Sentences with phrase «state school campaign»

Janet Downs, from the state school campaign group Local Schools Network, obtained the only set of transfer costs ever to be publicly released after she won a 12 - month legal battle with the government.

But Janet Downs, from the state school campaign group Local Schools Network, said that BDT's demand suggests the organisation want UTCs to be «selective».

Not exact matches

Republican officials in numerous states have opposed that campaign, saying schools should not be required to let such students use bathrooms or locker rooms based on their gender identity.

The Scott campaign, meanwhile, has run TV ads accusing Crist of raising tuition at state colleges and leaving K - 12 schools in worse shape than when he took office.

Stepping into the political turmoil of Israel after being steeped in the United States presidential campaign is akin to moving into an advanced seminar on theological ethics from a third - grade church school classroom.

As Humanists UK campaign against the involvement of religious organisations in the running of state schools, they say this money from the Catholic church «represents inappropriate influence.»

Richard Lamm, the former governor of Colorado who has campaigned against excessive medical costs, recently cited the case of a patient in a Washington, D.C., hospital who has been in a comatose state since Lamm was a high school student.

In Massachusetts, a campaign by church - state separationists was successful in convincing voters to defeat a proposal to allow tax support for private and religious schools; the vote was 70 per cent to 30 per cent.

Pupils at 15 of Brooklyn's schools will be launching a trial of MFM's sister campaign in the states, Meatless Monday, in the spring, meaning all canteen food will be meat free at breakfast and lunch.

In your April 13 SCORECARD, you stated that Puma's Back to the Game basketball advertising campaign would feature high school basketball stars and that Puma would pay «the youngsters» expenses to and from commercial shoots.»

The problem, of course, is that Auburn is still in the SEC West, a division which has produced three of the last four BCS title game participants (and five of the last eight), added a suddenly elite - looking Texas A&M squad and features schools like Arkansas (21 - 5 in 2010 - 11), Mississippi State (three straight bowl campaigns) and Ole Miss (seemingly rebounding quickly — and recruiting like crazy — under Hugh Freeze).

She also serves on the WA state leadership advisory committee for the Speak Up When You're Down Postpartum Depression Awareness Campaign www.speakup.wa.gov and has been an instructor at the Seattle Midwifery School for their PPMD course.

Whether you hope to increase support for school meal programs or launch a statewide Breakfast in the Classroom campaign, this webinar will arm you with tips and techniques to win over your state and local leaders.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- American chef Cat Cora has been traveling around the United States to raise awareness about nutrition and to promote better school meals as a part of First Lady Michelle Obama's «Chefs Move to Schools» campaign.

Spending boatloads of money on professional lobbying and a massive postcard campaign to legislators, the organization and their deep - pocketed friends like PepsiCo, Coca - Cola, Con Agra and Schwan's killed the state school nutrition bill, ensuring many more years of junk food for New York's schoolchildren.

To recap, CPS recently announced that it made a landmark purchase of 1.2 million pounds of local, whole - muscle chicken raised without antibiotics, the result of a months - long collaboration between CPS, School Food FOCUS, the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming, Whole Foods, Miller Poultry, Michigan State University and Healthy Schools Campaign.

A bill declaring Ms. G the official state groundhog was passed into law in 2014, thanks largely to a campaign by students of Wellesley's Hunnewell Elementary School and former broadcast meteorologist Mish Michaels.

So it's been awhile since I've been on here, but I had to come here to see if there was any chatter about this whole twitter campaign happening with the state of school lunches today.

In addition, many states are holding school breakfast challenges aimed at increasing awareness of, and participation in, school breakfast programs; check out the information and resources available through Ohio's «Eat Right, Be Bright» school breakfast challenge, Michigan's «Boost Breakfast» campaign, and Pennsylvania's school breakfast challenge.

Humanists UK, which leads the national campaign against religious discrimination and segregation in schools, has stated that such a decision would ignore the evidence that the cap has boosted integration in faith schools and instead show that the Government has bowed to the demands of the religious lobby instead of sticking up for the interests of children.

«The Campaign wants all state - funded schools in England and Wales to be open equally to all children, without regard to religion or belief.

Your top three campaign promises?Firstly, I would bring back the Routemaster bus; and phase out those big fat cars like the super 4X4s; and, given the state of our economy, would introduce happiness lessons in schools because we are turning into quite a miserable lot.

Business, state, and civil actors from various parts of the world — including high profile investors like George Soros — have spent lavishly on events, scholarships, summer schools, training programmes, and media while campaigning to secure specific political outcomes.

And though the results as published do not completely rule out the idea that other factors were at play, the ad campaign itself seems to have been a deciding factor in defeating a Florida initiative that would have led to larger class sizes in the state's public schools.

