Sentences with phrase «on public education systems»

We are facing a global attack on public education systems and it needs an international response.

Ultimately, America's competitive advantage rests on a public education system that pushes beyond the limits of the «talented tenth» paradigm and fully develops the human capital of far more of our students.

Calling the experience «life changing,» Kirp's time in Union City impacted his views on the public education system in America.

Any dollar spent to subsidize or incentivize private school education is a dollar lost on the public education system that educates 90 percent of Americans and must accept and educate any and all school - aged children.

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

That is almost surely true on the margin, but will it make a significant impact on our public education system?

At the same time, there was growing interest in teacher quality among policymakers, philanthropists and education reformers looking for ways to improve on a public education system that was reportedly failing to produce students who could compete globally.

But it seems to me that parents these days rely on the public education system to teach their kids on the «important» stuff like sex, money etc..

Not exact matches

My goal would be to both ensure that those who depend on the program are protected, while also balancing the growing cost of Social Security with other pressing priorities — from programs for children, the vulnerable, public investments, and shoring up our education and worker retraining systems.

We all need to care when their beliefs are imposed on the rest of us in the form of laws and leak into our public education system, that's when we need to care.

One could go on enumerating undemocratic elements in our society — the vast disparity in incomes and living conditions, the myth of equal opportunity for education and employment, the regimentation and militarization of the public mind, the threat to democracy which would ensue if a system of compulsory peacetime military training should be adopted.

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.

Education was being placed under the control of the state and was becoming secularized, but on the frontiers of white settlement, especially in the United States, those moved by their Christian faith were founding most of the institutions of higher learning and were even responsible for much of the public school system.

Education expert Andrea Ramirez on what the appointment means for the public school system and the church.

Whatever your thoughts about ghana's education are we are based on the much better British system rather than your hollow American one hence with only a tiny proportion graduating your government seeks to employ them in your public services.

His accomplishments in his island paradise service to the crown (1846 - 54) range from establishing the postal system, creating the first library and public education system on the island, to having piped water delivered to Port of Spain, the capital.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

In fact, most homeschool parents pay even more on average for their student's education than those subsidized within the public school system.

In Paul Tough's book, Whatever It Takes, he takes the reader on a journey through Harlem, New York's fractured public education system, and introduces a remarkable person with a solution to fix it.

As you'll recall, Cuomo said during his State of the State address that he would be the self - appointed «lobbyist» for public school students this year, taking on what he perceives to be the bloated bureaucracy in the education system.

At her first official campaign event, Nixon pledged to fix public education funding and the crumbling NYC subway system, and also teed off on Cuomo, calling him out on his progressive credentials.

Cuomo's Commission on education reform got an earful at a public hearing in Albany yesterday, as speaker after speaker complained about a statewide school system that they say is in disarray.

Colleagues, this is nothing less than a backdoor assault on the public K - 12 education system.

Governor Cuomo's Commission on education reform got an earful at a public hearing held at the State Capitol today, as speaker after speaker complained about a statewide school system that they say is in disarray.

But Lipton also said there is «more to do,» like restoring «progressivity» to the state's tax code, closing the carried interest tax loophole, and investing in a new «social contract» on public education that ensures full funding for schools — including universal pre-K (an early de Blasio priority)-- and restoration to the public university system to pre-recession levels.

We are proud that the final agreement not only includes these longstanding priorities of our conference but also makes significant investments in our public education system, community schools, and struggling schools while holding the line on tuition increases at our SUNY and CUNY institutions.

Calling it a «pivotal time in the history of our school system,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew focused on the need to rebuild public education in New York City after Mayor Bloomberg in his speech at the union's annual Spring Education Conference at the New York Hilton oeducation in New York City after Mayor Bloomberg in his speech at the union's annual Spring Education Conference at the New York Hilton oEducation Conference at the New York Hilton on May 11.

The delegates approved two resolutions: one calling for the proper use of assessments to further education, and the other calling for the state Board of Regents to hold public hearings on the implementation of the required changes to the teacher evaluation system.

