Sentences with phrase «get quality public education»

Turning California back into a place where ordinary citizens can afford homes and get quality public education is not going to be easy.

Moses could not have said it better: «The next lurch forward in civil rights is that every child in America gets a quality public education and that our nation's promise of freedom continues.»

Not exact matches

An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the education, arguing Bridge focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.

So that children in neighborhoods that had no resources in poor public schools were able to still get a quality education.

He gets a 68 percent negative job performance rating on improving the quality of public education in New York.

«They wanted to make sure they were going to get a donation when they give to public schools and private schools of their choice and they would get a 90 percent tax credit at the taxpayers» expense,» said Jasmine Gripper, Alliance for Quality Education.

«Stop Common Core needs to Start Getting Real about the need for quality, fully - funded, desegregated public education from pre-k to undergrad,» added Brian Jones, the Green Lieutenant Governor candidate and a former NYC teacher.

However, I do agree that quality of education for public schools shouldn't vary, but unfortunately in NYC our teachers are paid close to nothing (constantly getting laid off because of budget cuts), as well as our NYPD.

«While much public discussion has been solely focussed on funding, we've been getting on with the job of delivering a quality reform agenda in teaching education.»

Over the next year, Aaron Tang and Ethan Hutt, the energetic founders of a new education advocacy group, aim to get 1 million middle school, high school, and college students to sign a petition calling for high - quality public education for all students, not just those in suburban and middle - class neighborhoods.

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But the students in the college - bound track of fifty years ago did not get the high quality of education that is now typical in public schools with Advanced Placement courses or International Baccalaureate programs or even in the regular courses offered in our top city and suburban schools.

«Their future is bright because of the quality education they're getting in schools that get less money than the already impoverished Bridgeport public schools,» she said, referencing the event's student speakers.

Public charter schools increase access to effective instructional services for children who don't get high - quality education through their zoned school districts.

SPEAK encourages all community members to get involved in making sure that quality public education is a reality for every student in Knox County.

As with so much public policy, it is a clear communication in action of the expectations we have for our society, especially when it comes to ensuring that every child gets a high - quality education.

«Too many of our school children still aren't getting the quality of education they deserve, which is why tens of thousands of students are currently on public charter school waiting lists.

How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy: Be they school choice advocates or activists for revamping teacher quality or even standards and accountability proponents, many reformers have a tendency to believe that their favored solution will transform American public education.

That means your student will get a higher quality education through a local public charter school.

Online public schooling offers flexible scheduling so you can get a quality education even if your circumstances make regular attendance difficult.

This means your student will get a higher quality education through a local public charter school than they would at a traditional public school.

That means your student will get a higher quality education through a local public charter school than they would at any of the alternatives.

The Charter School Accountability Agenda lays out tangible steps we need to take to guarantee that every child gets a high - quality public education, whether that child is in a neighborhood school or a publicly funded charter school.

«Milwaukee's Public Schools need full funding so our kids can get the quality education they deserve, not experiments in taking control away from our locally elected school board and handing it to an unaccountable political appointee.

It's hard to fault individual parents who want a liberal wonderful education for their kids, but if all of us who can flee the fight for quality public education for all, what you get is sub par factory model a-democratic inequitable authoritarian test driven schools.

So with federal education law originally meant to support the public education system in order to break the «poverty - ignorance - ignorance - poverty cycle» by providing ALL children with quality education, we know «choice» can not logically get us to equal educational opportunity.

We believe a community is healthiest when benefits are shared widely among its people, and that there are certain essentials our public systems must get right in areas such as quality education for all and employment opportunities for disadvantaged workers.

The idea of society providing a quality, comprehensive education for all children is inspiring and attainable, but the old model for delivering that education — a monolithic government entity led by politicians with a captive audience of students forced into grossly unequal schools — has got to go, one of the nation's pioneers in public school reform told a Tulane audience on Thursday.

And he is working to demonstrate that the quality of a public education is about more than how many AP classes one takes, now many community college courses a high schooler enrolls in over the summers, and how many extra hours of math a fourth grader «earns» by getting a slot in a prized G&T program.

Instead, it is by complying with our state constitution and restoring a uniform system of fully funded public schools so that every student has an opportunity to receive a quality education including a fully qualified teacher and low class sizes so that struggling students can get the help they need to succeed in school and succeed in life.

«Hopefully this will start to have our policymakers and our public start to think about how we redefine education to stop talking about school type and start focusing on how we fund kids and how we get quality,» says Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice President Robert Enlow.

As I have argued back in July, the levels of proficiency set by states, like other aspects of public policy, are clear communications in action of the expectations we have for our society, especially when it comes to ensuring that every child gets a high - quality education.

With privilege comes opportunity and while no one should ever begrudge a parent for doing everything they can to ensure that their child or children get a quality education, it is relevant when a politician who says he is ready to «turn - around» Hartford's public schools won't enroll his own child in the public school system he claims that he will serve.