Sentences with phrase «public education system does»

Programs recognized as legitimate by the state are considered approved even if the public education system does not directly administer them; home schooling and charter schools are examples of such programs.

The current public education system does just the opposite.

Our public education system does not serve our students of color.

Not exact matches

«But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh - water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?»

All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?

In my opinion, a public education system that does not teach students about GOD is creating a morally and spiritually bankrupt society that is destined to decline and destruction.

Why does religion even have to get involved with our public education system?

Do strongly held religious convictions inevitably conflict with our system of public education?

We probably would be, if it were being done in a thought - through manner, with cannabis moving out of the purview of the justice system and under the umbrella of public health and education.

While the student debt burden is largely a federal issue, DiNapoli said the state can do more to make its public higher education system more affordable.

But Lipton also said there is «more to do,» like restoring «progressivity» to the state's tax code, closing the carried interest tax loophole, and investing in a new «social contract» on public education that ensures full funding for schools — including universal pre-K (an early de Blasio priority)-- and restoration to the public university system to pre-recession levels.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

«I am dismayed by Governor Andrew Cuomo's public threat to shut down New York State's government if we do not approve budget cuts that will most definitely hurt the poor, our children's education, New York's healthcare system, and our senior citizens, Diaz said.»

«He did anything but help the public education system,» says Florida Education Association Joanne McCall, who leads the state's largest teacheeducation system,» says Florida Education Association Joanne McCall, who leads the state's largest teacheEducation Association Joanne McCall, who leads the state's largest teachers union.

Sharpton added that Devos — a longtime backer of charter and Christian schools --» does not believe in public education,» and would transform federal school funding into a voucher system that would favor a small percentage of well - off students while neglecting the rest.

That's why I am honored and humbled to receive the recommendation of the United Federation of Teachers — a union which has done so much for our students, teachers and public education system.

IN THEIR CONVERSATION THEY TALK ABOUT WHAT CHANGES SHOULD BE DONE TO THE PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM IN ORDER TO HAVE A HIGHER HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION RATE, AND WHAT SHOULD BE DONE TO IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TO CURB LOW TEST SCORES.

Attacking new teacher evaluation systems that are, for the first time, enabling district public schools to make decisions based on teacher quality, does violence to the cause of improving the quality of education for the overwhelming majority of students who don't attend charter schools.

Instead of the government determining students» eligibility for financial aid, which can cause social division between those who receive aid and those who don't, Dr. Sara Goldrick - Rab and Dr. Tammy Kolbe recommend that all students should be funded collectively under a taxpayer - supported universal public higher education system.

«The Governor's Education Action Agenda has been very well received and does call for a major overhaul of our public education system,» says Massachusetts Secretary of Education and HGSE Senior Lecturer PaulEducation Action Agenda has been very well received and does call for a major overhaul of our public education system,» says Massachusetts Secretary of Education and HGSE Senior Lecturer Pauleducation system,» says Massachusetts Secretary of Education and HGSE Senior Lecturer PaulEducation and HGSE Senior Lecturer Paul Reville.

Major elements of the education establishment still believe parents do not have the formal training or knowledge required to have direct, legitimate power within the public education system, and that parents should step out of the way and let the experts do their jobs.

Many of the parents who initially supported the idea of integrating special education students into regular education classrooms in Portland are now worried about how the Portland Public School System is doing it.

What he does not do — this book is more exhortation than manual — is to suggest a path through the organizational, political, ideological, and intellectual foes of his appealing and well - argued conception of what a proper public - education system would accomplish for the United States in the 21st century.

Yet the United States already bears costs from our broken education system, including higher crime rates, additional expenses for health - care and public - assistance programs, and lost tax revenue as well as the untold costs of telling generations of children in chronically under - resourced, low - performing schools: «You don't matter!»