Queens Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland, who chairs the powerful Committee on Finance, suggested the city could lose precious monies for the NYPD for its non-cooperation on immigration issues, while the public hospital network could suffer if the president repeals the Obama - era Affordable Care Act and the school system might lose funding under the policies of U.S. Secretary of Education - designate Betsy DeVos.

On education, Cuomo is proposing changes to the teacher evaluation system that he says will make public schools more accountable.

StudentsFirstNY is New York's leading voice for students who depend on public education for the skills they need to succeed, but who are too often failed by a system that puts special interests, rather than the interests of children, first.

During an interview on AM 1600 WWRL this morning Paterson said he's «a little skeptical» of the mayor's habit of picking chancellors from outside the education system who follow in his own pattern of moving from private sector media management to public service.

«Since 2010 there has been an obsessive focus on structural change and increased autonomy for individual schools and providers, which has compromised the values and ethos of the public education system.

And it's something Gov. Andrew Cuomo believes would be a disaster for the state, assuming billions of dollars in county Medicaid costs just as the state has pulled out of the recession and is trying to spend money on more education aid, free tuition at public colleges and upgrade aging water systems.

However, today Mr Hutton argued that you can not deal with differences in life expectancy through the pension system - these must be tackled with better strategies on public health, child poverty and improved education and skills training.

In a thinly - veiled swipe at Eton - educated David Cameron, the one - time leadership rival told a meeting on grammer schools the only winners from the death of the selective education system were the public school boys who now «dominate» Britain.

Formed in April 2012, StudentsFirstNY with more than 150,000 members, is New York State's leading voice for students who depend on public education for the skills they need to succeed, but who are too often failed by a system that puts special interests, rather than the interests of children, first.

About StudentsFirstNY Formed in April 2012, StudentsFirstNY with more than 150,000 members, is New York State's leading voice for students who depend on public education for the skills they need to succeed, but who are too often failed by a system that puts special interests, rather than the interests of children, first.

On Thursday, with the New York State Board of Regents hearing testimony regarding the newly approved teacher evaluation system, leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and public school parents offered recommendations and sent letters calling for a system that ensures all public school students have access to high - quality teachers.

New Labour were also hampered with the theory of the «Third Way» mantra, meaning that even intellectuals like David Milliband were reduced to abandoning big ideas which could have a real impact, and instead being forced to concentrate on administrative details - hence the awful targets system he dreamed up to improve the performance of public services like education, policing and health.

The region boasts a superior public education system — low student / teacher ratios of 12:1, high school attendance rates of 95 % (5 % absentee rate) and 88 % of the Capital District graduates go on to college.

NEW YORK, NY — Assemblywoman Amy Paulin (D - 88) announced on Wednesday that the New York State Education Department and the New York State Library System have approved 216 construction awards to public libraries and public library systems, includin

NEW YORK, NY — Assemblywoman Amy Paulin (D - 88) announced on Wednesday that the New York State Education Department and the New York State Library System have approved 216 construction awards to public libraries and public library systems, including three libraries in the 88th Assembly District.

The strength of public education in New York is dependent on a rational system that is well administered.

Fariña recently told Capital she believes some charter schools can have a positive effect on the public system, while knocking others (without naming specific schools) for touting high test scores, but not accepting special education or English Language Learner students.

He spent most of his speech on the need to change the state's education system and the need to bolster public confidence in the justice system.

«His proposed policies on public education will weaken, not strengthen our public education system, and they would represent a step away from the principle of high quality public education for all students.

She received a top - notch education in the Albany public school system and received her Bachelor's Degree from the State University at Albany, paying her way on waitressing tips.

But what is so absurd about these flights of wishful thinking is that there is not a single word about the real lessons which Labour needs to learn — the need for radical banking reform, the need for a massive revival of British manufacturing (when this year the UK deficit on traded goods is likely to exceed the entire UK budget deficit), the need to take back public control of the NHS and education system, the need for a jobs and growth strategy rather than a programme of endless cuts, the need for an effective anti-poverty strategy and a huge reduction in inequality.

Should we keep increasing total spending on education as we face a steep decline in the number of students in our public education system?