Sentences with phrase «of scapegoating teachers»

Re-electing Andrew Cuomo will mean four more years of scapegoating teachers, underfunding public schools, cutting staff and programs, and proliferating privately - managed charter schools.

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I worry that if what my son says is true, the teacher is scapegoating another kid in the class (call me crazy but I don't think a 5 - year - old should be sent out of the classroom three times in the first three weeks of school unless the behavior is violent or seriously disruptive).

At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

She said it's used by the» «no excuses» reformers» who are making teachers the scapegoats for larger societal causes of student failure.

It shifts the blame and scapegoats dedicated, highly skilled teachers instead of addressing poverty and social ills that are the true causes of chronic under - achievement.

In a subsequent interview, Miner said Cuomo's policies «scapegoat teachers» and fail to account for inadequate funding of poor districts.

Gillibrand says that she doesn't know what Juan is talking about, but in the abstract she does not support the idea of making teachers scapegoats for a school's failure.

Billy Easton of Alliance for Quality Education said he thinks teachers are being used as scapegoats.

Chris Keates, general secretary of teachers» union NASUWT, said: «It is unacceptable to scapegoat teachers for the variability in identifying pupils with SEN and ensuring their complex needs are met.

Budget cuts, classroom size increases, pressures to teach to the test, scapegoating of teachers — all these forces have driven many of the best and brightest teachers right out of the classroom.

The lesson of the case, she said, is that «we need to solve the very real teacher - shortage problem — not make matters worse by bashing and scapegoating the dedicated educators who teach our children.»

NEA President Dennis Van Roekel has accused the Obama administration of «scapegoating» teachers and insists that issues like teacher pay be left at the local level.

For our part, we're tired of seeing teachers cast as scapegoats, of all the carping over unions and tenure.

«It's just dead wrong to make teachers the scapegoats for all of society's problems,» Clinton told the AFT, according to selected quotes released by the union.

And the media, instead of conducting a thorough investigation, found a scapegoat in teachers... a group who generally will not advocate for themselves.

Researchers know that blaming teachers for the ills of society — using them as scapegoats — will not make good schools or productive students.

«The bill made teachers the scapegoats for all the inadequacies of public education,» Ms. Solano said.

Without hesitation, they called out, «Poor leadership by the prior principal» (denigrating authority), «lack of teacher assistants for differentiating instruction» (denying personal responsibility), and «unrealistic expectations by politicians» (scapegoating).

Maintain a climate of scapegoating and witch hunting for «bad teachers,» who are posited as the cause of poverty and student failure, doing everything possible to keep debate from addressing systemic inequities

«We should be looking at the model of Finland's schools, a system based on cooperation rather than competition, trusting and respecting teachers rather than scapegoating them, de-emphasizing standardized testing and providing small classes,» Haimson said.

Teacher Evaluation: a way to use teachers as scapegoats for the lack of societal response to the educational needs of minority students

«Since the beginning, Duncan's department has been led by graduates of the Broad Academy, Education Trust - West and other organizations determined to scapegoat teachers and their unions,» the California group wrote.

Teachers should email their members of Congress and flood the Obama website with rage at being made the scapegoats for the problems of public education by politicians.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said teachers are often scapegoated to explain low - student achievement when policymakers refuse to properly fund K - 12 education — and she doesn't appear to see unions as the driving force behind keeping less - than - stellar teachers at low - performing schools.

If we want to attract the best and brightest, and keep them in the classroom, we need to do a number of things, but one certainly is to stand and be counted when public education is attacked and teachers are scapegoated.

bsallamack: «Teachers should email their members of Congress and flood the Obama website with rage at being made the scapegoats for the problems of public education by politicians.»

They stood against the scapegoating of teachers and the vilification of their unions.

Pity the modern American classroom teacher: Not only is she the scapegoat du jour for everything that's wrong with education today, she is also responsible for finding a way to cram the fruits of that politicking into her lesson plans.

It also demonstrates «the absolute abject lack of respect and scapegoating of teachers, paraprofessionals and clinicians throughout this country,» she says.

But, of course, in truth, we've seen a growing trend in which politicians have used teachers as pawns or even scapegoats in a terrible game of political pandering and maneuvering.

Damian Betebenner, a senior associate at the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment Inc. in Dover, N.H. who developed the SGP model in use in Massachusetts, added that «Unfortunately, the use of student percentiles has turned into a debate for scapegoating teachers for the ills.»

Excluding the voices of the community and real education stakeholders by using the courts to rewrite education laws and scapegoat teachers is unfair.

Instead, schools and teachers became either saviors or scapegoats in the narrative of education reform.11

«If we want to have top notch people entering the profession of teaching, we have to stop making teacher's the scapegoat with high - stakes testing.

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Allowing teacher Unions to be the scapegoat, moves us farther away from the true mission of all Labor Unions, to create better working and learning conditions for all segments of our society.

But we can not allow ourselves to think that we have won and sink into complacency; the enemies of public education have struck a significant blow here, and though the changes will not be visible in the halls of our schools immediately, it will not take long before we see the effects, among the most visible of which is likely to be the high teacher turnover which is so harmful to a school, whether caused by getting fired for having the wrong kind of students or simply becoming demoralized by being made scapegoats for society's ills.