Sentences with phrase «school advocates criticized»

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Speaking at the Indianapolis coloquium, Dean M. Kelley, the National Council of Churches» executive for religious and civil liberty, criticized advocates of school prayer.

Yesterday I shared with you a Beyond Chron piece by school food advocate Dana Woldow («School Nutrition Association Pushes Fruitless Position «-RRB-, in which Woldow criticized a recent position paper released by the School Nutrition Association («SNA») calling for various changes to the new school meal regulaschool food advocate Dana Woldow («School Nutrition Association Pushes Fruitless Position «-RRB-, in which Woldow criticized a recent position paper released by the School Nutrition Association («SNA») calling for various changes to the new school meal regulaSchool Nutrition Association Pushes Fruitless Position «-RRB-, in which Woldow criticized a recent position paper released by the School Nutrition Association («SNA») calling for various changes to the new school meal regulaSchool Nutrition Association («SNA») calling for various changes to the new school meal regulaschool meal regulations.

A group of retired generals advocating for healthier school lunches also criticized the spending bill.

Nevertheless, Cuomo has been criticized by liberals advocates for not being more forcefully in favor of a Democratic takeover of the chamber this year, which came to a head this week when the governor knocked public schools as a «monopoly» he wants to break by strengthening charter schools.

Nixon, an actress known for her role in the HBO series «Sex and the City» is a prominent advocate for public education funding and has often pushed Albany to spend more money on schools, criticizing Cuomo's stance on funding issues.

Families for Excellent Schools, a powerful pro-charter group, which has relentlessly criticized Mr. de Blasio for failing to advocate for charters, released the 30 - second spot.

Charter advocates were dismayed when the governor appeared alongside Mulgrew in September, for an event that touted New York's plentiful state spending on district schools, which Cuomo had criticized a few years earlier.

In a letter sent to SUNY Board of Trustees Chairman H. Carl McCall on Oct. 14, officials and education advocates criticized the state's decision to allow Success Academy to change its application to site a school in District 2 — which covers Lower Manhattan, much of the west side and the Upper East Side — so that it could open in Districts 1 or 6.

Charter school advocates have joined their frequent opponents in the teachers union to criticize de Blasio's school suspension overhaul, which some say is harming student discipline.

Also at 9:15 a.m., education advocates and professionals, families and government officials criticize school testing programs as excessive during a news conference before the hearing; outside 250 Broadway, Manhattan.

At 11 a.m., NYC Coalition Against Hunger Executive Director Joel Berg, NYC Public Advocate Tish James, City Councilman Stephen Levin and other officials hold a news conference to criticize changes in participation of city schools in school breakfast programs; steps, City Hall, Manhattan.

He criticized the de Blasio administration for «an unwillingness to advocate» for the expansion of charter schools.

Moskowitz criticized the mayor and his ill - fated decision to reverse co-locations for three of Moskowitz's schools earlier this year, which led to an all - out battle between New York's influential, well - financed charter school advocates and the administration.

UPDATE: Public Advocate Letitia James sent the following statement in response to this article: «All of us want to improve our schools, but for - profit school operators have no business criticizing Mayor de Blasio for supporting our teachers.

has been sharply criticized by special - interest groups advocating on behalf of charter schools.

Charter advocates were dismayed when the governor appeared alongside Mulgrew in September, for an event that touted New York's plentiful state spending on district schools, which Cuomo had criticized a few years earlier.

Clinton rattled charter school advocates late last year when she criticized charters for leaving the task of teaching the most difficult students to traditional schools.

School funding advocates have criticized DCPS for inequitably distributing financial resources to the neediest schools, and last September, the Washington City Paper published a cover story on Kaya Henderson's failure to deliver on her five - year strategic plan.

Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, criticized mayors who had pushed for «mayoral control» of schools, failed to turn them around and then become trigger advocates: «I'd have a lot more respect for them... if they said that as part of mayoral control, parents and teachers should really have a voice about how their schools act and operate.»

Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - Today's L.A. Times includes a story by Howard Blume that seeks to criticize the financial reporting practices of CCSA Advocates, the political sister organization of the California Charter Schools Association.

But advocates are criticizing the program for its lack of expenditure tracking and transparency on how schools spend the state's money.

Historian Diane Ravitch criticized Obama's Education Secretary Arne Duncan for his stances, which lead many public education advocates to feel as though electing GOP candidate Mitt Romney would not change much about the current direction of the nation's school policies.

One of the evening's speakers, Ira Sabin, a former chairman of the Palm Beach County Republican Party, criticized Laura Ingraham, the Fox News host who got into a public fight with David Hogg, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student who has become a prominent advocate for gun control.