Sentences with phrase «over public education»

It was run by a government body (the school district) that had been given exclusive control over public education in that area.

The first item on the reform list should be the collective bargaining system, which has taken over public education for the last fifty or so years.

The state constitution vests power over the public education system in the state superintendent.

The teacher is the first casualty in any battle over public education.

The school district monopoly over public education facilities is an accident of history.

The field is more than ready for a change; in fact, the frustration over public education being driven by standardized tests is palpable.

Until the day that the anonymous masses of citizens once again have control over their government, we must defend every inch of control we have remaining over the public education system.

It notes, however, that the tide is turning toward stronger state control over public education.

Despite strong support for the Common Core from the state's business community, some conservative critics wildly claim the higher standards are a federal plot to take over public education.

The Newark mayor looked into the camera and said: «Even though I have no formal authority over public education in Newark whatsoever...»

But the staid event quickly turned dramatic when a busload of angry residents followed Anderson from Newark in a display of the slugfest politics that have infused debate over public education across the country.

From 1977 to 1999, the number of black elected officials with influence over public education in cities (mayors, council members, school board members and superintendents) more than doubled, to 5,815 from 2,724

Overview: Special issue: Waging war over public education and youth services.

You can't say, «I don't understand why you would choose homeschool over public education.»

But Flanagan continued to question whether Mayor Bill de Blasio, a nemesis of the Senate GOP in Albany, is equipped to preside over the public education system in New York City.

Korn: «The governor is pursuing a billionaire's agenda to turn over public education to profiteers who are essentially his billionaire hedge fund donors from New York City.»

«The school district monopoly over public education facilities is an accident of history,» writes Nelson Smith, one that would not have happened «if there had been more than one choice of provider when the laws were being written.»

NCLB's replacement, which the Senate is expected to vote on next week, returns significant power over public education to the states and in some respects, repudiates both the Bush and Obama administrations, which gave huge power to Education secretaries.

Some see the school choice movement as a slowly rising tide that will eventually wash over all public education systems, leaving a path of wreckage in its wake.

«[O] ur constitutions, past and present, have limited governmental authority over the public education of Georgia's children to that level of government closest and most responsive to the taxpayers and parents,» Chief Justice Carol W. Hunstein wrote in the decision in Gwinnett County School District v. Cox.

Now, as California looks toward the election of a new governor and a new school superintendent next year, the fight over public education is bound to get hotter.

... But Sen. Howard Stephenson, R - Draper, co-chairman of the subcommittee over public education, said it would be more appropriate to conduct the budget review between legislative sessions, «when we have time to delve more deeply.»

It's not like it is difficult to find startling hypocrisy in what passes for public policy debates these days, but the battle over public education seems especially rife with maddening examples, most of them around the notion of accountability, that teachers and schools should be held to high standards and measurable results for the public dollars they use.

As the crisis over public education escalates, activist teachers are experimenting with new approaches.»

Needless to say, the conversation over public education needs to change course but is still largely bogged down in the morass of distortions and warped opinions.

Until the voice of experience permeates the hegemonic control over public education reform — whether teachers buy solely into current reforms, overturn the existing system, or a combination of the two — no sustainable transformation will ever take place in American schools.

JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi legislators passed with wide support a bill Thursday that proponents say will give the state more control over public education standards but even they admit it would have no effect on what schools currently teach.

«Why would our legislators willingly relinquish or even limit their autonomy over public education?»

(Ga.) Classroom management and learning environment ranked highest among parents choosing private school over public education — well ahead of scoring on standardized testing, according to a new survey from the Friedman Foundation For Education Choice.

Charter schools remain among the most controversial and divisive subjects in the national debate over public education.

Washington Post is predicting school accountability debates will quickly take over the public education debates in all 50 states as the ESEA rewrite shifts responsibilities to the states.

By all accounts, the unions wield broad influence over public education, and are alternately hailed as its defender or denounced as its scourge — especially in urban districts.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act accelerates these trends by exerting a strong degree of federal authority over public education.

Shirley Weber is a frontline soldier in California's war over public education — and often surrounded by those on the other side.

The policy was implemented at the behest of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who argued it made sense to give City Hall control over public education in the nation's largest city.

It also raises big questions about the city's experiment with independent charter schools, which have largely taken over public education in Orleans Parish since Hurricane Katrina.

The unions are clearly outgunned by the big financial interests just like the teachers are being badly outspent by the hedge fund bandits who want to take over public education and pillage the coffers.

Bloomberg replaced the school board set up by the state with direct mayoral control over public education.

Rodriguez thus belongs to a long line of federal cases emphasizing the value of state and local control over public education.

State governments are typically successful in exercising the authority their state constitutions give them over public education.

The dominant approach has treated school boards as legally subordinate to their states, recognizing that most state constitutions explicitly assign responsibility for and authority over public education to the state government.

From the right, Alexander will be pressured to take things further, and reform NCLB in order to substantially reduce the federal government's role and influence over public education (some have proposed letting states opt out of federal control entirely).

To rationalize their decision and cloud their relationship with the unions, the NAACP makes the absurd claim that public charter schools are taking over public education.

The ability to end union control in even one public school is the ability to end union control over public education itself.