Sentences with phrase «rallies around the district»

For now, it's does not appear that the shift in mission would will temper opposition by UTLA, which has organized several rallies around the district to oppose the plan and still features a photo of Eli Broad on the UTLA website with the admonition, «Hit the road, Broad.»

Should that fail, the union has the option to call a strike, something its leadership has been threatening since last summer and preparing for ever since, with $ 3 million added to a strike fund and weekly rallies around the district.

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That was certainly the case in Berkeley, Calif., and in Boulder, Co., two districts where I have spent considerable time in the kitchens and the cafeterias, and where parents rallied around the idea that children deserve better than processed convenience foods and tons of sugar for breakfast and lunch.

Several hundred parents, largely from district schools around the city and almost exclusively black, attended the rally at Medgar Evers College in Crown Heights, where Assemblyman and future Cuomo official Karim Camara and City Councilman Robert Cornegy Jr. spoke.

Elected officials are rallying around Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson after he announced he had been diagnosed with cancer.

Scozzafava ultimately gave up her bid in New York's special congressional elections for the 23rd district after conservatives rallied around third - party candidate Doug Hoffman and charged Scozzafava was too liberal on a host of issues including government spending, taxes, and abortion rights.

Community members rallied around the school, pushed against a district plan to allow a charter operator to run it, and helped choose partner Johns Hopkins - affiliate Talent Development Secondary to work with teachers and school staff to strengthen academics.