Sentences with phrase «school activists charged»

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.

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Left leaning activists aren't dropping the controversy surrounding Dan Loeb, a businessman and supporter of charter schools who criticized Democratic Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins in racially charged remarks.

In the emotionally charged aftermath of school shootings, politicians, activists, news media, and ordinary citizens often cite statistics that can present a distorted view of how many of these incidents occur.

The term «teacher union leader» typically evokes a hard - charging labor activist who shares an adversarial relationship with the school district, is focused solely on protecting members» bread - and - butter interests, and flees from phrases like «school reform.»

Given that the idea comes from more - rabid school choice activists such as Evers and Burke (along with University of Arkansas» Jay P. Greene) who want to shield voucher programs from any accountability, and would get the backing of traditionalists (who oppose testing altogether), eviscerating the testing mandate exposes Kline and House Republicans to charges (from other conservatives) of hypocrisy and being in bed with unions.

The document confirms what activists had long suspected - that within 10 years, the administration, contrary to its claims, is ready to charge between $ 40,000 and $ 80,000 in tuition to undergraduates at the engineering school.

Activist groups staged a series of occupations and protests demanding the resignation of the school president, Jamshed Bharucha, promoting a vote of no confidence in Bharucha and the school's Board Chair, Mark Epstein, [1] both of whom resigned in 2015, and insisting that the administration address the concerns of students, faculty, alumni, and the public, and alternate plans to avoid having the school charging tuition.

The Cooper Union graduates are among the many co-founders of the student activist group Free Cooper Union, which protested the college's decision to charge tuition for the first time in its history, and both Sobel and Gollan contributed to Artforum's recent «Class Dismissed: A Roundtable on Art School, USC, and Cooper Union» piece, along with artists Frances Stark and Jory Rabinovitz, curator Helen Molesworth, and others.

He is taking heat from Republicans and gun rights activists who believe the sheriff is focusing on guns and not accepting responsibility for failing to stop the school gunman before the shooting — and for his deputies not charging into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High Sschool gunman before the shooting — and for his deputies not charging into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High SchoolSchool.