Sentences with phrase «teachers urge parents»

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Parents, students and teachers from South Florida, the state's Democratic stronghold, have been a forceful presence in the Capitol since last week, when busloads of Stoneman Douglas High students spent two days lobbying — and protesting — lawmakers, urging them to take more far - reaching action and ban all assault weapons.

Do you also urge parents to keep their children away from other family members and school teachers?

But the push for having students opt out has been statewide, with the New York State United Teachers union and the other education groups allied with NYSUT robocalling parents urging them to not have their students take the tests.

He is urging parents, teachers, coaches and community members to work together.

This disappoints the Buffalo Parent - Teacher Organization, whose leaders urged the mayor to increase school spending by one million dollars.

The parents» complaint against the government's primary curriculum is that children find it «crashingly dull», urging teachers instead to teach «stuff that actually interests and engages children».

She urged members of the general public, parents, guardians, head teachers, proprietors and proprietresses of primary schools in the State to take note.

«The voices of the parents, teachers and the community have been heard,» said Leonie Haimson, the executive director of education blog Class Size Matters, who delivered 13,000 signatures to Steiner's apartment on the Upper East Side Monday evening urging him to deny the waiver.

The BHA is urging all parents, teachers, young people and academics to respond to the consultation and call on the Government to include the humanism annex.

But the teachers union, New York State United Teachers, is trying to throw a wrench into the new process, by actively urging parents to opt their children out of thteachers union, New York State United Teachers, is trying to throw a wrench into the new process, by actively urging parents to opt their children out of thTeachers, is trying to throw a wrench into the new process, by actively urging parents to opt their children out of the exams.

Join this NYC parent and others in urging city officials and the teachers» union to come to an agreement on a new teacher evaluation system.

The spot asks parents, teachers and community members to contact their legislators and City Hall to urge them to protect schools from devastating budget cuts that will mean «overcrowded classrooms, an end to tutoring and after - school programs, and the loss of thousands of great teachers and school staff.»

«I am saying that I would urge parents at this point in time to opt out of testing,» the New York State United Teachers president said in a 2015 interview on the radio show «Capitol Pressroom.»

Mulgrew urges next mayor to «drain the swamp» of DOE bureaucracy, reduce paperwork burden on teachers and administrators, find new ways to engage parents

In a letter to Apple, Jana Partners LLC, and the California State Teachers» Retirement System (also known as CalSTRS)-- they control about $ 2 billion of Apple shares — call youth phone addiction a growing public health crisis and urge Apple to make it easier for parents to control their children's screen time and to fund studies that would reveal the true consequences of smartphone use on mental health.

I often hear parents or other advocates urge teachers to accommodate students with ADHD by giving them a lengthy or indefinite amount of time to turn in assignments.

A Wise Up campaign has since been launched, alongside the National Children's Bureau, which is calling for teachers, parents and pupils to sign an open letter addressed to Theresa May, urging her to rebalance the system and make wellbeing a priority for schools.

I keep urging teachers (and parents, too) to come in through a different doorway.

Last year a record number of pupils from Scotland secured a university place on exams results day, with 28,300 confirming their position on the course they hoped for, but the charity is urging parents and teachers to remind children it is «not the end of the world» if they fail to earn the grades they were hoping for.

Addressing the large audience of New England - area teachers and parent - activists attending the meeting at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the speakers nevertheless urged advocates of education programs for the gifted to lobby local and state officials for the expansion of gifted - education programs.

This reality has transformed PE scholars like Lorenzo into budgetary pragmatists who urge their students to «sell» PE to parents, PTOs, and particularly fellow teachers.

Similar sentiments have been echoed by Liberal Democrat education spokesman Liam McArthur, who said: «I would urge the government to heed the calls of teaching unions, teachers and parents to drop plans for national standardised testing in primary schools.»

Kaspersky Lab urges parents, teachers and the industry to work together to create a safe environment for children, so they can learn and thrive online, as opposed to being scared or worried to connect to the internet altogether.

Moore also urged that all stakeholders — teachers, administrators, parents, and community leaders — encourage coalition - building and resource sharing and work to transform their schools into community hubs.

Left - wing policy supports neighborhood - based public schools, opposes any methods to measure or differentiate the performance of teachers or schools, and argues instead for alternatives to school reform like increased anti-poverty spending or urging middle - class parents to enroll their children in high - poverty schools.

Which isn't to say that the millions of teachers and parents who flooded social media and the Congressional switchboard to urge her rejection had nothing to worry about.

