Sentences with phrase «with education activists»

Although these findings resonate with education activists and an increasing number of parents across the nation, they have fallen on deaf ears with leadership in our state, even while many other states have dropped their membership with the consortium or removed tying results to high stakes until such findings are substantiated.

At a news conference in Oceanside with education activists, Kaminsky accused Senate Republicans of orchestrating a «secret deal» to fund the ads in exchange for the charter school hike.

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And of course it's married with an email - your - state - officials function, tightly linking activist education and action.

The governor is seeking to quickly shore up support among his left - leaning Democratic base — a group with which he has not always seen eye - to - eye — particularly since Nixon, also a public education activist, announced she would challenge him in a primary in September.

Liberal activists who have been critical of Cuomo on education and other issues think an insurgent with greater name recognition could provide a stronger challenge, even though polls say Cuomo is still popular among Democratic voters statewide.

The League of Conservation Voters Education Fund (LCVEF) works with our state LCVEF partners, educates the public, media and elected officials about key environmental issues, works to increase voter participation in the democratic process and mobilizes a diverse network of activists to advocate for sound environmental policies.

She spoke at a press conference Monday organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group that pushes for more state funding for schools and has said that the current funding distribution favors wealthy, white districts over poor areas with people of color.

Mulgrew said his schedule has been filled with meetings with elected officials, labor groups and education activists about how to handle the dangers ahead.

During the Saturday morning rally, SBU and Coalition activists joined with politicians, including Assemblyman Jose Rivera and City Council Members Joel Rivera (the majority leader and Jose's son) and Robert Jackson (head of the Council's Education

The Pakistani founder of the Malala Fund and girls» education activist, Malala Yousafzai, on Tuesday met behind closed doors with the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Anti-testing activists said the opt - outs sent a clear message to Cuomo, the Regents and the state Education Department: The tests and curricula aligned with the Common Core academic standards must be completely retooled.

Believing he was among friends, UFT boss Mike Mulgrew showed what he's really made of during a closed - door meeting with union activists — spewing hatred toward education «reformers» and charter schools, and even admitting he sabotaged teacher evaluations.

ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

U.S. Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos, a longtime donor and activist with an extensive history of funding school reform initiatives, was grilled on a plethora of educational policies and her financial background Tuesday evening during her confirmation hearing before a U.S. Senate committee.

However, a major Bronx disability activist who has worked closely with Assemblyman Benjamin on housing and education issues but was not able to participate in the panel strongly disputes this.

The letter is signed by world - renowned scholar Noam Chomsky, along with journalist Naomi Klein, Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and a host of other prominent scholars and activists, including some of the most established pro-public education voices.

Believing he was among friends, UFT boss Mike Mulgrew showed what he's really made of during a closed - door meeting with union activists — spewing hatred toward education «reformers» and charter...

With Lord Browne's review of higher education funding due next month, Mr Cable acknowledged that many activists believed university education should be free.

Green Party activist Howie Hawkins will join with Mark Dunlea of the Green Education and Legal Fund on Wednesday April 6 at 2 PM in Syracuse to discuss what New York needs to do to avoid catastrophic climate change.

Nixon has been an outspoken activist for public education and other progressive causes, and is close to Mayor de Blasio, who has been at war with Cuomo.

The education activist, actress and close friend of the governor's nemesis Mayor de Blasio, leveled numerous slams against Cuomo at her roll - out in a Pentecostal church in an area home mainly to minority voters, with whom Cuomo's last challenger, Zephyr Teachout failed to gain traction.

With a background as a civil rights activist and as an early leader of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, Perales would be a plus with Latinos, one of the fastest - growing groups of New YorkWith a background as a civil rights activist and as an early leader of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, Perales would be a plus with Latinos, one of the fastest - growing groups of New Yorkwith Latinos, one of the fastest - growing groups of New Yorkers.

The move was met with outrage from local politicians and education activists, who argued that the community needed the seats for local elementary students instead.

An education activist in New York for years, Ms. Nixon has also been studying up on other policy areas, including transportation, according to people familiar with her activities.

Nixon's first Albany appearance on Monday displayed her qualifications, speaking at a news conference called by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group she has worked with for years dedicated to ending the gap between the school budgets of poor communities without large property tax revenues and those of model schools in well - to - do communities.

Scott: Well, we talked about this a lot and we've been working with the scientific societies and education societies that we work with, but we also work with the celebrities community and so we have a kind of a broader range of folks that we interact with than most science co-organizations because, you know, National Center for Science Education is this very odd hybrid of an activist organization, but still a scholarly organization at the sameeducation societies that we work with, but we also work with the celebrities community and so we have a kind of a broader range of folks that we interact with than most science co-organizations because, you know, National Center for Science Education is this very odd hybrid of an activist organization, but still a scholarly organization at the sameEducation is this very odd hybrid of an activist organization, but still a scholarly organization at the same time so.

Allen runs the Center for Education Reform; Smarick is affiliated with Bellwether Education Partners and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and served in the George W. Bush administration; Cody is a former Oakland teacher who blogs at edweek.org; and Klonsky is a former Students for a Democratic Society leader and an activist in the Chicago small - schools movement.

