Sentences with phrase «failed education status quo»

Facing a public that is increasingly skeptical of her failed education status quo, it seems Randi Weingarten has adopted that model.

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Voters recognized that the education status quo was failing too many children.

The teacher unions» goal is to maintain the failing status quo, and child - centered education reforms are not a part of it.

«This announcement affirms our decision to stick with real reform and not capitulate to the watered - down, failed status quo approach advocated by the [New Jersey Education Association],» he said in a statement.

Too often, opponents of turnaround schools (a system of accelerating growth of student achievement partly by changing the adults who serve the students and removing restrictions that impede student success - including any collective bargaining agreements that don't put students» interest in the forefront) remain steadfastly wed to the failing status quo that undermines families» efforts to improve their circumstances through education.

As more and more Democrats come to see that the teachers unions, with their rigid work rules and insistence on preserving the failing status quo, are the biggest impediment to education reform, the unions can either become more conciliatory or they can double down.

Will the teachers unions tell the kids that in California, they have done everything within their abusive power to maintain the failing status quo by trying and mostly succeeding to kill every effort at education reform that would have benefited students?

The people who live on this celestial body (named after Diane Ravitch, a former reformer who turned into a champion of the failing status quo) are afflicted with a dyslexic - like condition: they have the entire education reform picture exactly backwards.

«Our efforts to empower parents and disrupt the failing status quo in education are more important now than ever at this time of unprecedented opportunity for our movement.»

The UFT and Randi's national AFT are far more vested in their own failed status quo — and they invest in the infrastructure such as P.R. shops and front groups to preserve it — than they are in the education of kids in Harlem who go to relatively successful schools that happen to be operated by Weingarten's enemy, former NYC Councilmember Eva Moskowitz.

Cuomo sits more on the «reform» side of the internal debate in his party between the teachers unions (who have the ear of City Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito) who defend the failed status quo, and reformists who want working - class children to have successful educations.

They make clear that either one believes in education reform and therefore necessarily supports SB 24 in toto, or one supports the status quo and attributes abysmal student performance and failing school districts to poverty.

Failing to act is what the «Corporate Education Reformers» call defending the status quo.

Recognizing that a decadeslong status quo in which traditional education policies had miserably failed low - income students and students of color, hundreds of elected Democrats throughout the country support core elements of reform.

Muhammed Akil, Parent Coalition for Excellent Education (PC2E) Executive Director added: «Today's so - called protest held by supporters of the troubled educational status quo was yet another example critics from predominantly suburban communities with excellent educational options for their children trying to limit high quality choices for parents in urban communities whose districts have too often failed to provide them adequate options.

As someone who's pushed to overhaul failing schools and battled entrenched defenders of an unacceptable status quo, I'm no stranger to controversy when it comes to education reform.

AOT creates arts - based education programming for children in underserved communities in Central Brooklyn, NY and fills a gap in arts programming and curatorial initiatives creating diversity through action that consciously works for all people and with / for people of color and communities of color, engaging in contemporary art dialogues beyond community - based initiatives that fail to challenge the status - quo.

Legalize and Regulate Marijuana WHEREAS, despite almost a century of prohibition, millions of Canadians today regularly consume marijuana and other cannabis products; WHEREAS the failed prohibition of marijuana has exhausted countless billions of dollars spent on ineffective or incomplete enforcement and has resulted in unnecessarily dangerous and expensive congestion in our judicial system; WHEREAS various marijuana decriminalization or legalization policy prescriptions have been recommended by the 1969 - 72 Commission of Enquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, the 2002 Canadian Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, and the 2002 House of Commons Special Committee on the Non-Medical Use of Drugs; WHEREAS the legal status quo for the criminal regulation of marijuana continues to endanger Canadians by generating significant resources for gang - related violent criminal activity and weapons smuggling — a reality which could be very easily confronted by the regulation and legitimization of Canada's marijuana industry; BE IT RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will legalize marijuana and ensure the regulation and taxation of its production, distribution, and use, while enacting strict penalties for illegal trafficking, illegal importation and exportation, and impaired driving; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will invest significant resources in prevention and education programs designed to promote awareness of the health risks and consequences of marijuana use and dependency, especially amongst youth; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will extend amnesty to all Canadians previously convicted of simple and minimal marijuana possession, and ensure the elimination of all criminal records related thereto; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will work with the provinces and local governments of Canada on a coordinated regulatory approach to marijuana which maintains significant federal responsibility for marijuana control while respecting provincial health jurisdiction and particular regional concerns and practices.