Sentences with phrase «debates on charter»

Almost $ 300,000 was spent by outside spending groups to influence the election of the three school district directors in a race defined by debates on charter schools.

The significance of this vote, particularly to those who have been fighting the Reagan Administration on the environmental front, was that the lone dissenter was the U.S.. However, according to transcripts of the debate on the charter's passage, American objections to it weren't inspired by Interior Secretary James Watt or anyone else in Washington.

The debate on charter and district schools has reached a fever pitch, particularly in...

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 page has attracted more than 1,200 followers in the largely rural area, and kept community members up to speed with the debate on charters happening more than 200 miles away in Raleigh.

The results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress report add nothing to the debate on charter schools.

Education advocacy — and I'm talking mainly about the debate on charter schools, vouchers, and tracking school progress (aka accountability)-- deserves your attention.

Changing the Debate on Charter Schools Education Week op - ed by Meghan Carton, a master's candidate at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute

March 23, 2017 Count the Votes With NPR's Healthcare Vote Tracker 1A Host Joshua Johnson's «Ask Me Anything» on Reddit IQ2US Debate On Charter Schools: Are They Overrated?

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This debate is also timely, given that the boxing fraternity is about to descend on Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, even though the Olympic Charter states that it will «dedicate its efforts to ensuring that, in sport, the spirit of fair play prevails and violence is banned».

But the entity was just one of several education - oriented groups that spent heavily on trying to influence legislation as issues ranging from teacher evaluations to charter school expansion stoked debate at the Capitol.

Politics in Spires, together with OurKingdom, IPPR and the Department of Politics at the University of Southampton, are hosting the Great Charter Convention — an open, public debate on where arbitrary power lies in the UK today and how we should contest and contain it.

Mayor Bill de Blasio dug in his heels on charter schools Monday, as the fierce debate threatened to cost him control of the city's school system and bring back the bad old days of the Board of Ed.

On that note, I wonder if all the candidates will appear on TV for a live debate and if they do, if asked, will they be able to outline the charter granted powers of the Borough PresidenOn that note, I wonder if all the candidates will appear on TV for a live debate and if they do, if asked, will they be able to outline the charter granted powers of the Borough Presidenon TV for a live debate and if they do, if asked, will they be able to outline the charter granted powers of the Borough President?

And pundits told Kramer the last thing Albany needs right now is more chaos, especially since high stakes debates on such issues such as increasing the minimum wage and raising the cap on charter schools must be resolved before the session ends in June.

The Great Charter Convention — an open, public debate on where arbitrary power lies in the UK today and how we should contest and contain it.

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.

I want to once again thank all who served on the Charter Review Commission and spent hours debating proposals and making their recommendation.

This Monday night on BronxTalk two education experts will debate the effectiveness of charter schools.

«While Dietl is not enrolled in the campaign finance program, we have decided to invite him based on his showing in a recent poll and his regular presence on the campaign trail,» said a spokesperson for Charter Communications, a debate sponsor and parent company of NY1, which will air the debate, also hosted by WNYC radio and other partners.

WAMC's Southern Adirondack Bureau Chief Lucas Willard reports the debate around overhauling the city's charter is leading discussions on the campaign trail.

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday acknowledged he has fallen short in explaining his position on charter schools, after coming under criticism from both sides of the debate.

De Blasio has complained about disproportionate attention to the charter debate, at the expense of issues like teacher retention, and he returned to those «foundational problems» on Sunday morning.

During the conversation, Clinton told the mayor he understood his perspective on charters, but cautioned him to be careful not to give the impression that a substantive debate was becoming personal, the sources said.

Eva Moskowitz, founder of the growing charter network, said she hopes sharing her curriculum and teacher training resources at no charge will help shift the focus of debates on education from politics to the nitty - gritty of what children need to know, how they learn best and how to pace instruction.

Clinton and de Blasio, who have a longstanding relationship dating back to the mayor's tenure working at the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development in the 1990s, touched on the charter debate during a broader conversation over education issues, the sources said.

