Sentences with phrase «controversial initiative»

Critics, including many from outside of unions, have opposed linking teacher evaluations to student test scores as well as other controversial initiatives they said would prove costly after the grant runs out.

Perhaps the most controversial initiative of all was Proposition 227, commonly known as the «Anti-bilingual Initiative.»

John Bryan has underwritten the creation of ten charter schools across North Carolina, and now thanks to his political efforts, he's also behind a secret plan modeled after similar controversial initiatives in Tennessee, New Orleans and elsewhere to allow charter operators to fire an entire school's staff and start from scratch in an attempt to catapult a public school into the top 25 percent of the state.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposed expansion of the city's ferry system, announced in February, appears to be one of the least politically controversial initiatives of his term.

Separate from NCLB, however, many states and cities have undertaken high - profile and often controversial initiatives to take over, reconstitute, or turn around low - performing schools.

Perhaps the most controversial initiative so far is a supreme court blacklist of 170,000 defaulters who are barred from buying high - speed train or airplane tickets or staying at luxury hotels as a means to pressure them to repay their debt.

The ConservativeHome Members» Panel result suggests that it may also be helping the grassroots to digest his other more controversial initiatives.

Here's an example of the high stakes: During the last election cycle, controversial initiatives like Common Core, charter schools, alternate route programs, vouchers and teacher tenure have all been on table for elected boards to consider in Louisiana and other states.

School funding remains hot topic at Utah Legislature Controversial initiative Our Schools Now seeks to increase income tax for education

Much of this kind of success may have a lot to do with Sourcebooks» pioneering spirit, an attitude which has seen the publisher participate in a number of experimental and mildly controversial initiatives to put ebooks in the hands of readers, put titles in public libraries, and put children's books in the hands of shoppers.

The two most controversial initiatives have come under Title IX: The office's seven - year effort to combat what it described as an «epidemic» of sexual violence on campus, and its 2016 directive on the right of transgender students to choose restrooms, locker rooms, overnight accommodations and sports teams on the basis of their subjective sense of «gender identity» rather than their biological sex.

Tennessee's Race to the Top award in 2010 was the key impetus for a range of robust, groundbreaking, and often controversial initiatives to improve public education.

Many of the controversial initiatives in the PPGG and ELFA bills were removed, either to be considered after the budget, or to be used as a negotiating chip during the last - minute deal - making.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo named members to a Common Core review panel and called for fewer standardized exams Monday, but gave no sign of rolling back his controversial initiative to tie test scores to school closings and teacher evaluations.

Critics and backers of Suffolk's red light camera program clashed yesterday in a sometimes raucous and emotional public hearing into whether the controversial initiative should be suspended.

That was the question in New York when four people — two for embracing and two against — participated in a recent debate about the controversial initiative.

The March 14 to 15 trip to the Miami area was for lawmakers to learn about Florida's Tax Credit Scholarships Program, a controversial initiative that gives dollar - for - dollar state tax credits to encourage companies to donate scholarship money for low - income children attending private schools, according to Darrell Allison, the director and chief lobbyist for Parents for Educational Freedom (PEFNC).

Last night, C.K. sent out a series of tweets about his daughter's struggles with homework designed to align with the Common Core, a controversial initiative hinging on standardized testing in order to impart a shared set of English and math skills to students.

Some supporters of the new standards have blamed the Obama administration for its ambitious and controversial initiatives to overhaul American public education.

He presided over ALEC for its most controversial initiatives, like when it manipulated the content of K - 12 science classes, and when the NRA used ALEC to spread Stand Your Ground laws.

The Senate has voted 97 — 2 to advance the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, a controversial initiative meant to crack down on sex trafficking on the internet.