Sentences with phrase «over public school policy»

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The University of Calgary's School of Public Policy recently pointed out that Canadian corporations actually do more taking over than getting swallowed.

«It used to be that Silicon Valley had the attitude that Washington was inconvenient,» Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur and researcher of public policy at Stanford Law School, says, but over the last few years Silicon Valley has reached a turning point, and that perspective has changed drastically.

After all, it was through political and legal struggles over many years, and as a result of compromises, that other Western democracies recognized the pluralistic nature of a free society and adopted policies protecting the rights of parents and of educators to maintain and receive public funding for faith - based schools.

Similarly, James Weill, president of Food Research & Action Center, a leading anti-hunger group, referred to the bill in a press release as «ill conceived» and «deeply flawed,» while Margo Wootan, Nutrition Policy director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, stated that the bill «would roll back key progress that schools, health advocates, and the Administration have worked so hard to achieve over the last six years.»

The NLC had earlier criticised Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, over what it described as the harassment, arrest and detention of workers who were protesting the government's policy to hand over public schools to individual in the guise of public, private partnership.

Williams recently defended Sarsour over criticism from Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a religious Jewish Democrat, over her upcoming commencement address at the City University of New York's Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy.

«Americans are experiencing a heated debate over gun policy in the wake of the latest school shooting,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

Cabrera's «war for our children» led him to lead a 2012 march over the Brooklyn Bridge demanding that the Department of Education end its policy barring church congregations from meeting in public schools.

Mayor Bill de Blasio flunked two of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top education proposals that would weaken his say over school policy — including one that would allow the state to put failing city public schools into receivership.

With little new education policy expected in the remainder of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's first term — and a quiet session on education concluding in Albany — the debate over traditional public schools versus charter schools has shifted to a new battleground: school safety.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signaled today that the contentious issue of mayoral control over New York City public schools — along with several other major policy debates — will «more likely» be decided during the regular legislative session, after the state budget deadline of April 1.

While the annual spending document has long produced disagreements over taxes, school aid and hospital reimbursement rates, fights about other public policies — often with minimal fiscal impacts — have now become flash points and stumbling blocks.

Lucy Anderson from the National Policy Forum said Labour must seek to re-establish a form of local authority control over schools and Heather Wakefield from UNISON said that local government has been the biggest victim of the coalition's austerity binge and that, with privatisation, huge amounts of public funds were wasted when local government contracted out public services.

F.E.S. has helped organize massive pro-charter rallies in New York City and Albany over the past year, which have influenced public policy on charter schools.

Staten Island Assemblyman Ronald Castorina and Women's March organizer Linda Sarsour collided on social media this week over the latter's upcoming commencement address at the City University of New York's Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy — a speech that the Republican lawmaker argued the public institution should cancel, given Sarsour's political and religious Public Health and Health Policy — a speech that the Republican lawmaker argued the public institution should cancel, given Sarsour's political and religious public institution should cancel, given Sarsour's political and religious views.

As The Post first reported, Custom Computer Specialists could earn more than $ 1 billion over the life of a contract set for approval by the Panel for Educational Policy Wednesday to provide Internet upgrades at public schools.

«New York's public schools need a leader who can reconcile opposing views among stakeholders over controversial issues, navigate the political complexities of the legislative process, and work with the Board of Regents to forge cogent policies that will make New York's education system student - focused.»

The results of the study by Marc Baguelin and colleagues from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the UK, Public Health England, and Athens University of Economics and Business, show that the current flu vaccination policy that targets people aged 65 years and over and also those in high risk groups has reduced the number of flu infections and associated deaths in these groups over the past 14 years.

Over the next five years, Kim will work with a team of researchers including Thomas White, senior research scientist at the University of Virginia Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning; and Jonathan Guryan, associate professor at Institute for Policy Research of Northwestern University, along with Communities In Schools of North Carolina and Durham Public Schools to implement, validate, and scale up an innovative approach to combat summer reading loss among low - income children.

Over the course of the past two decades, a series of court cases — including a 2007 Supreme Court decision that struck down voluntary integration policies in Seattle and Louisville, Ky. — have created tough barriers for public schools attempting to pursue integration.

Over time, as in public schools, the good will separate from the bad, and policy makers and parents will respond to information at hand.

Over two provocative days, funders, activists, practitioners, public school officials, policy makers, and media met to discuss research and studies, and to brainstorm ways to overcome the nation's racial and ethnic achievement gap.

Over the past several decades, we have eroded student accountability, assigning it as a matter of public policy to schools and teachers.

Contributing around 10 percent of public school costs, the US Department of Education imposed further requirements and regulations on the public schools, which removed another major fraction of local boards» control over school policy.

An active volunteer in Brookline Public Schools and a nurse with over 25 years of experience, Mowschenson, 48, enrolled in the Ed School's Education Policy and Management Program on a quest to learn more about education pPolicy and Management Program on a quest to learn more about education policypolicy.

And substantial percentages remain undecided about charter schools and other reform initiatives, suggesting that the current national debate over school policy has the potential to sway public opinion in one direction or another.

