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Over 800 public school advocates from across the country gathered in Washington, D.C., Feb. 4 - 6 for NSBA's 2018 Advocacy Institute.

Charter school advocates from Massachusetts suffered a huge loss in 2016 when voters rejected an effort to raise the sta...

Make your voice heard by joining with thousands of charter school advocates from across Colorado.

Which did not stop major charter school advocates from lamenting her statement.

Although the emphasis apparently was mostly on school vouchers, according to a different report in The Tennessean, the stage was thick with charter school advocates from Indianapolis - based Friedman Foundation for Education Choice, the Arizona - based Goldwater Institute and Nashville's Beacon Center of Tennessee.

MARCH, 14 2018 Charter school advocates from across the state will gather at the Georgia Capitol with HB 787 sponsor Rep. Scott Hilton, the Georgia Charter Schools Association and other elected officials in support of more equitable funding for state charter schools.

Make your voice heard by joining with thousands of charter school advocates from across Georgia.

Success Academy Charter School head Eva Moskowitz will be shutting down all of her schools this coming Tuesday to join more than 2,000 charter school advocates from across the state in Albany to push lawmakers to support their schools.

Cooking Up Change was sponsored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and the national Farm to School Network as part of the annual «Taking Root» confab in Detroit that gathered school food and farm to school advocates from around the country.

Rep. Graig Meyer, an outspoken public schools advocate from Orange County who sits on the House Education Committee, said most teachers believe the governor's pay proposal is «too little, too late.»

Not exact matches

Yousafzai has been advocating for Pakistani women and children since the age of 11, when she documented in a BBC blog life in the Swat Valley under Taliban rule during a time when girls in the region were prohibited from going to school.

Thousands of high school students and other gun - control advocates gathered in Washington and across the U.S. Saturday to demand tougher firearms restrictions from an older generation that's delivered little change after years of mass shootings.

Kenidra Woods, a 17 - year - old junior from St. Louis, was already advocating for more discussion of self - harm and mental health among teens before Parkland, after which she sprang into action to help conduct a walkout at her school in February in solidarity.

Right alongside my admiration for the public school students who have been so articulate and so focused in their advocacy, lies a deep anger and shame for some of the adult behavior on full display: adults creating and perpetuating fake news, doctoring video and pictures; adults pilfering from the holy ground that is the site of a mass killing; and adults attempting to steal the bright shine of these student advocates.

From his vantage point as president of Harvard, Bok analyzes the dilemmas of liberal education, showing how its coexistence with the demands of professional schools in times of change and uncertainty requires its advocates to set it on a sound course.

As we have seen, process thought not only affirms pluralism, which is reflected in our schools, universities, and colleges no less than in our society, but advocates such an attitude of openness towards individuals, groups, cultures, and ideas different from ourselves and our own groups, cultures, ideas that the possibility of increased contrast, richness of experience, of mutual transformation, without loss of integrity, is enhanced.

By contrast, advocates of the total exclusion of all religion from the public - school curriculum speak from a post-Enlightenment perspective.

, in which they advocate for the removal of youth football programs from public schools.

If we advocate for improved educational opportunities, does that equate to shaming everyone who didn't graduate from high school?

This hasn't stopped advocates from trying to develop those measures — and even to hold teachers and schools accountable for students» performance on them.

Michael Pollan recently shared an interesting post from the Environmental Working Group («Healthy School Food: Pay Now, Save Later») which advocates a redistribution of farm subsidies to support more fruits and vegetables in school cafetSchool Food: Pay Now, Save Later») which advocates a redistribution of farm subsidies to support more fruits and vegetables in school cafetschool cafeterias.

By Sunny YoungThe «Procuring Local and Regional Foods for Schools: Experiences from the Field» workshop included speakers ranging from lawyers to policy advocates to school officials.

In this article from The Huffington Post, author Chris Elam talks about the launch of our groundbreaking new website advocating for major reform in school food, The Lunch Box.

The letter was developed by me and Nancy Huehnergarth, with input from a range of advocates and school food service professionals.

Still, advocates for the poor remain alarmed that with the potential for stepped - up auditing, many children would be dropped from the school lunch program even if their families meet the eligibility requirements.

In particular, there are three aspects of the House bill that ought to especially worry parents, health advocates and those who are concerned about fighting childhood hunger: the bill takes a decidedly unscientific approach to setting school nutrition standards, it would most certainly re-open the school junk food floodgates, and it will drop millions of needy kids from a much - lauded program that currently offers them free school meals.

This understanding can help you to advocate for better lunches at your child's school, or simply understand the changes you may be hearing about from your child.

The report decribes how a school - food advocate named Kate Adamick, supported by private grant money, has been traveling across Colorado this summer to conduct one - week boot camps to teach school employees how to cook from scratch.

My nonprofit, Better School Food (www.betterschoolfood.org) is designed to support those who are advocating for a better food environment, so I get emails like the one from this Lunch Tray reader all the time.

