Sentences with phrase «fight over education reform»

The truth is that the modern fight over education reform has changed less than the people fighting would have us believe.

Not exact matches

But Mr. Malatras has been particularly visible in pushing Mr. Cuomo's education reform agenda, authoring a long and public letter to the state's Board of Regents and liaising with various interests in Albany as all sides gear up for a post-budget fight over the specifics of teacher evaluations.

The U.F.T. has led the union - driven fight against Cuomo's education reforms, organizing a series of emergency meetings and forums over the last month.

Through all this one fact remains certain, over the last three decades of attempted education reform, children have fallen through the cracks while adults fight about who is right.

It is time to stop fighting against each other over the smaller problems we can solve at the local level and take on the far more threatening problem — national education reform policy.

As education reform leaders and unions fight over policies that mandate rigorous teacher evaluations and encourage the growth of charter schools, poor kids are losing out in the most basic of ways — a situation that embeds them deeper in the cycle of poverty.

None of this should be surprising to any reformer or even to any reporter who has spent enough time covering the fight over reforming American public education.