Sentences with phrase «current system of public schooling»

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One example of the threats to religious liberty that have arisen in Congress is the current bill proposing a «voucher» system directing education funds to either public or private (including religious) schools.

This relatively new movement, which is also sometimes called student - centered learning, has its roots in the progressive strain of American educational thought, but its current incarnation is also based on the modern belief, common among corporate executives and other business leaders, that there is a major and potentially calamitous disconnect brewing between the historical structures and traditions of the American public school system and the labor - force demands of the 21st - century American economy.

Barbara Byrd - Bennett, the current CEO of the Chicago public schools, spent decades as a teacher and a principal in the New York City school system, working in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Critics have carped that the Bloomberg - led system fails to give parents sufficient voice — whatever that means — but the current arrangement is a night - and - day improvement over the old Board of Education, which was not only less accountable to the public, but failed at its most basic mission: improving our schools and teaching our kids.

... The report was commissioned by the Alliance for Quality Education, an education research and advocacy group that is calling the current public school system «a tale of two systems,» echoing Bill de Blasio's «tale of two cities» campaign slogan.

She is more determined than ever to work on behalf of the children that she feels are affected most by the failures of the current system: those educated in inner - city, lower - income, ethnic - minority majority public school districts.

India's public education system needs an overhaul and eLearning is the only medium I can see improving the current status of education provided by government schools in India.

In 2007, when Kaya Henderson, current chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public schools, was deputy chancellor, the struggling school system came under mayoral control.

Our measure of the current level of choice in the public school system has no statistically significant relationship with charter support within school districts.

Michelle Rhee, the chancellor of public schools in Washington, has turned education reform heads across the country by arguing, often loudly, that our current education system puts the interests of adults above the interests of children.

«The SDP Fellows have added a significant analytic capacity to our school system,» said Renee Foose, superintendent of the Howard County Public School System, a current SDP paschool system,» said Renee Foose, superintendent of the Howard County Public School System, a current SDP pasystem,» said Renee Foose, superintendent of the Howard County Public School System, a current SDP paSchool System, a current SDP paSystem, a current SDP partner.

Ted Kolderie writes that the current arrangement of K - 12 public education is an obstacle to school and district improvement and that state leaders have an important role to play in shaping system - wide change.

Concerned Women for America held a conference outside Kansas City, Mo., this weekend that opened with denunciations of Common Core and built to an address by state Sen. Ed Emery, a voucher proponent who has compared the current public education system with slavery because it traps students in government - run schools.

The Massachusetts Students Information Management System (SIMS) contains information on all Massachusetts public school students» race, ethnicity, sex, reduced - price lunch status, special education status, English - language learner status, town of residence, and current school.

-- The Seventy Four «Washington Post reporter Russakoff's fascinating study of the struggle to reform the Newark school system reveals the inner workings of a wide range of systemic and grassroots problems (charter schools, testing, accountability, private donors) plaguing education reform today... Russakoff's eagle - eyed view of the current state of the public education system in Newark and the United States is one of the finest education surveys in recent memory.»

Here his argument is unpersuasive, simply because those most critical of the current public education system — Catholics, Christian fundamentalists, inner - city African - Americans, and home schoolers — don't disavow basic moral and civic education.

If current trends continue, we» re going to see a bi-modal system develop, with public schools (including charter schools) and ultra-elite private schools monopolizing the education space as the plethora of smaller private and parochial schools that once fell between them gradually fade away.

The study of middle school students in the Wake County, North Carolina public school system (WCPSS), the 16th - largest public school district in the United States (146,687 current students), was conducted by economist Finley Edwards.

Attorneys from the Education Law Center and the Public Interest Law Center cited gross inequities in school funding among the state's school districts, to argue that the state's current school funding system violates the state Constitution's requirement that the state legislature «support and maintain» a «thorough and efficient system of public education.&Public Interest Law Center cited gross inequities in school funding among the state's school districts, to argue that the state's current school funding system violates the state Constitution's requirement that the state legislature «support and maintain» a «thorough and efficient system of public education.&public education.»

Before returning to RI to take on his current role, Mr. Heng served as the Senior Director of Information Systems at Democracy Prep Public Schools, based in New York City.

