Sentences with phrase «failing government schools»

Trump said expanding school choice would help minority students who are currently trapped in «failing government schools.»

He was fond of denouncing «failing government schools», Common Core (which Ms. DeVos seemed to support at one point, recently shifting her position), and the U.S. Department of Education.

Not exact matches

«Whether it was the use of hotels instead of supportive care to house youth like Alex Gervais, or the heartbreaking story of Paige Gauthier whose belongings were dropped off in a black garbage bag at her last known school when she aged out, Mary Ellen gave British Columbians a window into the stories of children and youth being failed by the Christy Clark government.

If there is any misunderstanding, school officials should take the opportunity to explain the fundamental principle of free speech in America: the government does not endorse every viewpoint it fails to suppress.

''... The churches do not offer solace and acceptance of the prevailing order; the schools can not maintain discipline over their pupils; the police and courts can not maintain orderly processes of action (they often infringe the very laws they are supposed to enforce); the hospitals can not cure; the jails burst at their seams; and, finally, the government itself fails to function with the respect and authority it requires.

It was during the Reagan administration that the government tried to classify ketchup as the «vegetable» component of school lunches, in a failed attempt to save $ 1 billion in education funding, and not much has improved since then.

The government was failing to prevent some schools from stockpiling unspent reserves while cutting curriculum provision and axing teaching jobs, it added.

The Coalition Government's free schools programme, contrary to its stated aims to address educational disadvantage and attainment gaps, is failing to do so, concludes a report commissioned by the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK.

David Cameron defended his education secretary on television this morning, insisting he was happy with the government's record of getting more highly qualified teachers into schools and taking 250,000 children out of failing schools.

«Labour will be offering the country an effective alternative to a government that has failed to rebuild the economy, delivered falling living standards and damaging cuts to our schools and NHS.

«It is sad to note that the Free Senior High School programme that seeks to remove cost barriers to education and ensure that no child is left behind has woefully failed to include the provision of sanitary pads into the list of things that the government will be catering for under the programme,» the NGO said in a statement signed by its Executive Director, Awo Aidam Amenyah to back their proposal.

«The government requires teachers to work until they are 68, but fails to prevent the widespread discrimination practiced in too many schools against older teachers who are disproportionately subject to capability procedures, denied access to CPD and regularly told they are too expensive.

Under Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York state government has failed to live up to the CFE ruling, continuing to underfund public schools and stubbornly refusing to pay what the courts have said is owed to them

Having been the architect of the academies policy in the Policy Unit, Adonis was also able to be the driving force in Government behind the programme, which replaced failing and under - performing comprehensive schools with all - ability, independently managed academies, run on a not - for profit basis.

The Government has failed to keep the promise in the Coalition Agreement that this pledge — intended to spend more money on disadvantaged pupils — would be funded «from outside the schools budget».

And their line on schools was that their own coalition government had failed - but that it was all Labour's fault.

The government needs to change tack and admit that its obsession with structural changes to schools has failed.»

The new government wants to take on failing and coasting schools, but they may not have the right tools for the job.

The Government announced that it was proposing to drop this so - called «50 % cap» on religious selection, because it claimed it was failing to boost integration in schools.

Michael Gove's commitment to put the worst failing schools under new management within 100 days of a Tory government coming to power.

The last government deemed a secondary school to be failing if five good GCSE passes were achieved by less than 30 per cent of their pupils.

If the Government continues to increase the number and type of «faith» schools and while failing to take action, so will their children and their children's children.»

The fight is over the government's plan to make it a legal requirement for failing schools to convert to academies.

Some members of the District Parent Coordinating Council are ready to force the issue of failing schools in Buffalo by filing complaints this week with the state and federal governments asking for a federal receiver or special master to run the school system.

Commenting on the publication by the Department for Education (DfE) of «National Standards of Excellence for Headteachers», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «With increasing difficulties in recruiting new headteachers, and with record numbers of teachers wanting to leave the profession, the Coalition Government has failed to recognise the damaging effect of its policies on the morale and confidence of teachers and school leaders.

In response to the statistics, Liberal Democrat shadow schools spokesman David Laws has accused the government of failing young people.

Following Kaduna State government's determination to recruit 25,000 primary schools teachers for allegedly failing a competency test, teachers in public primary and secondary schools in Kaduna...

The next government may have a teachers» strike on its hands within months if it fails to address what unions have called a schools funding crisis.

«I believe that if they were students in the school of government for all New Yorkers, they would fail miserably.»

The Network for ASSIN Development is calling on the government as a matter of urgency to sack all the Head Teachers of both the Basic and the Senior High School in the Assin Land for failing to give the students proper sex education.

The government wants the most successful schools to help those that are failing, claiming such partnerships can produce «huge leaps» in results at the least successful schools.

«High quality education is essential to economic growth, yet this Government has failed on its promise to protect investment in schools and colleges.

«This was a consequence of the Government's flawed policy of giving excessive freedom to academies and free schools, freedom which today's announcement now seeks to curtail and is clearly an admission of yet another failed policy.»

A Government free school which allegedly saw pupils «taught nothing» for a term will today be used as an example of a failing in Education Secretary's Michael Gove's landmark project.

The comptroller also harshly criticized the mayor for failing to provide him with universal pre-kindergarten contracts to be registered before the first day of the school year, and vowed to be an independent voice in city government.

«This is the real scandal in Albany, the alarming fact that state government has stood by and done nothing as generation after generation of students have passed through failing schools,» Cuomo said in a series of press releases he issued Thursday naming each failing school and the legislators whose districts they are located in.

A parent whose children attend a failing free school which has been ordered to close by the government says that the school hasn't been given enough time to implement changes.

The union had on Jan. 8 embarked on an indefinite strike over the sacked of 21,780 primary school teachers who allegedly failed a competency test organised by the state government in June 2017.

The New Coalition Academy is a column in Private Eye that depicts the UK coalition government led by David Cameron and Nick Clegg [1] as if they were in fact taking over a failing school.

A well - intentioned government regulation designed to offer healthier options in school vending machines has failed to instill better snacking habits in a sample of schools in Appalachian Virginia, according to a study by Virginia Tech researchers.

Following both as they team up and try to rally enough parents to take over the school and turn things around, the film becomes a sort of mums - on - a-mission movie, with Jamie and Nona leading the fight to free their government - failed children from the tyranny of the teaching unions once and for all.

Schools that are already academies will not be exempt from government intervention, as those deemed as failing or coasting could face being forcibly transferred to new sponsors.

As per the Bill, schools will be classed as coasting if pupils fail to make sufficient progress, or fail to achieve government imposed standards, consistently over a three year period.

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A government framework to encourage the investment of the technology in schools included training in terms of how to switch the technology on and link up the projector, but failed to address the importance of high quality end ‑ user learner application training.

Compared with 2015, the public prefers a smaller role in education for the federal government and a larger role for local governments in three policy areas: setting standards, identifying failing schools, and fixing failing school.

Governments in other lands intervene when schools fail to produce acceptable academic outcomes, but the corrective measures are «sector agnostic,» Berner notes.

The government has launched a new scheme that will recruit 1,500 «elite» teachers and send them into under performing and failing schools to improve standards.

An Education Bill due to be introduced in the Queen's Speech on 27 May will give the government more powers to intervene quickly by sending in «hit squads» to replace school leaders deemed to be failing.

To gauge public views on this subject, we asked half of our respondents to indicate which level of government should play the biggest role in three areas: 1) setting educational standards for what students should know; 2) deciding whether or not a school is failing; and 3) deciding how to fix failing schools.