Sentences with phrase «debate over public education»

Although the national debate over public education has become polarized during the past several years, with bitter divisions inside and between political parties, the PDK / Gallup poll showed a surprising level of agreement in the public at large.

Charter schools remain among the most controversial and divisive subjects in the national debate over public education.

But the staid event quickly turned dramatic when a busload of angry residents followed Anderson from Newark in a display of the slugfest politics that have infused debate over public education across the country.

Not exact matches

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.

Although there appears to be no short - term answer to the tuition debate, the time is nonetheless ripe for universities, students, the public, and politicians to engage in discussions over the state of higher education in Ontario and the direction it should take, particularly with respect to accessibility.

As the debate over school choice heats up once again, in the halls of Congress and in many state capitals, a favorite gambit of defenders of the status quo is to damn such changes as «sure to undermine public education» or «bad for the public schools.»

Even as public support for charter schooling has steadily increased over time (according to the 2015 Education Next poll the public supported charters by 47 % to 19 %), the media is filled with one charged charter debate after another.

My hope is that this exercise helps spur conversation about which university - based academics are contributing most substantially to public debates over education and ed policy, and how they do so.

In exploring these issues, the author engages deeply in public policy debates over separate versus mixed education, legislative interpretation, and social integration.

Debates over the relative virtues of public and nonpublic schools often imply that private education in the United States is a homogeneous world.

We know that early childhood education is a good thing, but even with growing enrollments and public investment, debate periodically erupts about the specific benefits of early education and whether those benefits last or fade away over time.

A fierce debate over civic education in America's public schools has erupted in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Michael Feuer, dean of The George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development, suggested the dip in confidence among PDK / Gallup poll respondents might reflect the influence of recent public debates over whether college is worth the money.

If we are ever to restore local control and public accountability to America's education system, the College Board's recent power grab must be a central component of the debate over Common Core.

The report strengthens the positions of teachers in Chicago should they vote to strike, should be considered in deliberations over the Friedrichs case, and must help shape ongoing debates about the importance of unions in the nation's public education system.

For school - board leaders and others charged with implementing those man - dates at the district level, the legislative activism has renewed an old debate over the governance of public education and the degree to which the tradition of «local control» is being eroded.

As the discussion and debate over next year's Boston Public Schools budget begins, the Boston Education Justice Alliance is fighting for the schools our communities deserve.

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.

I am saddened that my efforts researching and negotiating the work of public education seem meaningless in the face of current policy debates — and that last year's nationwide struggle over teacher tenure or this week's «debates» over teacher evaluation in New York arrive forcefully, demanding immediate reaction rather than initiative from educators.

In debates over how much funding is needed to achieve certain outcomes, it has become increasingly apparent to some state leaders that the issue is mostly about how much money lawmakers are willing to invest in public education.

It's not like it is difficult to find startling hypocrisy in what passes for public policy debates these days, but the battle over public education seems especially rife with maddening examples, most of them around the notion of accountability, that teachers and schools should be held to high standards and measurable results for the public dollars they use.

The laws have become part of a broader debate over the proliferation of charter schools, private school vouchers and everything else now dubbed «education reform,» a vague term used by self - professed reformers to describe nearly any attempts that call for challenging the traditional public school system.

Few education policy battles have burned as hot as debate over the practice of requiring traditional public schools to share under - used space with charter schools.

Over the past several months, Mississippi has had a rigorous debate about public education, including appropriate levels of state spending and who should be making those decisions.

Parent advocates from across the country converged on New York City on Monday, February 7 for the first national forum of Parents Across America, a parent - led movement to make parent voices heard in the national debate over education reform — and to promote positive, common - sense solutions that will improve public schools nationwide.

As debate continues over an education reform model for Nashville's public schools, two local groups have teamed up to offer an event that will highlight the reform experience of the Recovery School District in New Orleans.

Changed votes by two Board members over the approval of two Aspire charter schools at this week's Board meeting gave the public a glimpse at a much larger debate over whether charter schools based in Los Angeles should be allowed to operate their special education programs through a partnership with a far - off district that costs...

Washington Post is predicting school accountability debates will quickly take over the public education debates in all 50 states as the ESEA rewrite shifts responsibilities to the states.

Gov. Scott Walker's announcement Friday to curtail union bargaining and require pension and health care contributions from public employees upped the ante in a debate over K - 12 education funding.

More information on the debate over NAEP and the NAEP frameworks can be found on the Center for Public Education Web site.

Edelblut's nomination sparked fierce public debate, mirroring the outcry over President Donald Trump's nomination of school choice advocate and wealthy GOP donor Betsy DeVos to lead the federal education department.

For more than a decade, the debate over public school reform has created friction between teachers unions, administrators, school boards, parents, policymakers, and other stakeholders in public education and has fueled disagreements over how to improve the quality of teaching and learning for children.

With little new education policy expected in the remainder of 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.

In a brazen effort to hand over Hartford's Clark Elementary School to Friendship Charter Schools of Washington D.C. and divert more scarce public funds to another out - of - state charter school management company, a special meeting of the Hartford Board of Education has suddenly been called for tomorrow to approve a resolution «requesting» that Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, use his authority to simply hand Clark Elementary over to Friendship Charter Schools without any further debate or discussion.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

Rather than confront the long - term, gritty challenges of implementing changes needed to fundamentally improve public education, there is a tendency to turn inward to squabbles and debates over the latest new idea — a much less difficult task.

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

As the debate over how to improve public education has entered the national political arena, there is only room for dismay.

Privatizing Public Space & Class Concerns Hang Over Debate Ben Shepard, a college professor and member of self - described environmental education and direct action organization Time's Up!

Public legal education and information (PLEI) has a long history in Canada, but recently has received greater emphasis as a key component in the reinvigorated debate over access to justice.

Amid parent concern over new efforts to harness student data, an education technologist talks about how public discussion over health data could positively influence current debates over the use of student data.