Sentences with phrase «controversy over school»

In Wake County, North Carolina, frequent student reassignments created controversy over the school district's long - standing socioeconomic integration plan.

Ask students to choose one controversy over school choice or Betsy DeVos» nomination.

Just as lively (and divisive) as the controversy over school choice and home schooling has been the debate over teacher pay and licensure.

It comes up in controversy over school prayer amendments or in education bills.

Not exact matches

Washington (CNN)-- Liberty University reacted over the weekend to a brewing controversy over the fact that the evangelical school has selected Mitt Romney, a Mormon, to speak at the school's graduation.

It's gotten a huge number of hits, appparently because of a controversy I didn't know about over the Waldorf School.

Schools should also pay more attention to the philosophical issues raised by the controversy over creation and evolution — although attentiveness should not mean sneaking in sectarian teaching of religion under the subterfuge of «scientific creationism.»

The controversy over the injunction issued in October 1997 by Alabama Federal District Judge Ira M. DeMent restricting religious activity in public schools, as well as the continuing controversy in the state concerning Judge Roy Moore's courtroom display of the Ten Commandments, can be....

CNN: Liberty University responds to Romney controversy, angers online students Liberty University reacted over the weekend to a brewing controversy over the fact that the evangelical school has selected Mitt Romney, a Mormon, to speak at the school's graduation.

There is controversy over this decret, but for the moment, only animal proteins for main meal sticks as the law in French school cantines.

The controversy over the new school food calorie limits is intensifying.

The controversy over the construction of the middle school has been going on ever since the land swap was proposed.

Food / nutrition is merely another of the endless controversies over how public schooling should be conducted.

New York is going back to the drawing board to rethink the way it evaluates school teachers and principals after controversy over the use of student test scores in job evaluations helped fuel a massive boycott of state exams in recent years.

As if that was not enough, the defiant Power Minister also refused to be dragged into the controversy over when the intermittent power crisis will officially come to an end, following a renewed promise by the President, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama, during the commissioning of the Bamiankor Community Day Senior High School in the Western Region, that the crisis would soon come to an end.

Her proposal of mayoral control over the Syracuse City School District, though, has been met with controversy.

The state comptroller's office will audit the Hempstead Town Industrial Development Agency and Valley Stream School District 30 after a controversy over tax breaks granted to the Green Acres Mall.

The passport backlog at the Home Office and the controversy over teaching in Birmingham schools are much more significant than any of the problems currently facing the Labour leader.

The school has been the source of some controversy over the past few years.

There was a serious controversy over the Phoenicia School principal in which her performance divided elements of the community.

This year he testified for more than three hours, and faced detailed questions relating to city policing, public housing, taxes, the condition of school cafeterias and even a controversy over plans for an especially tall billboard in the Bronx.

After much controversy over the selection of a new Buffalo schools superintendent School Board Member Larry Quinn says it is time to move forward.

The New York education sector has had its own controversy over race in the past week: Daniel Loeb, a political donor and chairman of the board of directors of Success Academy, the state's largest charter school network, said in a since - deleted Facebook post that state Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who is black, was worse for racial minorities than «anyone who has ever donned a hood,» because of her support of teachers» unions.

With the controversy over standardized testing in public schools still at a rolling boil, some national and state politicians are

Since then, two IDA boards, four school districts, hundreds of Valley Stream taxpayers, and about a dozen state and local lawmakers have become embroiled in a controversy over the mall's tax incentives that have been blamed for steep tax hikes for residents.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is trying to address the controversy over the use of Common Core standards in the state's public schools.

The district has been plagued in recent years with controversy over the makeup of the school board and many of its actions.

«Discussing American science literacy without mentioning evolution is intellectual malpractice» that «downplays the controversy» over teaching evolution in schools, says Joshua Rosenau of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit that has fought to keep creationism out of the science classroom.

If you thought the dress code controversies were over because the school year is winding down, think again.

Former «Superhead» of Hackney schools federation and Department for Education (DfE) advisor Greg Wallace has been banned from teaching over an IT contract controversy.

The controversy over efforts to require background checks and financial - disclosure statements of many New York City school officials has been partially resolved.

He was a powerful contributor to Massachusetts» preeminent education achievements and a highly respected leader among chief state school officers nationally,» said Professor Paul Reville, former Massachusetts Secretary of Education, noting Chester's impressive ability to find constructive middle ground on tough issues in the Commonwealth, such as the controversy over assessment tests PARRC and MCAS.

Paul E. Peterson and William G. Howell's article, «Voucher Research Controversy» (Check the Facts, Spring 2004), was informative regarding the academic debate over school choice.

As the only federally funded school voucher program in the country and a policy important to outgoing Speaker John Boehner, OSP has engendered significant political controversy over the years.

Keeping up - to - date is essential because even though the legal system is often placed in the unenviable position of reacting to emerging developments rather than adopting proactive stances to head off controversies, if leaders can implement sound AUPs, they may be able to avoid costly litigation when disputes arise over the use of technology in schools.

He fired most of the teachers and administrators allegedly involved with cheating, and he hasn't shied away from controversy during battles over redistricting and school leadership.

New Research Suggests Small High Schools May Help After All NPR: A New York City entrant in a long - running research controversy over the effectiveness of small high sSchools May Help After All NPR: A New York City entrant in a long - running research controversy over the effectiveness of small high schoolsschools.

While there has been a great deal of controversy over the content of standardized tests and the frequency at which they are administered, we believe that there needs to be some way of comparing schools and districts across the country.

School districts are trying a variety of strategies aimed at creating safe and welcoming school environments, but there is controversy over the role and frequency of student surveys, and how to useSchool districts are trying a variety of strategies aimed at creating safe and welcoming school environments, but there is controversy over the role and frequency of student surveys, and how to useschool environments, but there is controversy over the role and frequency of student surveys, and how to use them.

The controversy over prayer in the public schools continues.

When you pick up the Milwaukee newspapers these days, two issues fight for your attention: plans for new taxes to build a fancier stadium for the Milwaukee Brewers and the controversy over providing vouchers for religious and private schools.

The earlier controversy over EAI soured many on the idea of market competition, but as that memory fades the state and city have become more willing to turn to private providers to manage the city's reconstituted schools.

School administrators could ward off bitter battles over issues of sexual orientation by taking an active role in bringing people of different views together for discussion before controversies erupt, according to a resource guide for educators and parents developed by a center that promotes First Amendment values.

There are, for example, no statistics on the percentage of ELL students in the schools, no numbers on the privately raised funds the schools put to use, and only cursory gestures, in Kenny's book, to the controversy over students counseled out of or removed from these charter - school classrooms and to their teacher turnover rate.

The issue of racially segregated schools is back in the public's attention as a result, in part, of the controversy that has arisen over charter schools that enroll almost entirely students of one race.

But Bexon - Smith also attracted some controversy, including after telling a school not to give staff too much «professional discretion» over their lesson plans and marking.

The current local controversy over whether the school board should approve two more charter schools is not about believing in school choice, it's about survival.

And it is what fuels the controversy over state school funding generally — poor school districts under - resourced compared to districts that are rich in property valuation.

Controversy over class - size requirements in early grades has emerged as the biggest issue facing North Carolina's public schools in the 2017 legislative session.

Aside from academics, there also have been controversies involving the school system's handling of its food - service contract and, more recently, over the testing of lead in water at city schools.