Sentences with phrase «students boycotted»

On October 22, 1963, 250,000 CPS students boycotted school and thousands marched downtown.

Some school districts are reporting that 60 to 70 percent of students boycotted statewide English tests, raising questions about whether the federal government could withhold funds from schools with high opt out rates.

Numbers for attendance at the 2017 tests will not be released until the summer, but already Newsday is reporting that around half of Long Island students boycotted the English exams given in late March.

Numbers for 2017 test attendance will not be released until the summer, but Newsday already is reporting that about half of Long Island students boycotted the English exams given in late March.

Chartwells has encountered problems in other parts of the country, including a well - publicized student boycott at a Connecticut high school last fall over the quality of the food the company provided.

Dissatisfaction with Common Core and its related tests has led to one fifth of students boycotting the third through eighth grade math and English exams last spring.

The dissatisfaction with the Common Core learning standards and associated standardized tests led to 20 % of students boycotting the tests last spring.

Cuomo blamed the State Education Department, known as SED, which he does not control, for the troubles, including a student boycott of the exams.

Dissatisfaction with Common Core and its related tests has led to one - fifth of students boycotting the third through eighth grade math and English exams last spring.

The dissatisfaction with the Common Core learning standards and associated standardized tests led to 20 percent of students boycotting the tests last spring.

The segment covers many facets of the issue, including tying the results to teacher evaluations, the growing number of students boycotting the tests, the history of No Child Left Behind and the sometimes ridiculous and surreal scenes the testing culture creates, like pep rallies with a dancing monkey meant to pump kids up for the test.

In response, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has suggested that the massive student boycotts of the Common Core tests as seen in New York is unacceptable, and if unchecked, could lead to federal intervention in our schools to ensure test compliance.

Not exact matches

Student activist David Hogg calls for boycott of Vanguard and BlackRock over gunmaker ownership

The primary reason is, of all things, a commercial boycott, spearheaded by the student survivors of the recent Florida school massacre, and their supporters.

Eleven companies so far have pulled their ads after a pushback by Parkland student David Hogg, 17, who called for a boycott of her advertisers.

Stoneman Douglas student David Hogg called for that boycott after host Laura Ingraham mocked him on Twitter for not getting into a few of the colleges of his choice.

Fox News host Laura Ingraham is going on a one - week «Easter Break» from her show as advertisers boycott The Ingraham Angle over a tweet criticizing anti-gun Parkland student activist David Hogg.

And now the student is calling on her sponsors to boycott her show — to some big success.

Even as late as 1937, four years after Heidegger was supposed to have withdrawn from the Nazi party, students at his own university thought it appropriate to protest Nazi denigration of Karl Jaspers by boycotting Heidegger's lectures.

The harassment includes social boycott, expulsions, threats and violence against Ahmadi students by extremist students, teachers and principals of the majority sect.

Nearly half the student body boycotted the first day of classes, and the school received bomb threats.

Religious leaders in Nigeria have called for Christian students to boycott compulsory Arabic classes... More

They call for boycotting the cafeteria, or bringing in food trucks to sell to students out in front of the school in competition with the cafeterias, or even demanding that local restaurants be allowed in to provide catering directly from the cafeteria kitchen.

A lot of you saw this Saturday's front page story in the New York Times describing how students around the country are complaining about, and even boycotting, the new school food.

The Parsippany Hills, NJ high school mentioned in the Times report, at which school food is being boycotted, has about 1,100 kids, 5 % of whom — or 60 students — qualify for free and reduced lunch.

Last week, Eng updated the story, reporting that the Roosevelt students staged an impressive boycott in which over 900 kids spurned school lunch, instead eating granola, fruit and yogurt provided by outside supporters of their efforts.

The students are now trying to take their protest district - wide, asking students from around Chicago to boycott school lunch tomorrow, December 17th.

Many of the older students at Chapman started boycotting chicken nuggets last year and will be delighted to find that pressed meat is out and whole - breast chicken nuggets are in, she says.

Yesterday I told you about a high school student, Hector Sanchez, who led a four - day boycott of school food at Milby, an almost 100 % Hispanic, relatively underprivileged high school in east Houston.

Wow, if the parents were bringing in fast food lunches for student's boycotting the school lunch, that speaks loud and clear about the level of the parents food - education.

-LSB-...] I told you about a high school student, Hector Sanchez, who led a four - day boycott of school food at Milby, an almost 100 % Hispanic, relatively underprivileged high school in east -LSB-...]

While Sanchez has no firm figures regarding the boycott, he said that a cafeteria worker did tell him that there were far fewer students eating the school meal than normal.

She was interested to hear about my blog because, according to her, the students at Milby are so unhappy with HISD school food that they had planned a boycott for this week.

So when administrators announced last month that the cafeteria would stop accepting cash and required the use of a school - issued debit card that charges a 10 percent usage fee, hundreds of students staged a lunch boycott at both Minooka high school campuses.

In the spring, high school students in south suburban Minooka staged a cafeteria boycott to protest, among other things, the limited healthy food options.

University and college lecturers have voted unanimously to boycott a government request to spy on students.

Top photo via Wikipedia The Parkland students continue to amaze — just today, I read about how David Hogg launched an advertiser boycott against conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham in the few HOURS after she mocked his rejection from some of his college choices.

Nearly 80,000 public school students in 100 districts across Long Island refused yesterday to take the state mathematics exam given in grades three through eight, in a fifth straight year of boycotts driven by opposition to the Common Core tests, according to a Newsday survey.

The Ghana National Union of Technical Students (GNUTS), is threatening to boycott lectures and embark on nationwide demonstrations by Tuesday [March 27, 2018], if the government does not respond favorably to the concerns lecturers have raised about the Technical Universities (Amendment) Bill 2017.

During annual spring testing, more than 200,000 students in grades three to eight opt out in the nation's largest such boycott.

Despite the mutual State of the State boycott between Cuomo and state lawmakers, they will all have to work together eventually on issues like passing the budget, which is expected to have a deficit, and perhaps implementing new laws — to make college tuition free for more students, and allowing ride - sharing services like Uber and Lyft in more places in New York.

New York is going back to the drawing board to rethink the way it evaluates school teachers and principals after controversy over the use of student test scores in job evaluations helped fuel a massive boycott of state exams in recent years.

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 % of students statewide opting out of the tests.

20 % of students statewide boycotted the tests last April.

With 106 of the Island's 124 districts responding, 87,899 of 170,733 eligible students in grades three through eight boycotted the exam — 51.5 percent.

In spring 2015, an estimated 200,000 students statewide — more than 70,000 of them on Long Island — refused to take state tests in English and math, the largest such boycott in the nation.

Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia's report came on a day when large numbers of students in some parts of the state were expected to once again boycott the required third - through eighth - grade math tests.

A statewide count by boycott leaders, based largely on news accounts, indicated that more than 178,000 students sat out tests overall, with about half of all districts counted.

In that Suffolk district, 434 of 722 eligible students — 60.1 percent — boycotted the English exam, according to numbers the district sent to Newsday.

A recent review showed that 20 percent of students statewide boycotted the controversial exams associated with the Common Core learning standards, with higher rates upstate and on Long Island.