Sentences with phrase «power over public education»

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The power that Israel wields over our Democracy is evident in the miss - appropriation of wealth, while our children are treated to a public education not worthy of circus animals, Israel has our defense industry pumping out fighter jets at 350 million each, and it's no surprise they have the most powerful military on earth.

In addition to raising the possibility of changing how the Regents are appointed, Cuomo has indicated he wants more power over how the state runs public education, which is currently controlled by the semi-autonomous Department of Education and its commeducation, which is currently controlled by the semi-autonomous Department of Education and its commEducation and its commissioner.

After Senate Republicans proposed a one - year extension last weekend with an independent inspector with new oversight powers over city schools, the bill was met with such dissent that Flanagan was forced to publicly defend his belief in public education over multiple days at the Capitol.

The French Republic is the 20th largest country in the world by demography, but the fifth biggest scientific power with over 210,000 public and private researchers and, in total, almost 800,000 engineers and scientists nationwide, according to a report issued by its Ministry of Higher Education and Research.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

In the 1999 Booth decision, the Colorado Supreme Court rejected the Denver board's position, finding that the constitution's grant of «general supervision» over public education to the state board was broad enough to encompass the power to approve local charter schools.

If we are ever to restore local control and public accountability to America's education system, the College Board's recent power grab must be a central component of the debate over Common Core.

This theme — that greater state control over funding will lead to greater state power with respect to local educational programs and policies — is a recurrent one in the literature on financing public education.

«For over a decade, I've known Marshall as a passionate leader who believes in the power and the promise of public education,» said Gary Borden, executive director, CCSA Advocates.

California is focusing on improving public education with a bold two-fold strategy: rebuilding the capacity and local decision - making power of its about 1,000 school districts with LCFF and implementing the new Common Core standards over this school year and next.

But what is most dangerous about DeVos is not just her incompetence, but the power she wields as U.S. Secretary of Education, her willful disrespect of public schools and the staff and students who work in them, and her zealous commitment to turning our nation's public schools over to private interests.

The first example of this is public education, where the teachers unions exercise veto power over virtually any innovations affecting education policy in California.

In several reports, he described the decline of public education as the direct consequence of public districts» monopolistic power over schooling.

Sec. 1 - 225 and Sec. 1 - 200) states that «meetings of all public agencies shall be open to the public», and defines public agency as «including any committee of, or created by, any such office, subdivision, agency, department, institution, bureau, board, commission, authority or official», and defines «meeting» as «any hearing or other proceeding of a public agency... to discuss or act upon a matter over which the public agency has supervision control, jurisdiction or advisory power», nonetheless, the State Department of Education attempted to keep the «training session» for superintendents closed to the public, stating it «is not a venue for members of the general public to participate.»

The symbolism of standing guard to prevent senseless damage to books is not lost on those of us who are reminded almost daily that our right to read is being threatened, either intentionally or not, by an abundance of entertaining electronic media, funding cuts to libraries and schools, even moronic, extremist book banning in our public education institutions by those who wield arbitrary power over curricula.