Sentences with phrase «battle over education»

Apple held an event at a public high school in Chicago to unveil the new tablet, expected to take on Google's Chrome OS in a battle over the education market.

In the shadow of Apple's headquarters, an initiative requiring public middle schoolers to use iPads in class and at home has added to a battle over education in the digital age.

But parents should know a third: He's waging a Democrat vs. Democrat battle over education issues that could spill into the 2016 Democratic presidential primary and into your community.

Gov. Kathleen Sebelius» State of the State Address did not directly mention the prolonged court battle over education funding in Kansas that ended — at least temporarily — last summer.

The warm greetings given by both Republicans and Democrats on the committee reflect Duncan's reputation as a centrist in the ideologically fraught battles over education reform.

Since the bill returns power to states, advocates plan on waging state - by - state battles over education policy that were previously fought in Washington.

«The political battles over education, along with the shifting vogues about what's best, have left many teachers feeling like pawns and punching bags,» Bruni wrote.

But voters, including many Republicans, appear to have rejected that idea in the face of budget woes and court battles over education funding.

Klein's record in New York, a selling point in Murdoch's decision to hire him, is political baggage among some of his foes in the battles over education policy.

Not exact matches

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

As the Chicago Board of Education prepares to approve a 2011 - 12 budget Wednesday, school officials and the teachers union are battling publicly over related issues of withdrawn raises and the mayor's push for a longer school day.

America's battle over sex education could be boiled down to one question: Would you let your teenager spend the night with his or her sweetheart in your home?

Still, education remains a top - tier issue, even as the more pitched battles over charter schools, teacher evaluations and classroom standards for testing have been quietly de-emphasized in recent legislative sessions.

Losing her at a time when the unions are gearing up for a major battle with Cuomo over education reform would be disruptive — to say the least.

Topics include: Education funding and teacher layoff «propaganda», ethics reform, a property tax cap and the battle over naming an official state vegetable.

The WFP largely sat out the battle over the so - called millionaire's tax, which other lefties were pushing very hard to see reinstated in full to offset the deep health care and education spending cuts Cuomo had proposed.

A proponent of charter schools, Cuomo is in a protracted battle with teachers unions over the direction of public education — as well as spending — in the state.

The battle between the two political heavyweights is the latest skirmish over education funding since Cuomo took office two months ago.

Cuomo this year is in a protracted battle with NYSUT over his education policies.

Back in December 2014, a top aide to the governor, Jim Malatras, broached the subject in a letter to the regents chancellor and then - state education commissioner that was widely seen as the first salvo in what would be a protracted battle over reform.

After last week's Vergara v. California ruling, New York's teachers unions and education reform groups are preparing to battle over expected legal action seeking to change the state's tenure laws.

The appointment of Betty Rosa as the new Regents chancellor in New York signals a big victory for the statewide teachers union, NYSUT, in the battle over the direction of education in New York — a battle waged with millions of dollars in campaign spending and brute political tactics from both sides over much of the past decade.

«The battle for the future of public education is far from over,» NYSUT said in a statement.

A politically charged battle over whether some Jewish yeshivas provide an adequate secular education heats up.

Since he made those comments during an interview with the Daily News editorial board, Cuomo has reiterated his intentions to battle unions over education reforms, most recently with a letter he sent to state education officials outlining what appeared to be his second - term schools agenda, including questions about firing teachers, extending the probationary period before tenure and boosting the charter school sector.

Over the weekend, opponents of these education reformers joined the battle.

Since then, the sources said, a battle has continued over payments for «education costs and health care» for 20 - year - old daughters Cara and Mariah, who attend Harvard and Brown universities, respectively, and Michaela, 18, who recently graduated from high school a few months after being taken to the Westchester County Medical Center after an unexplained incident in which she was found unconscious at her mother's home.

Plattsburgh City School District Superintendent Jay LeBrun attributes the overall decrease to the link between student scores and teacher evaluations — a major sticking point last year as educators battled with the state Department of Education and the governor over reforms that would have wedded the two.

But unions and the State Education Department have battled over how districts should handle teacher evaluations in the absence of test scores, with the union saying scores should be thrown out entirely and the state saying a backup measure should be used.

Greeting the member - lobbyists, state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie asked them to consider the sea change in Albany this year in contrast to last year, when the union was in an all - out battle with the governor over his education proposals.

No issue better crystallizes the unwillingness of progressive politicians in New York to confront religious bigotry squarely than the ongoing legal battle over the Department of Education's policy barring religious congregations from renting space in schools.

But perhaps most substantially, there is a growing awareness in the world of education reform that the big battles over getting new teacher - evaluation laws passed or school accountability systems implemented are not the end of the story («The Teacher Evaluation Revamp, In Hindsight,» features, Spring 2017).

In classrooms across the United States, teachers, students, and society are being bombarded by what Harvard Graduate School of Education Senior Lecturer Katherine Merseth calls, «math wars» — an ongoing battle over how to teach and assess mathematics.

Meyer reports that some education reformers speculate that the endless political battles were the main reason for Steiner's departure, but he notes that regardless of the reasons, «the race is not over: It has just begun.»

Washington — The Congressional battle over the President's fiscal 1983 budget officially began last week, as members of education - related committees of both the House and the Senate debated among themselves the appropriate budget levels for education programs.

Amid continuing legal and political battles over the eight charter schools without walls now operating in the Keystone State, the legislature shifted the power to grant charters for such Internet - based schools from local school districts to the education department.

Just about every state is frantically working to get its Title I plan to Washington by the March 2017 deadline, and battles are raging over the Education Department's interpretation (via draft regulations) of several key pieces of the new law.

Despite the school's ongoing legal battle with the Pennsylvania School Boards Association and a bitter dispute over funding with the state education department, the president of Einstein's board of trustees vowed last week to fight the revocation.

The nationwide debate over parental choice in education may be heading for a decisive battle in the California legislature next year.

But her battles with the city's education department over space in underused school buildings resonate throughout the book, illustrating just one of the many obstacles faced by charter entrepreneurs nationwide.

Without the expected Republican gains, next year's federal education policy battles are likely to echo ones over school construction, teacher hiring, and education tax credits that the...

Saying he is engaged in a «classic battle» with Congressional Republicans over the federal government's role in education, President Clinton last week issued the most impassioned defense of his education record to date and urged educators to join the fray.

The battle over school choice in American education has been no exception.

Leaving aside the merits of the Trump school choice proposals, those plans face «uphill battles» in Congress, where Republicans are eager to assert their prerogatives over the budget, said Martin West, an associate professor of education at Harvard University and a former K - 12 adviser to U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R - Tenn.)

For years, teachers unions and major Democratic politicians and donors have battled bitterly over what education reform should look like.

-LSB-...] big battles over school vouchers in American education have focused on programs serving low - income children who live in urban areas.

Ever since the landmark 1983 «Nation at Risk» report declared that America's educational performance, if imposed by an unfriendly power, could have been considered an act of war, education advocates of all stripes have battled over how best to promote learning.

In speeches, mailings and multi-million dollar TV ads, they've battled over teacher salaries, property taxes and federal education grants...

In the scramble to pay for education and other services, many states and American Indian tribes are fighting head - to - head battles over gaming, and Congress is poised to step into the fray.

January 17, 2017 — By nominating Betsy DeVos as Education secretary, President - elect Donald Trump has waded into a deeply partisan battle over school choice.