Sentences with phrase «mass school closures»

More specifically, we will support candidates who oppose high - stakes testing, mass school closures, the privatization of our public schools and the outsourcing of its core functions to for - profit corporations, and we will support candidates who work for evidence - based reforms that will improve our schools and the education of our nation's children.

Many of these practices, focused on increased privatization, high stakes testing, mass school closures, school «choice,» and the deprofessionalism of teaching, are not based on solid research, and are not supported by most parents.

Tens of thousands of students live in what Jitu Brown has described as «school deserts,» because their districts have been devastated by failed policies such as mass school closures, the proliferation of charter schools, and other privatization schemes.

ALEC has promoted mass school closures through parent trigger laws and A-F grading systems for schools, while simultaneously promoting charter school expansion.

Years of top - down edicts, mass school closures and test fixation with sanctions instead of support haven't moved the needle — not in the right direction, at least.

In the spirit of May Day, International Workers Day, the unionized educators of Puerto Rico went out on strike against mass school closures, layoffs, and the school privatization.

Years of top - down edicts, mass school closures, privatization, and test fixation with sanctions instead of support haven't moved the needle — not in the right direction, at least.

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A teachers» union chief said today that schools are not a child - minding service as parents reacted with fury to another swathe of closures in the snowy Can schools prevent mass shootings?

His tenure follows the controversial leadership of former superintendent Cami Anderson, who led a series of unpopular initiatives in quick succession, including a new citywide enrollment plan and lottery that allowed parents to choose any traditional or charter school in the city, closures of underenrolled or poorly performing schools, mass firings of teachers and principals, and a new merit - pay program for teachers.

«Disruption» may be in vogue in business schools, but disrupting — rather than fixing — struggling schools has come to mean mass firings, school closures, and district or state takeovers.

Educational downsizers rationale imply children left school-less by mass closures are better off, as they now have an opportunity to attend better schools with safer conditions.

As Chicago Public Schools prepares to shut down more schools, it faces continued resistance from people like Irene Robinson, whose community was fractured by 2013's mass clSchools prepares to shut down more schools, it faces continued resistance from people like Irene Robinson, whose community was fractured by 2013's mass clschools, it faces continued resistance from people like Irene Robinson, whose community was fractured by 2013's mass closures.

Despite what policymakers say to justify these mass closures, reports have shown that the majority of student who are affected do not get placed in high performing schools.