Sentences with phrase «expensive public school education»

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Bulky, hefty and downright expensive, conventional school textbooks may rank as the most outdated part of our nation's public education system.

In this country where critics and the public often cite the low quality of education, especially for the poor, localized funding for public schools and a proliferation of expensive private schools creates a vast divide between poorer and richer students» schools.

«This was a completely new and very expensive [evaluation] system,» Kathleen Ware, former associate superintendent of the Cincinnati Public Schools, told Education World.

Keeping public - school teachers» pensions plans flush is expensive, and it accounts for a growing share of education spending.

The candidates» views on charter schools, teachers unions and education reform have turned the race for state superintendent of public instruction into an expensive proxy war between big labor and big donors.

They believe it is faster, simpler, and less expensive to privatize the public schools than do anything substantive to reduce poverty and racial isolation or to provide the nurturing environments and well - rounded education that children from prosperous families receive.

If this is true - if academic education is merely about the three R's - then we might well ask: Why should any society make a fundamental and expensive public commitment to common schools?

One year into an aggressive, expensive school turnaround initiative, some of Denver's lowest - performing public schools are showing marked academic improvement by providing an education nearly identical to that of the highest - performing charter schools in the country.

We have a better vision for the future of public education than the old expensive, unproven reforms meant to hurt children and privatize our public schools.

The education establishment is convinced that if only people knew how expensive charter schools were and how much money they take from public (as if charters aren't) schools.

Hopefully more Connecticut school administrators will join education leaders like Madison, Connecticut Superintendent Thomas Scarice and stand up, step forward and speak out against the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Test (SBAC), the overuse of standardized testing in Connecticut's public schools and the right of parents to opt - out their children from these unfair, unnecessary, expensive and destructive tests.

Hopefully Teacher Benham will use her classroom expertise to persuade Malloy and the State Board of Education that while standards are an important part of a successful educational system, the Common Core «s unfair, inappropriate and expensive Common Core Testing Scheme is hurting Connecticut's students, teachers and public schools and must be suspended until it can be redesigned and appropriately implemented.

Heck, even Arne Duncan, Obama's Secretary of Education and leading corporate education reform advocate, claims that he supports public schools while sending his children to one of the most elite and expensive private schools in theEducation and leading corporate education reform advocate, claims that he supports public schools while sending his children to one of the most elite and expensive private schools in theeducation reform advocate, claims that he supports public schools while sending his children to one of the most elite and expensive private schools in the country.

The Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPSS), the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education (CABE), and the Connecticut Association of Schools (CAS) are among the most vocal Connecticut champions of the Common Core and the unfair, discriminatory and expensive Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme.

With Election Day less than nine weeks away, Connecticut teachers, parents and public school advocates continue to wait for an indication as to whether any of the candidates for governor will truly stand up against the tide of the corporate education reform industry, including their absurd, unfair and expensive Common Core testing scheme.