Sentences with phrase «broken public education system»

What is more, those same procedures (systematic, explicit, intensive, practice - laden sequences of instruction aimed at mastery of agreed - upon goals and objectives) are very likely to benefit many of the other students in US schools who are disenfranchised by «the perverse incentives of a broken public education system.»

Rather than looking for scapegoats — special education, rising poverty, cosmic rays, etc... — folks should focus on the perverse incentives of a broken public education system.

The New York City Department of Education's stunning announcement that it intends to release teacher ratings based on student test scores and academic achievement is the latest example of a growing national movement to fix our country's broken public education system...

Putting millions more dollars into a broken public education system is what we have been doing for the past 60 - odd years.

Devos» agenda is to break the public education system, not educate kids, and replace it with a for - profit model.»

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Taking no chances, the city's Department of Education canceled school for the 1.1 million - student system — marking the second time this winter public school kids took a powder break due to snow.

Cuomo called New York's education system «the last public monopoly», and threatened to break it up in his second term.

Cuomo made it clear long before he unveiled his 2015 - 16 budget — and even before the November 2014 elections — that he had the teachers unions in his crosshairs, and intended to break the so - called «monopoly» he believed is to blame for most of the public education system's woes.

But such was the tricky position the progressive Working Families Party found itself in Wednesday, when it issued a statement rejecting Gov. Andrew Cuomo's recent comments that he would work to «break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies» — the public education system in New York.

The governor, who has attacked components of the public school system as an «education bureaucracy» that must be broken, instead stuck to the positive in this year's State of the State address.

Yet the United States already bears costs from our broken education system, including higher crime rates, additional expenses for health - care and public - assistance programs, and lost tax revenue as well as the untold costs of telling generations of children in chronically under - resourced, low - performing schools: «You don't matter!»

The American public education system, by most accounts, is broken, despite taxpayers throwing billions of dollars at it.

That means, quite simply, disbanding the system we know and starting fresh: Take the locus of power from a metastasized system no one can control, break it up into millions of pieces, and give that power to the people for whom public education exists in the first place.

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These schemes also include tax breaks for private school participants, a statewide voucher system, special education vouchers, takeover policies that allow unelected czars to control public schools, and an expansion of private charters.

Ed reformers all agree that the current system of public education is horribly broken.

The way law enforcement has been transformed points the way to fixing out broken public - education system.

With the continued focus on accountability and a broken school finance system that has the potential to bankrupt the state, we need leaders that will invest in public education.

When we examine the education priorities of Texas» political leadership as evidenced by the policy initiatives of the 79th Session of the Texas Legislature, we find a policy mix dominated by three priorities: property tax relief, fixing the broken «Robin Hood» system of school finance, and providing more money for public education.

With National School Choice Week behind us, the battle — and it is a battle — to free our children from a monopoly by zip - code public education system is being fought on fronts all over the country, and in red and blue states alike, more and more Democrats are breaking ranks and joining Republicans in the fight.

The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities (CCM) and several organizations that provide services to families and children across the state of Connecticut argue that the state's current education system perpetuates inadequate and unequal state aid for public schools, and that the broken ECS formula is not based on a rational, evidence - based assessment of the actual cost of education.

So with federal education law originally meant to support the public education system in order to break the «poverty - ignorance - ignorance - poverty cycle» by providing ALL children with quality education, we know «choice» can not logically get us to equal educational opportunity.

What will make or break today's accountability systems is whether policymakers dig down into the data or make the mistake of NCLB by drawing quick conclusions about interventions or sanctions, says Ben DeGrow, director of education policy for Michigan's Mackinac Center for Public Policy.

It is a product of the education reform industry that is set on convincing policymakers and the public that our nation's public education system is broken, that our public school teachers are bad and that the answer is more standardized testing and diverting scarce public funds to charter schools and other privatization efforts.

Now it is time for this case to be heard, so that the public will have clearly laid before them the facts we all know to be true: Pennsylvania's system of funding education has been broken for generations, and if we are to prosper as a Commonwealth, it must be fixed.

Using as her touchstone the writings of James Baldwin, a teller of painful truths himself who lived in Istanbul throughout the 1960s, Hansen examines not only the Middle East but also an America that once broke Baldwin's heart, and that remains painfully at odds — whether in the failings of its public - education system or its aversion to providing essential health care to all — with its self - identifiers of goodness and grace.

Oppenheim speaks of growing up in Washington and California, his father's Russian ancestry and education in China, his father's career in engineering, his mother's background and education in English, living in Richmond El Cerrito, his mother's love of the arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school, fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics of the 1950s, a lack of art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of development.

Peabody Energy return the $ 61 million in recent tax breaks to the city, especially $ 2 million from the St. Louis Public Schools system, so that money can fund education and other social services