Sentences with phrase «claims by reformers»

The most serious problem facing public schools, according to parents polled, contrary to claims by reformers, is the fundamental lack of adequate funding, with school overcrowding being the second most serious concern cited by parents.

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• Prior to the election, some Iranian commentators claimed that the so - called reformer Hossein Moussavi would actually end up taking a stronger line against the United States than President Ahmadinejad, who was widely denounced by hard - line clerics for agreeing to meet with Barack Obama.

In the course of controversy the reformers were led to go further than they had intended at first, and to claim for the whole Bible indiscriminately, in and by itself, exposed as it now was to the possible vagaries of private interpretation, an absolute authority displacing that of the Catholic Church.

I think my interest in rereading it was sparked in part by you, actually, claiming earlier that Luther was not a reformer, which I thought was interesting.

If once we get behind the prejudices and tastes of this or that group of modem Christians, and try to discover what the great continental reformers like Luther and Calvin — yes, and like Zwingli, too, for be has been much misunderstood and misinterpreted by many of those who have claimed to interpret his teaching — not to mention the English reformers with their rather closer contact with the Catholic tradition, we shall find that with varying emphases and in varying idiom, they were all of them intent on saying something very like the summary outline which I have just given.

As for the claim that is widely made by good government groups and left leaning reformers that establishing a public campaign finance system would go a long way toward getting big money out of the political system and reducing corruption, New Yorkers aren't really on board.

It was happy to appease reformers by claiming that it was up to local forces when the prospect of the rooms was merely theoretical.

The US attorney didn't make any specific recommendations about how to purge the state of dirty pols, but he did make clear that the growing list of cases against elected officials at the state and local levels brought by his office indicate that the problem is far from solved — despite claims to the contrary by any number of self - appointed «reformers.»

However, some boards of education are pushing back on the over-generalized claims and mythical stories put forth by education reformers regarding the efficacy of standardization and testing systems.

By now, you've heard that Anne Rowe and Allegra «Happy» Haynes won seats on the Denver Public Schools board, and that incumbent Arturo Jimenez narrowly claimed victory over reformer Jennifer Draper Carson.

Imagine, the reformers feel entitled to issue a press release claiming the «reform movement» deserves credit for increasing test scores by an insignificant amount, after spending hundreds of millions of dollars implementing the very program they said would «turnaround» the entire New Orleans School System.

As with the oft - rehashed posturing by traditionalists that reformers «bash» and «demonize» teachers, the claim that reformers don't listen to teachers is based on the unwillingness of traditionalists to admit these facts: That there are laggard instructors in our classrooms who shouldn't be there.

As for the claim by This Week in Education «s Alexander Russo that this alleged «smear» of oh, poor Diane could blow up in the faces of school reformers?

Apparently Duncan may not have been referring to all tutoring, just the tutoring provided by the private companies, which would certainly be a bit of an embarrassment for the «education reformers» who claim privatizing educational services is the key to successfully reforming America's education system.

They claim the corporate reformers have manufactured an imaginary education crisis in our country by cherry - picking low - performance facts from poverty - stricken school districts and continually repeat accusations that are simply not true.

• Michelle Rhee, former chancellor of DC Public Schools and one of the country's most well - known «education reformers,» knew early on about widespread testing irregularities and possible cheating — far earlier than she has claimed publicly to have known, according to a confidential memo that was sent to her back in 2009 and obtained by PBS» John Merrow.

The logically absurd claims being made by the superintendents, and other reformers, got me wondering about how they could consistently get away with comparing apples and tomatoes without ever admitting that the comparison is fundamentally bogus.

A friend of mine had a priceless reaction to the specious claim by education reformers that our children need standardized tests so parents can know how they are doing in school.

I've written about Keith Benson before, president of the Camden Education Association and and paranoid conspiracy theorist who claims that the terrorist attack on 9/11 was a massive government plot and that that public school reform is a conspiracy among money - grubbing reformers and «oppressed natives» who are afflicted with a «psychosis» that leads them «to improve their own subjugated standing by attempting to join the ranks of those who do the oppressing.»

A frenzy surrounding reading is caused by school reformers and the media, claiming children are not learning to read fast enough.

Ravitch covers quite a bit of terrain: the recent history of school reform, the major players in the reform movement, the claims used to criticize American public education, the «fixes» championed by reformers and Ravitch's suggestions for a more sane and productive education policy.