Sentences with phrase «more liberal schools»

And this is not just Berkeley and the more liberal schools one would expect.

Not exact matches

Rather, the former talk show host, entrepreneur, actress, and philanthropist receiving an honorary doctorate of letters by the liberal arts school, urged the class of 2017 to channel something more basic: cultivate a clear vision of who you are and what moves you.

Additionally, the B.C. Liberals are leaving schools short on funding after hitting them with hikes to MSP premiums, hydro rates and more operational expenses.

Nuns when I was growing up got involved in political protests, they taught school, and truth be told, represent a more «Liberal» element that this now «far right wing» church.

«Some of us just have a hard time supporting a person who said he was going to be more liberal on gay rights than Ted Kennedy,» said Farris, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association, referring to remarks Romney made in a 1994 letter.

Both the more fundamentalist Moody Bible Institute and the more liberal Mount Hermon schools derive from Moody and may be said to represent genuine facets of Moody himself.

Finally, outside the school system, technology has made a liberal education cheaper and more accessible than ever before --- witness, for example, the wild success of the Great Courses, usefully profiled by Heather Mac Donald in the City Journal.

Wow this is fun to watch... the extreme religious right is being forced to choose between either 4 more years of leftist liberal gay supporting Obama, or having to vote for a guy who they've been taught their whole lives in sunday school belongs to a polygamous satanic worshiping cult.

One could hardly think of a suggestion more incompatible with the mindset of liberals in general, and liberal New York Jews in particular, than providing educational vouchers that could be used to subsidize enrollment at parochial schools.

Email blasts from the two liberal organizations note that Avella used to be an outspoken opponent of charters — and co-location in particular — and yet voted «yes» on the Senate one - house budget that education advocates say pushes more of the controversial co-locations and hikes state aid to charters at the expense of traditional public schools.

There is a long - standing trend within the Parliamentary Conservative Party that privately schooled and Oxbridge educated MPs are more likely to be socially liberal and less Eurosceptic than their state - schooled and non-Oxbridge educated colleagues.

Nevertheless, Cuomo has been criticized by liberals advocates for not being more forcefully in favor of a Democratic takeover of the chamber this year, which came to a head this week when the governor knocked public schools as a «monopoly» he wants to break by strengthening charter schools.

Unlike the Liberal Democrats» broken pledge to oppose hikes in tuition fees, which has severely dented the standing of the party on the national stage and clobbered Clegg's own personal ratings, the Conservatives had a clear mandate to proceed with reforming Britain's hospitals, schools and other vital public services to drive up the quality in a more cost effective way.

Her position is cheered by her liberal base — which plays an important role in a Democratic primary — because it has long sought more state and local funding for public schools and for progressive state programs.

The Liberal Democrat pledge to protect the education budget in England from cradle to college will mean more money available for Welsh schools, Welsh Liberal Democrat Montgomeryshire candidate Jane Dodds has said.

Nixon has criticized Cuomo for what she said is allowing Republicans, bolstered by the Independent Democratic Conference, to remain in power, leading to a block on liberal priorities like early voting and more money for high - needs schools.

More recently, Gove fell out with his Liberal Democrat schools minister David Laws over his decision not to reappoint Labour - supporting peer Baroness Morgan to the chair of Ofsted.

Welsh Liberal Democrats have consistently put education first, and between 2011 - 2015 delivered more than # 280m for our schools.

In budget negotiations we have delivered # 60m extra for our region's schools, discounted bus travel for 2,600 of the region's young people, thousands of new apprenticeships, and so much more that wouldn't be happening without the Welsh Liberal Democrats.

Liberal Democrat rebels are more likely to have cast dissenting votes on social issues, such as the increase in VAT from 15 % to 17.5 %, the introduction of free schools and the expansion of academies, and curbs to superannuation for civil servants.

«Professional politician James Skoufis votes in lock step vote with the New York City liberals who support taxpayer funded political campaigns, shifting more school aid to New York City and providing free college tuition to illegal immigrants.

Through the years, Silver became a leading voice for liberal causes, fighting for more school aid, prekindergarten expansion, a «millionaires» tax» on high earners and rollback of Rockefeller - era drug laws.

The Liberal Democrats have said that they will invest nearly # 7bn more in schools and Colleges over the next parliament.

«The Welsh Liberal Democrats have delivered more for our communities than all of the other opposition parties put together: apprenticeships, extra funding for schools, more nurses, and the list goes on — all achieved with just five Assembly Members.

Latino elected leaders joined liberal anti-charter school activists on the steps of City Hall to demand that Success Academy Charter Schools return an $ 8.5 million donation from hedge fund manager John Paulson because of his role in the Puerto Rican debt crisis — where the government is slashing education spending in a desperate effort to balance its books... [Click here to read more]

He said: «The Liberal Democrats are the party of education, and that means we believe in an excellent education for all, so any plans to bring in more divisive grammar schools will be utterly opposed by my party.

