Sentences with phrase «public and private school advocates»

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While some evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin College, at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).

Resistance and opposition had been called for by zealous advocates of both private and public schools.

You can read why I'm referred to as a «reluctant school food advocate,» my thoughts on school food reform in private versus public schools, and what I hope to accomplish here in Houston ISD before the youngest of my two children graduates.

Mr. Cuomo has also voiced support for a bill, backed by the Catholic Church and advocates of vouchers, that would offer tax credits to individuals and corporations who donate money to public schools, or to scholarship programs that help poor and middle - class students attend private schools.

Protestants, secularists, and public - school advocates proposed (and sometimes enacted) regulations that charged children with truancy if they attended Catholic schools; taxes on Catholic school property; bans on private schools that taught children in a language other than English; and constitutional amendments forbidding the use of public dollars to support even the secular instruction provided by a Catholic school.

Teacher advocates have railed against «privatization,» ignoring the fact that moving schools along the public - private continuum in this way can offer educators the opportunity to reimagine the schoolhouse, create schools they yearn to teach in, emphasize the metrics they think are appropriate, and put teachers in charge.

Voucher advocates defend a double standard for public and publicly funded private schools.

As chief executive of the new office of strategic partnerships, Ms. Kennedy, a best - selling author, public - service advocate, and the daughter of President John F. Kennedy, will oversee efforts to get the private sector more actively involved in the public school system.

The advocates of competition between private and public schools and the proponents of vouchers usable at any school have also...

• Policymakers often defend public schools as more democratic and diverse than private schools, but in the past public schools served as a restrictive mode of socialization — for instance, when they were advocated as a bulwark against private Catholic schooling.

Public education advocates will have many opportunities in the coming months to fight for greater funding for our children's schools and against state takeovers that hand our democratically controlled school boards over to private third party operators.

While the racial, social, political, and economic consequences of poorly performing schools are innumerable and harsh, they won't be felt by Burris who earned $ 268,000 as a principal; or Ravitch who became a fierce public school advocate only after her children completed private school; or Valerie Strauss — another private school parent — who uses her Washington Post real estate to bolster all the drivel teachers» unions send her (without mentioning her connection to communication contracts with labor).

During the reauthorization process, there was a collective effort by NSBA and local school board members to advocate before Members of Congress for a modernized education law that underscores the importance of local governance, protects federal investments in Title I grants for disadvantaged students, and prevents the diversion of public tax dollars for private use.

Together, they started the Great Lakes Education Project (GLEP) which has worked to provide funding and private training to state legislators to advocate for the redirection of public funds from traditional public schools to other options, including charter schools, private schools, parochial schools (private schools with a religious affiliation) and online schools.

Those on the left, such as notable historian and public education advocate Diane Ravitch, oppose Common Core for its corporate backing and believes that the guidelines essentially set up students to fail, providing another reason for parents to abandon public schools for private alternatives

Advocates for public, charter and private voucher schools have been unable to reach agreement on numerous issues, including whether they all should take the same test to measure student performance, how that material should be presented, and whether any should face sanctions.

In the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, private school advocates tried to build support for tuition vouchers, payments of public tax funds for private school tuition.

This brief history illustrates how Republicans were motivated by political reasons to move away from their century - old position as strong advocates for public education and to become supporters of public funding for private schools.

To these advocates, the very idea of public oversight of private providers is redundant: market forces will ensure that schools will deliver high quality service because customers — parents just as much as outsourcing public agencies — will otherwise just take their money, and children, elsewhere.

Afterschool Alliance a coalition of public, private, and nonprofit organizations dedicated to raising awareness of the importance of after - school programs and advocating for quality, affordable programs for all children

Ball points to out - of - state school choice proponent Public School Options as an instigator in a campaign to advocate the state's controversial online charter school, operated by private for - profit company K12 Inc., that's been «troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operation.&school choice proponent Public School Options as an instigator in a campaign to advocate the state's controversial online charter school, operated by private for - profit company K12 Inc., that's been «troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operation.&School Options as an instigator in a campaign to advocate the state's controversial online charter school, operated by private for - profit company K12 Inc., that's been «troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operation.&school, operated by private for - profit company K12 Inc., that's been «troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operation.»

They plan to lead the committee and work with the Department of Public Instruction and groups representing teachers, school boards, administrators and advocates for charter and private voucher schools.

Johnson's amendment highlights longstanding and multi-faceted debates among voucher proponents, disability rights advocates and public school advocates over whether private schools that get taxpayer - funded vouchers should be subject to the same rules governing public schools.