Joshua Lafazan, who in 2012 became the youngest public office holder in state history when he was elected at 18 to the Syosset school board, kicked off his campaign for the Nassau Legislature, vowing to bring young energy to fight political corruption and restore the county's fiscal integrity.

Also at 6 p.m., NYC Councilman Jumaane Williams will deliver his State of the District address and give a campaign announcement, Andries Hudde Junior High School, 2500 Nostrand Ave., Brooklyn.

The case stems from the contribution from the New Yorkers for a Brighter Future to the Fund for Great Public Schools, the latter of which has been heavily involved in state legislative campaigns on behalf of Democratic candidates, primarily for the state Senate.

An new report from an education advocacy group accuses members of the state Senate's eight - member IDC of betraying traditional public schools in exchange for campaign donations from charter school supporters.

The effort, the lawmakers said at a news conference, is aimed at satisfying the terms of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit — a claim for additional state aid to schools that is staunchly disputed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration.

«We're not surprised that the Senate Democrats, who nearly bankrupted this state, would want to force New Yorkers to spend $ 200 million in taxpayer money to fund political campaigns rather than investing those dollars in our schools or providing incentives to help businesses create jobs,» said the spokesman, Scott Reif.

Think about it: when the presidential campaigns are joined by senatorial, congressional, gubernatorial, state legislative, mayoral, etc etc etc, campaigns, all down to the level of local school board candidates, everybody just step back — this thing's going to get huge.

Groups including the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which successfully sued the state for more education funding, charge that Cuomo is ignoring a 2006 court order that said more money needed to be spent to educate the state's poorest school children.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

Faced with losing the ballot line to a challenger who tapped into resentment over his estate tax cuts, charter - school championing and failure to deliver campaign finance reform, Governor Andrew Cuomo won the party's designation only after promising to fight for Democratic control of the state Senate and deliver a progressive policy wish list.

He is known as a committed advocate for public education, and co-founded the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which won billions of dollars for city schools from the state, though most of that money has never materialized.

All this week, state and local law enforcement will increase patrols near high schools as part of a statewide campaign to limit the impacts of impaired and distracted driving as prom and graduation season approach.

«We're going to demand that Governor Cuomo provide the funding that was afforded to us in a court decision for our schools,» she said as she joined advocates to push for more funding under the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which in 2007 won a lawsuit against the state to provide increased education funding to the city.

She said the state could have tackled a range of issues, from fully funding public schools to fixing the beleaguered subway system and enacting campaign finance reform.

Nixon said Cuomo is not obeying a 12 - year - old court order in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case, which says the state needs to spend billions more on schools in order for them to become equitable.

These public schools have been chronically underfunded for years, as the state's highest court found in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) ruling.

Supporters of the campaign include the British Humanist Association, Professor Ted Cantle and the iCoCo Foundation, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, the Campaign for State Education, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Christian think tank Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Green Party, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Liberal Youth, the Local Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, and the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Ccampaign include the British Humanist Association, Professor Ted Cantle and the iCoCo Foundation, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, the Campaign for State Education, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Christian think tank Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Green Party, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Liberal Youth, the Local Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, and the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian CCampaign for State Education, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Christian think tank Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Green Party, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Liberal Youth, the Local Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, and the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian CCampaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, and the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.

The Green Party also has policy opposing all religious selection amongst state - funded schools, whereas Labour has been campaigning for keeping the 50 % cap.

Donald Trump is crediting New York's never - ending corruption scandals for prodding the state's ethics agency to investigate his complaint that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman hit up Trump's relatives and associates for campaign contributions while investigating his business school.

Cuomo can't avoid getting tainted by the Manhattan federal court trial because «they are going to be talking about actions taken while Mr. Percoco was employed by the campaign and in state government,» said Albany Law School professor Christine Chung.

As Governor Cuomo has turned his attention to how the state would deal with Ebola, Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins appeared in Buffalo Friday campaigning against charter schools, Common Core and Fracking.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

Her campaign says she will speak at noon Monday at a press conference on school funding inequities before meeting with parents of school children from around the state.

In recent weeks, as Nixon began her upstart campaign, Cuomo has been talking about a budget proposal that would require school districts within cities with a population of more than 125,000 people — New York City, Buffalo, Syracuse, Yonkers and Rochester — to submit an annual plan detailing the allocation of local, state and federal funds by school building.

But the ad - targeting world changed in 2014, with vendors like DSPolitical (via DemocraticAds.com), CampaignGrid (via CampaignGridDirect) and Targeted Victory launching «self - serve» platforms that allow down - ballot campaigns for state legislature, mayor, city council and even school board to buy banner ads and even pre-roll video ads (if enough volume is available) that appear on a huge range of content websites, all targetable at particular slices of their own electorates.

Mike Rebell is the man responsible for the Campaign for Fiscal Equity Lawsuit in which courts found the state underfunded New York City public schools.