Sentences with phrase «influence on the public schools»

The teacher unions have more influence on the public schools than any other group in American society.

He weaves in and out of the connections between individuals and companies and their harmful influence on public schools and you will be stunned!

Respondents also are skeptical of federal policy influences on public schools and of the Common Core State Standards.

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If you grow up in Idaho, Utah, or areas of Arizona you will be subjected to Mormon influence right on your public high school campus:

If you grow up in Idaho, Utah, or Mesa, Arizona you will be subjected to Mormon influence right on your public high school campus:

If you grew up in Idaho, Utah, or Mesa, Arizona you will be subjected to Mormon influence right on your public high school campus:

1) seperation of church and state; state funded public schools can't teach anything that is directly influenced by religion other than just touching on that kind of topic.

Sanger's powerfully charged distinction between prudent and imprudent fecundity has grown to influence policies on everything from immigration to public schools.

Kozol's description of the corporate presence in and influence on schools makes one wonder whether the public education system in the United States has become a domestic version of NAFTA: an effective way for companies to guarantee access to a steady supply of cheap, uneducated labor.

If Santa Clausism became the dominant «religion» of the country, tried to influence the government, inst / itute laws and public policies and demand that it be taught in public education - start every school day with a reading from «Twas the Night Before Christmas» and have «Ho Ho Ho» on your money - I'm just betting that you would have something to say about it on an internet forum and elsewhere!

Highly publicized reactions to science and social science on the part of religious conservatives, as evidenced by lawsuits concerning the teaching of evolution in public schools and court cases challenging the influence of «secular humanism» on school textbooks, suggest that Habermas's forces of «secular rationality» have by no means carried the day.

Stephen Prothero is a nut case who wants to force all religions to be taught at public schools:: «Prothero has argued for mandatory public school Bible literacy courses (along the lines of the Bible Literacy Project's The Bible and Its Influence), along with mandatory courses on world religions.»

The Oregon chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union supported maintaining the ban on religious clothing in public schools, arguing that it protected students from improper religious influence.

For example, the School Food Initiative set out to improve food on the plate at local public schools, and soon learned that such improvements also required us to influence cultural shifts within school districts as well as increasing food literacy throughout the commSchool Food Initiative set out to improve food on the plate at local public schools, and soon learned that such improvements also required us to influence cultural shifts within school districts as well as increasing food literacy throughout the commschool districts as well as increasing food literacy throughout the community.

F.E.S. has helped organize massive pro-charter rallies in New York City and Albany over the past year, which have influenced public policy on charter schools.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, seeking to curb the influence of outside providers of education, said on Thursday that he would block three charter schools from using space inside New York City public school buildings.

«My concern is that independent trials are on the decline and that means we have less high - quality data to inform public health that are not influenced by commercial interests,» says study leader Stephan Ehrhardt, MD, MPH, an associate professor in the Bloomberg School's Department of Epidemiology.

An international team led by researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center uncovered the influence of genetic variation on vaccine effectiveness after applying cutting - edge DNA sequencing technology to almost 5,000 patient blood samples.

To explore the influence of school choice on district policy and practice, we scoured media sources for evidence of urban public - school districts» responses to charter competition.

They also shape the schools from the top down, through political activities that give them unrivaled influence over the laws and regulations imposed on public education by government.

By contrast, evangelicals tend to believe that Christians should keep their children in public schools as witnesses and as sources of influence on non-Christians, the school, and the nation.

Information on how funds are allocated between different programs and expenses and how funds are distributed between states, districts, schools, and students could also influence public opinion in important ways.»

Members of the public are evenly divided in their thinking about the influence of teachers unions: 37 % say they have «a generally positive effect on schools,» while 37 % say they have «a generally negative effect.»

The notion that such a small group of people can hold such disproportionate influence is intriguing, but to see that they are using it to further religious ideologies in our public schools is causing people on both sides of the argument to gear up for an academic fight.

The influence of a nearby charter school on traditional public schools in the area depends, in part, on the credibility of students» threats to switch to the charter.

A national coalition of peace activists — whose affiliates are already challenging local school policies - has set out to forge a comprehensive, and apparently unprecedented, effort to eliminate the influence of the U.S. military on public and private schools.