The Center for Union Facts, a nonprofit, ran an ad in today's USA Today that urges parents and school reform advocates to to follow Vergara's lead and sue when teacher unions block reform efforts.

Thousands of NYC Children, Parents & Teachers March to Have Their Voices Heard, Urge City Leaders to Support Public Charter Schools

Some critics of public schools urge greater competition among schools as a way of returning control from bureaucrats to parents and teachers.

Join CCSA and charter school leaders, students, parents and teachers in making a strong statement for California's charter schools by urging legislators to support legislation that will advocate for charter school accountability, facilities and funding equity.

Karen E. Magee, president of New York State United Teachers, has urged parents to opt out of annual testing for their children.

Underscoring warring perspectives within the district, a Brooklyn public school on Friday sent a notice to parents urging them to protest the release, saying: «OUR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS ARE NOT TEST SCORES!!»

Ms. Magee urged parents to opt out of the tests to subvert the rating system, though state education officials said districts would have to come up with alternative methods of evaluating teachers who did not have enough test scores.

«We also specifically urged head teachers and governing bodies to listen to concerns from parents or carers and, when appointing suppliers, to ensure that value for money is taken into account.»

The policy brief urges policymakers to support programs for the parents of English language learners, implement nontraditional programs that offer reciprocal involvement by schools and parents, sponsor targeted teacher professional development, and provide community - based education to inform parents about school values and expectations and help parents become advocates for their children.

Good Morning A huge turnout in support of school choice at Florida's state capitol on Tuesday, as Martin Luther King III and several thousand parents and children rallied to urge the state's largest teachers» union to drop a lawsuit against the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship.

Nine organizations, including E4E - Los Angeles, have authored a joint letter urging Governor Jerry Brown to veto AB 484, an education bill that would deprive teachers, students, parents and voters from accessing information about how students are performing.

A huge turnout in support of school choice at Florida's state capitol on Tuesday, as Martin Luther King III and several thousand parents and children rallied to urge the state's largest teachers» union to drop a lawsuit against the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship.

Michael Davern, a teacher from Southwark, said members should «sink the ship before it sails» and urged parents to join in any boycott and opt out of testing.

«We urge the Government to think again, to listen to the concerns of parents, governors, teachers, heads, councillors and MPs, including its own backbenchers, and press the pause button before it causes any more chaos for children.

Karen E. Magee, president of the New York State United Teachers union, expressly urged parents this year to skip the tests, to subvert the new teacher evaluations.

This call for evidence is about giving teachers, parents and especially young people a chance to help shape that new approach and I'd urge them to take part.»

«We urge the Trump Administration to also hear from teachers, parents, and students, who have fought for decades for fair school discipline policies, before taking any steps to repeal or replace the school discipline guidance.»

NYC teachers have been warned against sharing their professional analyses of the educational appropriateness of state tests and former Chancellor Farina told parents at a private meeting in District 15 that she herself would in fact opt out in certain cases yet declined to share this with all NYC parents, despite D15 parents» strong urging that she do so.

Parents, teachers, elected officials and civic organizations have written letters of support to Hall, urging him to allow the two Durham schools to remain under local control.

«A new CEA TV commercial featuring Connecticut students, teachers, and parents is now on the air urging lawmakers to pass legislation ensuring less testing and more learning in our public schools.

The Buffalo Federation of Teachers, the Rochester Teachers Association and more than 120 New York State local teacher unions have also endorsed resolutions supporting the right of parents to opt their children out of the Common Core testing and urging teachers to opt their own children out of thTeachers, the Rochester Teachers Association and more than 120 New York State local teacher unions have also endorsed resolutions supporting the right of parents to opt their children out of the Common Core testing and urging teachers to opt their own children out of thTeachers Association and more than 120 New York State local teacher unions have also endorsed resolutions supporting the right of parents to opt their children out of the Common Core testing and urging teachers to opt their own children out of thteachers to opt their own children out of the tests.

The New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) has been a leader in the growing national opt out effort and just last week NYSUT President Karen Magee endorsed the right of parents to opt their children observing, «I am saying that I would urge parents... to opt out of testing.»

Last week Karen Magee, the President of the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), joined the growing opt out movement saying, «I would urge parents at this point in time to opt out of testing.»

On November 17th, more than one hundred parents and students stood on the steps of City Hall to urge the teachers» union and the Department of Education to agree on a new teacher evaluation system.