Sentences with phrase «important civic institution»

Critics say DeVos and Trump want to privatize the public education system, the most important civic institution in the country.

The public school systemin the United States, however flawed, has been the country's most important civic institution.

Advocates of public education in the United States have worried that President - elect Donald Trump would tap an education secretary who would speed up the privatization of public schools, a move that many fear could destroy America's public education system, the country's most important civic institution...

Her supporters say those measures offer parents more choices, but her critics say they drain resources from the public education system, the most important civic institution in the United States.

DeVos called public education a «dead end» before becoming education secretary and has continued to talk about it in less - than - flattering terms, refusing to acknowledge the value of what has been America's most important civic institution.

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«With increasing inequality in our society, and the complexity of our political environment, civics education is more important, yet more complicated than it used to be,» Kawashima - Ginsberg said, noting that students today tend to be more disconnected from traditional forms of civic engagement and civic institutions.

I have often observed that the first and most important relationship a child builds with a civic institution is with his or her school.

For Freedoms believes that art and artists, like other civic institutions and citizens, have an important role in shaping our society.