Sentences with phrase «common commitment to public education»

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One thing that is common across all our states» and territories» education systems is their commitment to public schools being free, compulsory and secular.

As they analyze the ways in which public school leaders successfully formed and transformed American education, historian Tyack and political scientist Hansot conclude that the main challenge facing today's leaders is to create a new community of commitment to public education as a common good.

If this is true - if academic education is merely about the three R's - then we might well ask: Why should any society make a fundamental and expensive public commitment to common schools?

Malloy's unwavering commitment to the Common Core, the absurd Common Core testing scheme and the unfair and inappropriate teacher evaluation system has rightfully earned him the ridicule of parents, teachers and public education advocates across the state.

«If Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy says anything short of «Commissioner Pryor will be moving on to greener pastures, I am withdrawing Connecticut from the Common Core and we will suspend the Common Core standardized testing program,» Malloy will be doing nothing more than reaffirming his commitment to the corporate education reform industry and not to the students, parents, teachers, public schools and taxpayers of our state.

He uses his commentary piece to explores the antics of Commissioner Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy and the charter school industry as they try to explain away their unyielding commitment to privatizing public education in Connecticut and pushing forward to implement the Common Core and its unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory standardized testing scheme.