Sentences with phrase «reform as the civil rights»

The new school is housed at Compton's Church of the Redeemer, whose pastor, Kerry Allison, sees education reform as the civil rights movement of this century.

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In recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselves.

Bishop Mark will also express concern that the Government may «further undermine» marriage as it considers proposals to reform marriage registration for the first time since 1837, including a right of heterosexuals to register relationships as civil partnerships instead of marriages.

Suffice to say, our President WILL get gun control, health care reform, and gay marriage — all providing civil rights just as President Lincoln would want.

«As governor, I know he will fight every day to reform and renew our state government, get our economy back on track and advance the civil rights of all New Yorkers.»

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NEW YORK, NY (04/04/2018)(readMedia)-- ICYMI: last week as lawmakers negotiated the final NYS budget, which ultimately exculded early voting and other election reforms, civil rights leaders issued the following statements:

This laid the groundwork for the transformation of the German economy that makes it a world leader today including strong environmental regulation, phasing out of nuclear power in favour of renewables and a focus on energy - efficient production, as well as long overdue social reforms in the areas of citizenship and civil rights.

«As an IDC member, David has been an effective champion for us, working with Governor Cuomo to reform state government, expand civil rights and invest in public education and environmental protection.

«A lifelong New Yorker, Ken was known as an effective, aggressive civil rights leader — and a national voice for criminal justice reform,» Mr. Cuomo said in a statement on Sunday.

Equal opportunity in choosing a school A recent Wall Street Journal editorial had it right in criticizing civil rights groups like the NAACP for not jumping on the educational choice bandwagon since, as the Journal says, «reform's main beneficiaries are poor and minority students in places like Harlem and New Orleans.»

But the gap won't get any narrower as long as civil - rights leaders oppose the reforms that are doing the most to bridge it.

Nine major civil rights organizations today called on Congress to make reforming America's high schools and improving graduation rates for minority students the most urgent priority as it moves forward on renewing the No Child Left Behind Act.

But civil - rights advocates have recognized that shining light on disparities of result, such as the requirement that test data be disaggregated by racial and income groups under NCLB, is an important first step to reform.

Just as the education - reform movement is starting to figure out how to use test - score data in a more sophisticated way, the Obama administration and its allies in the civil - rights community want to take us back to the Stone Age on the use of school - discipline data.

If you see education reform as a social justice or civil rights crusade, you will care mightily about whether every charter is educating its share of kids with disabilities and whether enough «people of color» are running these schools.

In 2001, the union couldn't overcome bipartisan support from congressional leaders, reform - minded governors, business leaders eager to hire well - educated workers, and civil rights advocates who saw NCLB as a natural extension of Brown v. Board.

Now we can add school discipline reform — especially as it relates to the federal role in civil rights enforcement — to the list.

With our focus on closing the achievement gap between blacks and whites, framing reform as the «civil rights issue of our time,» and the attention and praise we have heaped on inner - city charter schools — one of reform's few bona fide success stories — we have tacitly made education reform a race - based endeavor.

Centrist Democrats, in particular, are worried that civil rights - and progressive reformers will drive out conservatives in the movement (as well as White moderates such as themselves), weakening long - term support for advancing systemic reform.

This has included issuing guidance that effectively stops Office for Civil Rights investigators from looking at three years of past complaints to prove that a district or other school operators has engaged in systematic overspending of Black, Latino, and Native children, as well as the hiring of Hans Bader, a vocal opponent of school discipline reform.

Save for a few NAACP branches (including its affiliate in Connecticut, have stepped up in the discussions over Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform effort, and advocated on behalf of Bridgeport mother Tanya McDowell, who will serve five years for trying to provide her child with a high - quality school), the nation's oldest civil rights group offers nothing substantial on addressing issues such as ending Zip Code Education policies, expanding school choice, addressing childhood illiteracy, and revamping how teachers are recruited, trained, paid, and evaluated (especially when it comes to bringing more black men into the teaching profession).

He served as a member of the National Assessment Forum, a coalition of education and civil rights organizations advocating reforms in nationa, state and local assessment policies and practices.

We can not, of course, say that these groups came to the defense of high - stakes, standardized testing at the behest of the Gates Foundation, but we should be clear that their politics align with that of the Gates Foundation, and so the fact that these particular civil rights organizations came out in force to support a central reform backed by the foundation should come as no surprise to anyone.

UTLA Delivers No - Confidence Vote to LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy LAUSD's teachers union issued an overwhelming vote of no - confidence Thursday in the leadership of Superintendent John Deasy as he finishes his second year, while a rival survey released by civil rights groups showed strong support for his reform strategies and called for an even more aggressive...

So it isn't shocking that Ravitch engaged in what can best be called cynical race - baiting (and, at worse, craven bigotry) with a piece she wrote on her eponymous blog bemoaning school reform advocate 50CAN's hiring of new generation civil rights activist Derrell Bradford as head of its New York branch.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa also sees education reform as an important civil rights issue for African American and Latino students, and has been a vocal supporter of the Parent Trigger.

He was selected to participate in the Educational Policy Fellowship Program through the Institute for Educational Leadership in Washington, DC, and served as a member of the National Assessment Forum, a coalition of education and civil rights organizations advocating reforms in national, state, and local assessment policies and practices.

Within Black America, there is a lot of disagreement between old - school civil rights players — who continue to see integration, busing and equity lawsuits as the cure for achievement gaps between blacks and whites — and the younger generation of African - Americans, who understand that more - systemic reforms (including breaking ranks with the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers) is critical to black economic and social advancement.

In 2012, we joined with the California State PTA, the California School Boards Association, education reform, and civil rights organizations to oppose AB5, which, as written, would have significantly weakened California state policies regarding teacher evaluation.

Jay was selected to participate in the Educational Policy Fellowship Program through the Institute for Educational Leadership in Washington, D.C., and served as a member of the National Assessment Forum, a coalition of education and civil rights organizations advocating reforms in national, state, and local assessment policies and practices.

As a lawmaker, Rep. Smith has been a champion for civil rights, cannabis reform, affordable higher education, gun safety, mental health, and animal welfare.

Yet education traditionalists, ivory tower civil rights activists, and dyed - in - the - wool progressives, still stuck on integration as school reform, would rather criticize charters for supposedly perpetuating segregation (even though most urban communities largely consist of one race or class) than embrace a tool for helping poor and minority families give their children opportunities for high - quality education.

As a coalition of over 200 civil rights, consumer, labor, business, investor, faith - based, and civic and community groups, Americans for Financial Reform supports the Department of Education's announcement last month of a new competition for student loan servicing contracts.

Whether it's attitudes about civil rights, eating meat, or other kinds of social reform, as a younger generation grows up and begins participating in public life, gradual yet seismic shifts in attitudes and policies can occur.

His resulting paintings including Vignette explode with narratives and textures, linking aspects of art history and American history with reference to the American Civil Rights Movement, the history of slavery, public housing projects, the modern welfare state, social reform and literature, as well as cyclic tales of birth, life, death and love.

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