Simon Woolley, Director of Operation Black Vote - which set up the petition on campaigning site Change.org - said: "This is a great victory for education.
The sculpture, an optimistic piece depicting the victory of education and science over the forces of war, greed and materialism, has been restored and remains on public view in Middlesex County's Roosevelt Park in Edison, itself a W.P.A. project named in honor of the agency's patron.
UPDATE: In a victory for education, Grey has released a statement asserting her dedication to continuing her academic endeavors.
I will be glad to see NCLB left behind and RTTT stopped, but I do not see how ESSA is a victory for education in the United States.
With control of the Legislature split between the parties and a shrinking budget, Mr. Beshear has had little chance to enact an agenda, except for a few hard-fought victories in education.
Now at our school, they do neither, and that's a victory for public education".
New York captured almost $700 million for schools when it was selected Tuesday as one of 10 winners in the federal Race to the Top competition, a victory for state education officials as well as Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who had pushed the Legislature to enact changes that helped secure the money.
When the state board ultimately approved the textbooks – a huge victory for science education – Fox News pointed out that Louisiana "rejected calls by conservatives to include references to the debate over evolution and the religious-based concepts of intelligent design or creationism in state-approved biology textbooks".
In every exchange with Gove, Hunt has come a long way second and Monday was an even easier victory for the education secretary than usual because Hunt's own position on free schools has gone through several U-turns in the past few years.
A recent victory for secular education was won in Texas, but narrowly saw the death of evolution in our schools.
The move was hailed as a small victory for sex education supporters, but an online backlash once more highlighted the attitudes causing the blockage.
