Sentences with phrase «debate about public schools»

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@this lady, The whole debate is about this only — the Christians are trying to get a backdoor entry into public schools by incorporating Creationism into science textbooks!

Shaw is an active partner to leaders in government and public and charter education around the role of independent schools in the vital debate about the future of education.

In other e.politics news, I'm doing a call - in show on Minnesota Public Radio tomorrow morning about YouTube debates, chatting with academics from Princeton and Wake Forest (hope my Palestine (Texas) High School degree is up to the challenge).

Diane Ravitch has brought the real facts and a commitment to quality public schools for all back into the debate about education reform.

Republicans said nothing during the debate over the «big ugly,» which also included about $ 25.8 billion in funding for public schools, revived the 421 - a housing subsidy program, creates a new scholarship program for public colleges, included billions for water infrastructure, spurs municipal service consolidation and extended the state's expiring millionaires tax for two years.

Since only a tiny fraction of Americans has lived through a state constitutional convention in their adult lifetimes, and since Americans are not taught about state constitutional conventions (as opposed to the federal constitutional convention of 1787) during their formal schooling (even those such as myself who received a Ph.D. in American government), Americans approach these referendums starting with a huge knowledge deficit, making local opinion leaders that much more influential in public debates.

They say that these debates about climate change and teaching evolution in schools, you know, really comes down, it really blurs the lines; it confuses the public about the kind of the boundaries between science and ideology.

Yet we know very little about these local leaders, and we seldom hear their voices in debates about the role that their organizations do and should play in public education and school reform.

President - elect Donald Trump's selection of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education has renewed the debate about public accountability in school - choice programs.

Much of the debate about public and private schools suggests two monolithic armies poised to engage in bitter and decisive conflict on the field of battle.

In the recent noisy debate about the state of public education, nobody argues that it makes sense to strengthen ties between school and home.

«Testing has become enormously important with an extraordinarily powerful influence on schooling, and it increasingly dominates public debate about education,» he says.

The contours of elite debate about school choice, however, are not replicated in the larger public.

Today, students from every definable race and ethnic category study and squirm shoulder to shoulder in the same public school classrooms, learning about something called segregation — as a vocabulary word on a pop quiz, a chapter in their history textbooks, or a topic for the debate team.

Are these opinions about the Common Core driven by the public debate broadcast in the media, or are they rooted in direct knowledge about what is happening in their own school district?

And substantial percentages remain undecided about charter schools and other reform initiatives, suggesting that the current national debate over school policy has the potential to sway public opinion in one direction or another.

However, some high profile school failures and questions about governance has led to a public debate about the effectiveness of this model of schooling, and whether it meets the needs of children and communities.

And in the past few years, as debates about merit pay for school teachers have come up, major public figures such as Bill Gates and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have questioned the wisdom of rewarding teachers for degrees.

But it's also impossible to legitimately debate what the right level of public school funding should be when bureaucrats misinform the public about what public school funding currently is.

The education debate changed, too: A cheating scandal in Atlanta public schools in 2009 raised questions about how high - stakes testing was affecting schools.

The Education Next poll leaders didn't explore why support for charters has dropped so precipitously, though they speculated that a growing public debate about charters, including a call for a freeze on new charter schools by the NAACP, played a role.

In the letter to appropriators, NAESP and NASSP stated that «school principals, education stakeholders and the public deserve to know how the Committee would fund federal education programs,» and urged the Subcommittee to have an «open debate about deep cuts in education funding by holding a Subcommittee markup.»

The debate on school choice is about more than just opposing vouchers and our efforts center on supporting policy that strengthens public schools.

While the debate rages on about whether or not North Carolina's General Assembly actually dealt public education a financial punch in the gut with the 2013 - 15 budget, NC Policy Watch is keeping a running tally of education funding cuts that local school districts are coping with as they open up for the 2013 - 14 academic year.

Current schools superintendent Tony Evers and challenger Lowell Holtz talked about the state's educational issues during a debate hosted by Wisconsin Public Television.

There's debate about whether any public schools should use admission criteria such as arts auditions (or, in the case of San Francisco's Lowell High School, academic criteria).

