Sentences with phrase «about public school failure»

They also bolster misperceptions about public school failure, place urban schools in the cross hairs and lend ammunition to privatization schemes.

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She is also working on a book about school turnaround driven by her personal experiences through her brother, Maurice, who was functionally illiterate as a result of failures in the public school system and died at a young age.

Taking on the failure of public schooling «and being really deliberate and serious about it has a big political payoff,» notes Andy Rotherham.

However, some high profile school failures and questions about governance has led to a public debate about the effectiveness of this model of schooling, and whether it meets the needs of children and communities.

The continuing failure of the Chicago Public Schools sparked a complete about - face in 1995, when Mayor Richard Daley took control of the system.

CCSA shares a statement from the Charter Community of Silicon Valley (CCSV)- which represents Santa Clara County's charter public schools and serves as the voice for over 30,000 charter school students in the region - about the failure of SB 1362 (Beall) in the Senate Education Committee.

If we were having a conversation, as teacher 6402 avers, about «what's important for students, wouldn't we be talking about what the actual state of affairs is in public education and how to learn from its successes to address and correct its weaknesses instead of arbitrarily latching on to the «our schools are all failures» mantra of NCLB and Rhee's equally arbitrary popourri of corporate / market - based «ideas» that go along with it?

They toss out cookie cutter phrases about public schools being «failure factories» and they paint their opponents as being opposed to a sound education for minority students.

Education consultant and former public school assessment director Nick Dussault worries about how politicians, business leaders, parents, and the general public will interpret failure with these next - generation assessments.

In a recent commentary piece written for the Stamford Advocate and other Connecticut newspapers owned by Hearst Media, Wendy Lecker, the outspoken school advocate wrote about our nation and state's failure to truly deal with racial isolation in our public schools.

From where Casey sits, the criticism of Brown and others about the unwillingness of the AFT to embrace any reform of the obsolete process for teacher dismissals — including the Big Apple affiliate's successful opposition to Bloomberg's effort this year to give the city's schools chancellor final say over dismissing those alleged and convicted of criminal misconduct (and those engaged in inappropriate behavior with students)-- amounts to» a vicious slander» geared to «chip away at public support for the due process rights» and to «distract» people from the city's failures to put more effort into firing such teachers.

Unlike «Waiting for Superman,» a film about the failures of traditional public schools and the virtues of public charter schools, this movie does not hinge on the work of a few high - profile school reformers and entrepreneurs.

Senator Bennet: What have you learned about the failures of the Detroit public schools and Detroit charter schools that has informed your decision - making as the secretary of education?

She left the Bush administration before his second term ended and has since researched and written about the goals of «reform» that parents and teachers and societies may disagree with — get rid of or render toothless any unions, punish teachers for any failure of a student or a school, close as many public schools as possible in order to open private, for - profit schools run by foundations whose motives and agendas are not fully visible.

The letter is one of the most powerful statements to date about the failure of the corporate education reform industry agenda and the need to re-take control of our public schools and preserve local control, parental involvement and the values inherent in a true system of public education.

So many people here are fired up about AF attempting to create a great school but none of the folks commenting here get fired up about for profit prisons making money off the failures of public education....

When the Common Core SBAC (Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium) test results come back later this summer, about 7 in 10 public school students will be labeled as failures.

With that as background, fellow education blogger and public education advocate, Wendy Lecker, has written another «MUST READ» piece about the Malloy administration's utter failure to oversee Connecticut's charter schools.

This battle isn't about Clark School's failure... it is about closing a Hartford public school so that Achievement First, Inc. the large charter school management company co-founded by Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, can get a second Hartford school — and a free school building atSchool's failure... it is about closing a Hartford public school so that Achievement First, Inc. the large charter school management company co-founded by Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, can get a second Hartford school — and a free school building atschool so that Achievement First, Inc. the large charter school management company co-founded by Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, can get a second Hartford school — and a free school building atschool management company co-founded by Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, can get a second Hartford school — and a free school building atschool — and a free school building atschool building at that.

Their failure to reveal the truth about a parent's right to opt their children out of the Common Core tests is leaving local school officials and parents twisting slowly in the wind as the multi-billion dollar Common Core SBAC testing scam continues to suck up scarce public funds.

[68] The substantive elements of the termination that the Board found unreasonable included: the principal ordering Mr. Dorval to use codes given the evidence that policy (of RSCHS and Edmonton Public School Board) supported involvement of teachers» professional judgment and consultation; the order being simply announced with little or no consultation; questions or concerns being ignored; little or no communication to students and parents about the codes or their enactment; the failure of the principal and the appellant to respect the professional rights and duties of the teacher regarding assessment of his students; and the discriminatory singling out of Mr. Dorval for discipline when other teachers who also challenged and refused to follow the principal's order were not disciplined.