Sentences with phrase «public education as»

Prior to embarking on a Real Estate Career, Clark Jones worked in both private and public education as a teacher, coach, and administrator both at the high school and collegiate levels.

Brian has worked in Houston public education as both a teacher and administrator since joining Teach For America in 2006.

Early funding would also require a sizeable budget allocated to PR and public education as to the role, structure and makeup of the new NIRB, for both Indigenous and Non-Indigenous peoples.

Coming from a first career in public education as a teacher, resource specialist for the Gifted and Talented Program, and over a decade as a school principal, she works with clients to help them realize better ways to achieve their life goals.

The City will use verbal warnings and public education as the primary means of enforcement.

Some volunteer opportunities include doing mailings and general office work, helping at special events and booths, and providing public education as a tour guide or speaker.

Cheryl Karp Ward, a library media specialist, has retired twice: once from public education as a school librarian; once from the corporate world as a teen specialist for collection development.

After all, it is one that actually casts defenders of traditional public education as crusaders against plutocrats who simply want to bash teachers, end public education and abandon democracy.

NSBA produces reliable and accessible research and information on current issues in public education as well as successful practices in public schools.

According to the Mind Trust, 85 percent of the 300 Teach for America alumni in Indianapolis continue to work in public education as teachers, principals, and leaders in education - related organizations.

I believe wholeheartedly in the power of public education as a cornerstone of our democracy.

None of our international enemies are as powerful, organized and, thus far, as successful as our home grown progressives who are bent on destroying public education as we know it in America.

3/15/2015 An 11 - point program to ensure that charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately operated, are fulfilling their role in public education as lawmakers intended.

Glenn Smartschan, a NISL facilitator in Pittsburgh, PA, served 35 years in public education as a teacher, assistant principal, director of curriculum, assistant superintendent and superintendent of schools after which he taught as an adjunct professor at numerous universities.

If the perception within Tennessee is that teaching is not a celebrated profession, we certainly will not get the young talented people to pursue a career in public education as a profession.

The union went on to say, «If they were able to pull off their plan, it would be devastating for LAUSD students, educators and public education as a whole.

If we become a country that rejects facts and analyses that do not support our political positions, sees research independently conducted and reviewed as dangerous, treats public education as only one — and one of the least desirable — ways to educate our children, makes it even harder than it is now for poor and minority children to get a college education, then, in my view, our days are numbered.

If teachers are the pedagogical fulcrum, then the stuff they get out of the professional organizations they resonate with will certainly benefit their charges in the classroom which, by extension, promotes public education as a free market of ideas.»

This would be a good guess since the marketing plan appears to be focusing on promoting the purpose of public education as a workforce pipeline.

The DeVos record in her home base of Michigan should be on great concern to those who see public education as a public good that should not be turned over to profiteers.

Mr. McMichael appreciates having a choice of professional associations believing that teacher choice enhances student achievement and public education as a free marketplace of ideas.

But this was never about reform or access or leveling the playing field: it was about opening up public education as a market, siphoning off tax dollars to charters and for - profit vendors, shifting public funds from a system that had public oversight and control to private interests.

«Those who really want to end public education as we have it now are now poised to move on different state legislatures with ESA laws similar to Nevada,» said David Sciarra, the executive director of the Education Law Center, a New Jersey group that advocates for equitable school funding and helped organize the legal case against Nevada's voucher program.

The DeVos affinity for vouchers is not limited to secular institutions, and, they have deep and lasting ties to conservative Christian activists who see secular public education as an out and out enemy that has to be ended.

It is clear that standardized testing can never close the achievement gap, that the Common Core Standards are not good learning and do not give students the skills they need for their future, and that the education «reform» effort is not reform at all but a way to remove public education as a right for all while it provides substantial financial profit for the investors.

PAA proposes its «LSC model,» a form of elected parent - majority school governance, as an antidote to recent efforts of corporate school reformers to brand parent triggers, school choice, vouchers and other attacks on public education as «parental empowerment.»

This paper was published by Center on Reinventing Public Education as part of School Finance Redesign Project as Working Paper 9.

But it would be a slap in the face to every teacher if our union (s) endorse this clown who is in the process of destroying public education as we know it.

Her work involves research and analysis supporting AASA's advocacy work for public education as well as representing AASA advocacy priorities on Capitol Hill.

But if they're serious about being the party that treats public education as a cornerstone of democracy, they need to do more than grandstand about the consequences they helped bring about.

Prior to joining the Center, Jeri spent 20 years in public education as a teacher, Reading Specialist, Principal, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, and Director of Academics at school districts in Maryland and Rhode Island.

Meanwhile, despite the fact that many «reformers»» policies have spectacularly failed, prompted massive scandals and / or offered no actual proof of success, an elite media that typically amplifies — rather than challenges — power and money loyally casts «reformers»» systematic pillaging of public education as laudable courage (the most recent example of this is Time magazine's cover cheering on wildly unpopular Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel after he cited budget austerity to justify the largest mass school closing in American history — all while he is also proposing to spend $ 100 million of taxpayer dollars on a new private sports stadium).

Dr. Shannon has spent her life dedicated to public education as a lever for equity and social change.

One of the most improved areas is public education as a direct result of the diligence and talent of charter school teachers, school leaders, and executive management.

Many parents feel they should have a choice in the matter, but others, particularly teacher unions, feel such changes might undermine public education as we know it.

So, in five years I hope we're able to help even more schools across the nation to improve public education as a whole.

The Chamberlin Family Foundation «has focused on public education as its investment priority, hoping to create a lasting impact for students in targeted communities,» according to its website.

In this position, Lowery will lead Ed Trust's P - 12 team by developing and implementing powerful strategies to focus national attention on inequities in public education as well as the actions necessary to close gaps in opportunity and to improve achievement.

We will keep an open mind about DeVos in the months to come, and report fairly and honestly on what she says and does — and what it means for the millions who rely on public education as a public good and a ladder to success and equality.

Description: Troops to Teachers (TTT) provides referral assistance and placement services to military personnel interested in beginning a second career in public education as a teacher.

Schools assume the full responsibility for providing quality and compliant special education programs and services, while ensuring that all eligible students receive a free and appropriate public education as dictated by the IDEA.

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

The pro-reform website Dropout Nation noted that «the passage of the plan, along with one that would allow for the opening of more charter schools, is another reminder of the important shift that is happening, not only within Louisiana's public education system, but throughout American public education as a whole.

Furthermore, although I agree the changing nature of our state demographics (including the support for public education as a function of non-elect-based apathy) will clearly impact credentialing enlistment, I would say that it's impact will dwarf in comparison to the impact that media - based attacks on public education and the proliferation of charter schools will have on it (again due to a decline in support for public education).

She has extensive experience in public education as a special education teacher, teacher leader, and school administrator.

But the larger effect of Trump's remark is not that it is wrong but rather that it is part of a pattern of his — and of DeVos's — to disparage public education as they promote programs that take resources away from public school systems.

Those schools undermine public confidence in charter schools, and public education as a whole, not to mention the damage done to students.

During his inaugural address in January, Trump characterized public education as a «system, flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of knowledge.»

Let's be clear: The need for rigorous, college - preparatory curricula with strong content is as critical an element in reforming American public education as advancing standards and accountability, overhauling teacher quality, expanding school choice, bolstering Parent Power, improving school leadership and building robust data systems.

R. Thomas Dewing, EdD, has spent more than 35 years in public education as an elementary and middle school teacher, principal, instructional coordinator, and educator of gifted students.