Sentences with phrase «parents spoke on her behalf»

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On behalf of all the people who want to speak up but can't: Please, make Amazon a more hospitable place for women and parents.

-LSB-...] Stacie recently spoke on behalf of Kodak at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, at the Type - A Parent Conference and will be speaking at the Atlanta Bloggy Bootcamp.

The issue was on the agenda at last week's Community Board 3 transportation sub-committee meeting, but no parents showed up to speak on behalf of the proposal.

The organization aims to provide «parents and families with a powerful voice to speak on behalf of every child while providing the best tools for parents to help their children be successful students.»

Many parents and teachers are speaking out on her behalf, arguing her non-renewal is the district's way of retaliating against a teacher who spoke out.

«I am proud of all of the charter parents, leaders and supporters who are publicly speaking out on behalf of thousands of students who would miss out on an excellent education if this bill passes.»

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.

When ConnCAN belittled parents who stood up to speak out on behalf of Connecticut's schools... the members of ConnCAN's Advisory Board were silent.

PTA promotes parent involvement in all schools, and works to ensure nationwide access to quality public education — primarily by providing parents and communities with tools and resources to support their students, and by speaking with a powerful voice on behalf of every child.

On behalf of parents, students and teachers across Connecticut, we are publicly asking the Connecticut Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers — Connecticut Chapter and local teacher union chapters to end their silence and take immediate steps to speak out and support the growing effort by Connecticut parents to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC test.

While school superintendents and administrators have been a major part of the anti-standardized testing coalitions in New York, far fewer Connecticut school administrators have been willingly to step forward and speak up on behalf of the students, parents, teachers and public schools they are sworn to serve.

His willingness to stand up and speak out on behalf of students, parents, teachers and public schools has earned him accolades and praise from the Washington Post to the Wait, What Blog and from many others.

«This bill is not one that has ever been discussed in open community meetings, in meetings of the Boston School Committee, which I attend regularly, in the local press or in any other public way,» said Wolf, who spoke on her own behalf, not as a representative of the parent group Quality Education for Every Student (QUEST), of which she is a member.

She spends weekends helping other understand the problems facing parents looking for school choices, and the importance of speaking up on behalf of all students in the community.

Connecticut teachers can also play a key role by standing up and speaking out on behalf of their students, parents and schools.

John Merrow is not only insulting and attacking Diane, he is intentionally or unintentionally trivializing all the work we are doing to speak out on behalf of America's students, teachers, schools and parents.

We encourage all parents and teachers to come together and speak out in local communities on behalf of our nation's students and their future.

(Though Jeff Huffman is on The Arc of Indiana's education committee, he spoke to StateImpact representing his interests as a parent, not on behalf of the group.)

Dumping the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC test is a critical part of derailing the corporate education reform industry's unwarranted attack on teachers, students, parents and public schools, but Connecticut's teachers unions should make it a priority to speak out on behalf of parents» right to opt their children out of the Common Core SBAC test....

When Jonas is introduced to Rose, Christopher's mother, he meets a grieving parent who's determined to speak out on behalf of families with children in the military.

We welcome providers, home visitors, teachers, administrators, parents, students and supporters to all speak up on behalf of Illinois» children and families.

The branch achieves this through speaking on behalf of young children to parents, governments, educators, carers and the community.