Sentences with phrase «protecting public education from»

To their critics, the failure to pass voucher legislation has been a matter of defending the state's constitution, and protecting public education from the efforts of school privatizers and union - busters, like the DeVos» and the Republican legislators they have funded with millions in cash contributions over the years.

Now, it's time for the governor and Legislature to step up and protect public education from great harm, and to ensure the theme of «shared sacrifice» includes all New Yorkers, including the most affluent.»

And it protects public education from a nightmare scenario already developing in many schools, described by one teacher from California and relayed by Weingarten to the audience: «Within a couple of years, «we start testing on standards we're not teaching with curriculum we don't have on computers that don't exist.»»

Not exact matches

As Scott explains, they «contain 30 or more chapters providing special protections for foreign investors; extending patents and copyrights; privatizing markets for public services such as education, health, and public utilities; and «harmonizing» regulations in ways that limit or prevent governments from protecting the public health or environment.»

My goal would be to both ensure that those who depend on the program are protected, while also balancing the growing cost of Social Security with other pressing priorities — from programs for children, the vulnerable, public investments, and shoring up our education and worker retraining systems.

CNN's coverage is a good example (seeNavarrette's eye - popping statement that unions «protect teachers from public demands for... a better education for our children.»)

«For 17 years, Cynthia Nixon has been a leading voice and on - the - ground fighter for public education, women's rights, LGBTQ equality, and protecting New York's environment from corporate polluters,» said the group's executive director, Charles Chamberlain.

The release, explaining the decision was reached unanimously by the group's two component boards of directors, stated, «The Boards» decision comes on the heels of securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority ---- protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations ---- in the form of new regulations announced in partnership with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo at the organization's Fall Dinner on October 22, 2015.»

Protests against Gov. Andrew Cuomo's harmful public education agenda peaked in New York City on March 12, when parents, their children and educators joined hands to form a human chain around their buildings before or after classes as if to protect them from the governor's proposals.

Mulgrew said the work the union and its members did to help shape the state budget should help protect New York City public schools from Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her privatization agenda.

Some of the last issues to be decided had to do with education, including a push by state Sen. Simcha Felder — a Democrat from Brooklyn who conferences with Republicans to give them a critical 32nd vote — to protect ultra-Orthodox yeshivas from official reviews that might find they do not provide substantially equivalent instruction to public schools.

Few activists were mollified by ESPA's statement that a new directive from Governor Andrew Cuomo — interpreting existing state human rights law's sex discrimination and disability discrimination protections to cover transgender New Yorkers — amounted to «securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority, protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations.»

The UFT launched a radio ad campaign on May 28 urging the public to tell the legislature and City Hall to protect New York City's students and schools from education cuts.

«The Boards» decision comes on the heels of securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority ---- protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations ---- in the form of new regulations announced in partnership with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo,» ESPA's release stated.

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In response to the Fourteenth Amendment claim, the court said that at some point, removing M.C. from the classroom and putting him in timeout might have gone so far as to deprive him of a protected interest in a public education, but the circuit judges, unlike the district court, concluded that 21 timeouts totaling approximately 12 hours over two and a half months did not go that far.

Education historian Diane Ravitch notes that New York City's Catholic clergy moved to protect children from «Protestant propaganda» by discouraging them from attending the city's public schools.

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which barred federal funds from going to segregated schools, made it clear that Prince Edward County could not continue their practices legally and receive federal funding.29 This law, as well as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, was instrumental in elevating the role of the federal government in protecting students from discrimination in the nation's public schools.

Even Walton Family Foundation, which usually eschews taking any public position, allowed its education policy boss, Marc Sternberg, to call for protecting DACA children from deportation.

A nearly $ 6 billion infusion from Proposition 30 and a Democratic supermajority in the Legislature are a welcome pre-holiday gift to public education from voters, but it also could set the stage for battles between those laboring for education reform and suddenly fortified unions protecting teacher interests.

«NSBA is representing the voices of parents and others who want their children focused on education and protected from lewd speech while attending public schools,» said NSBA Executive Director Thomas J. Gentzel.

In response to DeVos» confirmation, Blair said there has been an increase in engagement from people who want to protect public education.

Public education for all children, regardless of where they live or where they're from, is a sacred American value, and one all of us must protect.

Around 3,000 families and educators from northeast San Fernando Valley charter schools marched in support of expanding high quality schools, securing better facilities and protecting parent choice in public education at last Saturday's «Rally in the Valley.»

It will look at changes to state law that will be necessary if we want to protect the civic institution of public education from insolvency.

Preserve our amazing public education system and protect it from voracious profiteers and their schemes to steal public funding for education.

But regardless of the false information and rhetoric coming from the Malloy administration, parents not only have the fundamental right to opt their children out of the unfair testing program, they should strongly consider doing just that as a way to protect their children, Connecticut's teachers and our state's historic commitment to local control of public education.