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.

It has also reviewed hundreds of thousands of reports to aid in distinguishing the best - quality research from weaker work, including studies on such subjects as the effectiveness of charter schools and merit pay for teachers, which have informed the ongoing debate about these issues.

On Wednesday, March 1 at 6:45 pm, Intelligence Squared hosted a debate on the resolution «charter schools are overrated.&raquOn Wednesday, March 1 at 6:45 pm, Intelligence Squared hosted a debate on the resolution «charter schools are overrated.&raquon the resolution «charter schools are overrated.»

Perhaps because the research literature on the strength of Boston charter schools is so compelling, charter proponents have focused more on touting academic benefits than debating financial costs.

They are also expected to debate other education issues, including charter schools and distance education on July 5 and 6.

The foundation had nonetheless arranged for its evaluation to be conducted under the leadership of economist Thomas Kane of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, who has considerable credibility on all sides of the charter school debate.

Whereas most of the energy in the school choice debates has focused on vouchers and charter schools, relatively little attention has been paid to another important choice model that serves as many students as charters and has been in existence for longer — magnet schools.

Eva Moskowitz, founder and chief executive officer at Success Academy Charter Schools; Gerard Robinson, executive director of the Center for Advancing Opportunity; and Hillary Shelton, director at the Washington Bureau and senior vice president of Advocacy and Policy at the NAACP, will debate different viewpoints on educational equity and school choice.

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.

Trained as a historian under Harvard scholar Bernard Bailyn, Tyack believed that the careful sifting of past education policies could inform policymakers» debates on reforms such as desegregation, vouchers, charter schools, and leadership.

Given the statute's scope, today's debate could include countless issues, such as possible changes to Title II rules on educator effectiveness, the expansion of the charter school grant program, the introduction of a private school choice initiative, reconsideration of competitive grant programs (RTTT, TIF, i3), and much more.

In debating the issue, they point out that charters with open - access admission policies are an option already available to neighborhood residents; for admission to most they need only show up on time and enroll.

On Wednesday, March 1, 2017 Intelligence Squared hosted a debate on the resolution «charter schools are overrated.&raquOn Wednesday, March 1, 2017 Intelligence Squared hosted a debate on the resolution «charter schools are overrated.&raquon the resolution «charter schools are overrated.»

Several of the most significant features of recent education policy debate in the United States are simply not found in any of these countries — for example, charter schools, pathways into teaching that allow candidates with only several weeks of training to assume full responsibility for a classroom, teacher evaluation systems based on student test scores, and school accountability systems based on the premise that schools with low average test scores are failures, irrespective of the compositions of their student populations.

The report, released late last week and quickly criticized by charter proponents as being skewed, a lso calls for more research and debate on issues of equity and access in charter schools.

At the first of the new Askwith Debates, supporters and opponents will debate the merits of the upcoming Massachusetts ballot proposal on lifting the charter school cap.

At the Askwith Debates on Thursday, March 29, guests will share their different perspectives on the equity of charter schools and discuss how the charter school system impacts the overall education system in the United States.

Before the debate, learn more about the issue, as well as the speakers» stances on charter schools and educational equity.

NEARLY A YEAR AGO, charter school proponents threatened to force a statewide debate on education issues by mounting a ballot campaign lift the cap on charters 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 accountaCharter School Authorizers (NACSA) and a leading voice in the nation's debates on public charter school quality, access, and accountacharter school quality, access, and accountability.

With the charter - expansion question a settled issue, at least for now, leaders of the No on 2 campaign say they want the education debate to turn to funding of schools statewide.

Over time, political debating points have pigeonholed urban charter schools, especially those run by for - profits and charter management organizations, as an industrialized sector bent on homogenization.

One explanation is that the debate about whether charter schools «work,» with its focus on testing and college placement, loses sight of the many reasons why people choose a school and what they value in an education.

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.