Sentences with phrase «public school alliances»

Establish stakeholder partnerships — foster public school alliances with parents, community - based organizations and businesses.

«We are a public school alliance who wants to reclaim our schools.»

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She felt lucky to attend a public high school in Austin, Texas, that was highly supportive and had a gay student alliance.

FROM THE ALLIANCE Liz Beavens offers an update on what to expect next On the Path of Membership in the Alliance as a Public Waldorf School

The human tragedy, of course, is who will pay the price for Cuomo's alliance with the Working Families Party & Co.: i.e., the children of actual working families, who have no avenues of escape from rotten public schools where they aren't learning.

Hundreds of Indians living in Ghana turned up for the Diwali day celebration organised by B5 Plus Limited in alliance with Delhi Public School (DPS) International Ghana.

They plow some of their profits into promotional industry groups that fund research studies, they make alliances with medical organizations to educate the public about milk, and they provide free materials to schools suggesting that milk is vital to good nutrition.

These self - marginalizing alliances leave a numerical majority of American parents, who like their traditional neighborhood public schools (and who've had it with high - stakes testing) or who don't identify as political progressives, regarding reform with either indifference or as a threat.

The alliance says that one - half of the country's charters are in cities, although just one - quarter of traditional public schools are.

A New York City civic alliance has launched an aggressive, privately financed marketing campaign on behalf of the city's public schools.

Teacher Bob Parlin launched the first gay - straight alliance in a public school.

St. Louis has a strong public school cartel, an alliance of teachers union leaders, central board administrators, and various public - school interest groups that has an established routine for managing the schools and is typically skeptical of any proposal for change.

If minority leaders can be weaned away from traditional alliances, the underlying public support will translate into effective legislative action, especially if choice laws focus on schools in urban areas.

For example, I recently learned that my public high school back in Beachwood, Ohio, has a gaystraight alliance (GSA), and according to a former classmate who is now a teacher's aide at the school, «kids are just more accepting today,» noting that her teenage daughter has several «out» gay friends.

«In close alliance with but never subordinate to the Protestant churches, the common public school occupied a «sacred space» where its mission was beyond debate and where to question it was a kind of blasphemy.»

During the last administration, teachers» unions were forming low - key alliances with Congressional Republicans to fight Obama proposals that would have directed more funding to poor public schools.

Organizers of the alliance conceived of it as a membership organization for state - level charter school associations and resource centers, and hoped it would emerge as the leading voice in Washington for the independently run public schools.

Lyn Hoyt, co-founder of TREE (Tennesseans Reclaiming Educational Excellence) will lead Tennessee AROS to strengthen public school advocacy by recruiting alliance members that will support schools and districts committed to the creation of transformational community schools.

They have announced the launch of a Small Schools Pilot, with the help of Annabel Karmel, The Local Authority Catering Association and an alliance of other public and private sector bodies, which will aim to develop a scalable a model that:

While the group describes itself as «an alliance of parents that supports and defends parents» rights to access the best public school options for their children,» the local phone number on its flier rings the office of GOP consultant Dee Stewart of Raleigh - based The Stewart Group.

The pilot will be delivered by a public / private sector alliance led by the School Food Plan.

With the support of this public - private alliance, Brad will be leading an initiative to work with around 30 small schools in a rural area to develop a model of group purchasing and other innovative measures that will deliver tasty, nutritious food to children while also enabling the meals service to break even.

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.

On Monday, March 5, 2012, members of the broad alliance of Florida education advocacy groups including: Citizens for Strong Schools, 50th No More, Florida PTA, Fund Education Now, Marions United for Public Education, Save Duval Schools and Support Dade Schools traveled to Tallahassee to join a press conference at 9:30 A in Room 301 of the Florida Senate Office Building.

An alliance of business and political leaders in the state had urged Brown to sign Assembly Bill 709, which would have required that all charters be transparent about how they spend public funds, and would have barred charter school board members and their relatives from profiting from their schools.

It's interesting to see the range of groups in the alliance: American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, American Association of School Administrators, American Association of School Personnel Administrators, American Federation of Teachers, American School Counselor Association, Association of School Business Officials International, Council of Chief State School Officers, National Association of Elementary School Principals, National Association of Secondary School Principals, National Association of State Boards of Education, National Education Association, National Middle School Association, National School Public Relations Association, National Staff Development Council, National PTA, National School Boards Association and Phi Delta Kappa International.

As Idaho marks 20 years since its first charter schools opened, the recently released Shackled Education Pioneers looks back at how the public charter school movement started in the Gem State — and how that effort has strayed from its original intent of allowing significant space for education innovation, a progression that led the alliance to downgrade Idaho's charter school law from 20th to 21st nationwide this year.

«We are continuing our actions with national labor alliances to reclaim our schools and stop those who interfere with access and equity in our public schools,» said Cecily Myart - Cruz, another union representative.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers has created an unlikely alliance with Gov. Scott Walker to form a task force aimed at developing a statewide school accountability system.

Strong neighborhood and community alliances were forged in dozens of struggles to defend local public schools — alliances that later proved to be a key factor in the strong community support given to teachers during their strike.

Mr. Schroeder is committed to providing the best opportunities for public school students to learn, a strong alliance with the community, and advancing social justice issues.

Robert Butts, Assistant Superintendent for Early Learning, Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, State of Washington; Ron Sisson, Director of Principal Support and Elementary Programs, Association of Washington School Principals; and Moderator: Kelly Pollitt, Chief Strategist, Policy and Alliances, NAESP

But critics say Rhee risks destroying the very public schools she aims to save by forging alliances with political conservatives, evangelical groups and business interests that favor turning a large chunk of public education over to the private sector.

Nine teacher preparation programs in Middle Tennessee have come together in an unprecedented alliance to collectively address the issue of teacher diversity in Metro Nashville Public Schools.

Additionally, fifty students and the nine - teacher faculty of the Mdatya Public School, also in South Africa, benefited from Worldreader's alliance with the Matthew E. Russell Foundation and Advance Education.

ABlawg Civil Liberties Association Holds Public Consultation on Gay - Straight Alliances in Schools

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