Sentences with phrase «education observers»

Even so, education observers believe the new business models popping up to respond to the Common Core standards represent a turning point in the industry.

Education observers said there are other ways to push that agenda, including tax incentives to move children from public to private schools or a Race to the Top - style grant program in which states are encouraged to adopt choice - friendly policies in exchange for funds.

Education observers in Colorado, including A + Denver and the Colorado Children's Campaign, raised concerns during the first year of the grant program with the Colorado Department of Education.

Surprising many education observers, President Donald Trump mentioned public schools during his inaugural address today — but not in a way that pleased students, parents, or teachers.

NYSUT had never been big fans of King to begin with, having passed a vote of no - confidence in his tenure as commissioner, including knocking the roll out of the Common Core education standards, which education observers and elected officials had said was was flawed.

Though the distinction between equity and adequacy would become more significant in later years, in 1993 few education observers would dispute CFE's list of the education crimes perpetrated on New York City's schoolchildren or the incoherency of the system that delivered them.

Though most education observers are sanguine about the RTT's potential, these same factors — enormous state budget deficits, local resistance to federal education directives, school - level preferences for existing jobs and programs, union opposition — are still in play and could lead to the same disappointing spending patterns.

It was unclear exactly what aspect of the iPad project — one of the biggest technological undertakings by an urban district in the U.S. — the FBI was investigating, though legal experts and education observers immediately focused on Deasy's relationship with Apple and Pearson and the use of construction bond proceeds to spend money on a short - term device purchase.

Politics aside, Moskowitz might chafe at the constraints of the post, which is viewed among education observers largely as a bureaucratic position without all the power the title would suggest.

Some teachers and education observers question, however, whether such an effort will detract from putting needed resources into traditional public schools.

Education observers also point out that past attempts haven't always been successful — after launching in the early 1990s, New York's Metropolitan Corporate Academy was eventually shut down after support from Goldman Sachs waned.

A White House proposal to bring math, science, and engineering professionals into public high schools to teach those subjects could bypass the «highly qualified» teacher mandate under the No Child Left Behind Act, while only temporarily easing the shortfall of mathematics and science teachers, education observers say.

Education observers in the Garden State and beyond will remember his tenure for its major initiatives.

Charter advocates and education observers have said they believed the cap and mayoral control would be linked at the end of the session as a way to create pressure on both sides to pass versions of each proposal; that configuration seems unlikely if the extension passes.

By now, education observers are aware of New York City mayor Bill de Blasio's incursion on the Big Apple's charter sector.

That's surely what some education observers might wonder about the notion that Randi Weingarten, former head of New York City's teacher union and current head of the American Federation of Teachers, should be chancellor of New York City schools.

Education observers have long noted an apparent «paradox» created by the public's skeptical assessments of the nation's schools and the much more favorable ratings given to local schools.

But some education observers predict that the standards» treatment of issues like evolution and climate change could jeopardize adoption in certain states.

The report's findings — especially the existence of a botnet campaign against Common Core — came as a surprise to some education observers.