Sentences with phrase «public schools education debate»

From 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., Democratic NYC mayoral contenders Anthony Weiner, Bill de Blasio, Bill Thompson, John Liu, and Sal Albanese (but not Council Speaker Chris Quinn, who dropped out of this event) participate in the New Yorkers for Great Public Schools education debate.

Not exact matches

Shaw is an active partner to leaders in government and public and charter education around the role of independent schools in the vital debate about the future of education.

Moderated by WNYC economic development journalist Janet Babin, candidates Rubain Dorancy and Jesse Hamilton answered questions submitted by the community and debated topics ranging from education to public schools to affordable housing.

With little new education policy expected in the remainder of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's first term — and a quiet session on education concluding in Albany — the debate over traditional public schools versus charter schools has shifted to a new battleground: school safety.

While these schools represent only a fraction of the 1.1 million schoolchildren in the public education system, the charter school movement has spurred heated debate across the country.

Diane Ravitch has brought the real facts and a commitment to quality public schools for all back into the debate about education reform.

The veto came amid public and legislative debate on the bill, which opponents claimed would have unconstitutionally provided public funds for religious institutions and overburdened already struggling school districts by forcing them to pay for private special education.

Hawkins said that a debate focused on education would show that both Governor Cuomo and Astorino would underfund public schools, especially in property - poor inner city and rural communities.

Hawkins said a debate focused on education is needed because both Astorino and Cuomo support programs to privatize public education, including more privately - managed charter schools and education tax credits for donations to charter and parochial schools.

As the debate over school choice heats up once again, in the halls of Congress and in many state capitals, a favorite gambit of defenders of the status quo is to damn such changes as «sure to undermine public education» or «bad for the public schools.»

Few topics stir up as much debate in the education sphere as steering public money in the form of vouchers to pay for students to attend private school.

Yet we know very little about these local leaders, and we seldom hear their voices in debates about the role that their organizations do and should play in public education and school reform.

Even as public support for charter schooling has steadily increased over time (according to the 2015 Education Next poll the public supported charters by 47 % to 19 %), the media is filled with one charged charter debate after another.

President - elect Donald Trump's selection of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education has renewed the debate about public accountability in school - choice programs.

Debating this issue were Charles Barone, policy director, Democrats for Education Reform; Robin Lake, director, Center for Reinventing Public Education; Mike Petrilli, executive vice president, Thomas B. Fordham Institute; Delia Pompa, senior vice president of programs, National Council of La Raza; and Nelson Smith, senior advisor, National Association of Charter School Authorizers.

The larger public that engages in the K — 12 education debate could shrink dramatically, to just partisans engaged in the war of ideas around schooling.

But the proposed amendment, which has been heavily debated in the last two legislative sessions, is likely to encounter strong opposition from a coalition of religious and education groups that are concerned that such a law would seriously threaten the state's public schools.

The Atlantic, 7/18/16 «Some of the debates in the public sphere now «would have been unheard of a year ago,» says Meira Levinson, a professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education.

In the recent noisy debate about the state of public education, nobody argues that it makes sense to strengthen ties between school and home.

«Testing has become enormously important with an extraordinarily powerful influence on schooling, and it increasingly dominates public debate about education,» he says.

Debates over the relative virtues of public and nonpublic schools often imply that private education in the United States is a homogeneous world.

I sat in the public gallery of the House of Commons as Catherine McKinnell, the MP from Newcastle, opened the debate by congratulating the Shaw Foundation for the great response to their petition on making mental health education compulsory in all schools.

They will be successful by altering education policy debates, forging powerful public - private partnerships, and restoring public confidence in our schools.»

A fierce debate over civic education in America's public schools has erupted in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Michael Feuer, dean of The George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development, suggested the dip in confidence among PDK / Gallup poll respondents might reflect the influence of recent public debates over whether college is worth the money.

And in the past few years, as debates about merit pay for school teachers have come up, major public figures such as Bill Gates and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have questioned the wisdom of rewarding teachers for degrees.

