Sentences with phrase «failing educational policies»

With the ability to throw this kind of money around, NEA's effect on maintaining the status quo with its attendant failing educational policies can not be exaggerated.

It appears the CTA leadership has discovered a legion of billionaires teaming up with President Donald Trump and U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to destroy public education and «push failed educational policies on California.»

It is only when school administrators, elected board of education members, and state legislators hear the anger and frustration of parents (and voters) that there can be meaningful pressure brought to bear on those who promote the continuation of these failed educational policies.

Like our neighboring state to the north, Connecticut's teachers are ready to move on and push - back against the failed educational policies of the last few years.

Not exact matches

Deeply suspicious of the reform groups whom he says «exploited» failing schools, critical of ed - school policy experts, and antagonistic toward the independent research shop set up at the University of Chicago, Vallas seems to have been focused on political and managerial rather than educational priorities.

The ESSA authorizes historically high levels of federal education spending, continuing a trend that has increased federal intervention in local school policy while failing to improve educational outcomes for children.

The public school system has mostly failed to provide those urban minority communities with the same quality of educational opportunities as their white peers, and in the early 90s policy leaders of both parties said enough was enough and began to support the charter school concept: public schools that would be independent from school district bureaucracies, free to innovate and more accountable for results.

She makes clear what is right about U.S. education, how policy makers are failing to address the root causes of educational failure, and how we can fix it.

For over ten years, districts across the U.S. have expressed frustration with No Child Left Behind, an educational policy that has been derided by educators as placing too much emphasis on standardized testing and failing to address racial and socioeconomic

The very educational policies that the Gates Foundation has influenced into law, are the very barriers that are failing students of poverty and color from having equal access for graduation.

Instead of trying to improve failed practices such as a reliance on high - stakes testing and «zero tolerance» discipline policies, Noguera said the center will push for transformations — new approaches to educational challenges such as improving the educational outcomes of African - American and Latino students.

The problem to be solved in their eyes is not why increasing federal and state funds targeted to low - performing schools and students over 50 years has been generally ineffective, but how our educational institutions for K - 12 can address low achievement despite the fact that the various education interventions, strategies, policies, and regulations that policy makers in the U.S. Department of Education have imposed have mostly failed to move the needle.

The article conveniently overlooks that fact that the charter school industry fails to provide equal educational opportunities for children who require special education services, those who aren't fluent in the English Language and those who are forced out of charter schools for failure to survive the abusive disciplinary policies.

And like Pryor, Goldfarb was a big fan of charter schools despite their unwillingness to provide equal educational opportunities to students who require special educational services, those who aren't proficient in the English Language or those who fail to adhere to the abusive and degrading harsh disciplinary policies that are the staple of charter school operations.

In response to Polis» ringing endorsement of the failed policies of the education reform industry, Michelle Rhee, the Patron Saint of the effort to privatize public education said, «I am honored to stand with the New Democrats as we seek to build a better educational system for America's children.»

One has to wonder why the Obama administration pushes policies that not only fail to correct the inequalities in educational resources, but instead exacerbate them.

Instead, it is the direct result of educational policies that have failed to prioritize high - quality bilingual education.

«Racial discrimination in our nation's educational systems persists and both the Departments of Education and Justice are failing to protect the civil rights and educational future of our Black and brown students,» said Todd A. Cox, director of policy at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. «This administration must stop endangering students of color and instead ensure equal educational opportunities and foster educational excellence by upholding the federal school discipline guidance and promoting policies and programs that keep students safe.»