Sentences with phrase «plagued by these public school»

The reason we have been plagued by these public school wars is that we have compelled all taxpayers to support a single official organ of education.

Not exact matches

NYC Public Advocate Letitia James is demanding the city «take real steps» to deal with a troubled Bronx middle school — which The Post revealed as plagued by poor discipline and coverups — where a student accused the principal of shoving and harassing him.

Like every other public school in the city, Stuyvesant is plagued by bureaucratic regulations and corrosive work rules that favor seniority and paper credentials over a teacher's knowledge and skill in the classroom.

Edgecombe County Public Schools has been plagued with a teacher recruitment and retention problem for sometime, primarily due to its lack of ability to compete with the supplements offered by other counties within driving distance.

Madison schools are dominated by white staff, and the mostly white School Board and teachers union have a generally dim view of charter and voucher schools and anything else that veers too far from the traditional (white - dominated) model of Madison public education — even as that model has long been plagued by racial achievement gaps.

Moreover, in practice, the «choice» program has been plagued by lack of accountability (no state testing requirements), fraud (private operators taking off with the state aid check, leaving the kids without a school to go to, and MPS to try to deal with it), refusal to accept handicapped children, continued leeching off public schools for lab courses, and — most significantly — absolutely no educational advantage whatsoever for the «choice» students compared to their public school counterparts, which was the ostensible justification for this whole fiasco in the first place.

But for charter schools, touted by many as a solution to the troubles that plague public education, the stakes are higher and the scrutiny is more intense.

One need only look at Trenton Public Schools which, while showing some signs of improvement, have long been plagued by the same infractions as IAT:

One need only look at Trenton Public Schools which, while showing some signs of improvement, have long been plagued by the same infractions as IAT: failure to provide a strong education program and failure to show sustained organizational stability.

Now, thanks to the law enforcement agencies districts have formed on their own (as well as bringing in cops from the outside to serve as school resource officers to handle student misbehavior better managed by teachers and school leaders), American public education has also become key players in the police militarization plaguing our communities.

For decades, the admissions process to these public high schools has been plagued by controversy because of the underrepresentation of African - American and Latino students in their populations.