Sentences with phrase «politics of school choice»

It's a decision deeply rooted in the politics of school choice in Indiana and revolves around the administration of Democratic Mayor Bart Peterson, the first mayor given the authority to oversee the city's charter schools, says Claire Smrekar, a professor of education and public policy at Vanderbilt University.

In 1998, Williams gave a frank interview for a chapter in The Politics of School Choice, co-written by a professor at Regent University.

Her research explores the relationship between education, policy, and equality of opportunity through three policy strands: 1) the racial politics of public education, 2) the politics of school choice, marketization, and privatization, and, 3) the role of elite and community - based advocacy in shaping public education policies and research evidence utilization.

Not exact matches

In short, we are mothers of color with a lot to say about issues relevant to us including politics, images in the media, schooling choices, parenting issues, and so much more.

Policymakers and educators are allowed to imagine that good schools can be woven out of existing bad schools and that the difficult politics of transforming schools and creating choice for families and teachers can be avoided.

My hypothesis is that cities with similar degrees of choice - friendly policies and politics can have different outcomes, depending on the civil society organizations that have developed to support the school choice sector.

They've tended to echo the famous hope of scholars John Chubb and Terry Moe, who argued in their seminal book, Politics, Markets, and America's Schools: «Without being too literal about it, we think reformers would do well to entertain the notion that choice is a panacea.

The contentious politics surrounding school choice and competition have produced deep divisions within minority communities and strained traditional alliances of civil rights groups, education organizations, and Democrats.

Whether it is the role of money in politics and the so - called «donor class,» the emergence of Republican majorities in formerly blue states like her native Michigan, or the still - rocky relationship between accountability and school choice, DeVos has become a convenient proxy for these larger issues.

Various fundamental reform proposals put forward since the publication in 1989 of Politics, Markets, and America's Schools by John Chubb and Terry Moe would replace regulatory compliance with student - performance standards, make schools» existence and staff members» jobs contingent on performance, give families choices among public schools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual sSchools by John Chubb and Terry Moe would replace regulatory compliance with student - performance standards, make schools» existence and staff members» jobs contingent on performance, give families choices among public schools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual sschools» existence and staff members» jobs contingent on performance, give families choices among public schools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual sschools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual schoolsschools.

Such resistance has dogged the school choice movement for years, producing a fog of politics cleared all too rarely by moments of forthrightness.

Now, a new monograph, «Beyond Partisan Politics: A Response to the Carnegie Report on School Choice,» accuses the Carnegie study of «numerous outright errors of fact, as well as errors of omission and interpretation that seriously undermine its credibility.»

The Politics and Practice of School Accountability (co-editor with Martin R. West) The Future of School Choice (editor) Our Schools and our Future (editor) City Limits The Urban Underclass (co-edited with Christopher Jencks) Price of Federalism Welfare Magnets (with Mark C. Rom) The New American Democracy (with Morris P. Fiorina, Bertram Johnson, and William G. Mayer) Four of his books have received major awards from the American Political Science Association.

After all, the reasons for promoting choice often rest on the fact that public school systems are strangled by politics, bureaucracy, byzantine contractual rules, and licensing procedures that aggravate a shortage of quality employees.

This book, which showed how politics undermines the effective organization of schools and argued the advantages of a choice - based education system, attracted so much attention that we were stunned.

«The president is so wildly unpopular among Democrats that his support for some of these policies — which we've been working on for literally decades — had made the politics of supporting school choice much harder than it needs to be,» said Derrell Bradford, the vice president of 50Can.

[The politics of rationing education is a reason why districts and other traditionalists also oppose the expansion of public charter schools and other forms of school choice that are helping Black and Latino children attain high quality education; charters fall outside of the control of districts and therefore, open the doors of opportunity for those historically denied great teachers and college - preparatory curricula.]

Whatever anyone thinks about charter schools or district schools, education reformers or teachers unions, Democrats or Republicans, or any other false choice that has divided our politics and our district, let's stipulate that everyone on all sides of this debate are good people who care about kids.

She has published four books: Shaping School Policy: A Guide to Choices, Politics and Community Relations (1992), Politics of Education Yearbook: The Politics of Teacher Preparation Reform (2000), College Bound (2010), and Urban Education: A Model for Leadership and Policy (2011).

Yet my family is entitled to exercise a different form of school choice, unimpeded by the politics that stymie choice for non-disabled children.

The truth: If you follow today's Orwellian nature of the media and politics, you can feel the school choice movement advocates drooling over DeVos» speech.

Jon Hage, the CEO of Charter Schools USA and Center for Education Reform board member, said, «I am hopeful Governor Scott will continue to demonstrate his ability to rise above politics and support the very priorities upon which his legacy will be built: support for educational choice for families, dedication to students with special needs, and rewards for highly effective educators.»

While everyone continues the fight on the future of school choice across America, International Leadership of Texas (ILTexas), chooses to focus less on the current state of politics and more on America's future leaders.

Bush, a major advocate of school choice, joined Jindal in his outrage and chalked up the DOJ's letter to politics.

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