Sentences with phrase «public debate on education»

The public debate on education, which is too often dominated by those same special interests and their spin machines.

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I spoke out against UK Government cuts to legal aid during a Westminster Hall debate on public legal education this week.

In the major debates of the past two or three years, the Orange Book tendency has whittled away at broadly centre - left policies on, for example, public spending, income - tax rates and the role of local government in education.

The focus of the public debate around the 2011 education white paper was on fees and access: if we are to use the market discourse then it was about the demand side of the brave new education market.

Tempers flared among the six Democratic candidates vying to replace City Councilman Tony Avella (D - Bayside) this fall during a debate hosted Friday by TimesLedger Newspapers at which each contender answered questions on overdevelopment, education, parking and public safety.

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.

On this special podcast, traditional public education advocate Justin Oakley of Just Let Me Teach and I debate ISTEP, testing, Indiana's teacher shortage, vouchers and...

The veto came amid public and legislative debate on the bill, which opponents claimed would have unconstitutionally provided public funds for religious institutions and overburdened already struggling school districts by forcing them to pay for private special education.

Hawkins said that a debate focused on education would show that both Governor Cuomo and Astorino would underfund public schools, especially in property - poor inner city and rural communities.

Hawkins said a debate focused on education is needed because both Astorino and Cuomo support programs to privatize public education, including more privately - managed charter schools and education tax credits for donations to charter and parochial schools.

It is not yet clear what should be the role of different stakeholders in managing cybersecurity and what are the challenges and opportunities to integrate existing and new strategies.Whether we focus on education, prevention, risk management, deterrence, or treat cybersecurity as a public good, is still up for debate.

Whether we focus on education, prevention, risk management, deterrence, or treat cybersecurity as a public good, is still up for debate.

Though the current election has more in common substance - wisewith Dancing with the Stars than with the Lincoln - Douglas debates, it «sclear there is one issue the candidates should be pressed on: improvingthe state of public education.

The many initiatives discussed for changing public education — accountability, standards, standardized testing, homework, arts in the curriculum, and so on — comprise one side of that debate.

After an emotional and confusing debate during the nea's annual convention here in July, delegates voted overwhelmingly to oppose mandatory choice measures on the grounds that they would compromise the union's commitment to «free, equitable, universal, and quality public education for every student.»

Our objective is to change the nature of the public debate from whether we should be investing in early childhood education to howwe can maximize the return on that investment through evidence - based teaching.

But, it's an unfortunate comment on today's education debate that my quest to align public funding with effectiveness is seen as a call for more bubble tests.

Legal challenges to a state's legislative and executive policies on public education necessarily implicate separation - of - powers concerns about the courts» abilities to answer political questions and resolve policy debates.

The 13 organizations that make up the National Task Force on Seeking Common Ground for the Improvement of Public Education hope their efforts will foster more civil debate and agreement among traditionally antagonistic groups.

«Testing has become enormously important with an extraordinarily powerful influence on schooling, and it increasingly dominates public debate about education,» he says.

I sat in the public gallery of the House of Commons as Catherine McKinnell, the MP from Newcastle, opened the debate by congratulating the Shaw Foundation for the great response to their petition on making mental health education compulsory in all schools.

Janus and West Virginia touch on issues within a long - standing debate: the role of organized labor, specifically teachers» unions, in public education.

It is hardly surprising that the apparent exhaustion of the education - reform consensus has been accompanied by exhaustion on the part of the American public (whose children have been caught in the middle of the debate), not to mention many policy elites and politicians.

In public forums, on social media and in neighborhoods across Newark, we have witnessed years of consistent toxicity when it comes to debating the issue of education.

The Education Next poll leaders didn't explore why support for charters has dropped so precipitously, though they speculated that a growing public debate about charters, including a call for a freeze on new charter schools by the NAACP, played a role.

Offering a counter-narrative to the school improvement prescriptions that dominate national education debates, a new book based on 15 years of data on public elementary schools in Chicago identifies five tried - and - true ingredients that work, in combination with one another, to spur success in urban schools.

