreover, advocates should keep in mind that school districts in participating states access Medicaid dollars directly to pay for medically necessary services for students with disabilities.70 The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act requires that districts provide all necessary services and resources to afford every child a «free appropriate public education,» and some medically related supports qualify for Medicaid reimbursement.71 With less Medicaid funding statewide to meet that guarantee, states and districts would have to siphon money from other education funding streams to afford necessary medical services that support the learning of students with disabilities.

When President Barack Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan continued and expanded NCLB's absurd ranking and punishing of public schools based on socio - economic and other inappropriate measures, teachers, parents and public school advocates spoke out.

Pelto became more deeply involved with public school teachers and other education advocates during Malloy's 2012 assault on the teaching profession.

Over 1 in 5 of California's charter schools have restrictive admissions requirements or other exclusionary practices that keep out many students with the greatest academic needs, a report released Monday by the ACLU Foundation of Southern California and the public interest law firm Public Advocates alpublic interest law firm Public Advocates alPublic Advocates alleges.

While charter school advocates say the practice often reflects no more than smart budgeting, some educators and others question whether the schools receive the proper oversight to ensure that religious groups are not benefiting from taxpayer dollars intended for public school students — or that faith - based instruction is not entering those classrooms.

So she teamed up with other education advocates to sue the state, arguing that Florida is violating its Constitutional obligation to provide «a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools.»

The school system and public education advocates believe the county commissioners — by way of the local taxpayers — are the «last line of defense» against reduced state and federal funding and other unfunded state mandates.

Now, DeVos is President - elect Donald Trump's pick for U.S. education secretary, and observers expect her to lessen the federal role in public education and vigorously advocate to expand access to voucher and charter schools in other states just like she has done here.

That's why, earlier this year, we joined with two dozen other organizations and advocates to support the California State STEM School, inspired by 14 other states that have specialized state STEM public schools across the country.

E4E has given me a place where I can say that it isn't okay that students in many districts don't have the same materials and resources that students in many other traditional public schools have and where I can advocate on behalf of students who need additional resources to access education.

From the other end of the ideological spectrum, school reform advocates including former Washington DC public schools superintendent Michelle Rhee have questioned whether the tentative deal is strong enough.

NSBA is joined by over 50 other NCPE members who represent a broad coalition of advocates for public schools.

For more than two years many Connecticut teachers, public school advocates, parents of public school students and others have been warning about the dangers that will result from Governor Malloy's corporate education reform industry initiative.

Public education advocate and fellow commentator Wendy Lecker has an outstanding piece in this weekend's Stamford Advocate and other Hearst Media outlets about Hartford's recent «school choice» advocate and fellow commentator Wendy Lecker has an outstanding piece in this weekend's Stamford Advocate and other Hearst Media outlets about Hartford's recent «school choice» Advocate and other Hearst Media outlets about Hartford's recent «school choice» debacle.

In a recent commentary piece written for the Stamford Advocate and other Connecticut newspapers owned by Hearst Media, Wendy Lecker, the outspoken school advocate wrote about our nation and state's failure to truly deal with racial isolation in our public Advocate and other Connecticut newspapers owned by Hearst Media, Wendy Lecker, the outspoken school advocate wrote about our nation and state's failure to truly deal with racial isolation in our public advocate wrote about our nation and state's failure to truly deal with racial isolation in our public schools.

But at the very moment that the children of the land face certain defeat, parents, teachers, the teacher's union (known as the Hartford Federation of Teachers) and other public education advocates rally together to speak out on behalf of their children, the school, the importance of public education and what is right.

And liberated from traditional school boundaries, Shanker and other early charter advocates suggested, charters could do a better job than the regular public schools of helping children of different racial, ethnic, economic, and religious backgrounds come together to learn from one another.

In the last two years, Ravitch has accused private entrepreneurs, the «corporate - reform movement,» Florida Governor Rick Scott, charter schools, and voucher advocates, among others, of trying to «destroy» public education.

«During the last State General Assembly, I, along with many others, strongly advocated for a state law that is more receptive to public charter schools,» Dean said.

The non-profit advocates for traditional public schools with smaller class sizes and other education policies that «have been proven to work.»

Hundreds of teachers and public education advocates traveled from Eastern North Carolina yesterday to state capital, where they joined thousands of others demanding higher teacher pay and more school resources.

Several years ago, Wendy Lecker also pointed to what appeared to be «double standards» in evaluating charter and other public schools in her column at The Stamford Advocate.

A former professor who spent two years teaching in a high - poverty DC Public Schools high school advocates separating students into a college prep track and other tracks that would lead directly to jobs.