Sentences with phrase «assault on public schools»

He kept likening charters to the consciousness - expanding «red pill» in The Matrix while calling for an all - out assault on public schools and public school educators who were irredeemable because they had taken the «blue pill» of complacent resignation.

Strauss is a reporter with the Washington Post and her bog is one of the most important resources in the nation for information about education policy and the unprecedented assault on public schools and public school teachers by the Charter School and Corporate Education Reform Industry.

With an extensive new report claiming to document «an ultraconservative network» waging an assault on the public schools, the National Education Association has fired the latest volley in its battle against efforts to curb its political clout.

In a Wednesday night statement, state Rep. Kate Segal (D - Battle Creek) called the passage of the bill «a complete assault on our public school system in Michigan.»

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Over the past decade, it has funded the right's assault on labor unions, climate scientists, public schools, economic regulations, and the very premise of activist government.

«The Albemarle County Public Schools must sever its relationship with Planned Parenthood's shocking assault on children,» said Mat Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel.

Sexual assaults, harassment and sexism have been documented at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy for almost a decade, both on campus and during the mandatory Sea Year training that is the school's hallmark program, a review of public records by Newsday shows.

In keeping with his assault on local public schools in many towns, Malloy announced that most school systems would receive no state assistance on Oct. 1, if there is no budget.

The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, will today reaffirm its strategy to continue to defend the interests of pupils, schools and the teaching profession from the assault by the Government and administrations across the UK on our public education service.

Felder relaunched his campaign to pass bill S6798 — which would station a cop outside every public and private school in the city — just one day after Nikolas Cruz marched into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with an assault rifle on Feschool in the city — just one day after Nikolas Cruz marched into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with an assault rifle on FeSchool with an assault rifle on Feb. 14.

Earlier this week, Stephanie Saul of the New York Times launched a full frontal assault on scholarship tax credit (STC) programs, accusing them of failing to help low - income students, draining public schools of needed funding, and of using public money for private purposes.

DoE staff members — and public school advocates outside the department — could also try to sway DeVos's handling of other department responsibilities, such as discrimination complaints filed against universities, and investigating sexual assaults on college campuses under Title IX.

«It's too bad whoever was listening to my phone conversation didn't get it right and the Free Beacon would rather cover what people overhear on trains instead of what's happening on the ground in Puerto Rico in terms of the school closings and the all out assault on public education on the island.

Despite the hope of success for students and empowerment for parents, unions quickly condemn the idea of school choice as an «assault on public education.»

Carlos Perez, a social studies teacher a Jordan High School, said that as a new teacher he is concerned about the assault on public education coming from state lawmakers.

Pelto became more deeply involved with public school teachers and other education advocates during Malloy's 2012 assault on the teaching profession.

This campaign, it says, is really «a proxy for a broader assault on public education itself» and is coming at a time when public schools have been weakened by funding cuts, «vitriolic political attacks on teachers and their unions, and state programs to privatize schools through vouchers, charter schools and other «school choice» measures.»

Ravitch has developed a powerful following among public school teachers, who have found in her a champion amidst what they see as a governmental assault on their profession.

The N.C. Association of Educators and N.C. Justice Center are sponsoring the lawsuit, arguing that the vouchers are a broad assault on the state's public schools as it funnels taxpayer money to private schools.

He will address the current, unprecedented assault on public education and on public school teachers.

Low - income kids and their families are the biggest losers in the attacks on public schools, but there are winners in the ideological assault: new for - profit companies that run charter schools, private and religious academies that now receive taxpayer funding and sketchy online institutions that are raking in state dollars.

National statistics show that assaults and threats by students, against teachers have been on the rise over the last decade, in both public and private schools.

Sen. Al Franken's elicitation of her lack of understanding between growth and proficiency, her disdain for gun - free school zones (in front of a Newtown representative, no less), her view of sexual assault on campuses, her refusal to assure Sen. Tim Kaine that she would hold all schools that receive public funds — traditional, public charter, private, parochial — to the same standards of accountability: Shall we count the ways she equivocated on civil rights, equity, safety and basic comprehension of pressing educational matters?

Across the nation, the corporate education reform industry and its political supporters are engaged in an unprecedented assault on teachers, the teaching profession and public schools.

The corporate funded education reform industry's assault on Connecticut's public schools continues.

In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, this could also involve: workplace violence; rape, robbery, or assault on rented property; assault at a place of business; assault at a school, church, or other such public place; or assault at a hotel, motel, or resort.

If anyone reading this is interested, I can share both the research paper that these students wrote for me about sexual assault and law school and legal profession culture, and my own speech on March 5th in which I spoke public about my own experiences of sexual violence (email me for the complete papers and / or read an excerpt of my speech here http://pantyhoseandthepenalcode.wordpress.com/2014/04/21/on-moving-forward-into-the-light).