Sentences with phrase «public education policy favored»

As budget negotiations were going down to the wire in Albany, some 5,000 parents, teachers and students from across the state converged outside Gov. Cuomo's Midtown Manhattan office for a March 28 rally that marked the culmination of their months - long campaign to stop him from pushing through radical changes to public education policy favored by his Wall Street backers as part of the state budget.

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Chester E. Finn Jr., professor of education and public policy at Vanderbilt University, spoke in favor of the concept, which is supported by the Reagan Administration.

A new article by June Kronholz looks at the students who may be least favored by today's education policies — profoundly gifted students — and at a unique public school set up to serve them.

They complained that the government had abandoned public higher education in favor of market - based policies.

Despite widespread media coverage of the opt out movement and significant retreats last year in federal education policy, the public remains solidly behind mandatory testing, with 80 percent favoring a federal requirement for annual testing.

At a roundtable with the nation's top educators on Mondayafternoon, at least one teacher told Education Secretary Betsy DeVos that her favored policies are having a negative effect on public schools, HuffPost has... Read More

A Texas Public Policy Foundation study published last week said two - thirds of Texans favor the creation of statewide education scholarships and 72 percent favor business tax credits for private schools.

In Idaho, the company poured $ 44,000 into the 2010 campaign chest of the state's superintendent of public schools, who has since backed policies that favor the for - profit education industry.

Polls showed that his most unpopular issue was education, where only 22 - 26 % of voters approved his harsh and punitive reform policies of closing public schools, grading schools, rating teachers based on student test scores, opening hundreds of small schools, and favoring charter schools with free public space.