Sentences with phrase «conservative education»

That she had spent years in the inner circle of conservative education policy, advocating for school vouchers, firing incompetent teachers, and shutting down failing schools.

After the teacher unions, the state school board association is usually the most influential conservative education force in the entire state.

Conservative education policy believes market competition holds the key to improvement.

Morgan was the first Conservative Education Secretary to address a teaching union conference since the 1990s, addressing delegates at the NASUWT annual conference on 26 March.

Ravitch's role in conservative education reform was not as a generator of ideas; others developed the framework of standards and market competition.

Mrs Williams was responding to a challenge in the Senedd on Wednesday from Conservative education spokesman Darren Millar, saying Wales» Pisa scores were not good enough.

Reversing years of lawless freelancing by Obama's Department of Education, ESSA imposes a raft of new prohibitions on the federal Department of Education while broadly reflecting recommendations sketched by conservative education reformers in such outlets as the Conservative Reform Network's Room to Grow and National Affairs.

Ms Morgan, the first Conservative education minister to speak at the event in almost 20 years, was heckled by one delegate when she spoke about children «suffering» in classrooms.

Lord Baker remembers his part in Conservative education changes in the 80s and the National Curriculum reform.

Morgan is the first Conservative education secretary to address a teaching union conference since the 90s, with her predecessor Michael Gove ducking any invitations.

Citing DeVos» unabashed bankrolling of conservative education reform efforts — and political spending on Republican candidates and causes writ large — Warren continued:

Scottish Conservative education spokeswoman Liz Smith MSP said: «Delivering free school meals for low income families for every day of the year may be a noble objective but it is undoubtedly expensive if each child is to have a nutritious meal.

Welsh Conservative education spokesperson Paul Davies said the «damning figures» were a wake - up call to the assembly government.

Curated by Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell and former Conservative Education Secretary Lord Baker, the collection features cartoons from throughout Mrs Thatcher's political career.

Local conservative education activist Cindy Reagor has lead a crusade against constructivism, objecting that at constructivism's core «is the idea that everything is subjective and that there is no truth.»

Bob and Roberta Smith RA composites images from his polemical film Art Party, to brilliantly satirise Conservative Education Secretary Michael Gove's policies on art education.

In an October 2014 by - election, Mr. Clark placed a strong second and came within 800 votes of defeating appointed Progressive Conservative Education Minister Gordon Dirks.

That's why for more than a century, it has been Conservative Education Secretaries who have driven the reforms that have widened access and raised standards.

«Conservative Education Select Committee chairman expresses concern at the Academies Bill's hasty passage through the Commons as Michael Gove declares himself a «born - again Blairite» Main MPs reaffirm the Speaker's call for ministers to make key statements to the House, not the media»

Diamond and Ross especially recommend this service for LGBT scientists in socially conservative education institutions or regions.

Conservative education pundit Chester E. Finn, Jr., M.A.T.» 67, Ed.D.» 70, the president of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, also joined the Edison Project during its inception.

A number of school choice advocates and conservative education thinkers have demurred when asked to sign on as advisors.

Interviewed in October on the Today Show, President Obama seemed to be channeling a generation of conservative education analysts in stating bluntly that more money absent reform won't do much to improve public schools.

How school voucher advocates engineered the breakthrough is the story of a complex alignment of interests among conservative education activists, the Republicans who control Washington, and the local leaders of a majority African - American city.

Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader and deputy prime minister, attacked Conservative education policy for an obsession with a «tiny handful» of free schools at the expense of «how you properly finance 24,000 schools across the whole school system».

This line of thinking began percolating on the right only a few days after the tragedy — first with conservative education reformers, then with conservative columnists, and now with conservative lawmakers.

Even conservative education leaders like Checker Finn, who helmed the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, agree that private school choice is untenable in rural schools.

David Laws, a Liberal Democrat and schools minister, has previously spoken of his party's record in blocking Conservative education policies.

In March of 2012, North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis and ten other state lawmakers flew to Florida on the dime of Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina (PEFNC), an organization known for endorsing conservative education reform initiatives, including school vouchers.

It is bills like these, along with others to expand Milwaukee's program that gives low - income students state - funded vouchers for private schools, that have made a name for Walker in national conservative education circles.

The report identifies several managers and their spouses who are tied to the charter network, several of whom presumably champion school choice and other conservative education policies on the Trump administration's policy agenda (Hedge Clippers, 2015).

Adonis was also popular with some Opposition politicians, in particular the then - Conservative Education Spokesman Michael Gove, who once declared, «We are on the same page as Andrew Adonis.»

Conservative education spokeswoman Angela Burns welcomed the «U-turn», adding: «This is an embarrassing climb - down for the education minister but should ensure that this summer's debacle over the GCSE English language regrade will not be repeated.»

Bob and Roberta Smith composites images from his polemical film Art Party, to brilliantly satirise Conservative Education Secretary Michael Gove's policies on art education.

Conservative Education Minister Liz Truss has rejected Liberal Democrat calls for tighter controls on free schools in England.

«Almost every recommendation contains ideas previously articulated in speeches by Conservative education spokespersons or in the Party's draft education manifesto.

Her comments follow a report by the former Conservative education secretary Lord Baker, who has called for an overhaul of the «narrow» curriculum taught in schools.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, «who made a career of promoting local control of education, has signaled a surprisingly hard - line approach to carrying out an expansive new federal education law, issuing critical feedback that has rattled state school chiefs and conservative education experts alike,» the New York Times reports.

He went on to regale listeners as to the range of routes now available to becoming a teacher, for teachers to teach how they saw best and at the same time enjoying an elevated status, all as a result of Conservative education reforms.

By this time, Ravitch had become fully ensconced in the world of conservative education reform.

A topic of major contention between liberals and conservatives education policy debates today revolves around the idea of teacher tenure and whether it is helping or hindering education reform.

The message this sends to me — and to many others both inside and outside the Church — is that you go to Liberty University to receive a conservative education, not a Christian one.

While I'm very sympathetic to Dreher's hope (I teach at a school that advertises itself as Christian), I see something problematic in a kind of greenhouse theory of conservative education in which students are reared and taught within an engineered, not - in - the - world atmosphere.