Sentences with phrase «opponents of education»

Pennsylvania's Department of Education (PDE) released their 2016 - 17 financial reports less than a week after opponents of education choice for children loudly proclaimed that the sky is falling, among other things.

Supporters and opponents of the education measures agreed that the election results put the issue of under - funded schools and colleges squarely on the doorstep of the Legislature.

Despite continued support in the Republican - dominated State Legislature for high - stakes testing, there are signs that Florida is headed for a showdown with opponents of an education system that many say is undermining its original mission: to improve student learning, help teachers and inform parents.

Their efforts to simultaneously exist as the champions and opponents of education reform are meeting resistance even internally.

Its prejudicial tenor often apes the rhetoric of teachers unions and other opponents of education vouchers.

Over the weekend, opponents of these education reformers joined the battle.

«But the education secretary is wrong to belittle the opponents of the education bill,» he said.

In sharply worded remarks on «Education Reform and the 1988 Election,» given at the National Press Club and repeated two days later at a press conference in Chapel Hill, N.C., Mr. Bennett called the teachers» union the «most entrenched and aggressive opponent of education reform» in the nation.

Not exact matches

The treatment of the Nazi period in all its aspects - Hitler's rise to power; his establishment of a dictatorship in Germany; the abolition of the rule of law; the persecution of all kinds of political opponents; the racially motivated persecution of the Jews, culminating in the Holocaust; the reticence and opposition of German citizens; and, Germany's instigation of World War II - is compulsory teaching matter at all types of schools in Germany and at all levels of education.

In spite of all the education available in our country, many regular people have chosen to fight like high school bullies and adopt the «in your face», twist everything to mock your opponent, methodology.

He could very well grow out of them as he learns some control on his move up the ladder, as more advanced opponents can sometimes force that education on a pitcher.

We send our kids to school and try to get them a good, well - rounded education, mostly so that they will not grow up to be ridiculous and afraid of things like solar panels sucking up the sun, but one of the biggest opponents to the solar farm was actually former science teacher Jane Mann.

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.

The decision comes after a reported disagreement over the language between Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a major opponent of the LGTB rights movement, and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who is said to support LGBT rights and had to sign off on the move.

coumo has no conpassion for the peaple pf ny, he cares more about balancing the budget then he does about the peaple, he has huet the elderly bad and he has gone really overboard on the education system, i can't wait till the next election so i can help the opponent get him out of office

Nonunion members and opponents of public sector unions have criticized the fees and the 1977 case, Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, broadly in recent years.

Unable to withstand the popularity of his opponents because of the latter's achievements, he started promising heaven including the 350 new secondary schools, free galamsey operation, free secondary education, one constituency one million dollar, free chocolate drink for all pupils and students, restoration of trainees» allowance etc..

Zinke had a $ 1.1 million to $ 524,000 cash advantage over his Democratic opponent Denise Juneau, the state superintendent of public education who is also the state's first openly gay candidate for Congress, on March 31.

Unsurprisingly in their endorsement, The Villager wrote in rave fashion that Johnson has a «better grasp» of the details of development issues in District 3 — which is a ridiculous statement not only because he is rumored to have just a high school diploma — but because his opponent, Yetta Kurland, is extremely intelligent and more knowledgable on development issues especially when taking into account her experience in the community combined with her education: she has a Bachelors, a Masters, and a law degree.

We say we've got to insist on a disciplined, rigorous education for our children... our opponents call it: «elitist Tories, old - fashioned and out of touch.»

After Artvoice published Carl Paladino's disparaging and racially - charged remarks about the Obamas last month, opponents of the brash Buffalo businessman said they were fed up with his repeated controversies and vowed to continue to speaking out until he was removed from the Buffalo Board of Education.

Opponents of free higher education cite «record numbers of working class students» attending university, but what good is that when eight percent drop out just like I did?

Here's the full text of Cuomo's e-mail, which was forwarded by a reader (interestingly, it speaks in very general terms about the budget and «realigning» spending, but makes no mention of the deep education and health care cuts, which opponents say will lead to service reductions):

If Paladino does not step down, as expected, the board will appeal to state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to remove him, forcing her to weigh his opponents» arguments of racism against his First Amendment right to free speech.

Opponents said the bill was unfair to the tens of thousands of residents who are in the country legally but who don't qualify for state education aid.

His opponent, Linda Goldsmith, also has many years of community service to point to in her campaign — most significantly, the 26 years she's spent on the Oysterponds Board of Education.

