Sentences with phrase «education at the behest»

The founder of a grassroots public school advocacy group based in northern Wisconsin says Rep. Mary Czaja backs «draconian» budget cuts to public education at the behest of Republican party leadership.

Eighteen months in the making and written by the blue - ribbon members of the National Commission on Excellence in Education at the behest of Secretary of Education Terrel Bell, the report examined the quality of education in the United States — and the findings were anything but stellar.

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The policy was implemented at the behest of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who argued it made sense to give City Hall control over public education in the nation's largest city.

This provision was promptly eviscerated at the behest of the unions: the Department of Education sheepishly allowed that the authority can be exercised only if the district's contract allows it.

The rise and dominance of the Ebacc was at the behest of former Education Secretary of State, Michael Gove MP, and this policy was continued by his successor, Nicky Morgan MP and continues under the current Schools Minister, Nick Gibb MP.

At the behest of Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen, lawmakers held two special legislative sessions over the last year on education to enact a series of Race to the Top - related changes that included making the state's cap on charter schools less prohibitive and overhauling teacher evaluations.

Because state legislators, at the behest of the National Education Association's affiliate there, refused to pass a law back in February allowing the use of test score growth data in teacher evaluations.

One team was assembled at the behest of the Oregon Education Association.

They discuss their recent protest efforts in the districts of state legislators who, at the behest of National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers affiliates, have all but eviscerated Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform plans.

The defeat of H.R. 5 would also be an even more - humiliating political loss than the one he faced two years ago when 70 of his fellow Republicans, at the behest of Indian tribes in their districts and Native education groups, passed an amendment to retain Title VII as its own funding stream.

At the behest of the State Board of Education, state officials put out school guidelines this month about the components of such teaching and learning, from emphasis on self - awareness to relationship skills to «responsible decision - making.»

Their education has been hijacked by an unrepresentative, unelected corporate school board, acting at the behest of a mayor who has no vision for improving the education of our children.

David Berliner Regents» Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University «The Mismeasure of Education is a magnificent work, an elegantly written, brilliantly argued and erudite exposition on why the «what,» «how» and «why» of effective teaching can not be adequately demonstrated by sets of algorithms spawned in the ideological laboratories of scientific management at the behest of billionaire investors... This book will serve as a sword of Damocles, hanging over the head of the nation's educational tribunals and their adsentatores, ingratiators and sycophants in the business community... The Mismeasure of Education will have a profound resonance with those who are fed up with the hijacking of our nation's educatioEducation is a magnificent work, an elegantly written, brilliantly argued and erudite exposition on why the «what,» «how» and «why» of effective teaching can not be adequately demonstrated by sets of algorithms spawned in the ideological laboratories of scientific management at the behest of billionaire investors... This book will serve as a sword of Damocles, hanging over the head of the nation's educational tribunals and their adsentatores, ingratiators and sycophants in the business community... The Mismeasure of Education will have a profound resonance with those who are fed up with the hijacking of our nation's educatioEducation will have a profound resonance with those who are fed up with the hijacking of our nation's educationeducation system.

at NJEA's behest because she worked for eighteen months at a pro-choice organization called Democrats for Education Reform.

NGSS like its sibling CCSS codifies terrible education theory that arose at the behest of a corporate leader, Louis Gerstner (RJR - Nabisco CEO).

In 2014, the plaintiffs in the Vergara trial claimed that several California education statutes — all of which are on the books at the behest of the teachers unions — cause greater harm to minority and economically disadvantaged populations because their schools «have a disproportionate share of grossly ineffective teachers.»

«The Heartland Institute has disseminated «alternative facts» and fake science at the behest of its industry funders for decades,» reads the letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, signed by Democratic senators Sheldon Whitehouse, Edward Markey, Elizabeth Warren, and Brian Schatz.

«The Heartland Institute has disseminated «alternative facts» and fake science at the behest of its industry funders for decades,» the four senators wrote in a June 7 letter to Betsy DeVos, President Donald Trump's recently appointed Secretary of Education.

At the behest of the State Board of Education, state officials put out school guidelines this month about the components of such teaching and learning, from emphasis on self - awareness to relationship skills to «responsible decision - making.»