And for those who do not sit firmly on either side of the charter debate — such as those curious about the possibilities for pragmatic solutions that might make public education more responsive while maximizing social well - being — waiting for more and better research also makes sense.

Rhee, like other ideologues in this overheated debate on public education, has wealthy backers, many of whom have an agenda to privatize public education.

We hope that the debate on public education in Oakland will focus on what matters most - finding solutions that provide better outcomes for kids.

While the debate rages on about whether or not North Carolina's General Assembly actually dealt public education a financial punch in the gut with the 2013 - 15 budget, NC Policy Watch is keeping a running tally of education funding cuts that local school districts are coping with as they open up for the 2013 - 14 academic year.

Cami Anderson, the superintendent of the Newark public school system who became a lightning rod in the debate over education reform in New Jersey and nationally, resigned on Monday, eight months before her contract was to expire.

Kelle Stewart, an elementary school teacher from Tennessee, said the heavy focus on tenure keeps the education debate from focusing on real issues that significantly affect public schools.

Amid debate about where charter schools fit into the spectrum of public education options, I accepted an invitation to visit Horizon Science Academy - McKinley Park on Chicago's South Side.

Sorry to be the bearer of unpleasant news, but the SOS (Save Our Schools) March on Washington — an attempt to con the public by diverting the debate away from real education reform issues like failing schools, irresponsible spending, retaining bad teachers, etc. — will be setting up their Big Top in Washington D.C. from July 28th to July 31st.

Parent advocates from across the country converged on New York City on Monday, February 7 for the first national forum of Parents Across America, a parent - led movement to make parent voices heard in the national debate over education reform — and to promote positive, common - sense solutions that will improve public schools nationwide.

DPI Deputy Superintendent Mike Thompson told the Senate's education committee earlier this month the language precluded any public debate on expansion.

Public education debates both here and nationwide often focus on school funding, teacher pensions, charter schools and vouchers.

I did not remain glued to the screen when the debate was on last night, so when I stepped away, maybe it was then that they mentioned education and public schools.

Third, school reformers, who have their sights on controlling the $ 600 billion U.S. public education enterprise, may well wish to minimize the role that a growing cadre of expert teacher leaders can play in leading education policy debates.

For his part, Caputo - Pearl has challenged Broad to a «public debate on public education....

With debate in the Legislature set to begin in earnest on plans for restructuring the way the state pays for public school services, a new report released by The Education Trust - West shows just how inequitable the current system has become.

Speaking in a debate on transparency in education at the Association of Teachers and Lecturers» annual conference, Mr Clarkson said that if large salaries were defensible «no one should mind them being made public».

A few billion dollars in private foundation money, strategically invested every year for a decade, has sufficed to define the national debate on education; sustain a crusade for a set of mostly ill - conceived reforms; and determine public policy at the local, state, and national levels.

Public debate on school reform too often obscures what is really going on, said Jed Hopkins, an associate professor of education at Edgewood College.

Changing the Debate on Charter Schools Education Week op - ed by Meghan Carton, a master's candidate at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute

As charter schools have dominated public discussion on education in the past several years, the debate at times has appeared to be between charter schools for the whole country or no charter schools at all.

«Assemblyman Singleton understands the need for greater student achievement in public education and his legislation initiates the debate on many key issues such as independent authorizing authority and greater accountability for New Jersey's public charter schools,» read the statement.

More information on the debate over NAEP and the NAEP frameworks can be found on the Center for Public Education Web site.

As parents dissatisfied with schools in both districts flock to charters, the debate continues: What is their impact on public education, and can traditional educational models amicably coexist with an alternative movement that shows no signs of abating?

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Paula White, NJ State Director [email protected] DFER - NJ on Proposed NJ State Board of Education Regulations on Public Charter Schools Newark, NJ — In response to continued debate around proposed New Jersey...