This is one of the main demands of backbench Tory opponents of reform who have won the support of five cabinet ministers, including the education secretary, Michael Gove, and the defence secretary, Philip Hammond.

Bloomberg's opponent was Democratic and Working Families Party nominee Bill Thompson, who had been New York City Comptroller for the past eight years and before that, President of the New York City Board of Education.

«Unfortunately, my opponent Carl Marcellino was not only one of the architects of the disaster our education system is facing, he has also refused to do anything to address this crisis despite the fact that he is the Chair of the Senate Education Committeeducation system is facing, he has also refused to do anything to address this crisis despite the fact that he is the Chair of the Senate Education CommitteEducation Committee.»

Opponents of public education — led by a handful of hedge fund and Wall Street billionaires — bought control over the New York State Senate this past election with millions in corrupting campaign cash.

Opponents fear big spenders would push to strip some public pension protections, roll back the rights of immigrants, compromise environmental safeguards and try to cut education spending.

(CNN)- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Monday released a new television ad in which he takes credit for securing education funding for his cash - strapped state and slams his opponent for her hard - line views on the Department of Eeducation funding for his cash - strapped state and slams his opponent for her hard - line views on the Department of EducationEducation.

Cuomo may become a vociferous and vocal opponent of the Trump administration on health care, start dealing more with unions, walk back some of his education initiatives, and maybe even start backing marijuana legislation.

While both Hawkins and his Republican opponent have raised concerns with the Common Core, Hawkins is a strong proponent of public education and claims his two main opponents support privatization of the school system.

George is right to identify them as a serious opponent of the reforms that are necessary for improving education although David Cameron would be wise to avoid anything like the language used in this article.

The chair of a different House committee, one that oversees education and authorizes new programs, is a fierce opponent of the Administration's attempt to spend more money on targeted new programs.

Gary Orfield, professor of education, law, political science, and urban planning at UCLA, said opponents of the UT admission policy claim there are nonracial alternatives that do the job just as well, including the 10 % plan that UT now uses as its first phase for admission; approaches using socioeconomic status rather than race as a factor; and special outreach and recruitment efforts.

Macfarlane's «education and experience... make her eminently qualified to lead the NRC for the foreseeable future,» said Reid, a leading opponent of a recently shelved plan to open a nuclear waste repository in Nevada.

Opponents say that small schools are the centers of their communities and can provide a high - quality education regardless of their enrollments.

So I chose Jeanne Allen and Andy Smarick to represent «conservative education reformers» and Anthony Cody and Mike Klonsky to represent «progressive opponents of reform.»

An Education Post piece recognizes the case made by opponents but also encourages them to recognize the value of accountability.

As Robin Lake recently wrote: «Given the largely successful push by teachers unions and other opponents of public school choice to brand charter schools as a conservative, partisan issue, the last thing public charter schools need is to have the next president feed the «end of public education» narrative.»

For example, the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) made a splash in February with an innovative study of how the Common Core debate is playing out on Twitter; scholars found, among other things, that proponents tend to make policy points while opponents use «political language» in their tweets.

Both program supporters and opponents cite evidence from an ongoing congressionally mandated Institute of Education Sciences (IES) evaluation of the program, for which I am principal investigator, to buttress their positions, rendering the evaluation a Rorschach test for one's ideological position on this fiercely debated issue.

-LSB-...] discipline has become the subject of one of the most polarizing and entrenched debates in education: Opponents of the Obama guidance argue that it has handicapped schools from ensuring schools are safe and productive learning environments; proponents assert the rules promote equity and prevent educators from resorting to punitive discipline practices that are ineffective at best and pernicious at worst.

Also in 2010, Representative Phillip Owens, the chair of the House Education and Public Works Committee introduced a bill aimed at establishing a more sustainable funding policy for CSD, and despite being stalled by opponents representing traditional districts, the 2011 - 12 state budget included a funding increase for CSD schools.

Hess's dispassionate, balanced analysis will disappoint both opponents and advocates of market - based education reforms.

It's here that the critics of single - sex education begin to sound like opponents of another kind of separation: the racial and economic segregation in American public schools documented by Savage Inequalities author Jonathan Kozol and others.

But Wisconsin state senator Russ Decker, a leading opponent of vouchers, has argued that the program gives money to children who would attend private schools anyway and declared, «You've got a lot of additional money going into the choice program that we could better use funding public education statewide.»

98, assistant director of the Commercialism in Education Research Unit at Arizona State University, recently coauthored a report on the for - profit educational management industry under the supervision of Alex Molnar, a nationally recognized opponent of commercialization in schools.