The initiative successfully brought many of the challenges facing school leaders into the spotlight of public policy and worked to spark a spirited national debate about the future of our students, schools, and leadership.

The Initiative successfully brought many of the challenges facing school leaders into the spotlight of public policy and worked to spark a spirited national debate about the future of our students, schools, and leadership.

Nationwide the charter school sector has grown over the past few decades amid a debate about its virtues and drawbacks — and even whether the publicly funded schools are public or private entities.

This is not to start a debate about charter vs. traditional public schools.

Everyone is curious about salaries, and in academia, there is an endless debate over who makes more: private school teachers or public school teachers.

As public debate over the use of Common Core standards in U.S. schools gathers steam, parents and policymakers need to know more about current proficiency standards for reading, mathematics, and science — and brace for some surprises.

Amid debate about where charter schools fit into the spectrum of public education options, I accepted an invitation to visit Horizon Science Academy - McKinley Park on Chicago's South Side.

Grant Callen, Clarion Ledger Guest Columnist, October 23, 2016 For more than a decade, a political debate took place in the media, across the state and under the Capitol dome about whether Mississippi would allow public charter schools to operate.

Hidden behind the debate about turnaround programs, charter schools, standardized testing, evaluation methods and the common core curriculum rages a far more fundamental argument; what do we actually expect our public education to achieve... What is the purpose of public education?

Debates rage on over school vouchers, which some of my black neighbors favor because of serious remaining questions about the quality of public schools.

New Jersey's ongoing debate about whether traditional public schools or charters do a better job educating students got some provocative new data yesterday, courtesy of a study from Stanford University that came down on the side of the charters — particularly in Newark's embattled school district.

While her nomination gave exposure to an honest and passionate debate about charter schools as an alternative to traditional public schools, her hardline opposition to any real accountability for these publicly funded, privately run schools undermined their founding principle as well as her support.

It also kicked off a heated debate about how best to regulate public schools.

Truthfully, there is no national debate about the future of public charter schools.

Connecticut can not have an honest debate about how to improve and handle our poorest school systems until the «education reforms» start telling the truth so that policymakers and the public actually knows what is happening in these schools.

I never dreamed I'd live to witness such raucous and juicy debates about how to improve our nation's lowest - performing public schools.

«We're seeing in the last year or so that the silver bullets are starting to lose their luster — charter schools, merit pay and mayoral control,» said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers and a major figure in the country's debate about the role of teachers» unions in public education.

Today, while much of the discussion about «Education Reform» revolves around the diversion of scarce public funds to privately owned and practically unaccountable charter schools and the debate about whether the Common Core Standards are useful or appropriate and whether the unfair and discriminatory Common Core testing scam can be derailed, there is a growing realization that the rise of the Common Core is one of the biggest public relations snow jobs in American history.

Ongoing public debate about whether the United States, specific states, and local communities spend too much or too little on education and whether those dollars are spent correctly can be traced through the case law history associated with various school finance law suits.

As with charter schools, debate over expanding empowerment zones to other districts is raising concerns from critics about privatizing public education.

In the midst of campaigns and debates for the 2011 Chicago mayoral election, we hear many proclamations and promises about what it means to improve public schools.

In addition to fundamental discussions about the amount of public funding going toward public education, the mechanisms by which funds are allocated to schools within districts and to non-district charter schools, as well as the compatibility of funding models with innovations in instructional models, arise as current topics of finance - related debate.

Breathtaking results from yet another study, and the announcement that three prominent Boston lawyers plan to mount a constitutional challenge to Massachusetts» charter public school cap, have reignited the seemingly endless debate about charter schools» place in the commonwealth's education marketplace.

Today is the last day of Center for Inspired Teaching's two - week Institute, and as the rest of the country talks about the merits and shortcomings of the Obama administration's education plan — particularly its belief that external systems of accountability and extrinsic motivators like performance pay are an essential ingredient in reforming public education — I'm watching the same debate unfold here, on the ground, as a small group of DC teachers prepares for the coming school year.