«Our current system, in many respects, rewards mediocrity, punishes excellence by granting unlimited job security to all who teach a few years,» Berger said last March at a news conference to unveil his Excellent Public Schools Act of 2013 — which contained language that ended career status and was ultimately inserted into the budget bill passed last summer.

Hosted by NYC Collaborates, «Diverse Schools: Opportunities and Challenges in Integrating NYC's Public Schools» discussed the historical roots of school segregation; these continue to play out across New York — even over 60 years after Brown v Board of Education - as well as the current challenges our school system faces and actionable solutions to spur integration.

While Yoder wanted to allow siblings of current voucher recipients to receive private school tuition dollars without entering the public school system, Kenley said at the time this would break an agreement that was central to the original voucher bill: public schools get the first chance at educating students.

After an electrifying keynote by parent leader Rosazlia Grillier that left attendees standing in ovation, Jesse Sharkey of the Chicago Teachers Union facilitated a panel discussion during the Chicago Story plenary on current challenges facing the public school system and the difficulty for community voices to be heard.

Until the voice of experience permeates the hegemonic control over public education reform — whether teachers buy solely into current reforms, overturn the existing system, or a combination of the two — no sustainable transformation will ever take place in American schools.

In collaboration with Martin West, assistant professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Public Impact found the state's current system to be inequitable and too inflexible to meet the state's evolving needs.

Two federal agencies and the D.C. Office of the Inspector General are investigating the District's public school system following revelations of inflated graduation rates, according to a current and a former D.C. government employee with direct knowledge of the probe.

The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities (CCM) and several organizations that provide services to families and children across the state of Connecticut argue that the state's current education system perpetuates inadequate and unequal state aid for public schools, and that the broken ECS formula is not based on a rational, evidence - based assessment of the actual cost of education.

Last month, Denver District Judge Sheila Rappaport ruled in the case of Lobato vs. State of Colorado that Colorado's current public school finance system fails to meet state constitutional requirements to maintain a thorough and uniform public school system.

Rupe told justices that the current system provided only enough money to support proficiency for some of the state's public school enrollment — not all.

«Our partnership with Proximity Learning allows us to expand and benefit Greenville Public Schools with a highly qualified team of experienced educators without any issues or impact to our system's existing educational programs and current facility.»

Robin Lake discusses the current failures of Detroit's public school system, and why she's optimistic for its renewal.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - One year after Nikolai Vitti left Jacksonville to take over Detroit's public school system, the Duval County School Board voted to offer Dr. Diana Greene, current superintendent of Florida's Manatee County School District, the job as Jacksonville's top eduschool system, the Duval County School Board voted to offer Dr. Diana Greene, current superintendent of Florida's Manatee County School District, the job as Jacksonville's top eduSchool Board voted to offer Dr. Diana Greene, current superintendent of Florida's Manatee County School District, the job as Jacksonville's top eduSchool District, the job as Jacksonville's top educator.

Just recently on National Public Radio (NPR), current Stanford Professor and former runner - up to being appointed by President Obama as the US Secretary of Education (Obama appointed current secretary Arne Duncan instead) Linda Darling - Hammond was interviewed about why she thought «School Testing Systems Should Be Examined In 2014.»

Prior to her current position at AIR, Dr. Gandhi spent five years as an independent consultant, providing research and evaluation services to local school districts, including the New York City public school system, the District of Columbia public schools, Ithaca and New York public schools, and several large urban districts in Massachusetts.

The proposal would protect the pension benefits earned by current school employees and retirees already part of the Michigan Public School Employees Retirement Sschool employees and retirees already part of the Michigan Public School Employees Retirement SSchool Employees Retirement System.

An issue brief released today by the Public School Forum of North Carolina says the current A-F School Performance Grading system only serves to label schools based on the family income of the students served and does not provide support to help struggling schools...

Michelle Rhee who, as many of you know, is the founder and current CEO of StudentsFirst, as well as former Chancellor of Washington D.C.'s public schools who during her tenure there, enacted a strict, controversial teacher evaluation system (i.e., IMPACT) that has been at the source of different posts here and here, most recently following the «gross» errors in 44 D.C. public school teachers» evaluation scores.

«In our study of Michigan's public schools, it quickly became apparent that our current school funding system is broken and obsolete, and that we must return to the drawing board to prepare all students for the 21st century workforce,» said Donald Hubler, co-chairman of the SEMCOG Task Force.