Opting one's children out of the SBAC test not only protects those students from the negative aspects of the testing program but it sends a powerful message to the state's elected and appointed officials that parents will not stand idly by as the SBAC testing scam is used to undermine public education in Connecticut.

In this way, superintendents became endowed with the unique responsibility of defending public education, whether protecting it from the critics who sought to dismantle the system or advocating on behalf of more money for schools.

We look forward to working with lawmakers from both sides of the aisle to continue to protect and strengthen our public schools and to ensure equal access to a quality public education for all students no matter their ZIP code.»

These plaintiffs seek to protect the public schools» monopoly on education by blocking the school house doors to prevent low - income families from taking their children out of public schools in order to attend private schools.

By including a snapshot of each school's finances, USC's report also provides a useful temperature check on the fiscal health of the movement, and demonstrates quite dramatically how charters are uniquely poised to weather the economic storm gripping the nation and public education in California, and how charters are prioritizing and protecting the classroom from the worst cuts.»

In 1943, the high court ruled in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette that the First Amendment protects students from being forced to salute the American flag or to say the Pledge of Allegiance in public school.

However, because standardized testing is a matter of public concern, a local speaking as a union, or an individual member speaking as a parent or citizen, about educational concerns over standardized testing, for instance, in a letter to the editor or in a statement to the Board of Education, is protected by the U.S. Constitution at least so long as they are not encouraging other parents or students to opt out from a test.»

Rather than making a series of empty, unfilled promises, these policies would actually improve teachers» working conditions, students» learning conditions, and school funding; would protect public schools from inequities of funding caused by the proliferation of charter schools; and would «encourage» the decision makers who currently establish public education policy to play within the rules, or forfeit the thing they are really most concerned about: those sweet, sweet campaign contributions.

This weekend, the 2016 Opt Out Conference in Philadelphia is bringing together parents, teachers, academics and public education advocates from across the country to discuss developments and share strategies in our ongoing battle to protect our children, teachers and public schools from the corporate education reform industry and the standardized testing companies that are turning our children into guinea pigs and our public schools into little more than testing factories and profit centers.

Our mission: To offer refuge, medical care, nourishment and an opportunity for a second chance for life to unwanted animals; protect animals from cruelty, neglect, carelessness and ignorance; help foster a public sentiment of humanity and gentleness toward all animals through education and encouragement; and promote the lifelong commitment of responsible pet ownership.

The mission of New Hanover County Sheriff's Office Animal Services Unit is to protect the public from the threat of rabies virus exposure, and to ensure proper animal care, through prevention, public perception, and education.

Maine Equine Welfare Alliance Initial Contact: Michelle Hirshberg [phone] This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it http://maineequinewelfarealliance.com MEWA is a dedicated to helping Maine horses / owners through direct assistance, mentoring, emergency intervention and public education.

Your contribution for the education of the public and training of professionals will result in preserving co-parent relationships between parents and protecting their children from the conflict in the litigated divorce process.

There are clearly lots of people who are very invested in making the law seem more complex and difficult than it really is, and these are often the same people who tend to infantilize the public and speak in patronizing tones about how we must protect people from poorly trained lawyers and that the best way to do that is to regulate legal education — hence, the ABA's ridiculous accreditation requirements.

Education, knowledge, media and employment rights are contained in articles 14 — 17 of the Declaration: right to establish and control their educational systems; right to education, including in their own culture and language; right to indigenous cultures, traditions and histories, reflected in education and public information; right to establish their own media, in their own languages, and access non-Indigenous media without discrimination; and right to employment without discrimination and protect Indigenous children from economic explEducation, knowledge, media and employment rights are contained in articles 14 — 17 of the Declaration: right to establish and control their educational systems; right to education, including in their own culture and language; right to indigenous cultures, traditions and histories, reflected in education and public information; right to establish their own media, in their own languages, and access non-Indigenous media without discrimination; and right to employment without discrimination and protect Indigenous children from economic expleducation, including in their own culture and language; right to indigenous cultures, traditions and histories, reflected in education and public information; right to establish their own media, in their own languages, and access non-Indigenous media without discrimination; and right to employment without discrimination and protect Indigenous children from economic expleducation and public information; right to establish their own media, in their own languages, and access non-Indigenous media without discrimination; and right to employment without discrimination and protect Indigenous children from economic exploitation.

• Enforcing the standards required to obtain and maintain registration as a brokerage, broker or salesperson and delivering the duties of the Registrar • Establishing minimum requirements for pre-registration and continuing education • Conducting routine inspections of brokerage offices to ensure compliance with REBBA 2002 and educate brokers • Addressing inquiries, concerns and complaints about the conduct of registrants received from all sources and taking appropriate action to protect the public interest • Establishing and administering insurance requirements, which include consumer deposit protection • Promoting ongoing education and competent, knowledgeable and professional service.

Never mind the continuing education requirements that are not adding any assurance that the general public is at all protected from loose cannons running around in this industry.