Sentences with phrase «education pushed back»

The Bridgeport CT board of education pushed back against superintendent Paul Valles and his program of closing schools and increasing charters.

Updated: In a lengthy statement of its own, the Alliance for Quality Education pushed back on what it said were distortions in the statement.

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Sullivan seems to be everywhere in this red - hot area, whether it's backing work on gender equity in education or a push to nurture women entrepreneurs in Africa.

Cuomo is backing an effort in his education reform push that would put a monitor in charge of a school deemed to be failing.

The governor is likely to get push back from many in the legislature, who are close to education interests like the teachers unions and local school leaders.

But they are pushing back on her claims when it comes to the governor's education record.

Assemblyman Dean Murray from Long Island, an advertising executive back after a two - year absence, says he'll push for stopping the Common Core education curriculum, to bring promised aid to people hurt by Superstorm Sandy and to improve the state's business climate.

One day after it was revealed that Carl Paladino will be suing the Buffalo Board of Education over efforts to oust him from that body, some board members are pushing back against the charge that there is a conspiracy against him The expected federal lawsuit is revealed in a letter Dennis Vacco, an...

But the fallout from the budget's education measures which Cuomo pushed for continues in Albany: Lawmakers are considering a variety of means to reduce standardized testing in schools and the Board of Regents is pushing back a deadline for school districts to adopt the new teacher performance criteria for those demonstrating hardships.

Locally, groups like Kingston Action for Education (KAFE) are helping push back.

Citizen Action was joined by union - backed groups like the Alliance for Quality Education and Strong Economy for All, as well as Make the Road New York, which has pushed for the Dream Act that would allow tuition assistance for illegal immigrants or their children.

And his decision not to fully back Mayor Bloomberg's push to do away with the last in, first out layoff system for teachers is credited with keeping the city teachers union quiet on his proposed education cuts.

The city teachers union pushed back against comments Mayor Bill de Blasio made that seemed to undercut the validity of some sexual - harassment complaints made by Department of Education employees.

CATO Institute Associate Director with the Center for Education Freedom Neal McClusky says in order to understand the push for Common Core, you have to go back to 2009, when the federal government created the Economic Stimulus package.

At the same time, Schneiderman knocked the push to link the education tax credit to the strengthening of rent control, a move that's backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Cuomo has long pushed back against calls from public education advocates to increase annual school foundation aid in the budget by more than $ 1 billion.

The United Federation of Teachers and the Alliance for Quality Education, a labor - backed advocacy group, both of which are at odds with Cuomo on his education positions more broadly, released statements pushing the governor to enact the Dream Act, withoutEducation, a labor - backed advocacy group, both of which are at odds with Cuomo on his education positions more broadly, released statements pushing the governor to enact the Dream Act, withouteducation positions more broadly, released statements pushing the governor to enact the Dream Act, without strings.

Opponents fear big spenders would push to strip some public pension protections, roll back the rights of immigrants, compromise environmental safeguards and try to cut education spending.

New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg will make an endorsement triple play Tuesday, backing both a Democrat and a Republican in competitive U.S. Senate contests, along with an urban Democratic mayor whose education reform pushes mirror his own.

Charter school supporters have often targeted AQE as being beholden to its benefactors in the teachers unions, a line of attack that AQE has repeatedly pushed back against, while AQE has decried any shift towards charter funding as a betrayal of the public education system.

Alliance for Quality Education, a labor - backed advocacy group that pushes for equitable school funding, is leading a campaign for a $ 1.9 billion increase in the budget.

(WBEN) It was a loud night at Tuesday's school board session with protestors showing up and speaking out once again against Carl Paladino, one day before state officials convene hearings about possibly removing him from the Buffalo Board of Education «This is our time, to stand up and push back and...

Alliance for Quality Education, a labor - backed advocacy group, pushed Cuomo for $ 225 million to fund pre-K (on top of de Blasio's plan).

«We will push back against those who want to change public education, but don't know a damn thing about public education.»

Board of Regents chancellor Merryl Tisch and education commissioner John King have opposed delaying implementation of the standards, but King has said one change state officials are considering is pushing back when students would need to pass Common Core - aligned Regents exam for graduation.

