Sentences with phrase «diverting public resources»

Proponents of vouchers, tuition tax credits, non-public charter schools and other methods propose to improve education by diverting public resources to support private ventures.

Opponents argue that the for - profit structure diverts public resources to private businesses and that the profit - seeking nature of these organizations creates incentives that jeopardizes the education they provide to children.67 On the other hand, supporters argue that the desire for profits incentivizes EMO staff members to attract and retain «customers» by providing high - quality services.

Not exact matches

Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, a Democrat, said in a statement that charter operators are «diverting money, resources and space from our public schools.»

Overall, the capacity of the American public health and health care delivery systems faces many challenges.281 The cost of dealing with current health problems is diverting resources from preventing them in the first place.

However, many others believe charters divert resources from traditional public schools and don't meet up to accountability measures.These opposing views often lead to friction among people who actually have much in common: a genuine concern for children and the national right to high - quality public education.

So, to review: Hunter is not accountable to the DOE, has its own admissions process that it declines to reveal or justify, doesn't backfill, can not objectively prove it adds value to a given student's education, regularly expels those who can't keep up academically, is not ethnically or economically diverse, diverts resources from the needy to the already advantaged, and culls the top students from the city's other public elementary and high schools.

All too often, the public perception of school administration is that it is a large bureaucracy diverting critical resources from instruction.

School unions, for example, have been cautious in their support, often seeing charters as drawing funds away from resource - starved public school districts and diverting the discussion from how to fix public schools, which continue to serve the vast majority of American students.

«Instead of diverting scarce resources from existing public school classrooms and spending it on unaccountable charter schools for a few students, we should be investing more in the innovative public schools we already have,» Mary Lindquist, president of the state teachers union, said in a news release in response to the signature turn - in.

Other major donors to Luke Bronin's campaign for mayor of Hartford is New Haven charter school activist Alex Johnston who, as the original head of ConnCAN, consistently pushed for diverting scarce public resources from public schools to the privately owned, but publically funded charter schools.

«They're really about undermining public schools by diverting funds and resources.»

Instead of diverting resources to private schools, the budget should ensure that public money goes to public schools.

Voucher programs diverts desperately needed resources away from the public school system to fund the education of the few voucher students.

Politicians in search of votes pander to school choice, which diverts resources from the public school system.

Hence, an expansion of the portability provisions for private schools would constitute a voucher program and divert investments from our public schools, thereby affecting resources such as those for classroom instruction and curriculum, intervention services and extended day learning opportunities.

It is encouraging to see Governor - Elect McCrory advance at least some proposals designed to support teachers and students and put them in a position to be successful, especially following the recent wave of measures designed to punish students and teachers while diverting resources and support away from public schools.

NEA opposes school vouchers because they divert essential resources from public schools to private and religious schools, while offering no real «choice» for the overwhelming majority of students.

They assert that ESAs drain public money and «divert essential resources from public school.»

NEA and its affiliates have been leaders in the fight to improve public schools - and oppose alternatives that divert attention, energy, and resources from efforts to reduce class size, enhance teacher quality, and provide every student with books, computers, and safe and orderly schools.

During the campaign, de Blasio did not mince words about charter schools, saying they diverted attention and resources from the city's traditional public schools and that the Bloomberg administration added «insult to injury» by offering them free rent in public - school buildings.

They all have one thing in common: They undermine our capacity to create great public schools in every neighborhood, by diverting scarce resources that public schools desperately need.

At the same time, unregulated charters opened by the thousands, diverting resources from public schools and frequently refusing admission to the children with the greatest needs.

According to the State of the Sector report, the funding deficit for public charter schools can be large, and the resources spent on facilities that traditional public schools automatically get diverts much needed funding from the classroom, forcing public charter schools to do more with less.

«Our public schools are committed to providing healthy, nutritious meals for all students, but overly prescriptive and unnecessary federal mandates are proving challenging for school boards to meet and are raising meal costs that can then divert resources from the instructional program,» said NSBA Executive Director Thomas J. Gentzel.

From the moment Stefan Pryor arrived in Connecticut, the Malloy administration's education policy has been consistently designed to destroy local control, belittle and demean teachers, reduce parental involvement, undermine our public schools and divert scarce public resources to out - of - state consultants and carpetbagging staff.

ESAs, tax credit scholarships, and other school vouchers divert scarce resources from public schools that serve all students to pay for private schools for a few.

The advocacy and lobbying group is also behind the multi-million dollar advertising campaign to undermine New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's decision to make New York City's public schools a high priority compared to the Bloomberg administration's approach that diverted tens of millions in public resources away from the public schools and to the city's privately run charter schools.

Vouchers undermine this vital function, however, by diverting desperately needed public resources away from the public school system to fund the education of a few students at private schools — without offering any actual reforms.

The goal of public safety is not served by diverting valuable resources away from regulating animals that represent a true threat to public safety.

So when resources are used to target people (and dogs) that are not a threat to public safety, these resources are being diverted from true public safety threats - meaning breed specific laws make people less safe, not more safe.

Well then, is it responsible to spent billions of dollars, disrupt the economy, paralize developing nations and divert resources from other far more certain problems — infrastructure collapse, public health, funding social welfare programs, when more volcanos might be lurking?

Overall, the capacity of the American public health and health care delivery systems faces many challenges.281 The cost of dealing with current health problems is diverting resources from preventing them in the first place.

Whiskey City Architectural Salvage was founded with the intentions to divert useful resources from the landfill, redirect these items to the public for reuse in art, education, inspire creativity, and help us all rethink and reconsider what we throw away.