Sentences with phrase «button education issue»

Leaders also tweaked the state budget — which has been a hot - button education issue all on its own, what with changes to the school funding formula — to include a few shifts between the board and IDOE.

In another hot - button education issue, Michigan voters approved a constitutional amendment that prohibits any public institution from using affirmation action in hiring or contracting practices.

NYSUT is flexing its muscles this year as a range of hot - button education issues continue to reverberate during the legislative session.

It is no surprise, then, to discover that the CEP's take on school choice is as compromised as its views on other hot - button education issues.

But Indianapolis Star reporter Matt Tully, who moderated the forum, also pressed for answers on some other hot button education issues.

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Silver and Sampson informed reporters that the meeting was held to discuss the remainder of the budget itself — not the next round of extenders, which Paterson told DN Capitol Bureau Chief Ken Lovett over the weekend might not include the hot - button issue of education cuts.

«The institute is not about focusing on the intricacies of the latest technology or most recent hot button issue for librarians,» says Joseph Zolner, PPE's director of higher education programs.

Education - industry experts paint a bleak picture of states» efforts to measure teachers» achievements, which has been a hot - button issue for decades.

Despite the excitement generated by the event, participants acknowledge that career and technical education isn't a hot - button issue in Congress at this time.

A nationally representative Education Week survey shows rifts among teachers, principals, and superintendents on hot - button social issues affecting K - 12 education, including immigration, charter schools, vouchers, and LGBEducation Week survey shows rifts among teachers, principals, and superintendents on hot - button social issues affecting K - 12 education, including immigration, charter schools, vouchers, and LGBeducation, including immigration, charter schools, vouchers, and LGBT rights.

With campaign season heating up, public polls that try to get a pulse on American attitudes toward education are likely to play into the policy prescriptions of candidates who are critical of the Common Core and supportive of hot - button issues like charter schools.

The findings are important because of what they may contribute to the debate over changing how teacher evaluation is conducted, which has emerged as a hot - button political issue favored by the so - called education reform movement.

He deals with many of the hot - button issues by drawing on his own experiences as a student at the Taft School and his subsequent encounters in the less privileged world of urban education.

Just a few weeks ago, The Grade ran a column about the potential spread of disinformation in education journalism that's already been documented on hot - button issues like the Common Core academic standards.

As they prepare to compete along with a Republican candidate in the June primary, however, Tuck and Torlakson's backgrounds and perspectives on a handful of hot - button issues are making the nonpartisan race a referendum on whether change is coming quickly enough in a state where the traditional might of labor unions is being challenged by increasingly restive education reformers.

The FAQ addresses a number of «hot button» issues in special education.

... Public education •... Coming into the 2013 Legislature, lawmakers are set to tackle a number of hot - button issues, including a proposal by Sen. Aaron Osmond, R - South Jordan, to create a state - funded preschool program for at - risk kids; a resolution, SJR5, by Sen. Stuart Reid, R - Ogden, to give the governor and Senate control over the employment of the state superintendent; and, yes, even a bill, SB39, touching on sex education, except this time for parents rather than kids, also sponsored by Reid.

It's not a stretch to say that assessment is a hot button issue in education; however, you'd be hard pressed to find an educator who doesn't see the value in measuring student progress.

E4E's members «have a thin grasp of education policy» outside of hot - button issues favored by self - styled reformers, contended Leo Casey, the vice president of academic issues for the United Federation of Teachers.

One of the more hot button debates in education over the past few years has been the issue of using student test scores to evaluate teachers.

Despite the cacophony over the Common Core State Standards, new assessments, teacher evaluation, portfolio districts, and other hot - button issues, education leaders are bearing down ever harder on tried - and - true school reform strategies.

It fits in the quiver alongside crafted push polling; demographic analysis and education crafted by identifying hot button motivational issues that stand to foment an affirmative response to change.