The stars of the film are Geoffrey Canada, the CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, which provides a broad variety of social services to families and children and runs two charter schools; Michelle Rhee, chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public school system, who closed schools, fired teachers and principals, and gained a national reputation for her tough policies; David Levin and Michael Feinberg, who have built a network of nearly one hundred high - performing KIPP charter schools over the past sixteen years; and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, who is cast in the role of chief villain.

The Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education has reached a settlement agreement with the Milwaukee Public Schools over a complaint filed regarding discriminatory use of school discipline policy.

Over the past two weeks, four national education polls — Education Next, Center for American Progress / Public Policy Poling, The Seventy - Four and PDK / Gallup poll of America's Attitudes toward the Public Schools — provided new information about public attitudes towards high standards and annual assessPublic Policy Poling, The Seventy - Four and PDK / Gallup poll of America's Attitudes toward the Public Schools — provided new information about public attitudes towards high standards and annual assessPublic Schools — provided new information about public attitudes towards high standards and annual assesspublic attitudes towards high standards and annual assessments.

As I look out over the current school reform landscape I see it is categorized by policies that seek to standardize, homogenize, and corporatize public education through the use of one - size - fits - all curriculum standards, high stakes testing, micro-management of school operations from distal bureaucrats, teacher evaluation policies based on mis - interpretations of current research, and heavy reliance on corporate education providers camouflaged as non-profits operating via charter schools.

Though this push for reform of public schools dates back several decades, it has steadily moved from the margins of the political debate to occupy center stage in the tussles over domestic policy.

If so, there is reason to believe the race for state school chief will once again prove critical to CTA and charter supporters even though the Superintendent of Public Instruction has little actual authority over education policy in the state.

The de Blasio administration's stance on charter schools has gone from aggressive to defensive to nonexistent over the last two years, with the mayor's public defiance changing to an unofficial policy of avoiding the sector altogether after he suffered a decisive political loss last year.

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Already fired up by a teachers strike and a district - wide staffing shake - up, Seattle Public Schools watchdogs are sounding the alarm yet again — this time, over proposed changes to an arcane - sounding policy: the Student Assignment Plan.

Today, Chicago Public Schools — the third largest school district in the nation serving over 400,000 students — will stand with its sister cities in adopting a policy and programming blueprint that increases the access to, equity in, and quality of arts education.

And while student enrollment in traditional public schools has increased, the city's public charter schools, over which Henderson has no control, have outpaced that rate of growth, according to a recent report by the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute.

Yet while some have suggested that the lobbying indicates an outside attempt to take over North Carolina's public schools, Steinburg flatly rejected the notion that active donors like Bryan are shaping his charter policies.

In the wake of public outcry over spending controls at the California School Boards Association, an independent review said the organization adhered to a culture of quiet» regarding policies, rules, and regulations that made staff reluctant to voice their concerns internally.

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.

«Utah's elected officials have deliberately and consciously adopted policy decisions that have eroded funding of our public schools over the past 20 years,» stated Josh Kanter, founder of the Alliance for a Better Utah.

Few education policy battles have burned as hot as debate over the practice of requiring traditional public schools to share under - used space with charter schools.

«The tests we see today are a result of the General Assembly's requirements that were passed into law over the past several years, and the result of the federal No Child Left Behind law,» State Superintendent of Public Schools Dr. June Atkinson told N.C. Policy Watch last year.

The D.C. Policy Center has already published over 60 studies on the District's economy and demography and provided strong evidence to develop a wide range of public policies, including proposals on paid family leave, tax reform, and out - of - school time programs.

Comparative results from the first Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) show that education systems can best support teachers by shifting public and governmental concern away from the mere control over the resources and content of education toward a focus on outcomes, by moving from hit - and - miss policies to targeted interventions, and by moving from a bureaucratic approach to education to devolving responsibilities and effective school leadership that supports teachers through targeted professional development, appraisal, and feedback.

Replicating Quality: Policy Recommendations to Support the Replication and Growth of High - Performing Charter Schools and Networks, a new report by Public Impact for the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) and the Charter School Growth Fund, argues that these changes could pave the way for a dramatic shift in K — 12 quality, creating excellent opportunities for a million more students over the next decade.

The analysis, published by the Institute for Public Policy Research, found the proportion of unqualified teachers at alternative providers has risen by nearly four percentage points over the past four years — more than double the increase in other schools.

On Monday, the Office of the State Superintendent of Education published a damning report showing that one - third of D.C. public school graduates last year improperly received diplomas, exposing a «culture of passing» that prized glowing statistics over adhering to school system policies.

Over the last 35 years, a model for the DPE movement required local money to unite with national money to promote charter schools, denigrate public schools and campaign for privatization friendly policies including unified enrollment.

By Reily Connaughton, University of Massachusetts — Amherst, Master of Public Policy, Class of 2018 In 2016, Massachusetts education advocates were divided over a ballot question that would have lifted the cap on the number of charter schools sanctioned by the Commonwealth.