Sentences with phrase «educational freedom by»

In the wake of Congressional action, state lawmakers should take up the baton to expand educational freedom by making choice programs like education scholarship accounts available to more families.

Not exact matches

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

A Christian theology of freedom can regard any determination or limitation of the sphere of freedom only either as an inevitable consequence of the exercise of freedom by others, or as a provisional educational measure for the protection of a still maturing freedom.

French Lawmakers Scrap Wine Marketing Reform Plan The Constitutional Council rejected an amendment to the Evin Law that had been backed by Parliament and was intended to give educational bodies and wine tourism operators more freedom to market themselves...

An education freedom act would take educational decision - making firmly away from the politicians and into the hands of local authorities, while sponsor - managed schools would replace Labour's academies, to be commissioned by local authorities rather than central government.

«According to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request carried out in March 2011 by the NUT and National Association of Language Development in the Curriculum (NALDIC) almost a third (29.3 per cent) of Local Authorities in England are not holding back the EMAG grant to meet the specific educational needs of minority ethnic pupils.

That response drew yet another from the university and its public record custodian urging the state appellate court to either protect the competitive interests of Arizona's higher educational institutions by defending «the freedom, vigor, candor and integrity of the researchers who work there» or rule on its own that «the need to protect the confidentiality and privacy of the work done at Arizona's universities» outweighs the public's right to know.

Its release was followed by a clutch of governors willing to try new approaches to producing stronger educational outcomes, including giving far greater freedom to schools that did so.

According to a Freedom of Information request (FoI) by specialist lawyers Simpson Millar, over 100 local authorities have failed to produce a plan to help children with special educational needs (SEN) transition to secondary school.

However, many academies have enjoyed greater educational attainment and the freedoms offered by academy status remain a draw for many schools.

By giving parents more control over their children's education, we are making strides toward a future of unprecedented educational attainment and freedom of choice.

«By expanding the ESA program, we can give families the freedom to customize an education to meet the unique educational needs of their children.

An enhanced educational experience could lead to enriched cognitive abilities, as measured by test scores, and higher standards of living, as measured by political and economic freedom indices.

Critical Pedagogy is a philosophy of education described by Henry Giroux as an «educational movement, guided by passion and principle, to help students develop consciousness of freedom, recognize authoritarian tendencies, and connect knowledge to power and the ability to take constructive action.»

Our people have a long history of educational self - reliance extending to the present: from Freedom Schools to the African American Independent School Movement, to the many charter schools founded, taught and lead by dedicated Black people, we have shown time and time again that despite the most overwhelming of odds, we will find a way to ensure our children are educated.

The notion that parents understand that Common Core SBAC testing is undermining public education was just too much for the State to handle and last Thursday, after communications that the State Department of Education has yet to release a response to a Freedom of Information request, the Sherman Board of Education held a «special meeting» to «focus solely on a presentation to the Board of Education by our superintendent, Don Fiftal, and a panel of educational experts to provide direct and up - to - date information about the Connecticut Common Core Standards and the SBAC Assessments.»

By contrast, educational freedom fosters social harmony.

principals who promote the success of all students by advocating, nurturing, and sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and staff professional growth, have the freedom to select a staff which supports and delivers the agreed upon educational program; and

«The freedom enjoyed by independent schools from the constraints imposed by government diktat is leading to a divergence of educational experience for pupils in the two sectors that shows no sign of diminishing.»

FBI documents published today by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, depict a comedy of errors in the agency's use of National Security Letters to obtain educational records of a student suspected of having links to terrorism.