Sentences with word «educrats»

MIDDLEBURY When former President Barack Obama made universal pre-K education a national goal and a household term during his 2008 campaign for the White House, many of the state's educrats responded with an effort to adopt a one - size - fits - all...

Educrats all over the country have begun to persuade federal education officials to grant waivers from NCLB, adopting the position that it is unfair to label schools as failing when the performance gaps between ethnic groups are so wide and when minority children lag so far behind their White, more affluent peers.

Certainly it's important to press the question of whether professional educrats, bureaucratic centralism, and a regulatory state erode parents» motivation to participate in their local schools.

Unfortunately, this belief about setting high standards and expectations for poor children and children of color, upon which decades of research is based, is being systematically discarded by Educrats throughout the country to make the system more fair to the adults working in schools.

Government accountability regimes face great political pressure from educrats and union officials to lower standards but little countervailing pressure to maintain high standards.

It substitutes the judgment of anonymous educrats for that of expert math and English teachers.

The reactionaries among us — certain educrats and legislators and of course the teachers unions — won't go away easily.

«If government educrats were in any way savvy, they'd look at some of the programming he last threw his money to, see them as the dismal failures they are, and tell Gates to keep his dollars to himself.»

The reasons for the current spending orgy are several — an increase in the number of useless educrats, the rise of teachers unions, a public that has been way too trusting of those in power, etc..

All too often educrats, school board members and the teachers unions selfishly fight to maintain the status quo — and the kids be damned.

MIDDLEBURY When former President Barack Obama made universal pre-K education a national goal and a household term during his 2008 campaign for the White House, many of the state's educrats responded with an effort to adopt a one - size - fits - all... more

wonk,» Noun educrat (plural educrats)(derogatory) An official or administrator in a school district.»

MIDDLEBURY When former President Barack Obama made universal pre-K education a national goal and a household term during his 2008 campaign for the White House, many of the state's educrats responded with an effort to adopt a one - size - fits - all public education version for the Green Mountain State.

As he [Cuomo] said, the educrats have long fought any effort to hold them accountable.

Further, the Educrats assert that the new policy of lower standards actually raises performance expectations for minority children because they will have to progress at a faster rate over the same span of time.

Sandy Kress, a former education aide to President Bush who helped craft NCLB, asked a very commonsense question that the Educrats have not answered: «Why, after 12 - plus years, can't we expect virtually all of our children to achieve at a basic level?»

I suspect Alicia Rucker, that single mother of six who sent her oldest child to (and through) Georgetown, knows more about improving the education of minority children than all the Educrats in D.C. combined.

The Educrats claim this is fair and equitable; children from at - risk populations are often far behind their more affluent peers, and expecting all children to meet the same high standards is unfair, even mean - spirited.

So said Xsavier Daniels, student at Lehman High School in the Bronx, one of the thirty of so schools that Mayor Bloomberg and the educrats at Tweed want to close and «turn around,» firing half the staff in the process.

The usual suspects: statists, educrats, and teacher unionistas.

Now the legislature is saying no more money and no further weakening in accountability as long as the educrats simply oppose choice and accountability.

Further, the educrats who led the way to the damage you describe are now suffering loss after loss.

There is no quick fix, but the educrats don't want citizens to consider other options.

If the educrats want to block evaluation based on effectiveness, their consequence ought to be fewer dollars invested by taxpayers.

@Theodora: the quiet cash flow from New Haven Public Schools to corporate «educrats» is astonishing.

This article should be forwarded to the educrats at ORE, to be taught verbatim to newbies and veterans alike... it is that important toward establishing credibility on the parts of Realtors in the minds of their clients.