Sentences with phrase «public education status quo»

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It keeps the status quo when it comes to taxes, adds $ 1 billion in new public education spending and includes expanded child care tax credits and a new $ 163 million initiative making state college tuition free for students from families earning $ 125,000 or less annually.

The proposal would keep the status quo when it comes to taxes, add $ 1 billion in new public education spending and include expanded child care tax credits and a new initiative making state college tuition free for students from families earning $ 125,000 or less annually.

Ronald Deutsch, executive director of the Latham - based Fiscal Policy Institute, an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and education organization committed to improving public policies and private practices to better the economic and social conditions of all New Yorkers, is equally dissatisfied with the status quo.

Neither the defenders of the status quo nor those proposing major changes in education policy have achieved a public - opinion breakthrough in 2013.

As the debate over school choice heats up once again, in the halls of Congress and in many state capitals, a favorite gambit of defenders of the status quo is to damn such changes as «sure to undermine public education» or «bad for the public schools.»

As with many notions that challenge the educational status quo, this one can be traced to Paul Hill, the protean researcher at the University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE).

The result is that, as our nation has struggled to improve its public schools, the teacher unions have emerged as the fiercest, most powerful defenders of the status quo, and the single greatest obstacle to the reform of American education.

Whereas the public school bureaucracy is capable of incremental change at most, education entrepreneurs see beyond long - established barriers and disrupt the status quo.

Desiring mayoral involvement was fine, but if one mandates it in state law, what happens when you get a mayor of questionable competence, or who is aligned with public education's entrenched status quo, or who decides to influence or control a school's hiring practices, or who simply doesn't want to be involved?

Defenders of the status quo are able to effectively attack certain reforms as «anti-public education» because Americans believe that the public has a legitimate responsibility to ensure that all children receive an adequate education... The divisions emerge when we consider how to act upon these shared purposes.

We approached the administration with this idea after the district and community co-developed a new Strategic Plan for Byron Public Schools that included the clauses, «Byron Public Schools will challenge the status quo and develop new norms for education by the year 2018,» and «Byron Public Schools will leverage real - world tools and skills to develop in students a passion for learning.»

I met Lee Ju - Ho, the former Minister of Education, Science, and Technology and now a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, to understand his efforts to improve the Korean education system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and dEducation, Science, and Technology and now a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, to understand his efforts to improve the Korean education system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and deducation system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and deducation and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and deducation is regulated, managed, and delivered.

By openly acknowledging the shortcomings of public schools and embracing innovation, he became a much more credible and effective voice for public education than the NEA or other defenders of the status quo.

In the author's conspiracy - laden world, the Right works to «maintain the status quo, particularly its hierarchies and privileges» and to «undermine public education.»

Historical data on grantmaking in education suggests that most grants support the status quo by providing additional support for activities in which public schools already engage.

It is possible to challenge the status quo while honoring good teachers and defending public education,» Broad wrote in a 2012 Education Week commentary titled «Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Wasteducation,» Broad wrote in a 2012 Education Week commentary titled «Never Let a Good Crisis Go to WastEducation Week commentary titled «Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste.»

When parents and students make the decision to seek a better education at a public charter school — which comes at no cost to them — they do so because they are dissatisfied with the status quo of traditional education.

Tell deliberate lies: Ridicule public education advocates as «defenders of the status quo» who want money thrown at stale ideas, even though those ideas are backed by solid evidence.

I find it fascinating that the term «education reformer» is being used in such a pejorative way by Ravitch and others (though the strategy is obvious: lump together everyone fighting to change the status quo in hopes of getting the public to dismiss them en masse.

Utah's public schools need an investment of the best ideas, creativity, ingenuity, and the most thought - provoking questions of the status quo to ensure our education system meets every student's unique needs.

While proponents of the education status quo argue that school choice dismantles public education, what is the truth?

But from the loud protests of the various constituencies who have a vested interest in the status quo, one might have thought that it was the ruination of public education in general and the noble calling of the teaching profession in particular.

The organizers rallied outside Pittsburgh Public School Headquarters in support of community schools as an alternative to the status quo of «poor education policies that destabilize our communities,» said parent Pamela Harbin.

Facing a public that is increasingly skeptical of her failed education status quo, it seems Randi Weingarten has adopted that model.

For those of us deeply involved in public education reform, this issue simultaneously represents potentially the most productive area of reform and exhibits the most intransigent support base protecting the status quo.

Superintendents are openly appointed by mealy - mouthed billionaire practitioners of «leveraged philanthropy», but the Washington Post has not disclosed to its readers its investment in the destruction of the public education «status quo».

This isn't to say that these officials don't care about these children, but that they are disinterested in taking on the tough work needed to overhaul districts and schools in order provide kids with the schools they deserve — which includes challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations for poor and minority kids held by far too many adults working in American public education in Virginia and the rest of the nation, and the affiliates of the National Education Association which has succeeded for so long in keeping the Old Dominion's status quo queducation in Virginia and the rest of the nation, and the affiliates of the National Education Association which has succeeded for so long in keeping the Old Dominion's status quo quEducation Association which has succeeded for so long in keeping the Old Dominion's status quo quite ante.

He was an unapologetic antagonist to the education status quo, and that meant shepherding through laws that benefitted charter schools and forced cash - strapped public schools to look for pennies in the seat cushions.

«These candidates stood up against attacks from the status quo and prioritized quality education and a family's right to choice in our public schools.»

S.B. 2 may include some improvements over the status quo but this radical change in education funding was drafted in the dark and has never been subjected to the light of a public hearing or given sufficient scrutiny.

Although the observations that follow are based mainly on UK experience, similar trends appear to be emerging across global education systems: increased public accountability in tandem with greater autonomy for schools; an urgent imperative to close the opportunity gap between affluent and poorer communities; national, public or state authority over schools being replaced by stakeholder communities or not - for - profit mission - driven organisations impatient with endemic failures of the status quo.

And so, things like vouchers, which risk upsetting the funding of public education and otherwise look to upset the status quo of public schools, are perceived as threats to public education rather than as efforts by religions to get money.

Historical data on grantmaking suggests that most grants in education support the «status quo» by providing additional support for activities in which public schools already engage.

Previous work on the impact of philanthropy in education terms these types of status quo investments as «lower leverage» grants, which can include funding for efforts in professional development, unrestricted or general purpose grants to schools, or special - purpose grants to fund a particular program or activity (e.g. arts enrichment).4 The contrasting approach — the «higher leverage» investment — is investment with the potential to exert systemic influence on public education, which can be divided into two broad categories: 5

Reason for despair: My primary reason for despair is the polarized state of relations between reformers and defenders of the status quo in public education.

Consider Nevada, where the union for the public school status quo is suing to block revolutionary education savings accounts.

What status quo defenders are backing is a vision of American public education that in practice, has been a failure for children, families, taxpayers and even teachers alike.

Although I believe that public legal education alone is not going to help litigants transit the justice system, I recognize the immensity of the inertia that inclines us toward the status quo and I acknowledge that there are very good, sensible reasons why the system is the way it is, despite my inclination toward burning it all down and starting over.

Were the Federal Government to consult and work more closely with Indigenous community groups (instead of the «dismal disregard» which was the current status quo), Tauli - Corpuz said it could achieve significant progress, on fronts including public health, housing, education, child protection, conservation and justice.