Sentences with phrase «blame on school choice»

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That's not to place the blame for this gimmicky legislation on school administrators, who, given the choice, would prefer not to have a tax cap.

Education Week quoted a former associate superintendent of the Cincinnati schools, who blamed the proposal's failure on the fact that it «would have applied to nearly all teachers, rather than allowing veterans the choice of opting into the new system.»

In my opinion, voucher pro-proponents should not apologize for putting these competitive pressures on under - performing schools — if parents have a choice and they exercise it — who is to blame?

The strategy is becoming all too clear — ignore poverty, blame the effects of poverty on teachers, maintain the public perception of failing teachers and schools with an A-F formula that is designed to rank order students so that the bottom 33 percent will always exist (no matter how much achievement gains are made), use it to designate teachers and schools with low grades, then create a red herring for an impatient public by offering a placebo known as charter schools and school choice to appease them.

Others say that the declines can't be blamed on free schools — it's impossible to parse out the impact of choice compared to other reforms made at the same time, such as decentralizing the education system.

(In other words, the statewide decline in public school enrollment can not be blamed on the rise of charter schools or cross-district choice.)

Ms. Ravitch and other critics of school choice reverse causation by blaming the sad state of public schools on events that occurred long after schools had stagnated.

It confuses me when they blame us and the choice we have made for our children rather than focusing their time and energy on making district schools better.

High school students making college plans should not assume that any of these plans will rescue them, nor should they blame the system and assume they have no choice but to take on massive debt in order to get a college degree.

«Everybody's path is going to be very different and unique, and they need to be respected in that path and the choices that they make,» said Nichole Hockley, whose 6 - year - old son, Dylan, was one of 26 people shot to death on Dec. 14, 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. «Grief can express itself in so many ways and cycle through multiple points during the day: shock, denial, anger, blame, sadness.