Sentences with phrase «debate on public school»

Moreover, it offers strong evidence for this alternative direction to the policy debate on public school reform by analyzing the role of union - management relations in educational quality.

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In a polarising debate that has already played on the public's fear of creeping Islamisation, those who believe in the inherent value of faith - based schools will be hoping that the baby Jesus doesn't get thrown out with the bathwater.

As indicated by the recent debates (in Kansas and elsewhere) over the public school teaching of evolution, they are persuading many conservatives to join them in their attack on evolution.

Keeping religion OUT of the public debate would be most helpful, keeping religion out of schools, out of government, out of my bedroom, and out of the lives of those who don't fit in the «mold» of what the religious approve of — NOW we can begin to agree on something.

A panel on the public - private school debate at a 1993 ISNA convention in Kansas City drew hundreds of participants.

Afraid of being branded as moralists, or even worse, proselytizers, politicians cling to surface arguments that remain in the public's comfort zone, choosing sides in the familiar debates on school prayer, pornography, media immorality and abortion.

There is a big debate in America on reforming the public school lunch program.

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).

Event: Managing the impact of infrastructure on the economy and environment Organiser: Dr Leslie Budd, The Open University Business School Date: 4 November 2013 18.00 - 20.00 Venue: Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA Audience: General audience This public debate is hosted by The Open University Business School and will include speakers» presentations and a question and answer session.

Her candidacy should open up debate on issues New York must address, starting with the need to finally fully and equitably fund all public schools.

ALBANY — After a two - hour debate that touched on climate change and several anti-Semitic incidents at the City University of New York, Republicans in the state Senate endorsed a one - house budget resolution that shifts costs to New York City, increases aid for public schools and cuts taxes for middle - income New Yorkers.

With little new education policy expected in the remainder of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's first term — and a quiet session on education concluding in Albany — the debate over traditional public schools versus charter schools has shifted to a new battleground: school safety.

Her candidacy should open up debate on issues New York must address, starting with the need to finally fully and equitably fund all public schools,» Hawkins said.

Those in support of the plan — including the current principal and PTA from the playground's adjoining school P.S. 166, elected officials, Community Board 7, parents and nearby residents — shared perspectives, bringing the commission up to speed on past debates and public meetings.

The veto came amid public and legislative debate on the bill, which opponents claimed would have unconstitutionally provided public funds for religious institutions and overburdened already struggling school districts by forcing them to pay for private special education.

Hawkins said that a debate focused on education would show that both Governor Cuomo and Astorino would underfund public schools, especially in property - poor inner city and rural communities.

Hawkins said a debate focused on education is needed because both Astorino and Cuomo support programs to privatize public education, including more privately - managed charter schools and education tax credits for donations to charter and parochial schools.

«The crisis in Flint brought the true costs of a neglected infrastructure to the nation's attention, but in the finger - pointing there are deeper debates over public and private responsibility and the impact of dysfunctional politics on public health,» said David Rosner, PhD, co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health Afpublic and private responsibility and the impact of dysfunctional politics on public health,» said David Rosner, PhD, co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health Afpublic health,» said David Rosner, PhD, co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health AfPublic Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health AfPublic Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health Affairs.

Writing in a linked Comment, Christopher Colvin from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and Abigail Harrison from Brown University School of Public Health in the USA say, «Currently, the increasingly narrow and fierce debates over the HIV and depot medroxyprogesterone acetate link have focused on whether a large randomised controlled trial should be done to better understand this link.

Introduction [1] By extolling freedom of religion in the schools, President Bill Clinton has raised the level of debate on the importance of religion to Colorado Public Radio (CPR) produces and curates in - depth and meaningful news and music, establishing thoughtful connections to Colorado for listeners

Schools must take on the processes of public debate and the processes of producing culture.

Washington — The White House and its supporters in the Congress reportedly have launched an offensive aimed at beginning debate in the Senate as early as this week on a constitutional amendment allowing voluntary prayer in public schools.

During the extended debates on the public and private schools outcomes, we were often obliged to respond to criticism from other scholars.

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.

Most research on charter schools, and the most intense public debate over their desirability, has focused on the impact of these new schools on the students who attend them.

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

In the United States, the school - choice debate centers on whether parents should have the right to send their children to the public school of their choice rather...

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.

Florida's voucher program for students in the lowest - rated public schools is unconstitutional, the state supreme court ruled last week in a 5 - 2 decision that friends and foes of private school choice are scrutinizing for its potential impact on voucher debates nationwide.

If CCSS were to enhance public knowledge of the performance of local schools as compared to schools elsewhere in the state and nation, the impact on the school reform debate could be substantial, especially (but not exclusively) in those districts that are ranked below average nationally.

I sat in the public gallery of the House of Commons as Catherine McKinnell, the MP from Newcastle, opened the debate by congratulating the Shaw Foundation for the great response to their petition on making mental health education compulsory in all schools.

Greg Richmond is the President and CEO of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) and a leading voice in the nation's debates on public charter school quality, access, and accountabSchool Authorizers (NACSA) and a leading voice in the nation's debates on public charter school quality, access, and accountabschool quality, access, and accountability.

As the debate on school choice heats up next week, I share this post as a voice in support of the nation's public schools, which remain the number 1 choice, a great option for families and communities across the country.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla (Reuters)- Following weeks of debate and national attention, Florida Governor Rick Scott on Thursday signed into law a measure that will end tenure for new public school teachers and base pay more directly on student test scores.

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.

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

Offering a counter-narrative to the school improvement prescriptions that dominate national education debates, a new book based on 15 years of data on public elementary schools in Chicago identifies five tried - and - true ingredients that work, in combination with one another, to spur success in urban schools.

These findings shed new light on the public debate over the effects of charter schools on non-charter students.

On June 4, 1996, after six months of debate, excitement, and testimony, Governor John Rowland signed Public Act 96 - 214, which established public charter schools in the State of ConnecPublic Act 96 - 214, which established public charter schools in the State of Connecpublic charter schools in the State of Connecticut.

Spin Cycle: How Research Gets Used in Policy Debates: The Case of Charter Schools (Russell Sage Foundation, 2008) focuses on the controversy surrounding the charter school study by the American Federation of Teachers and its implications for understanding politics, politicization, and the use of research to inform public discourse; it won the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Book Award in 2010.

While debating the final version of the legislation on the House floor on Friday, Rep. Tricia Cotham (D - Mecklenberg) called out Mitchell and others like him who could, with this legislation, hire family and friends through a private charter school company and pay them anything they like with public funds.

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.

Cami Anderson, the superintendent of the Newark public school system who became a lightning rod in the debate over education reform in New Jersey and nationally, resigned on Monday, eight months before her contract was to expire.

There has been essentially no opportunity for public input on the wisdom of opening these schools in North Carolina since the statute directing their creation was never discussed or debated in any legislative committee.

Lawmakers debated placing sanctions on poorly performing public and private schools that receive taxpayer money, but those measures were not adopted.

During debate on the charter school expansion, Democrats said they were troubled by the push to increase charter schools rather than help failing public schools.

The controversial gutted - and - amended SB95, which has seen 40 + versions behind closed doors and would create a charter - managed Achievement School District comprising some of North Carolina's lowest performing schools, looks to be on the move for public debate in the waning days of the 2015 legislative session.

Political debates around school funding focus on public versus private, which party is the Gonski champion, and who gets the most money.

Despite this history, on May 19, while most of us were asleep, the Joint Finance Committee, with almost no debate, put Wisconsin public schools on track to privatization.