Sentences with phrase «steps on behalf of our schools»

Today the New York State Legislature took some major steps on behalf of our schools and our children.

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You will be a hard act to follow, Bettina, but hopefully among your vast readership, there are some HISD parents who have been inspired by your passion and advocacy on behalf of HISD's students, and who will be willing to step up and take your place, to keep trying to move forward with better school food.

Mr. President, the new legislation awaiting your signature is a giant step in the right direction — on behalf of the students at my little public school, including my son, Zack: Thank you for putting kids first.

Save for a few NAACP branches (including its affiliate in Connecticut, have stepped up in the discussions over Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform effort, and advocated on behalf of Bridgeport mother Tanya McDowell, who will serve five years for trying to provide her child with a high - quality school), the nation's oldest civil rights group offers nothing substantial on addressing issues such as ending Zip Code Education policies, expanding school choice, addressing childhood illiteracy, and revamping how teachers are recruited, trained, paid, and evaluated (especially when it comes to bringing more black men into the teaching profession).

Unlike other areas of authorizing practice, authorizers are very hands on (sometimes quite intensively) in the pre-opening process, including directing schools on areas for change, collaborating with school support organizations, providing explicit informational and step - by - step resources for schools, and advocating on behalf of schools when necessary.

The following chart highlights the Step Right Up, Buy Public Policy organizations that have lobbied on behalf of Malloy's charter school and anti-public education agenda.

While school superintendents and administrators have been a major part of the anti-standardized testing coalitions in New York, far fewer Connecticut school administrators have been willingly to step forward and speak up on behalf of the students, parents, teachers and public schools they are sworn to serve.