Sentences with phrase «at destroying public education»
Duncan has put the 50 states in a competition he calls the Race To The Top, to become the most effective at destroying public education and advancing the charter school movement.
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The Christian Right wants public money to be used for private religious education (vouchers), buildings and services to be used for private religious purposes (this article), and they want subsidies in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions of other sorts, and they even want to destroy Aid to Needy Families so they can drive people into seeking help at their private religious «missions» where you are not allowed to eat unless you are a Christian, and so on.
«They've helped to destroy successful schools across the city of New York,» Thompson said during a panel discussion on education policy at NYU, hosted by the New York City Working Group on School Transformation, which also featured Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio who are presumptive candidates for mayor.
Of course, they now face a Republican presidential administration more favorable to school choice and an education secretary who, at least according to the National Education Association (NEA), has «made a career trying to destroy neighborhood public schooleducation secretary who, at least according to the National Education Association (NEA), has «made a career trying to destroy neighborhood public schoolEducation Association (NEA), has «made a career trying to destroy neighborhood public schools.»
2 - 4 African - American history: «African - American History: Destroying the Myths Teaching the Truth,» fifth annual conference, sponsored by the Indianapolis Public Schools» Office of African - American History / Multicultural Education, for educators, parents, and students, to be held at the Marriott Hotel, 21st and Shadeland Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind..
That's it, folks — now that the «traditional white male» nation is officially a thing of the past, the new Republican game plan is to destroy this more colorful US at the roots by killing off public education.
Seven years after Paul Vallas and the «education reformers» successfully destroyed the public education system in New Orleans and replaced it with charter schools, the average score for the standardized test known as ACT stands at 16.8, placing it among the very lowest cities in the nation.
The focus on collaboration as a means for reform in public education comes at a critical time when teachers unions are facing attacks that threaten to destroy collective bargaining rights in several states.