Cost Shifts & Cuts During his budget testimony, de Blasio pushed back on the more than $ 100 million in cuts and cost shifts to New York City proposed in Cuomo's executive budget, primarily related to placement of foster children and special education services.

Directed by Sebastian Gutierrez, who wrote Snakes on a Plane, it stars Carla Gugino as a pregnant ex-porn star turned sex education teacher who gets pushed back into things when an old friend, played by Marley Shelton, approaches her with a proposition.

The unions (and other established education interests) are scrambling to re-establish their once - solid footing by contradictorily pushing back against reform while trying to position themselves as champions of it (think Randi Weingarten).

On the left, the National Education Association sees an opportunity to push back against a policy it never liked in the first place.

As they have already done with Kindergarten, Gifted & Talented, and Universal pre-K applications, the New York City Department of Education has pushed back their deadline for parents wishing to run for a spot on various education councils, including Citywide Council on High - Schools, English Language Learners, Special Ed, and several DistrictEducation has pushed back their deadline for parents wishing to run for a spot on various education councils, including Citywide Council on High - Schools, English Language Learners, Special Ed, and several Districteducation councils, including Citywide Council on High - Schools, English Language Learners, Special Ed, and several District offices.

Charter Backers Get SchooledCommonwealth, 11/13/16) «I would push that back on unions,» said [Paul] Reville, now a [Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Education Policy and Administration] at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Finally, Elgin, a philosopher of education, pushed back against both of these ideas, pointing out that these constructivist views of knowledge are problematic.

Education secretary Justine Greening has announced that the government's plans to have 90 per cent of pupils studying all EBacc subjects by 2020 has been pushed back.

The U.S. Department of Education began giving out waivers to states allowing them to push back high - stakes aspects of the new system, and a number of other states took steps on their own to delay full implementation (see Figure 1).

And that's where you're getting some push - back from teachers who are working hard on other matters of education reform, and they're saying, ˜Adapting our curriculum takes more time than we've been given and that's going to affect our performance against the new assessments.

DeVos pushed back on those who insist that support for school choice is necessarily an «attack» on public education and argued that choice can be wholly consonant with the historic mission of public education:

Along the way, Green tells fascinating stories of teachers and researchers on a quest to create a true science of education — and pushes back against the notion that great teachers are born, not made.

A central part of the plan to push back the decline of Catholic education is to treat the city's successful charter school sector as a model, rather than a competitor, although charter schools have been contributing to the Catholic sector's population drain by attracting low - income families who choose a free charter over a tuition - based parochial school.

Reforms to school funding was scheduled to be introduced by 2017/18, but Education Secretary Justine Greening pushed back plans when she took over the role in July, saying they would not be implemented until 2018/19.

«I would push that back on unions,» said Reville, now a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Kim Mead, president of the Washington Education Association, pushed back against that interpretation.

Those on the right increasingly believe that the Common Core represents severe federal overreach into state sovereignty over education; those on the left, including the AFT, are pushing back not against the standards themselves, but against their implementation and use in newly adopted high - stakes teacher evaluation systems.

That said, several big - name education researchers have pushed back on the proposed rule.

This year's conference, SRC@20: Looking Back, Moving Forward, invited participants to consider how their research contributes to the history of academic scholarship in education while simultaneously pushing the boundaries of the field into the future.

Stanford University's David Labaree, a respected historian of education, explains that, as far back as the early twentieth century, school reformers were pushing for efficiency and utility, while education professors wanted schools to help individual children blossom and develop a lifelong love of learning.

So to Senator Alexander and Representative Kline I say: By all means, push back against an overzealous Department of Education.

In cases in which boards of education are less sensitive to the needs of stakeholders, stakeholders are pushing back through local elections.

However, some boards of education are pushing back on the over-generalized claims and mythical stories put forth by education reformers regarding the efficacy of standardization and testing systems.

Perhaps one of most widely publicized examples of school boards acting courageously to push back on some of these regressive policies comes from Texas where 520 boards of education and their superintendents fought the implementation of 15 end - of - course high school standardized tests that were part of a state education reform package.

School - choice should be an existing component in education process but it comes back to this question for me: if public schools were good enough would this push even be relevant?