Sentences with phrase «class public education system»

To boast a world - class public education system requires investments.
How might your district / state build public support for a world - class public education system that embraces excellence, equity, and a global and future orientation?
«Wallace's research and experience shows that a world - class public education system requires an effective principal in every school,» said J. Alvin Wilbanks, chief executive officer and superintendent, Gwinnett County Public Schools, and the nation's longest - serving urban superintendent.
It has become clear that traditional methods of investing in a world - class public education system are gone, and...
Finance reform is necessary, along with full - day kindergarten and high quality early childhood education, if we are serious about having a world - class public education system.

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Parochial schools are supported by church funds in addition to tuition, not tax dollars, providing in many areas a reasonable alternative for working class and middle class parishioners and removing these millions of students from the public education system paid for by taxpayers.
While raising three daughters, Pam worked only part - time, took adult education classes, and followed what was happening in the local public school system.
An educator since 1985, Tommi has worked as a class teacher, subject teacher, and block teacher for grades K - 8 and, prior to pursuing Waldorf Education, taught kindergarten and first grade in the public school system.
Likewise, Cameron and Clegg could, in theory, reform the education system to the relative detriment of the public schools without accusations of class hatred, because they went to public schools themselves.
Instead of rhetoric and hyperbole this is an honest and thoughtful system that treats teachers as the professionals they are and gives students the world - class public education they deserve,» said Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.
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The beginning of an academic year is not only a chance to connect with a new class of students but also a chance for you — the educator, the backbone of our public education system — to grow in the job, show leadership, and speak up about your school's and district's direction.
There's no reference to any public purpose for education, despite acknowledging a paragraph or two later that «maintaining American preeminence requires a world - class system of education
Those kids depend more than upper - middle - class youngsters on the public - education system.
«The country is in real peril,» cautioned Canada, who cited research that indicates the nation's failing public education system is hurting a wide swath of middle - class families.
«Tonight, I am calling on all Louisianans and all Americans to join an historic effort to build a world - class, quality system of public education in New Orleans.
Given the reality that we should be educating all children ~ it may surprise the uninformed observer that the market - based approach is alive and well in the education field driving a set of reforms that is slowly eroding our public school system and creating an even wider and more troubling achievement gap; ensuring that more affluent students have access to better schools and more resources ~ while low - income students receive a second - class education.
As educators and trusted messengers in our communities, we must make sure the public is informed and not fooled by presidential candidates who say they believe in a world - class education system but have a history of starving our public schools of critical funding and supporting flawed so - called reforms that don't work.
In that case Jepsen and Malloy used public funds to come to the defense of Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, when Pryor decided that while the law required that Paul Vallas could only stay on as the head of Bridgeport's school system if he completed a school leadership program at a Connecticut institution of higher education, Pryor would allow Vallas to stay if he only took a three - credit independent study classEducation, Stefan Pryor, when Pryor decided that while the law required that Paul Vallas could only stay on as the head of Bridgeport's school system if he completed a school leadership program at a Connecticut institution of higher education, Pryor would allow Vallas to stay if he only took a three - credit independent study classeducation, Pryor would allow Vallas to stay if he only took a three - credit independent study class instead.
School voucher proponents are finally admitting that their target is middle class students and the public school system — not better education for poor kids, the Center for Media and Democracy reports.
Public education systems in working - class Long Beach unite; open up student opportunities from Pre-K to university
The New Mexico Teacher of the Year program incorporates the New Mexico Public Education Department's vision of a world - class educational system in which all New Mexico students are prepared to succeed in a diverse, and increasingly complex, world.
Suppressing a world - class eye roll, you respond that the statement suggests that our public education system has «real, lasting positive results» on our students.
North Carolina public school leaders say a legislative mandate to decrease class sizes in the early grades may have a devastating impact on school systems across the state, forcing districts to spend millions more hiring teachers or cut scores of positions for those teaching «specialty» subjects such as arts, music and physical education.
North Carolina's largest public school system may be warning of «enormous disruptions» without speedy action from state lawmakers on a looming class size funding crisis, but key education leaders in Raleigh tell Policy Watch there's little sign Republican lawmakers in the General Assembly will act soon.
California's 23 - campus public education system announces far - reaching strategies in response to growing evidence that instead of helping them, remedial or developmental classes pose impediments to graduation for many students.
For education, technology and charter school companies and the Wall Streeters who back them, it lets them cite troubled public schools to argue that the current public education system is flawed, and to then argue that education can be improved if taxpayer money is funneled away from the public school system's priorities (hiring teachers, training teachers, reducing class size, etc.) and into the private sector (replacing teachers with computers, replacing public schools with privately run charter schools, etc.).
Horace Mann, whom history regards as the father of the American public education system, met resistance during the early 19th century against his push for common schools open to all children regardless of class or religious sect.
You've warned that «a new form of redlining is emerging» in public education, and called out «a growing number of apartheid schools populated almost entirely by low - income African - American and Latino students in our increasingly race - and class - segregated system
Instead, it is by complying with our state constitution and restoring a uniform system of fully funded public schools so that every student has an opportunity to receive a quality education including a fully qualified teacher and low class sizes so that struggling students can get the help they need to succeed in school and succeed in life.
«If we are to provide a world - class public education to the residents of the District of Columbia, we must have the most effective educators in the country,» said Chancellor Kaya Henderson as she unveiled results of the second year of the system's employee evaluation system, IMPACT.
This dramatic change in power distorts our political system, leading to not as much investment in the public goods needed to maintain a healthy middle class, including a great public education system.
Our paper then turns to the topic at hand — the demand for a quality public education system and the willingness to pay for it — before presenting our seminal state - by - state analysis of the correlation between a strong middle class and spending on public education per pupil.
Not only will she work to preserve the gains our public school systems have made over the last decade, but Caroline will also work to ensure each student has access to a world - class education, regardless of their zip code or socioeconomic status.
Taking desperately needed funds away from schools such as Audubon Charter School, Warren Easton, Ben Franklin, Edward Hynes, Lusher, McMain, and McDonogh # 35 Academy, will only serve to weaken public school education overall by forcing middle class parents out of the New Orleans public school system.
She began teaching sculpture classes in adult education programs in the Great Neck public school system.
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.
To make ends meet she began teaching sculpture classes in adult education programs in the Great Neck public school system.
As a parent interested in the town's education system, Jeff served on the long - range planning committee for Wilton Public Schools, and is involved with in - class programs.
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