D.C. Council members, advocates and parents raised questions Monday about Mayor Vincent C. Gray's push to reduce the number of special - education students who attend private schools at public expense.

The Legislature and Gov. Doug Ducey calculated that their bare - bones budget should include a $ 6.3 million hit to the public - private hybrid schools in the coming fiscal year, and no more than $ 20 million over three years — a manageable amount in the eyes of charter - school advocates.

DeVos, a billionaire who advocates for private - school vouchers and has no professional experience in public education, has been one of President Trump's most controversial Cabinet nominees.

Mr. Cuomo has also voiced support for a bill, backed by the Catholic Church and advocates of vouchers, that would offer tax credits to individuals and corporations who donate money to public schools, or to scholarship programs that help poor and middle - class students attend private schools.

«Education savings accounts are another example of taking public taxpayer dollars and allowing it to be spent on private schools with no accountability and no transparency,» Rep. Graig Meyer, an Orange County Democrat and outspoken public school advocate who sits on the state House education committee, complained Wednesday.

Critics of the publicly - funded vouchers say the program — a favorite of school choice advocates — would spend millions in state dollars over the next decade on primarily religious private schools exempted from many of the accountability and anti-discrimination measures imposed on traditional public schools.

Corporate education «reformers»» self - interest, by contrast, means advocating for policies that help private corporations profit off of public schools, diverting public attention from an anti-poverty economic agenda, and busting unions that prevent total oligarchical control of America's political system.

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Combatants on both sides of that fight could claim a measure of validation from the new research: Advocates of school choice who argue that it isn't fair to judge voucher programs based on test results from a student's first year in private school, given that it takes children time to adjust to a new environment, and critics who say vouchers drain funds from public schools without improving student achievement.

In the last two years, Ravitch has accused private entrepreneurs, the «corporate - reform movement,» Florida Governor Rick Scott, charter schools, and voucher advocates, among others, of trying to «destroy» public education.

MontessoriPublic is a digital and print communications and advocacy platform for public Montessori, reaching thousands of teachers, administrators, parents, teacher educators, and Montessori advocates at more than two thousand Montessori schools, public and private.

Colorado and Missouri are among 39 states that have strict prohibitions on public funds» going to religious schools, known as Blaine Amendments, which voucher advocates consider the last line of defense for opponents of private school choice.

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Heck, even Arne Duncan, Obama's Secretary of Education and leading corporate education reform advocate, claims that he supports public schools while sending his children to one of the most elite and expensive private schools in the country.

Advocates blame Christie for Camden's failings, saying he has forsaken traditional public schools for an expanded charter school system and the creation of public - private hybrid schools called «renaissance schools,» both of which drain funding from the district's budget.

Speak to advocates, educators in public schools and private practice, and special education attorneys.

Advocates for Children of New York (AFC), with the help of pro bono partner Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, brought these cases to court, challenging the New York City Department of Education's (DOE's) failure to provide free breakfast and lunch to children with disabilities who would ordinarily be entitled to receive meals in school, but who had to attend special education private schools because the DOE did not offer them an appropriate public school education.

On the April 4 ballot will be two - term incumbent Tony Evers, a public school advocate backed mostly by liberals and teachers unions who has been at odds with Republicans for years over his adoption of the Common Core State Standards and his opposition to the expansion of private school vouchers in the state.

Yet, at a time when state lawmakers often find themselves under fire for their public school interventions — be it vouchers, Education Savings Accounts or a still - gestating private takeover of low - performing schools — the lab school project has sustained limited public scrutiny and a tepid acceptance from many public school advocates.

The New Jersey Association of School Librarians advocates for high standards for librarianship and library media programs in the public, private and parochial schools, in the State of New Jersey, to ensure that students and staff become effective users of information.

NJASL advocates high standards for librarianship and library media programs in the public, private, and parochial schools in New Jersey to ensure that students and staff become effective users of information.

We advocate for high standards for librarianship and library media programs in the public, private and parochial schools in New Jersey to inspire excellence in school librarianship and learning.

The recipient may be a public librarian, academic librarian, school librarian (public or private), an educator (pre K - 12 or any level therein, or higher education), or youth literature advocate whose vocation, work, volunteer service or ongoing promotion of books with and / or on behalf of youth is significant and sustained.

This effort will be most effective if it includes a cross section of stakeholder groups, particularly: (1) clients and former clients, (2) public interest advocates who work with populations that routinely experience civil legal needs, (3) private and corporate lawyers, particularly those that have experience working with legal services programs pro bono, and (4) law students and law school faculty.

Attaining graduate degrees in Law and Social Policy as well as Social Work, he has dedicated his professional community building career to advocating for at - risk children and families across public, private, and charter schools.