Many big issues here, including, as school food advocate Dana Woldow discussed with me in an off line email, the real stigma likely created by giving nonpaying kids something different from everyone else.

As you may know from the many times I link to her writing on TLT's Facebook page, Dana Woldow of PEACHSF (Parents, Educators & Advocates Connect ion for Healthy School Food) writes a regular and informative column in Beyond Chron, an online daily in San Francisco, in which she tackles all manner of food - related topics, from school food reform to childhood hSchool Food) writes a regular and informative column in Beyond Chron, an online daily in San Francisco, in which she tackles all manner of food - related topics, from school food reform to childhood hschool food reform to childhood hunger.

As you may know from the many times I link to her writing on TLT's Facebook page, Dana Woldow of PEACHSF (Parents, Educators & Advocates Connect ion for Healthy School Food) writes a regular and informative column in Beyond Chron, an online daily... [Continue reading]

All of us involved in youth sports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend).

Led by the Milk Processor Education Program and the National Dairy Council, the program aims to «keep chocolate milk on the menu in schools nationwide», in light of «lunch advocates [who] are calling [to remove chocolate milk from the lunch line, a decision that could] cause more harm than good when it comes to children's health.»

As for Diaz - Tello, who has graduated from law school since the birth of her child, she's now working in her own legal practice and with groups like the National Advocates for Pregnant Women to educate moms about what they're going into when they enter the delivery room.

Dan Marek, the foundation's school programs educator, says success stories range from participants cooking more often at home to becoming healthy school advocates.

When Undersecretary of Agriculture Ellen Haas took on the job of upgrading the nation's school lunch program, nutritionists, educators and consumer advocates had high hopes she could wrest the 48 - year - old system from the grip of bureaucracy and bring it in line with contemporary scientific thinking.

The SNA's assertions regarding increased food waste have been echoed in anecdotal reports from school districts around the country, but school food advocates are urging Congress to stay the course and keep the new system in place.

But as it turns out, I'd inadvertently launched a blog that was (partially) about school food right during the 2010 Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR), the springboard from which First lady Michelle Obama and a host of advocates were trying to improve outdated school meal nutrition standards.

School food advocates — myself included — who would love nothing better than to see re-heated chicken nuggets and tater tots replaced with fresh food cooked from scratch, need to wise up to the fact that most Americans just don't care.

I am the author of the American Academy of Pediatrics 2014 policy statement on the importance of later school start times for teenagers and I advocate on the topic from Massachusetts to India.

Speakers for The May 7 Concussion Conference include nationally known experts and panels of local concussion professionals comprised of pediatricians, physical therapists, neuropsychologists, and advocates of brain injury prevention and athletic training education: Dr. Tricia McDonough - Ryan, Dr. Thomas Trojian, Katherine Snedaker MSW, Dr. David Wang, Dr. Mike Lee and the team of experts from Gaylord Center for Concussion Care, Representative from CATA; Deb Shulansky from Brain Injury Alliance of CT (BIAC); Brain Injury attorney and BIAC Board member Paul A. Slager; Charlie Wund, Founder & President Agency for Student Health Research; and Dr. Karissa Niehoff, The Executive Director at CT Association of Schools and CT Interscholastic Athletic Conference

Organic food advocate Greg Christian, Chicago's answer to Alice Waters, argues that every school should have an organic garden on site, teach sustainable agriculture in the classroom, and serve food that's organic and made from scratch, everyday.

I'm sure that moving funds from one category to another will not be simple, and each school department will try to hold on to their funds like a dog with a pork chop, but I think it's important to see the big picture, and in my view, this big picture would mean that schools will eventually be able to provide FREE healthy food for all children, as Dr. Poppendieck advocates.

In it, writer Sarah Kliff attempts to calm the ruffled feathers of school food reform advocates like myself who are outraged by Congress's watering down of school nutrition standards last week under pressure from food industry lobbyists.

For more on that troubling arrangement, be sure to read this Beyond Chron piece by school food reformer Dana Woldow, this HuffPo piece by food advocate Nancy Huenergarth, and this critical post from Food Politics «Marion Nestle.

Kate Adamick, a nationally recognized school food consultant who is an outspoken advocate of eliminating flavored milk from schools, both because of the hazards posed by added sugar in flavored milk and because it costs schools more to buy it, dismissed the study on the same grounds.

Family life and home schooling advocate and educational reformer John Taylor Gatto believes that rigid school routines discourage children from the process of self - discovery.

The acronym stands for «Parents Educators & Advocates Connection for Healthy School Food,» and the site is designed «to provide a roadmap for parents and others wanting to get started making changes in their own communities, as well as steering them away from common myths and misunderstandings that can waste their time and energy.»

As co-chair of my school district's student nutrition committee for the past 8 years, I get exactly the same kind of feedback from parents and other advocates — some demand farm - to - school, some want only organic, some want to ban HFCS, etc. — and few understand the USDA regs which govern the meal program, or the limits of what can be accomplished on the inadequate government reimbursement.