A key improvement of ESAs over school vouchers and tax credits is that funds not used for K - 12 educational purposes can be «saved» or rolled over each year and used for continuing or higher education, thus changing the «use it or lose it» mentality in the current public school funding system.

«Opening a parallel system of public schools that has the potential to take away from our current traditional system of schools is certainly not what's in the best interest of children,» KEA President Stephanie Winkler said during the committee meeting.

The commission was created to develop recommendations for improvements to the current public school finance system and to consider new methods of financing public education.

Most observers of the current teacher pension plans focus their attention on the small minority of teachers who dedicate their careers to working in public schools in one pension system.

«Our lawsuit contends that the current K - 12 public education finance system fails to meet state constitutional standards,» said Jim Finley, the principal consultant for the coalition of parents, mayors, school boards and teachers» unions suing the state.

Through providing transparency and accountability with the current state of New Orleans Public School system, this report hopes to inspire informed and practical policy.

Funding Fundamentals: Chicago and the State A detailed examination of the current funding system's impact on Chicago Public Schools, which educate roughly one - fifth of the state's students.

The increasing number of state legislators, auditors, comptrollers, parents, students and academic institutions that are calling for more accountability in the charter sector are right: If we are committed to a public education system that strives to serve all children, with the understanding and the expectation that each and every one matters, has potential and deserves the resources and opportunity to succeed, then we must rein in the current growth model of charter expansion, and insist instead on a well - regulated and equitably resourced system of public schools that works for all children.

The decentralization experience of the Chicago public school system also contributed to the current interest in the role of districts as a positive force for change.

(1997) E652: Current Research in Post-School Transition Planning (2003) E586: Curriculum Access and Universal Design for Learning (1999) E626: Developing Social Competence for All Students (2002) E650: Diagnosing Communication Disorders in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (2003) E608: Five Homework Strategies for Teaching Students with Disabilities (2001) E654: Five Strategies to Limit the Burdens of Paperwork (2003) E571: Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Intervention Plans (1998) E628: Helping Students with Disabilities Participate in Standards - Based Mathematics Curriculum (2002) E625: Helping Students with Disabilities Succeed in State and District Writing Assessments (2002) E597: Improving Post-School Outcomes for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders (2000) E564: Including Students with Disabilities in Large - Scale Testing: Emerging Practices (1998) E568: Integrating Assistive Technology Into the Standard Curriculum (1998) E577: Learning Strategies (1999) E587: Paraeducators: Factors That Influence Their Performance, Development, and Supervision (1999) E735: Planning Accessible Conferences and Meetings (1994) E593: Planning Student - Directed Transitions to Adult Life (2000) E580: Positive Behavior Support and Functional Assessment (1999) E633: Promoting the Self - Determination of Students with Severe Disabilities (2002) E609: Public Charter Schools and Students with Disabilities (2001) E616: Research on Full - Service Schools and Students with Disabilities (2001) E563: School - Wide Behavioral Management Systems (1998) E632: Self - Determination and the Education of Students with Disabilities (2002) E585: Special Education in Alternative Education Programs (1999) E599: Strategic Processing of Text: Improving Reading Comprehension for Students with Learning Disabilities (2000) E638: Strategy Instruction (2002) E579: Student Groupings for Reading Instruction (1999) E621: Students with Disabilities in Correctional Facilities (2001) E627: Substance Abuse Prevention and Intervention for Students with Disabilities: A Call to Educators (2002) E642: Supporting Paraeducators: A Summary of Current Practices (2003) E647: Teaching Decision Making to Students with Learning Disabilities by Promoting Self - Determination (2003) E590: Teaching Expressive Writing To Students with Learning Disabilities (1999) E605: The Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP)(2000) E592: The Link Between Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBAs) and Behavioral Intervention Plans (BIPs)(2000) E641: Universally Designed Instruction (2003) E639: Using Scaffolded Instruction to Optimize Learning (2002) E572: Violence and Aggression in Children and Youth (1998) E635: What Does a Principal Need to Know About Inclusion?

Liz conceived of SexEd armed with 10 + years working with artists / art collectives and youth enrolled in the NYC public school system, and a growing sadness over the huge gap between the sexual health education she received growing up in the public schools of NJ in the 80s, and the current curriculum.