Sentences with phrase «school activists»

Meanwhile, charter school activists are up in arms over the thought that their options are going to be limited.

In addition, it's no secret that school funding does not correlate with results, yet public school activists continue to claim «crisis - level» funding deficits.

Latino elected leaders joined liberal anti-charter school activists on the steps of City Hall to demand that Success Academy Charter Schools return an $ 8.5 million donation from hedge fund manager John Paulson because of his role in the Puerto Rican debt crisis — where the government is slashing education spending in a desperate effort to balance its books... [Click here to read more]

The most recent push by liberals for so - called «gun control» is nothing more than a GUN BAN being pushed by high school activist kids, who are pretending to call for a «common sense» gun control.

What could have been a rather drab 8 am breakfast quickly turned into a lively panel discussion when the guest, Success Academy founder and charter school activist Eva Moskowitz, took the stage.

This mischievous ethos has rarely been better displayed than on this often uneasy listening set from Berlin - based, old - school activist DJs Graef and Astro who, after name - making solo careers, came together last year to form their Money $ ex imprint as a platform for their woozy marriages of obscure vinyl sensibility and startling aural foraging.

Denzel Washington, «Roman J. Israel, Esq.» An old - school activist attorney, likely with savant syndrome, in the midst of an existential crisis reconciling real - world practicality with far - reaching legal philosophy?

Last week's California elections dispensed a golden rule for school activists and politicians: Money matters, but not always.

Opponents of the proposal invested considerable time and resources and even resorted to intimidating undecided school activists.

Other major donors to Luke Bronin's campaign for mayor of Hartford is New Haven charter school activist Alex Johnston who, as the original head of ConnCAN, consistently pushed for diverting scarce public resources from public schools to the privately owned, but publically funded charter schools.

Public school activists charged that the three were part of a reform movement trying to privatize public education and started a recall effort that attracted national attention, including money from outside the state from partisans on both sides.

Former teacher and Educators 4 Excellence school activist Sydney Morris called the breakdown in negotiations a «shame.»

A group of anti-charter school activists is circulating an online petition that calls for LA Unified to rescind a contract with Teach for America (TFA) intended to fill 25 special education teaching positions.

A Colorado congressman tweeted last year that Diane Ravitch, an education historian and de facto leader of public school activists, was an «evil woman.»

It does not include a ban on assault weapons, one of the top points of contention for Democrats and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School activists.

-LSB-...] according to the progressive NC policy Watch group, the bill had the «full support» of charter school activists and the conservative belief - tank community in the -LSB-...]

«I think some of the charter - school activists should really think about and be more mindful of their choice of words when they are talking to children,» de Blasio said.

In Wake County, school activists have launched their own initiative, dubbed the Great Schools in Wake Coalition, that cites school diversity among its greatest concerns.

As a public school activist, who has been studying ed reform issues for a number of years now, I know for a fact that the importance of this type of community camaraderie and connectedness, isn't anywhere on the reformers» list.

Zimmer's idea was first presented at last month's board meeting, and generated heavy criticism from parents and charter school activists.