Sentences with phrase «institution of public education»

It will look at changes to state law that will be necessary if we want to protect the civic institution of public education from insolvency.

The larger institution of public education is capable of training quality leadership.

I support a variety of policy initiatives that provide options for parents and students, including charter schools, public / private partnerships, contract schools, home schooling, cyber schools, historically black independent schools like Piney Woods in Jackson, Mississippi, as well as inno - vative governance arrangements in the existing institutions of public education.

It describes the intentional, well - financed war of words used to discredit, undermine, and destroy the U.S. institution of public education.

His plan included a number of escalating steps that would ultimately «shock the system into investing in the civic institution of public education.»

If the institutions of public education fail to teach for religious commitment and thereby both make education personally superficial and effectually promote irreligion or idolatry, it will be necessary, for the well - being of society, to have the instruction of the young carried on in nonpublic schools under the auspices of religious organizations.

Religion as ultimate loyalty is profoundly relevant to public life, and the institutions of public education ought to promote it actively and explicitly.

These reforms are creating new tiers in an already stratified education system, thereby threatening the institution of public education and our nation's democratic ideals.

Those who think that unions should speak for teaching as well as for teachers, for the institution of public education as well as for explicit self - interest, have both the right and the ability to ask tough questions.

Describing her own perspective on the charter school debate, Smith writes, «I consider myself a member of the Left in relation to public education because I am concerned with ends of social justice such as equality and fairness; I am also concerned that institutions of public education be governed democratically and that they prepare young people for democratic public life.»

With the help of such celebrities as basketball legend and business icon Earvin «Magic» Johnson, Jr., founder of the not - for - profit Khan Academy Sal Khan, and actor and television personality Montel Williams, the Stand Up campaign highlights the success of the nation's public schools — and works to bolster public confidence in the institution of public education.

There will be lots of important allies in the defense of public education — superintendents, principals, public school parents and students, civil rights groups — but only the teachers unions have the political muscle to defend the institution of public education that is so vital for our democracy.

Spend our education dollars to support privatization of public schools, or invest in supporting and strengthening the institution of public education?

And throughout the years, multitudes of people scattered across the country, separated by distance, differing ideologies, political party affiliation, socioeconomic stature, race, and a whole host of issues including the divisive topic of how to «fix» schools all continued trying to derail the standardization and privatization of our institution of public education.

With our rights and even the institution of public education in danger, why have teachers been so slow to respond?