In the Open Ceremony of the World Education Forum 2015 on May 19 there were more than 100 government ministers, along with high - level government officials, Nobel Prize Laureates, heads of international and non-governmental organizations, academics, representatives of the private sector, researchers, youth leaders, media activists, and other key stakeholders.

There is also a strong social - justice component to teacher education, with teachers cast as «activists committed to diminishing the inequities of American society.»

Mission's Kimberly Campisano, one of the teacher - advisers involved in the project, says, «Working with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has given me the opportunity to share what I know firsthand about the urban teaching experience, and the importance of art in activist education.»

So while this Scott Morgan may not be a marijuana - rights activist, a musician, or a rugby player, I am honored to be part of a high - impact organization — powered not by a cape but by an amazing team and board, an equally amazing alumni network of 2,000 leaders, and partnerships with 180 education organizations across the country — working for an all - important cause on behalf of underserved students and our nation.

When asked for steps on how students can enable their own agency as activists, Jackson highlighted the importance of taking education seriously, doing research to shine light onto issues, and taking necessary steps to act with intentionality.

Working with the Education Redesign Lab, mayors of each city will create and lead «Children's Cabinets» composed of superintendents, heads of health and social services, recreation, cultural and arts activists, and other key community leaders.

For well over a quarter century, the NEA and the AFT have been the most powerful groups in the politics of education — with more than four million members, formidable sums of money for campaign contributions and lobbying, well - educated activists manning the electoral trenches, and organizations that blanket the nation, allowing them to coordinate all these resources toward political ends.

This one is taking place within the Democratic Party, where the unions» opposition to reform has led to increasing dissatisfaction — led by groups like Democrats for Education Reform, vocally expressed by moderate and liberal opinion leaders, energized by a growing network of education activists (many with roots in Teach for America), and funded by well - heeled philanthropists like Bill Gates and EEducation Reform, vocally expressed by moderate and liberal opinion leaders, energized by a growing network of education activists (many with roots in Teach for America), and funded by well - heeled philanthropists like Bill Gates and Eeducation activists (many with roots in Teach for America), and funded by well - heeled philanthropists like Bill Gates and Eli Broad.

At a time when many activists are agitating to cut back the role of Washington in education, a politician aiming to expand it with national standards could seem naive or stupid.

In the summer of 2000, a group of St. Louis education activists, including two Washington University social work professors, was moving full speed ahead with plans to open a new charter school in the Walnut Park section of the city.

Howard Fuller's memoir, written with Lisa Frazier Page, chronicles his journey from political activist to school superintendent and back again, revealing along the way the monumental challenge of ensuring that poor black children have access to a high - quality education.

Throughout his career, activist Rodrigo Mendes has traveled the world searching for consistent practices in education, particularly in regard to students with disabilities or special needs.

Best - selling children's author Jacqueline Wilson has teamed up with Dr Helen Pankhurst, women's activist and direct descendant of the leaders of the suffragette movement, to encourage UK schools to support girls» education in developing countries.

Schifter, who spent several years working on Capitol Hill advocating for students with disabilities, teaches a course on federal education policy, and requires students to role play a variety of actors, from politicians to community activists, to better understand how policy becomes law.

When the Florida legislature, on April 8th, passed a bill that sought to replace teacher tenure with merit pay, the Florida Education Association (FEA) sprang into action, organizing members and community activists to lobby Governor Charlie Crist to veto the measure.

Karen Braun, a parent activist who blogs about school issues and is involved with «Stop Common Core in Michigan,» said that Austin's comments about parental ability to make choices on education for their children are at odds with the Michigan revised school code.

«The message about the importance of education was heavily touted on both sides, with both parties advocating an activist role at the federal level.»

Education activists, teachers, lawyers, a PTA leader and a woman who used to work with charter schools in California are among the applicants to the new state commission that is expected to approve some of Washington's first charter schools...

But it must be done and it means working harder as well as more - closely with activists outside of education policy whose efforts also touch the lives of our children.

Other items had nothing at all to do with education but, being champions of «social justice,» the activists came up with an NBI which proposes to inform the public about the dangers of fracking, another that calls for the end of «food deserts» (don't ask) and one that wants President Obama to investigate the continued incarceration of Leonard Peltier, a man who was convicted of first - degree murder in the slaying of two FBI agents in 1977.

CHARTS AND GRAPHS ARE NOT ENOUGH: Activist Deray McKesson generated 1,700 retweets and likes with his comment that «It's exhausting to see so many reporters write about education with no proximity to actual school systems, or classrooms.

Now a remarkable website started by a group of young Chicago activists — all women between the ages of 12 and 22 — is collecting the personal stories of such students in print, video, and audio and combining them with survey research, popular education, art, and more.

When pressed by Hull MP and former NUT activist Emma Hardy on whether changes to gradings could reward schools that took large numbers of pupils with special education needs or excluded pupils, Spielman said this was an «interesting suggestion for the new framework».