Sentences with phrase «debate around charter schools»

«This is part of what drives me crazy about debates around charter schools and «choice» in the United States»

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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.

Another is that amid the trench warfare that the school reform debate has settled into in recent years, with the liberal - left and unions rallying around traditional schools, and moderates and conservatives supporting charter schools, neither side has had an interest in promoting the story.

[1] For a long time, the debate over charter schools has revolved around the simplistic question of whether they are better or worse than traditional public schools.

That passion has fed the highly polarized debate around how well charter schools educate students in comparison to traditional public schools.

The public and policy debate around education has also changed dramatically — particularly around issues of teacher quality and charter schools — due in large part to the work of these individuals.

What stands out most about the debate around unionizing charter schools, however, is how shockingly little we know about what it even means.

State Sen. Teresa Ruiz (D - Essex), the Senate education chairwoman who shepherded the new tenure law, has said she will have legislation ready in the coming months, but given the vitriol around charter schools the last four years, the debate is unlikely to be quick and easy.

At the Independent Charter School Symposium, Christopher Norwood, founder of the Florida Association of Independent Schools — which represents freestanding charters, not CMOs or EMOs — explained how the legislative debates around HB 7069 highlighted problems independent charters face in his state.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Paula White, NJ State Director [email protected] DFER - NJ on Proposed NJ State Board of Education Regulations on Public Charter Schools Newark, NJ — In response to continued debate around proposed New Jersey...

Four experts faced off in a live debate Wednesday night on a range of issues that swirl around charter schools — whether for - profit schools work, what's best for student achievement, and if charters lead to innovation.

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.

The film was shown as part of an initiative of AROS, supported through the Schott Foundation for Public Education, to foster debate about the impact of charter schooling on the public education landscape around the country.