Sentences with phrase «school waged a campaign»

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More recently, School District 69 for Qualicum and Parksville also adopted a living wage standard this week after a successful campaign to have one implemented.

As many of you know, for the last week I've been waging a Change.org petition campaign against the oxymoronic notion of McDonald's «nutrition education» infiltrating our schools.

At least two of the three candidates knocked off the ballot for Tuesday's Buffalo School Board election are waging write - in campaigns.

And then there is the much bigger rump that could not get access to good schools (down under Labour), good apprenticeships / sponsoring companies, also down under Labour and lastly betrayed by a Labour Govt that seems to think spending vast amounts of money on snooping campaigns to catch benefit cheats is a better investment than educating and reskilling the un-employed, who on going out to do the jobs that must be done find themselves up against foreign labour sometimes willing to work the most brutal conditions (and maybe less than min wage because it is still better than home).

«We are campaigning for a Green New Deal for New York, including full employment through public jobs for the unemployed, a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage, single - payer health care, fully funded public schools from pre-K through college, affordable housing and expanded mass transit,» Hawkins said.

«He isn't promising his campaign contributors that he is going to raise the minimum wage, ban fracking, make health care a right, fully fund our public schools or opt out of Common Core - aligned high - stakes testing.

Major issues during the 2015 legislative session included lifting the cap on charter schools, increasing the minimum wage, criminal justice reform, campaign financing, and ethics reform.

We will continue our campaigns to ban fracking and make New York a world leader in clean energy, fully fund public schools, enact single - payer healthcare, raise the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, and pass a full public campaign financing bill,» Hawkins said.

But a campaign flyer lists her efforts to raise the minimum wage, increase school funding, promote equal pay for women and ensure affordable housing for seniors and the disabled.

Witness her decision to endorse and campaign for Governor Andrew Cuomo, whose electoral showing suffered this year from antipathy toward him among liberals, and who Mark - Viverito herself had sharply criticized a few months earlier for his positions on taxes, charter schools and the minimum wage.

The heated debate over the growth of charter schools in Massachusetts continues to escalate, as advocates and opponents wrangle in legal suits and wage aggressive public relation campaigns to sway parents» opinions.

So worried are some school districts and state education agencies that they are waging their own public - relations campaigns to counter misconceptions about how much they receive from lottery proceeds and6where the money goes.

Its something every school district will have to face,» said Cissy Bowman, spokeswoman for the Mt. Lebanon (Pennsylvania) School District, which waged a very public campaign against a MRSA outbreak inschool district will have to face,» said Cissy Bowman, spokeswoman for the Mt. Lebanon (Pennsylvania) School District, which waged a very public campaign against a MRSA outbreak inSchool District, which waged a very public campaign against a MRSA outbreak in 2007.

An academy trust set to have its funding axed by the government has hit back — blasting department officials for «waging a campaign» against the school, and has...

In Chicago, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Newark and elsewhere, officials, often backed by outside billionaires, have waged identical campaigns of destruction: disinvesting in community schools while funding and promoting privately run charter schools, declaring underfunded community schools «failures,» closing them and replacing them with more charters.

It is crucial to understand that this new School Board that will be seated in 2017 will be the School Board voting on our full contract and health benefits — when all indications are that key figures in the senior management of the District will be advocating that LAUSD wage a vigorous campaign to cut our benefits.

Ressler is also a founder and former board chair of Alliance charter schools, which continues to wage an illegal anti-union campaign against its own educators (read about a judge's recent ruling against Alliance on page 5).

GOP strategists also like school choice because it adds a spark of positive energy to a 2014 campaign agenda that's awfully heavy on the negatives: no to Obamacare, no to minimum - wage hikes, no to gay marriage — but yes to rescuing struggling kids from failing public schools through the power of the free market.

That would be smart: three years ago the New Jersey Charter School Association filed a formal complaint (later dismissed) that alleged «as founder and current Chair of Save our Schools New Jersey (SOSNJ), Dr. Sass Rubin has knowingly and consistently used her position, title and university resources to wage a personally driven lobbying and public relations campaign against New Jersey's public charter schools, as well as New Jersey's laws that regulate same, in support of SOSNJ's advocacy goals.Schools New Jersey (SOSNJ), Dr. Sass Rubin has knowingly and consistently used her position, title and university resources to wage a personally driven lobbying and public relations campaign against New Jersey's public charter schools, as well as New Jersey's laws that regulate same, in support of SOSNJ's advocacy goals.schools, as well as New Jersey's laws that regulate same, in support of SOSNJ's advocacy goals.»

As public school administrators by and large have failed to ensure proper learning environments, they have waged a P.R. campaign to demonize teachers and to peg teacher evaluations to student standardized test scores.

as founder and current Chair of Save our Schools New Jersey (SOSNJ), Dr. Sass Rubin has knowingly and consistently used her position, title and university resources to wage a personally driven lobbying and public relations campaign against New Jersey's public charter schools, as well as New Jersey's laws that regulate same, in support of SOSNJ's advocacy goals.Schools New Jersey (SOSNJ), Dr. Sass Rubin has knowingly and consistently used her position, title and university resources to wage a personally driven lobbying and public relations campaign against New Jersey's public charter schools, as well as New Jersey's laws that regulate same, in support of SOSNJ's advocacy goals.schools, as well as New Jersey's laws that regulate same, in support of SOSNJ's advocacy goals.»

Contending that a Rutgers professor and public schools advocate has used her position, title and state university resources to wage a personally driven campaign against them, a group representing the state's charter schools has filed an ethics complaint against the Save Our Schools NJ co-fschools advocate has used her position, title and state university resources to wage a personally driven campaign against them, a group representing the state's charter schools has filed an ethics complaint against the Save Our Schools NJ co-fschools has filed an ethics complaint against the Save Our Schools NJ co-fSchools NJ co-founder.

Now the trust has responded, claiming the government has waged a campaign against the school that has been «been characterised by misrepresentation, half truths and inaccuracies».

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