Sentences with phrase «attack on public schools»

While attacks on public schools persist, school leaders and educators work to remove the barriers to learning facing their students.

The corporate education reform agenda initiated its systematic attack on public schools by casting its teachers as the source of the problem.

A visitor from another planet might well conclude that they do, given the heated attacks on public schools from the «religious right,» and the equally heated warnings by «strict separationists» that there is a plot by «zealots» to impose religious uniformity on...

A visitor from another planet might well conclude that they do, given the heated attacks on public schools from the «religious right,» and the equally heated warnings by «strict separationists» that there is a plot by «zealots» to impose religious uniformity on the nation's schoolchildren.

When you add Cuomo's recent attack on public school teachers and their «monopoly,» the picture as to why he's done something less than the bare minimum to make good his promise to fight for a Democratic NY Senate become clearer.

«Our two main opponents stand united in their ongoing attacks on our public school system and their promotion of privatization, including charter schools.

«10 percent or more might have given pause to the plans of Cuomo and his Republican allies in the Senate to go ahead with fracking, another austerity budget, and renewed attacks on public schools and teachers.

Depending on who you ask, charter schools may be either an important solution to persistent educational inequality, or a misguided attack on public schools as Americans know them.

«We promised to «push back» against the continuous unfounded attacks on our public schools.

But first, the outcome I was expecting from the first day that this «independent, objective» group announced their intentions to develop recommendations to address the shocking «crisis in our schools» using the same scare tactics that have preceded every other attack on public schools, their teachers and communities:

As the Charter School Industry and their corporate education reform allies continue their unprecedented attack on public schools and public school teachers, it is important to remember why so many great teachers work so hard to support, guide and educate their students.

Our purpose is to alert you to the many attacks on our public schools and the harm these attacks are inflicting on

In a 2010 interview with then - chancellor of the New York City Department of Education Joel Klein, Duncan went even further, invoking the name of Martin Luther King to justify attacks on public schools.

«I pray this defeat helps other states to avoid a similar attack on our public schools,» said Solnet, a Boca Raton businesswoman and a co-founder of PAA.

«We believe that corporate school reformers are once again turning to Hollywood to sell a version of school reform that many parents reject, as they did with «Waiting for Superman» and its biased attack on public school teachers and idealization of charter schools,» said Julie Woestehoff, PAA co-founder and executive director of Chicago's Parents United for Responsible Education.

Also at 6 p.m., Regents Chancellor Betty A. Rosa will speak at Professor Noliwe Rooks's presentation, «Privatization, Segregation & Underfunding: The Attack on Public Schools,» Giffen Elementary School, 274 South Pearl St., Albany.

NCPW: North Carolina is in the midst of a sea change in public education — some have called it an attack on public schools.

«We have to be clear, understanding what people are up to and what they're doing: the de-professionalization of teaching and the attack on public schools and the war on teachers, 30 years of war on public schools,» Slekar said.

Choice is not an attack on public schools and has never been about privatizing education; it is about creating a vibrant marketplace of high quality education options — public, private and charter — and empowering parents to choose the best setting for their child.

Noting that attacks on public schools are on the increase (sound familiar?)

The NAACP claims the program is an attack on public schools, rather than acknowledging how many children the program has helped to succeed and graduate from a quality schools.

Make no mistake, these are all attacks on public schools.

Rasmussen's analysis is an eloquent indictment of what looks like another attack on our public schools.

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.