Sentences with phrase «failing education agenda»

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Hundreds of public school parents joined education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and other advocates on the steps of City Hall today to urge new Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza to hit the reset button on Mayor Bill de Blasio's failing education agenda.

Parents to Chancellor Carranza: «It's Time to Hit the Reset Button on Mayor de Blasio's Failing Education Agenda»

(New York, NY)-- Hundreds of public school parents joined education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and other advocates on the steps of City Hall today to urge new Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza to hit the reset button on Mayor Bill de Blasio's failing education agenda.

More than 200 parents and activists massed at City Hall yesterday to press new schools Chancellor Richard Carranza to fix de Blasio's «failing education agenda.»

The resolution blamed Duncan for a «failed education agenda» consisting of policies that «undermine public schools and colleges, the teaching education professionals, and education unions.»

The resolution called for Duncan to abandon his «failed education agenda» in favor of one endorsed by unions — basically more money, fewer tests and less accountability for teachers.

-- Failure to respect the opinions and recommendations of membership and its own Political Action Committee in overriding their gubernatorial choice for «no endorsement» in order to give approval to Governor Malloy and his failed education agenda.

Not exact matches

The failing schools campaign supports the charter sector's most powerful ally, Governor Andrew Cuomo, and his ambitious, controversial education agenda.

Sen. Gustavo Rivera, who has a high number of failing schools in his Bronx district, responds to Cuomo's recent highlighting of that fact in an effort to push his education reform agenda.

In an email, a spokeswoman for Cuomo said, «The Governor is committed to enacting an aggressive reform agenda to fix New York's broken education system that spends more per pupil that any other state in the nation while condemning over 250,000 students to failing schools over the last decade.»

The unions are claiming that Cuomo's original 2015 legislative education agenda, which included a major cap lift, failed completely.

Insofar as Superintendent Ogilvie has: a) violated the representations made by him to BOE members prior to his appointment to the Superintendent position and further betrayed the trust given to him by members of the BOE when he failed to keep his promises to begin the implementation of elements of the reform agenda, defined in a vision statement provided to him, thereby exacerbating the dysfunction of the BPS and prolonging the fair opportunity for education for the 34,000 students in the BPS, and

Cuomo's agenda this year includes significant education reforms that he says would help improve failing schools.

«Unless concerted action is taken and education receives the attention that it failed to get during the past 15 years, millions of children will continue to miss out and the transformative vision of the new Sustainable Development agenda will be jeopardized,» said GMR Director, Aaron Benavot.

Mulgrew also blasted the governor for being behind «corporate bonus - style merit pay,» claimed that his «education agenda isn't about education at all — it is political payback» (because the unions did not support his reelection bid) and that «it is poverty and inequality and lack of funding, not «failing schools» or «bad teachers,» that are at the root of our education system's struggles.»

readers know from earlier posts, Governor Malloy, Democratic Party Chair Nancy DiNardo and the Democratic State Central Committee syphoned over more than $ 37,000 in a failed attempt to beat back a Democratic challenge slate in Bridgeport that did not support Paul Vallas or Governor Malloy and Mayor Bill Finch's corporate education reform agenda.

With just a few weeks before the state budget is due, and key proposals in Governor Cuomo's education Opportunity Agenda being considered, these parents made it clear that action is desperately needed to turnaround New York's failing schools and ensure every classroom is led by an effective teacher.

Teacher Quality - The issue most directly linked to improving education, Mayor de Blasio's agenda fails to directly address it and does nothing to remove poor teachers from the classroom.

«For too long,» he said, «the leadership of LAUSD has failed to acknowledge the collateral damage to the majority of our students when systematic, external agendas are being developed and well financed to weaken, and eventually destroy, LAUSD's ability to provide a quality education for students who rely on our neighborhood schools and a wide range of district innovative programs and critical services.»

Rather than use that vehicle to speak out about the misuse of standardized testing, CABE and CAPPS signed onto a political agenda that failed to even mention the word testing let alone articulate a position about why the overuse of standardized testing is unfair, discriminatory and is damaging our children and our system of public education.

Thursday, May 31, 2012 For more information contact: Leonie Haimson: 917-435-9329; [email protected] Julie Woestehoff: 773-538-1135; [email protected] Rhee report card exposes flaws in corporate agenda and failures to push through legislation in many states this year Parents Across America (PAA) unveiled a report card (in pdf and below) today that gave Michelle Rhee's education lobbying organization, StudentsFirst, failing grades.

Despite the reluctance of school administrators to speak up and push back against this ludicrous accountability exercise that has been promoted by politicians and corporate education reformers who have many self - interested reasons for maintaining this misguided testing endeavor, it is well - known that the «standardized» testing mandate only serves to continue the false narrative of failing American public education in order to drive the profit - making agenda of those who seek to privatize education and undermine the public trust.

The press release also fails to address what the CEA expected since the union leadership had overruled its own endorsement committee and through the union's support behind Governor Dannel Malloy who has pledged to stay the course on his Corporate Education Reform Industry Agenda.