Sentences with phrase «public school advocates spoke»

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.

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By contrast, advocates of the total exclusion of all religion from the public - school curriculum speak from a post-Enlightenment perspective.

The video features State Assemblyman Karim Camara, New York City Councilman Robert Cornegy, StudentsFirstNY parent advocates, and NYCAN Executive Director Derrell Bradford who spoke at a rally of 400 district public school parents in support of the Governor last week.

The four mayoral hopefuls — Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, City Comptroller John Liu, and former comptroller William Thompson — spoke out against the city's school closing policy at the press conference, which was sponsored by the Coalition for Educational Justice.

Collectively, the six districts educate 45 percent of the state's public school children, and the conference seeks to speak with one voice in advocating for urban education issues.

Strong Schools (Sumner County) Williamson Strong (Williamson County) SPEAK (Students, Parents, Educators Across Knox County) SOCM (Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment) Momma Bears Blog Gideon's Army, Grassroots Army for Children (Nashville) Advocates for Change in Education (Hamilton County) Concerned Parents of Franklin County (Franklin County) The Dyslexia Spot Parents of Wilson County, TN, Schools Friends of Oak Ridge Schools (City of Oak Ridge Schools) TNBATs (State branch of National BATs) East Nashville United Tennessee Against Common Core (Statewide) Coalition Advocating of Public Education (CAPE)

Green is also personally an advocate for charter schools, taking part in advocacy trainings, speaking at public events and rallies where charters are fighting for fair and equitable funding.

Mr. Merriman is a leading voice and advocate for high quality, equitable charter schools and frequently speaks and writes about the actions that need to be taken to strengthen and expand charter schools within the New York City public school system.

FundEducationNow.org is determined to arm children, parents, teachers and concerned citizens with the power to speak out against the Florida Legislature's plan to defund public education, disrespect professional educators and cause deep and lasting harm to the state's 2.6 million school children.Thanks to thousands of volunteer hours and in - kind donations, FundEducationNow.org quickly grew into a statewide non-partisan alliance of dedicated advocates.

Connecticut's students, parents, teachers and public school advocates needs more public school superintendents to follow Thomas Scarice's action and step up and speak out.

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.

He spoke out against the governor's successful push to strip most public employees of collective bargaining rights, and Evers has also advocated for significant increases in school funding — both by increasing state aid to schools and by allowing local school districts to raise additional revenue through property taxes.

Great article that my principal had us ESL teachers just read - thank you for your no nonsense outspokenness, and no, Mr Shanahan, ESL will not pull during teacher direct instruction in the content areas until small groups break out - only 30 minutes then - but it's a packed schedule to do it - 8 groups a day 5 days a week to pull for listening / reading and speaking / writing per WIDA some of your comments appreciated much as a former elementary homeschooler and advocate of of ED Hirsch and his cultural literacy - which I've preached since I returned my kids to public schooling in middle school 17 years ago....

Dr. Howard Fuller, one of the country's leading advocates for public school choice, spoke about the importance of excellent schools at «Parents as Partners,» a major school information fair that ExED co-hosted in Exposition Park in Los Angeles.

Although a number of public education advocates, including myself, have been critical of Weingarten on some issues, I have tremendous respect for her and the role she has played in the effort to speak up for teachers on numerous occasions including this week's decision by Time Magazine to run with a cover bashing the nation's public school educators.

Speak to advocates, educators in public schools and private practice, and special education attorneys.

Parents, teachers, school administrators, public education advocates and experts all speaking in favor of the legislation that would drop the use of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core tests from Governor Dannel Malloy's teacher evaluation program.

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Ravitch herself keeps up a grueling schedule of public appearances, often speaking to large crowds and sometimes debating advocates of the reform paradigm such as former Washington, D.C., schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee.

But both of Vinroot's claims, according to public school advocates and K - 12 experts who spoke to Policy Watch, would appear to be, at best, distortions.