Sentences with phrase «about public school strikes»

• If parents really are concerned about public school strikes, at some point they need to ask if we should be giving government unions the broad powers that we give them.

Not exact matches

In their letter to the union, the candidates, including City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, expressed their solidarity with the drivers, but said they were increasingly concerned about the impact the strike was having on public school kids, parents and drivers, as it entered its fifth week.

The Kozol text that struck me the most was Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools that had been published in 1967 and was a narrative about Kozols first year teaching in that same very section of Boston - Roxbury.

There are about 350,000 students in the Chicago public schools, and each of their families had to scramble for seven days to adapt to the strike dislocations.

Watching an episode of The West Wing on television, Vance is struck that «in an entire discussion about why poor kids struggled in school, the emphasis rested entirely on public institutions.

When Hurricane Maria struck the island Sept. 20, the nearly 1,200 schools in Puerto Rico went dark, leaving about 350,000 students in the public K - 12 system out of school.

The tension about which Andy is ill at ease may not lie in the reform impulse but in striking a balance between the equally important private and public functions served by schools.

Perhaps the most striking thing about charters is how, with smaller budgets than public districts — they get no capital funds — several have created schools with 15 or 16 in a class.

But even with the influx of returning students, public schools in New Orleans will have only about 33,000 students, compared with 66,000 in 2004, the year before Katrina struck.

about the Bill Gates - Eli Broad - Walton family oligarchy that is dictating much of public school policy these days, and I was struck by her final paragraph, which hadn't jumped out the first time I read it (before Occupy Wall Street happened!)

In turn, that brings us to perhaps the most powerful lesson to emerge from our focus group discussions: While we learned much about the strengths and ideals that black teachers tend to bring to their work, we were struck mainly by the urgent need to support those teachers professionally and help them build long, productive, and satisfying careers in the public schools.