Sentences with phrase «educrats all»

This article should be forwarded to the educrats at ORE, to be taught verbatim to newbies and veterans alike... it is that important toward establishing credibility on the parts of Realtors in the minds of their clients.

All too often educrats, school board members and the teachers unions selfishly fight to maintain the status quo — and the kids be damned.

The reasons for the current spending orgy are several — an increase in the number of useless educrats, the rise of teachers unions, a public that has been way too trusting of those in power, etc..

@Theodora: the quiet cash flow from New Haven Public Schools to corporate «educrats» is astonishing.

«If government educrats were in any way savvy, they'd look at some of the programming he last threw his money to, see them as the dismal failures they are, and tell Gates to keep his dollars to himself.»

If the educrats want to block evaluation based on effectiveness, their consequence ought to be fewer dollars invested by taxpayers.

Re: the US News article on top about ESSA: Chairwoman Foxx is right about the role of the federal government in America's K - 12 education system; and families can continue to pressure educrats like Mr Botel by opting out, wherever and whenever possible, from their local state schools until the federal government gives up on the continuing mistake of its annual testing requirement in two subjects only, which has produced no significant improvement in American education for 15 years now, but has cost us in lost opportunities, including time and energy that might have been devoted to non-tested subjects, including those in the broader curricula represented by the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, which requires assessment — including but not limited to external final exams — in six subjects distributed over at least five fields, an assessment approach that has been imitated by the world's leading educational jurisdictions, but is being discouraged by the ignorant Luddites in the the U.S. ED.

There is no quick fix, but the educrats don't want citizens to consider other options.

Further, the educrats who led the way to the damage you describe are now suffering loss after loss.

The usual suspects: statists, educrats, and teacher unionistas.

Sandy Kress, a former education aide to President Bush who helped craft NCLB, asked a very commonsense question that the Educrats have not answered: «Why, after 12 - plus years, can't we expect virtually all of our children to achieve at a basic level?»

Government accountability regimes face great political pressure from educrats and union officials to lower standards but little countervailing pressure to maintain high standards.

Further, the Educrats assert that the new policy of lower standards actually raises performance expectations for minority children because they will have to progress at a faster rate over the same span of time.

The Educrats claim this is fair and equitable; children from at - risk populations are often far behind their more affluent peers, and expecting all children to meet the same high standards is unfair, even mean - spirited.

I suspect Alicia Rucker, that single mother of six who sent her oldest child to (and through) Georgetown, knows more about improving the education of minority children than all the Educrats in D.C. combined.

Educrats all over the country have begun to persuade federal education officials to grant waivers from NCLB, adopting the position that it is unfair to label schools as failing when the performance gaps between ethnic groups are so wide and when minority children lag so far behind their White, more affluent peers.

Unfortunately, this belief about setting high standards and expectations for poor children and children of color, upon which decades of research is based, is being systematically discarded by Educrats throughout the country to make the system more fair to the adults working in schools.

Certainly it's important to press the question of whether professional educrats, bureaucratic centralism, and a regulatory state erode parents» motivation to participate in their local schools.

As he [Cuomo] said, the educrats have long fought any effort to hold them accountable.

MIDDLEBURY When former President Barack Obama made universal pre-K education a national goal and a household term during his 2008 campaign for the White House, many of the state's educrats responded with an effort to adopt a one - size - fits - all public education version for the Green Mountain State.

MIDDLEBURY When former President Barack Obama made universal pre-K education a national goal and a household term during his 2008 campaign for the White House, many of the state's educrats responded with an effort to adopt a one - size - fits - all...