Sentences with phrase «public education have»

Programs outside of K - 12 public education have the greatest difficulty in meeting the criteria of good quality, equitable compensation, and affordable access.

But we can not allow ourselves to think that we have won and sink into complacency; the enemies of public education have struck a significant blow here, and though the changes will not be visible in the halls of our schools immediately, it will not take long before we see the effects, among the most visible of which is likely to be the high teacher turnover which is so harmful to a school, whether caused by getting fired for having the wrong kind of students or simply becoming demoralized by being made scapegoats for society's ills.

And, every time news of cheating breaks, opponents of standardized testing and accountability in public education have been quick to deflect blame from morally challenged educators and aim it toward the tests themselves.

So much of the current attacks on public education have been framed inside a concept called the «business model.»

Throughout the campaign, Clinton's ideas around public education have been much debated, with self - proclaimed reformers worried she would be hostile to their policies, while many rank - and - file teachers remained skeptical that Clinton would stand up for unions and fight efforts to privatize public schools.

While many policymakers, education administrators and even the organizations responsible for protecting and promoting public education have turned a blind eye or engaged in the politics of appeasement, Wendy Lecker has continued to speak the truth and promote the notion that a just society strengthens not undermines its commitment to a comprehensive public education system.

These achievements and many more have been realized as budgets for public education have not fully recovered since experiencing significant reductions during the Great Recession.

«Large entrenched bureaucracies like public education have something in common with aircraft carriers: they never turn around quickly.

In their book, which will be released in the Fall of 2018, Anderson and Cohen examine the way market - driven reforms and privatization of public education have been reshaping the professional identities of teachers and school leaders over the course of the last four decades.

Yet, from the prairie town pioneers who pooled their money to hire a schoolteacher, to the gifts of water fountains and ornamental trees that senior classes buy their schools each year, beneficiaries of public education have felt compelled to give something back.

Across the country, efforts to dramatically improve public education have led to student success.

He has stated he believes public education is «over funded» and his legislative votes for public education have certainly proven that.

Rubinstein and McCarthy write in the Working Paper that «over the past 16 years, federal efforts to improve public education have focused on market reforms like charter schools and voucher programs.

Waiting for «Superman» is the most important public - relations coup that the critics of public education have made so far.

The best explanation seems to be that the millions of people in public education have finally come to realize that the more you know the better off you are.

Many advocates of public education have become increasingly fearful that their communities will «write off» the school system as an enterprise that is incapable of fulfilling its mandate.

What is clear, however, is that church - state issues in public education have changed forever and that such issues as school - sponsored prayer, the posting of the ten Commandments and the teaching of creation science are the arguments of yesterday.

In this way the control and support of public education have been made an immediate and visible responsibility of all the people.

And I think that there's no doubt in my mind if you look at hard numbers since the education department has been founded in 1978 or» 79, public education has only gotten worse.

Vigorous discussion regarding the place of religion in public education has been generated.

Transforming public education would require us to debunk one of the most fundamental myths of American culture: the myth of meritocracy.

As the general quality of public education has declined, at least in public perception, and as the power of the youth culture in public schools has increased, many more parents seek private schools for their children, and many of these schools are connected with churches.

Nevertheless, a campaign in which one candidate was so certain of victory as to devote the weeks between Labor Day and November to a program of public education would be an indication that the democratic process had failed to provide real alternatives.

The issue of religion in public education has fallen largely into their hands.

Public education has the most potential to safe - guard and promote an informed, compassionate, healthy and pro-active culture, one prepared to lead, compete and collaborate in the global culture.

PS 58 Chapter Leader Dan Lupkin said the governor's attack on public education had spurred a level of protest that was new for his school.

«They clearly understand the executive budget, as presented, would erase the progress that public education has made.

Cuomo also famously doubled down on tying education funding to performance and pushing for greater teacher accountability, saying: «l learned that everyone in public education has his or her own lobbyist.

«The impact on public education would be significant, particularly in light of a tax cap that is projected to be near or at zero for next year,» said Michael Borges, executive director of the state association of School Business Officials.

The Revisionaries showcases how public education has become the latest battleground in a new wave of cultural, religious and ideological clashes, with local Texas education board members advancing agendas of Creationism and other religious issues in public schools.

«Public education has been taking a beating in the press and in popular culture for some time now.

Progressives were convinced that public education would be delivered more effectively and efficiently if it were done on a grand scale, like the automobile industry.

For at least a generation, as American public education has stagnated, the conventional wisdom about leadership has focused on an old idea: certify educators to fix the problem.

Things might be different if public education had its own Rumpelstiltskin.

For more than a century, public education has worked under a single salary schedule that compensates teachers for college credits, education degrees, and years of experience, but not for their effectiveness in the classroom.

You wouldn't know it from the discourse over public schools, but according to the most recent results, public education has some of the lowest rates of job turnover in our economy.

Modernizing state accountability systems is not only good policy for district or multi-district online schools, but all of public education would greatly benefit from the next generation of school accountability frameworks.

While special education does consume more money over time, the relative financial burden of special education on public education has not increased because public schools are also receiving significantly more money.

This was seen as evidence that Crew's long, close affiliation with public education had somehow corrupted his perspective.

Historically, responsibility for designing and reforming systems of public education has rested with the states.

As a group, they share a belief that public education has not done well by immigrants or poor students, hardly a radical claim.

Unfortunately, the issue of public education has become polarized and divisive in our country.

Over the past 50 years, the role of the federal government in K - 12 public education has been to ensure equal educational access and to provide resources for those students who need additional supports.

The ever - increasing cost of public education would engender less controversy if the product had improved apace.

That doesn't mean everybody's classes are smaller but it does mean that we now employ an enormous number of teachers — in the ballpark of 3.5 million — and essentially all the extra money we've put into public education has gone to pay for their salaries and benefits.

American public education has begun to change.

Failure in public education has had fewer consequences (for adults) than in other fields, a fact that might contribute to the persistent struggles of some schools.

The Center on Reinventing Public Education has the portfolio district initiative.

The people we talked with in both business and the military wondered why public education would invest so much in training people for jobs for which they have no aptitude.

The question of exactly how to improve public education has enjoyed less of a consensus.