Speaking to the Guardian, Farron said: «The Liberal Democrats are the party of education, and that means we believe in an excellent education for all, so any plans to bring in more divisive grammar schools will be utterly opposed by my party.

«Former Liberal governments closed down schools in the inner city and we are doing the exact opposite — investing in schools like Albert Park College so they can grow and accommodate more students.»

These parents are more likely than the general population to be liberal; less likely to be Christian; more likely to be atheist; and more likely to send their child to a charter school.

Strong unions are more successful than weaker ones in opposing liberal charter legislation, but once a charter law is adopted, it seems that parents see charters as an avenue for reform in districts where unions have a strong hold on traditional public schools.

The conscience of a liberal should struggle with supporting a system in which the children of the poor are consigned to attend the school that is assigned to them by public officials, regardless of its quality, whereas more affluent parents can shop for the school they want for their children by purchasing a home in the vicinity of the public school they prefer or paying private school tuition.

As liberal blogger Matt Yglesias has noted, «Apocalyptic talk about «failing» schools and intense elite focus on the problems of the least - privileged students tends to obscure the more banal reality that most schools are non-optimal in lots of ways.»»

But Ravitch's book reveals that as necessary as these changes may be, revitalizing our schools ultimately depends more on restoring liberal education to its rightful place at the center of the American curriculum and breaking the grip of harmful progressive ideas (particularly the progressive antipathy to subject matter) on educational policy and practice.

The first step toward its defeat must be, as the Committee of Ten recognized more than 110 years ago, having all high - school students follow an intellectually rich liberal arts course of study.

Conservatives and libertarians tend to stress school choice, for example; liberals are much more comfortable with an intrusive federal role.

Over the long haul, the dire condition of disadvantaged kids in failing urban schools will prompt more and more of today's liberal opponents of choice - notably the civil - rights groups and many urban Democrats - to begin representing their own constituents on this issue, leaving the teacher unions to fight their battles alone.

Arguing in this forum for more expansive collective bargaining for teachers is Richard D. Kahlenberg, senior fellow at The Century Foundation and author of Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles over Schools, Unions, Race and Democracy.

Signs of such deterioration abound, as conservatives push to loosen the grip of governments and unions so as to maximize the freedom of families and schools to chart their own course, and as liberals redefine education reform into a «social justice» crusade, construe today's problems in race and gender terms, and press government to do more to advance and protect selected subgroups — a trend that's been welcomed and in fact quickened by the Obama administration's eagerness to nationalize these endeavors and institute federal regulations that further them.

Liberal education reformers, unlike their critics on the left, believe charter schools play an important role, and also generally believe that all schools need to have more ability to reward excellent teachers and fire low - performing ones.

Liberal concerns tend to focus more on the opportunity for private corporations to make money by selling Common Core products to schools, and the fact that testing companies are helping to write some of the Common Core tests.

They are more liberal than nonteachers, for example, when it comes to school prayer, a stance seemingly inconsistent with their strong religious turn.

Oregon approved charters in 1999, and under its more liberal law, 56 charter schools now enroll 6,000 students.

TFA, suitably representative of the liberal education reform more generally, underwrites, intentionally or not, the conservative assumptions of the education reform movement: that teacher's unions serve as barriers to quality education; that testing is the best way to assess quality education; that educating poor children is best done by institutionalizing them; that meritocracy is an end - in - itself; that social class is an unimportant variable in education reform; that education policy is best made by evading politics proper; and that faith in public school teachers is misplaced.

Caulfield Liberal MP David Southwick promised more than $ 600,000 to Jewish schools in his electorate, only to later delete the announcement from his website and Twitter account.

Liberal Democrat education spokesman John Pugh urged the government to protect the school budget in real terms, adding that he was concerned that the announcement did not rule more out cuts to school budgets «which are already overstretched».

As many liberals and conservatives push for national academic standards and other centralizing education reforms, this situation brilliantly illustrates why government schooling is totally antithetical to a free society, and why the more centralized the power, the greater the danger.

Even in other more liberal countries such as Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Tunisia and Egypt, the majority of school governance whether a co-ed school, a girls» or boys» school, is in the hands of males.

Liberal courts are disposed to discover something in state constitutions that will disqualify the law, regardless of whether the constitution prohibits vouchers according to a strict constructionist reading, but conservative courts that may be friendlier to school choice also will adhere more closely to a strict reading of the letter and intent of the constitution.

Liberal Democrat education spokesman Phil Willis said he was saddened to hear «more talk of compartmentalizing our school children».

The Conservative - Liberal Democrat government wants to give more autonomy to individual schools.