Sentences with phrase «parent protests»
Last year, hundreds of parents protested against the tests by taking their children out of school in some areas.
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Angry parents protested at a Compton school board meeting.
In the state of Washington, parent protests against the adoption of several standard math curricula (like Connected Math) led a state representative to introduce a bill earlier this year to put Singapore Math in all the state's elementary schools.
Angry parents protested at a Compton school board meeting, and charges and countercharges continue to fly.
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In this March 30, 2016 photo, students hold signs in favor of opting out of state assessments during a visit by New York Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to the William Street School in Lancaster, N.Y. New York last year saw the highest rate of opt - outs in the country as parents protested the volume of testing and the high - stakes consequences.
Mayor de Blasio Turns His Back on Low - Income Parents Protesting His Forced Placement of 400 Teachers
At 9:30 a.m., parents protest Common Core curriculum assessment tests; P.S. 368 Hamilton Heights School, 1750 Amsterdam Ave., Manhattan.
Mandell and the other parents protested and ultimately refused to send their kids on the outing.
For example, consider the case of Christian parents protesting «secular humanism» in school readers.
As a current example of ever - larger traditional public schools, the Chicago Board of Education is closing fifty traditional schools at one time and sending their students out of their neighborhoods to ever - larger schools against continuing parent protests.
Many parents protested that they had been misled into signing the petition and that they didn't want their school to become a charter school, according to the Los Angeles Weekly.
A group of parents protested outside before the vote, and Ron Rice of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools wrote a great piece: NAACP's Anti-Charter Vote Was Disheartening — but What Happened on the Streets of Cincinnati Wasn't.
.@NYCMayor turns his back on parents protesting his decision to put unsatisfactory teachers in their schools.
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States that have already moved to Common Core tests have seen student scores plunge and parent protests soar — and as the spring testing season creeps closer, similar outcomes «are staring our leaders in the face» in states from coast to coast, he said.
Maybe you remember your response to the news: Parents Protest Student's Killing Children Book.
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New York last year saw the highest rate of opt - outs in the country as parents protested the volume of testing required under federal law and the high - stakes consequences on teachers, students and schools.
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Angry parents protested the Sept. 14 incident in which 14 1st - through 6th - grade Fines Creek Elementary School students were each whipped five times.
In Harlem last year, thousands of parents protested the NAACP's role in a lawsuit to block school closings and the expansion of charter schools.
In Portland, Maine, some parents protested a year or so ago because the school board okayed the distribution of condoms in a middle school.
Parent protests were so vocal that the district was forced to discontinue serving it.
New York State plans to rethink high school diploma requirements for public school students as a growing body of Long Island students and parents protest that more rigorous academic standards have put many teenagers at a disadvantage, toughening the odds against graduation.
Test scores plummeted, teachers and parents protested and, eventually, the politicians followed.
Governor Andrew Cuomo is comparing himself to a parent protesting the implementation of the Common Core, seeking to distance himself from the highly criticized roll out.
Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, came to Buffalo today to lend his support to teachers and parents protesting the rushed action taken by the School Board to allow charter schools to take over their public schools facing closure.
There's a thin layer of grime over this 1984 flick that had parents protesting.
Parents protested and the American Civil Liberties Union, fresh from its victory over the teaching of intelligent design in Harrisburg, at the other end of the state, sued.
The Common Core continued to shake up classrooms, amid bitter political feuds and parent protests.
Hundreds of parents protested, and the DOE withdrew the proposal.
But parents protested that other subjects, especially science, social studies and the arts, suffered.
Hopkins was scheduled to speak to students at Panther Valley High School yesterday, but leading up to the visit, parent protests, school board intervention, and even obstacles from the school's administration almost prevented the visit from taking place, despite the fact that students raised the funds to pay Hopkin's travel honorarium.
If the parents protest or take a different course of action, the agency may come to view the parents are non-supportive of the child victim.