One perspective that is heard too rarely in the nation's education debates is that of public school parents.

The education debate changed, too: A cheating scandal in Atlanta public schools in 2009 raised questions about how high - stakes testing was affecting schools.

The Education Next poll leaders didn't explore why support for charters has dropped so precipitously, though they speculated that a growing public debate about charters, including a call for a freeze on new charter schools by the NAACP, played a role.

The new degree program will be a «catalyst to drive change,» McCartney said, producing a new generation of education leaders who are expected to alter education policy debates, forge powerful public - private partnerships, and restore public confidence in the US school system.

In the letter to appropriators, NAESP and NASSP stated that «school principals, education stakeholders and the public deserve to know how the Committee would fund federal education programs,» and urged the Subcommittee to have an «open debate about deep cuts in education funding by holding a Subcommittee markup.»

For school - board leaders and others charged with implementing those man - dates at the district level, the legislative activism has renewed an old debate over the governance of public education and the degree to which the tradition of «local control» is being eroded.

One of the biggest debates raging in education policy today is whether schools of choice are serving their fair share of the hardest - to - educate students or abandoning them to traditional public schools.

Offering a counter-narrative to the school improvement prescriptions that dominate national education debates, a new book based on 15 years of data on public elementary schools in Chicago identifies five tried - and - true ingredients that work, in combination with one another, to spur success in urban schools.

(10) Jim Hull, The Proficiency debate: At a glance, Center for Public Education, National School Boards Association, 2007.

As the discussion and debate over next year's Boston Public Schools budget begins, the Boston Education Justice Alliance is fighting for the schools our communities dSchools budget begins, the Boston Education Justice Alliance is fighting for the schools our communities dschools our communities deserve.

One year ago, we were drafting the Public School Forum's 2017 Top Ten Education Issues and debating whether to include the K - 3 class - size mandate.

While the debate rages on about whether or not North Carolina's General Assembly actually dealt public education a financial punch in the gut with the 2013 - 15 budget, NC Policy Watch is keeping a running tally of education funding cuts that local school districts are coping with as they open up for the 2013 - 14 academic year.

Cami Anderson, the superintendent of the Newark public school system who became a lightning rod in the debate over education reform in New Jersey and nationally, resigned on Monday, eight months before her contract was to expire.

The question of how Michigan should evaluate its public school teachers will be up for debate Wednesday in a joint meeting of education committees in the Michigan Legislature.

Early in the session, Kenley and fellow Senate Education Committee member Carlin Yoder, R - Middlebury, publicly debated the so - called «public school attendance requirement,» as the Evansville Courier & Press «Eric Bradner recalls.

While these schools represent only a fraction of the 1.1 million schoolchildren in the public education system, the charter school movement has spurred heated debate across the country.

With Judge John Dietz» school finance ruling in West Orange Cove vs. Neeley litigation in late September, the state opens a new chapter in Texas school funding debates that will reverberate for public education and our children.

It's not like it is difficult to find startling hypocrisy in what passes for public policy debates these days, but the battle over public education seems especially rife with maddening examples, most of them around the notion of accountability, that teachers and schools should be held to high standards and measurable results for the public dollars they use.

In 2010, these two former NYC public school teachers and Teach for America alumni founded this teacher - centric voice for public and policy debates in education, including teacher evaluations and the Common Core State Standards.

The laws have become part of a broader debate over the proliferation of charter schools, private school vouchers and everything else now dubbed «education reform,» a vague term used by self - professed reformers to describe nearly any attempts that call for challenging the traditional public school system.

Few education policy battles have burned as hot as debate over the practice of requiring traditional public schools to share under - used space with charter schools.

The public and policy debate around education has also changed dramatically — particularly around issues of teacher quality and charter schools — due in large part to the work of these individuals.

Kelle Stewart, an elementary school teacher from Tennessee, said the heavy focus on tenure keeps the education debate from focusing on real issues that significantly affect public schools.

«School Based Management — Public Debate — Letters to the Minister of Education.»