Sentences with phrase «education bureaucrats in»

Naturally, the old voucher program puts school districts and education bureaucrats in charge of private placements.

The leading state education bureaucrats in New Jersey, and some of their supporters, do not seem to understand the complex nature of human development, classroom instruction, learning, or educating the whole child.

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The Department of Education is unnecessary; since 1980, it has just been an opportunity for lobbyists and bureaucrats to interfere, to invent new regulations, to make political «contributions» to further such things as unwanted textbook imposition in a school system.

Do we really want to cede control of our children's education to bureaucrats in Washington?

Parents in such circumstances are understandably unwilling to invest as much in their children's education as U.N. bureaucrats think they should.

But a Board of Education bureaucrat somewhere deep in the bowels of 110 Livingston Street had decided that it was too complicated to evaluate Mr. Simion's doctoral - level training in Romania (partly because some documents had been lost in his flight from his homeland).

He had a longtime interest in education, serving as a member of New York State's Board of Regents, but no particular obligations to the union leaders or bureaucrats within the system.

When I became involved in education reform more than two decades ago, the movement was about empowering parents to make choices for their own children rather than having choices made for them by well - meaning but distant bureaucrats and professionals.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

In the age of NCLB, appointment to even a junior post at the Department of Education became a grand prize, a ticket to influence and respect, and a chance for young bureaucrats to give marching orders to state leaders and superintendents.

Crammed with thousands of redundant bureaucrats and patronage appointees, the Board of Education's labyrinthine headquarters building at 110 Livingston Street in downtown Brooklyn was the most notorious symbol of the old regime.

The Chancellor's pledge to make every school in England into an academy shows a continued effort to place education into the hands of head teachers and teachers rather than bureaucrats, despite the heavy distraction of the European referendum.

Still, the promise of education as a lever for social change encouraged many Leftists to become teachers and administrators, in essence, bureaucrats.

His points are valid, but the same points have been raised for years in education only to fall upon the deaf ears of bureaucrats.

• None of us should think that most bureaucrats and school personnel in Illinois» public education industry want to see more good charters: Those schools, like many parochial and other privately run schools, are thriving proof that when schools have to excel to stay in business, many of them will... find ways to excel.

Given that the federal role in education has rewarded a lot of cronies and entrenched a lot of anti-freedom bureaucrats but produced no student achievement gains, and can constitutionally exist only because the feds bribe states with their own money, it's about time someone with power and cojones took a stand.

In many states, education bureaucrats will use the results from the national tests to judge the quality of the public school system and those who learn and work in iIn many states, education bureaucrats will use the results from the national tests to judge the quality of the public school system and those who learn and work in iin it.

In this article I untangle some of the results so that education administrators and bureaucrats might be able to make better sense of them.

That is a stunning statement because it is an admission that public school has been reduced to test preparation and that the bureaucrats in the NJDOE see test preparation as the hallmark of «thorough and efficient» education.

The results suggest that the standards that NJ bureaucrats had in place prior to adopting the Common Core provided more of the Level 3 and 4 higher - order skills cited in education reform literature as necessary capabilities for competing in a global economy.

Some education bureaucrats, like Secretary Duncan, might say after reading this article: «Wait, U.S. fourth - grade students ranked 11th in mathematics, not 8th.»

«The White House is using scare tactics and budget gimmicks to kill K - 12 education reform, because they know a new law will lead to less control in the hands of Washington bureaucrats and more control in the hands of parents and education leaders.»

«It is outrageous that President [Barack] Obama and Washington bureaucrats are trying to dictate how Oklahoma schools spend education dollars,» Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin said in a statement.

President Obama and Washington bureaucrats have usurped Common Core in an attempt to influence state education standards.

Delaware (where my daughter just moved) is right, Secretary DeVos should review this guidance letter, and until the federal government gets its act together on secondary education (which it appears may never happen), families should opt out of state schools subject to federal dictates, opting in, instead, to learning institutions that embed preparation for exams at a pre-university level that can lead to placement advanced in future course sequences: these advanced level subjects should be embedded within the balanced curriculum that an international baccalaureate education represents, in contrast to the narrow extension of elementary school that DC bureaucrats remain focused on, as if time had not run out on the Obama administration and its failed efforts to improve the lives of American youth, now mired in debt that it encouraged in pursuit of a «North Star» goal that led the United States astray.

They «buckled under the demands of education bureaucrats» by killing off what would be the first use in Texas of state funds for private - school tuition, he said in a written statement.

So, in the minds of the education reformers, the definition of «rather than focusing on mandates from bureaucrats,» is to mandate yet another set of standardized tests that will be given to all students, starting in middle school and then throughout high school, and then using the test, which has shown NO statistically relevant improvement as one - quarter of the entire «School Performance Score» that parents and policymakers are supposed to use to determine which schools are succeeding and which schools are failing.

The whole education reform bill in CT is a a mandate from bureaucrats.

On the night of December 13, 2011, dozens of protesters slept out in the cold and rain in front of CPS headquarters at 125 S. Clark St., and on the morning of December 14 people halted the meeting of the Chicago Board of Education and held a two - hour «Peoples» Board» meeting after the Board members and the city's top education bureaucrEducation and held a two - hour «Peoples» Board» meeting after the Board members and the city's top education bureaucreducation bureaucrats fled.

But they also favored regulations that, in their view, would ensure low - income families had real power over education bureaucrats and real access to new education environments.

Children will never be adequately educated under a system run by bureaucrats handing out money and the teachers unions (the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers) spending the money in the classroom.

By placing school choice power directly in the hands of parents who know their children far better than any bureaucrat, real freedom comes when parents are able to shop education dollars for the very best academic program.

As White points out: «School choice» means something different to everyone but usually encompasses the idea that a benevolent federal agency «allows» low - income parents to move from one education facility to another (charter schools), with public money (vouchers), «in order to provide their children with what the bureaucrats or philanthropists think will be a better education for them.»

Yet in our American education system, a government bureaucrat who does not know you or your child, each school year designates your child to a school based on five digits — your ZIP code — regardless if it's been failing for years.

For the future education of government bureaucrats he's why: It took HUD less than a week to back down after facing a lawsuit from one of the most important groups in Washington, the American Association of Retired People.

In visits to Unesco's Jakarta office, where disaster warning systems and education piled upon already full plates, I often encountered a scrappy lot of staffers working on tsunami issues — a welcome antidote to the pencil - pushing image of U.N. bureaucrats we're often fed.

from spending the time, money, and most important, sustained effort re proper education requirements (real estate university status, if wannabe's have proper pre-existing pre-qualifying credentials in their possession) just to be part - timers on - the - side who will be unleashed on an unsuspecting public by commission - hungry sales recruiters I know one thing for sure though; the fat cat ORE bureaucrats who live off of the never - ending stream of fees paid by the amateur try - out artists will not agree with the truth of the matter, because they only look out for themselves, no matter what their latest pronouncements to the contrary might suggest.