Sentences with phrase «school movement under»

He is astute in his approval of the charter school movement under certain circumstances.

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By the time things simmered down, Brooklyn's inner - city schools were in considerably worse shape, white liberals had become accustomed to making excuses for black violence, and the old alliances between the civil - rights movement, on the one hand, and the American labor movement and organized American Jewry, on the other, had been put under severe strain.

We find some affinity with some of the other Movements: like them we have grown and flourished though on a more modest scale and with a quite different style: we are much smaller, we are not international, we own no properties or schools, and our priests are all diocesan, working in parishes under the direction of their bishops.

The argument is that the Chicago school arose in the context of the social gospel, a movement that had much in common with contemporary political theology and that, under the stimulus of political theology, this school can recover something of what it had lost as well as move forward in new ways.

While the Church's growth may have been incubated for decades in living rooms, rented school auditoriums and musty basements under restaurants, social media has made the movement impossible to keep secret anymore.

Under the impact of this modification of the «Berlin» model, theological schooling tends to undergo a movement from pure academic research to applied academic research (both done at the hands of academic theologians) to popularization of the applied research (by theological school teachers) to repetitions of the popularizations by practitioners (the students).

Sen. Bill Perkins, who has been under attack by charter school supporters for his criticism of — and efforts to curb — the movement, has picked up the support of the New York Charter Parents Association.

The march was intended by its organizers, the reform group Families for Excellent Schools, as a celebration of a decade of relatively free rein under the Bloomberg administration, and as a warning to the prospective Blasio administration that the charter - school movement is still a force to be reckoned with.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has frequently criticized Eva Moskowitz as he has criticized the larger charter movement, accusing Moskowitz's schools of receiving preferential treatment under the Bloomberg administration.

In closing, Under Secretary of the U. S. Department of Education Ted Mitchell, who shared that his father was a high school guidance counselor, spoke of the great importance of equity in education and the national movement to expand college readiness, college access, and college completion.

«Under Joseph, Albany also became ground zero for the charter school movement, with the city's 11th school expected to open soon.

The day after Trump's election, for example, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg, North Carolina, school board voted 9 - 0 to adopt a socioeconomic - integration plan for its magnet schools, a reminder that under the United States system of federalism, changes in Washington don't have to spell the end of education movements.

The infant schools, a movement that quickly spread and then just as quickly disappeared before the Civil War, withered under the now - familiar criticism that academic training before the age of six or seven could inflict «serious and lasting injury» on «both the body and the mind,» as physician Amariah Brigham wrote in 1833.

The group is independent and nonpartisan, but it doesn't hide its leanings toward the current school - reform movement's focus on accountability and assessment, which is seeing its day in New Jersey under Gov. Chris Christie and his education commissioner.

CCSA's response to The Los Angeles Times» editorial about the charter movement, Making Room for Charter Students, stating that allocating space for charter students under Prop. 39 should not be at the expense of students in traditional public schools.

Nelson Lichtenstein, a labor historian at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said the unions» strategy on testing follows years in which they have been under assault, by conservative leaders and by the bipartisan education - reform movement that has painted unions as a central obstacle to improving schools.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Microsoft Founder Bill Gates, whose foundation has donated tens of millions of dollars to charter schools, have both warned charter school operators that a lack of accountability for under - performing schools was giving the entire movement a black eye.

Developments in the 1960s and 1970s brought schools under fire, but the driving force behind the modern standards and accountability movement was the linking of educational to economic concerns in the 1980s.

Joel Klein, the ex-New York City school chancellor who sanctioned many charters under former mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has personally subsidized the school privatization movement, tweeted, «The 2d «A» in @NAACP stands for Advancement.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos celebrated the Trinity decision as a victory for the school choice movement, which has gained momentum and stands to expand under the Trump administration.

What has become known as the «opt out» movement has been growing in various states for a few years, sparked by standardized test - based school reform that began under the administration of the younger Bush and gained steam under President Obama.

Behind the rhetoric of «transparency» and «inclusion,» CPS under the administrators appointed by Rahm Emanuel's Board of Education are going out of their way to deny the public access to key information and to make sure that reporters — especially those with cameras and video cameras — are denied access to the growing mass movement across the city that is demanding no cuts this school year.

«A group of three publicly financed charter schools in Georgia run by followers of Fethullah Gulen, a prominent Turkish imam, have come under scrutiny after they defaulted on bonds and an audit found that the schools improperly granted hundreds of thousands of dollars in contracts to businesses and groups, many of them with ties to the Gulen movement....

Duncan said universities can join the new movement by operating charter or contract schools, which will comprise about two thirds of the new schools carved out of about 70 to 80 troubled ones under Renaissance 2010.

In Texas, for example, the law prohibits an owner from keeping a dog outside and unattended by use of a restraint that (1) unreasonably limits the dog's movement between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.; (2) is within 500 feet of the premises of a school; or (3) where extreme weather conditions are present under 32 degrees Fahrenheit, and when there is a heat advisory.

While working for the WPA, she studied under Hans Hofmann, who ignited her interest in and exposure to the School of Paris art movement and the works of Picasso and Matisse.

They studied under important American painters, like Robert Henri, leader of the Ashcan School, and their work reflected the growing urban realism movement.

It was there I became more aware of what was going on in New York and was making paintings under the influence of Neo-Geo movement, and it was serendipity, which took me to RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) for my graduate work.

For those less interested in Op Art, we offer a wide variety of other schools of modern art, such as Pop, Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism and work that can't easily be classified under any specific art movement.

In this hour, we'll travel Down Under to see a growing climate movement that is as diverse as it is, visiting a primary school where climate action is on the agenda and hearing from Sharan Burrow, general secretary, International Trade Union Confederation, about labor's vital role in the climate fight.