• Of all the influences on parental choice, by far the most powerful is school performance: The less satisfied parents are with the performance of the public schools, the more likely they are to go private.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

Instead, says Paul L. McFann, a doctoral student at Ball State University, the predominant influences on public - school policymaking were said to be party politics and money.

The influence of the regulations on public / charter schools may be different than on private / voucher schools, but the pattern here is noteworthy.

«Testing has become enormously important with an extraordinarily powerful influence on schooling, and it increasingly dominates public debate about education,» he says.

[2] This is remarkable growth, and a generally positive influence on public education — for the students choosing charter schools and the traditional schools spurred to compete with them.

«The public educational system is a monopoly,» he wrote in 1967, offering choice only to «those who [can] afford to buy education outside the public schools» and thereby amplifying the influence of family background on student achievement.

An often - missing ingredient in improving public K - 12 education is sound school leadership, cited in research as second only to teaching in school influences on student success.

Charters and contract schools, as potentially powerful sources of market influence on a public education system that clearly needs it, deserve a serious trial.

But its most important impact is on every public k - 12 student in Michigan, because teachers have the biggest influence on student learning of all factors inside school walls (though outside factors such as income can have an even bigger impact).

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Charter school supporters may be an effective counterbalance to the prevailing influence public - employee unions have long exerted on Democratic politics in California.

The center seeks to influence the larger public's view on education to better support autonomous schools in which learning is purposeful and valuable beyond school.

A case study the Bush Institute completed on Gwinnett County Public Schools in 2015 showed that supportive district culture, effective principal management and support, and aligned school - level talent management policies can positively influence the work of principals.

They have a much easier job in traditional public education where they can exert their influence on entire school districts.

The Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Policy Board for Educational Administration recently released a second draft of the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium Standards for School Leaders (ISLLC), asking for public feedback on the standards that aim to help school leaders positively influence teaching and student leaSchool Officers and the National Policy Board for Educational Administration recently released a second draft of the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium Standards for School Leaders (ISLLC), asking for public feedback on the standards that aim to help school leaders positively influence teaching and student leaSchool Leaders Licensure Consortium Standards for School Leaders (ISLLC), asking for public feedback on the standards that aim to help school leaders positively influence teaching and student leaSchool Leaders (ISLLC), asking for public feedback on the standards that aim to help school leaders positively influence teaching and student leaschool leaders positively influence teaching and student learning.

Earlier this year, as the truly repulsive story of Mark Berndt (warning: the link is not for the faint of heart)-- an elementary teacher in the L.A. Unified School District accused of committing unspeakable acts against his students — came to light, I noted here on Public Sector Inc. that the failure to prevent his crimes owed in part to the influence of the California Teachers Association, the teachers union that is the state's most powerful special interest.

Cole graduated from Moore High School in 1967, but he said the sales tax proposal's effect on his alma mater would not influence his public opinion.

«However, as written, the NJCSA has concerns with the bill, especially where it lacks truly independent dual authorizing and funding parity, as well as limits on local politics from influencing public charter school applications.»

Third, we find considerable differences in teacher support and teacher influence on instructional policies and practices between charter schools and traditional public schools, which might help explain the higher returns to experience on teacher effectiveness as well as the observed effectiveness gaps between charter schools and traditional public schools serving disadvantaged students.

For example, Boston Public Schools Teaching Fellowship Program only considers candidates who «display excellence in their previous endeavors, and who are dedicated to reaching and influencing students — especially those in under - resourced areas — on a daily basis.»

In my recent City Journal piece chronicling the depravity of the California Teachers Association, I pointed out that the CTA's influence on the process by which the state's public school teachers get fired has made it virtually impossible to remove educators for almost any reason.

As one collective voice speaking on behalf of rural students and school districts, we create a strong presence and have the power to influence decision makers as they deliberate public school funding and policy.

Previous work on the impact of philanthropy in education terms these types of status quo investments as «lower leverage» grants, which can include funding for efforts in professional development, unrestricted or general purpose grants to schools, or special - purpose grants to fund a particular program or activity (e.g. arts enrichment).4 The contrasting approach — the «higher leverage» investment — is investment with the potential to exert systemic influence on public education, which can be divided into two broad categories: 5