Sentences with phrase «forget about public education»

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«Newspapers wax eloquently about education, but when push comes to shove [in the public's eyes]... if [funding education] involves raising the taxes, forget about it,» Jackson said.

And when we talk about improving public education, and the very real and increasing threat that is coming from the corporate «education reform» types, who want to layoff teachers, ban or reduce collective bargaining rights, take - over public schools and transfer the care and control of our public schools to various third parties... let's not forget that many districts do not fund enough IA positions and every district fails to fairly compensate IAs for the incredible work they do.

Our teacher members work in districts where people of color represent the majority and the children they teach are too often forgotten about in the creation of public policy, particularly in education decisions.

Critics also conveniently forget about all the money public schools receive for services they do not provide when parents, who pay property taxes for public education, send their children to private schools.

Teacher voice and student diversity, largely forgotten goals from the earliest ideas about charter schools, may hold the best hope for improving charter schools — and thereby illuminate a path for strengthening our entire system of public education.

As House and Senate negotiators work in conference committee to reconcile competing overhauls of our federal education law, let's not forget that our nation needs quality testing data to make well - informed decisions about how well all public schools are working for our children.

Although it's been two years since Ms. Moskowitz, as chair of the Council's education committee, ran a series of high - profile hearings about work - rule abuses in the city's public - school system, the United Federation of Teachers still hasn't forgotten.