Sentences with phrase «parent activists»

That's the part that is completely baffling and troubling to me and other parent activists in the state.

Samuel L. Radford III, a Buffalo Public Schools parent activist who also works for the Community Action Organization, said it's possible the numbers reflect the fact that more poor families are being pushed out beyond the city limits; that with the gentrification of the city, poverty is becoming less concentrated and more diluted.

WHAT: Forum and discussion on public education featuring Diane Ravitch and a panel of parent activists from around the nation.

Okay, I can go on and on with how ridiculous this whole thing is but I will stop with a piece from parent activist Gwen Samuel, Rev. Al Sharpton, Let's Talk About Your «Sister» Randi.

New York, NY — As final negotiations wrap up on the state budget, public school parent activists and students today rallied outside Tweed Courthouse to urge legislators to pass the meaningful education reforms outlined in Governor Cuomo's education Opportunity Agenda.

Parent activist Gwen Samuel visited and shared her thoughts on the protest and the need for greater diversity.

After collaborating on issues such as mayoral control with Julie Woestehoff of PURE in Chicago, they spearheaded a letter, signed by from parent activists across the nation to Congress and President Obama, about why parent decision - making and class size reduction should be incorporated in their reform agenda.

The state's standardized tests have been the subject of a multi-year boycott in New York, a way for parent activists to speak out against the exams» high - stakes nature and the Common Core.

But the storyline about the parent takeover has no resemblance to reality, says New York parent activist Leonie Haimson, a PAA co-founder.

In contrast, Education Commissioner Richard Crandall responded to local parent activist Cheri Kiesecker that Colorado would be using computer scoring for two thirds of students» PARCC writing responses:

«We didn't end up using the trigger law at West Athens,» says parent activist Winter Hall, whose daughter is in second grade.

Public education and true parent empowerment were the winners after a «Parent Trigger» law died on the floor of the Florida State Senate on March 9, said Rita Solnet, a Florida parent activist and a founding member of the national organization Parents Across America, who worked with other parent groups from the state to defeat the bill.

Other founding members of PAA at the event included parent activists Mark Mishler of Albany, N.Y.; Pamela Grundy of Charlotte, N.C.; Dora Taylor of Seattle; Sharon Higgins of Oakland, Calif; Caroline Grannan of San Francisco; Natalie Beyer of Durham, N.C.; and Andrea Mérida of Denver, who delivered the closing speech.

Familiar parent activist against how chemicals are being used around students in Williamson County Schools, Daniela Kunz, is again driving attention to the issue.

8 CCD (district is also in the Bronx) 6 candidates filed to replace Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito — Assemblyman Robert Rodriguez, Council aide Diana Ayala, parent activist Tamika Mapp, perennial candidate Edward Gibbs & former Bronx Assemblyman Israel Martinez.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew brought members of the citywide Community Education Councils and parent activists up to date on issues facing educators and schools at a meeting on May 20 at union headquarters.

Parent activist Campbell Brown fumed, «He argues in favor of making life harder for educators by increasing the complexity of the evaluation system for purely political reasons.

«Elected champions for public charter schools including Assembly Member Marcos Crespo, State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr., State Senator Martin J. Golden and State Senator Kevin Parker will stand with parent activists during this Day of Action, and will speak during a program in the Well of the Legislative Office Building.»

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.»

The op - ed is written by a Palm Beach parent activist, Rita Solnet, who sincerely believes every parent wants his or her child to attend the school down the street.

Mr. Schweiker's April 15 announcement came as 5,000 educators and parent activists gathered in Detroit for the ninth annual National Head Start Association training conference.

The wonderful parent activist Delana Ivey and her Indianapolis Parents Across America affiliate group Parent Power put on a great conference last Saturday called «Active in Urban Education.»

Leonie Haimson is a long time parent activist and the Executive Director of Class Size Matters since 2000, a non-profit organization dedicated to achieving smaller classes in New York City and in the nation as a whole.

NEW YORK — New York City Councilmembers, charter and district school leaders and parent activists convened tonight in Brooklyn for a first - of - its - kind panel to confront the segregation crisis in New York City public schools.

The audience included Philadelphia parent activist Helen Gym and San Francisco PTA leader Shellie Wiener, as well as members of Rochester, N.Y.'s Community Education Task Force, and New Jersey's Coalition for Effective Newark Public Schools.

Seattle parent activist Sue Peters echoed Ravitch on the influence of private wealth and venture philanthropy on education policy.

The event featured parent activist Karran Harper Royal of New Orleans and Dr. Kristen Buras, a professor at Georgia State University who has studied the Recovery School District in New Orleans.

«Parents Across America is an opportunity to use our collective voices on a national level,» said founding member Karran Harper Royal, a New Orleans parent activist, «to inform the policies that drive the decisionmaking in our each of our communities and nationwide.

The new polls make clear that more than a year of high - profile opposition to the Common Core from parent activists on the left and the right, as well as from tea party groups, celebrity comedians and politicians such as Jindal and Huckabee, has taken a toll.

But a number of parent activist groups and others are pushing the state board to adopt a summative rating for schools based on the chosen indicators and that without it, it will be difficult for families to compare schools or know how well their school is educating their students.

Oklahoma parent activist Jenni White — who has led the anti-Common Core effort in that state for nearly a decade — says Gates's money is always welcomed by government education officials because schools are «perennially unfunded.»

Jane Robbins, senior fellow at American Principles Project — an organization that has assisted parent activists across the nation battle against big business and industry groups that support Common Core — says Gates is interfering in a process that should be led by parents.

Grassroots parent activists battling against the Common Core standards in their individual states say the Trump administration would show it stands up for parental rights by reversing the Obama administration's regulatory gutting of FERPA.

Parent activist Megan Wolf, who testified about the bill during the Oct. 3 hearing at the State House, said the filing of the new enrollment policy took many by surprise and occurs while the public remains largely in the dark on details such as how the proposed unified enrollment process would work — including its impact on school choice, equitable access and the BPS budget.

Colorado parent activist Cheri Kiesecker says Big Data has been given free rein under the guises of both «personalized learning programs» and workforce development, with both Democratic and Republican lawmakers on board with the program.

And in the case of the school reform movement, the Gates Foundation came two decades politicians such as Lamar Alexander, chambers of commerce, school leaders such as Howard Fuller, and parent activists like Virginia Walden Ford, began demanding an overhaul to a system that works for far too few of our children.

I mingled with many great educators and parent activists who I consider friends.

Parent activists in the state already know that is the only way they can get rid of a Common Core - based test disguised as MCAS 2.0.

-- Today, Parents Across America (PAA), a non-partisan, non-profit national network of public school parent activists, released a proposal for true parent empowerment that authentically involves parents in collaborative school decision making and has a strong research base in improving student achievement.

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 Size Matters.

Parent activist Winter Hall talks about her daughter's low - performing school at the Nov. 15 Parent Power convention in Los Angeles.

While in Boulder, Cooper met a parent activist — Mara Fleishman — who also happens to be national partnership director for Whole Foods.

Sharon Higgins, a parent activist in Oakland, Calif., is doing the investigative work that the media should be doing.

ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

The parent activists of StudentsFirstNY have been clear — it's time to deliver fundamental reform to turn around New York's schools.

With New York State expected to approve a final budget in the next month, public charter school leaders and parent activists have spent the first months of 2017 fighting to ensure that public charter schools are equitably included.