I didn't know that Horace Mann, as he worked to magnify the reach of public education, was intolerant of introducing controversial subjects in the classroom: «If the day ever arrives when the school room shall become a cauldron for the fermentation of all the hot and virulent opinions, in politics and religion, that now agitate our community, that day the fate of our glorious public school system will be sealed, and speedy ruin will overwhelm it.»

There's no hope for improving education policy if we don't keep the facts and evidence distinct from the public - school system's party (and often partisan) line.

America's deeply conservative public education system is striking back at this disruptive innovation, which shifts power from producers to consumers; demonstrates that more can be done with less at the school level; and moves control of resources from central bureaucracies to autonomous schools.

«In a place like L.A. or Detroit, where the public schools are dysfunctional,» Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told me, «I don't think that the system can by itself go where it has to go.

The U.S. and the U.K. were both awakening to being «nations at risk,» due in no small part to the parlous state of their public education systems, and reformers in both countries were pushing for big changes — changes that their respective «education establishments» didn't want to make.

The many adult interest groups that live off our public - education system are already doing their best to co-opt digital learning for their own ends, and to ensure that nobody uses it to threaten their power, membership, or revenue base.

«The extraordinary demands of educating disadvantaged students to higher standards, the challenges of attracting the talent required to do that work, the burden of finding and financing facilities, and often aggressive opposition from the traditional public education system have made the trifecta of scale, quality, and financial sustainability hard to hit,» concludes the report, «Growing Pains: Scaling Up the Nation's Best Charter Schools.»

Education savings accounts can do the same thing by encouraging families to take their children out of the public school system and purchase a variety of educational services directly, for less cost.

Coming from a background in both public and private education, it's clear to me that a cookie cutter educational system does not serve all children.

Can Korea maintain its educational edge if it does not change its public education system into a student - centered one that can personalize learning for each child's different learning needs and be intrinsically motivating?

But the federal government doesn't bequeath to states the right have public education systems.

In March Booker devoted half of his hour - long State of the City address (his fifth) to education, saying «More than anything, we must do better for our children's education... We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city.»

And when it does so, it will be declared not only a success in its own right, but a role model for the entire public education system.

Test scores in D.C. offer reason to believe that chartering — if done smartly — can replace the district system for delivering public education in America's cities.

Bur in all three, chartering magnified the capacity of a challenged district delivery system to do things better, while furthering structural innovation within public education.

I favor a system where students in publicly funded institutions make a commitment: if they do well in the private sector, they will revert a certain percentage of their income to the education sector; and if they devote some years to public service, their debt will be forgiven.

We don't allow smoky backroom deals arrived at in collective bargaining to dictate the goals, structure, or existence of the public education system, so neither should we use that process to determine compensation and work condition policies.

But Audrey Spalding, education policy director at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, wondered what these state officials have done to bring accountability to Michigan's conventional school system.

For years, a lot of money, time, and energy have gone into a national campaign to discredit teachers unions by saying they protect bad teachers and do nothing to add value to our system of public education.

Given those facts, with others suggesting that our public - education system is failing too many children, why wouldn't one consider doing something different?

«Dr. Richard DuFour's In Praise of American Educators takes a surprisingly fresh approach to the traditional education blame game by spending the first four to five chapters talking about what schools and namely schoolteachers are doing right in America's public education system.

Here his argument is unpersuasive, simply because those most critical of the current public education system — Catholics, Christian fundamentalists, inner - city African - Americans, and home schoolers — don't disavow basic moral and civic education.

If we can not build a public school system on heroic individuals (and we surely can not), how do we remake our school systems to make the standards Kenny and Moskowitz demand, and have largely achieved, the baseline of our public education?

But that does not mean entrusting pre-K education to public - school systems.

I knew that museum education could be an exciting platform for the kind of work I wanted to do with young people, but I knew I first needed to learn more about the public school system, educational policy, and curriculum design.

Fuller said, «Just because I don't support the traditional delivery system doesn't mean I'm an enemy of public education.»