Sentences with phrase «public education version»

MIDDLEBURY When former President Barack Obama made universal pre-K education a national goal and a household term during his 2008 campaign for the White House, many of the state's educrats responded with an effort to adopt a one - size - fits - all public education version for the Green Mountain State.

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Similarly, his ideal version of secular education, though it allows for a «proportion» of persons professing other faiths, and for some disbelievers, recommends that these people conform to public Christian values, presumably as determined by the Community of Christians.

Kozol's description of the corporate presence in and influence on schools makes one wonder whether the public education system in the United States has become a domestic version of NAFTA: an effective way for companies to guarantee access to a steady supply of cheap, uneducated labor.

The education tax credit, a version of which was approved by the Republican - led Senate earlier today, is aimed at encouraging donations that help public and private schools.

We are already on the 4th version of the iPhone, but very little thought has been given to the need for public education 2.0.

This version of public education may better reflect American democracy, Berner notes.

This version of public education may better reflect American democracy, Ashley Berner notes.

Soundtrap, from Sweden, which launched to the public in early 2015, rolled out an education version of its audio recording platform one year later, with a predominant focus on the US, Europe and Australia.

These education experts have forsaken the reform consensus; they now argue instead for an improved version of the «one best system» of American public schools — which harks back to the Horace Mann - era conviction that a single, uniform public - education system, run by professional educators, is the surest path to both literacy and civic unity.

Guggenheim presents the popularized version of an account of American public education that is promoted by some of the nation's most powerful figures and institutions.

Testimony of IDRA presented for the House Public Education Committee, August 8, 2017 See PDF version Thank you for allowing the... read more

Before becoming education secretary in 2009, Arne Duncan was chief executive of the Chicago Public Schools, which received $ 20 million from Gates to break up several large high schools and create smaller versions, a move aimed at stemming the dropout rate.

In many ways, these programs are simply the education - specific version of a broader trend toward outsourcing the provision of public services to private vendors.

From centrist Democrats who think that choice should only be limited to the expansion of public charter schools (and their senseless opposition to school vouchers, which, provide money to parochial and private schools, which, like charters, are privately - operated), to the libertarian Cato Institute's pursuit of ideological purity through its bashing of charters and vouchers in favor of the voucher - like tax credit plans (which explains the irrelevance of the think tank's education team on education matters outside of higher ed), reformers sometimes seem more - focused on their own preferred version of choice instead of on the more - important goal of expanding opportunities for families to provide our children with high - quality teaching and comprehensive college - preparatory curricula.

This might be perplexing to education reform enthusiasts; the PROSE program is a similar version of the charter school model, transposed onto the framework of a traditional public school.

An Assembly voucher expansion bill, this time for «gifted and talented» students, is up for a public hearing Thursday, while the Senate version was introduced late last week and referred to its Education Committee.

Among these are the implementation of LCFF, with all school districts approving their Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAPs) by July 1, the primary election for Superintendent of Public Instruction, the deadline for districts» administration of pilot versions of Common Core State Standards tests, and a ruling in the Vergara lawsuit, around teacher tenure and job protection laws and students» right to access equal education.

«DPI was never in love... with charter schools,» Sen. Tillman (R - Randolph) said in a Senate Education Committee hearing on Tuesday as he introduced to fellow lawmakers a gutted version of House Bill 334, which would transfer the Office of Charter Schools out of the Department of Public Instruction, placing it under the State Board of Education.

The Colorado Supreme Court killed the program citing the state's version of the Blaine Amendment, one of many state anti-Catholic laws from the 1800s to prevent public money from funding religious schools (Doyle v. Taxpayers for Public Educapublic money from funding religious schools (Doyle v. Taxpayers for Public EducaPublic Education).

The state Assembly could vote as early as next week on the latest version of a school accountability bill that outlines a series of sanctions for persistently low - performing public schools, including converting them into charter schools or allowing the school board to hire an education management agency that would have the power to fire principals.

The New Hampshire Senate passed a version of SB 193 that would set up an education savings account (ESA) program that is open to all public and homeschooled K — 12 students in the Granite State.

Public education, in its simplest form, is about helping young people develop the skills, knowledge, and values to become the best versions of themselves.

The project is a licensed set of character formation content and programming with two versions — one for public education based on civic character virtues, and the other for Christian education based on Biblical character virtues.

Nonetheless, the application of such terms in public education was limited until 2001 when the ESEA was reauthorized in a version known as the NCLB.

At their first face - to - face meeting three days ago, before the Illinois Education Association, Quinn said he wouldn't «charterize» public education, a reference to Rauner's version of schooEducation Association, Quinn said he wouldn't «charterize» public education, a reference to Rauner's version of schooeducation, a reference to Rauner's version of school reform.

The Character Formation Project is a licensed set of character formation content and programming with two versions — one for public schools based on civic character, and the other for Christian education based on Christian character.

UPDATE 8/25/14: The State Education Department's initial public release omitted scores for two charter schools (Metropolitan Lighthouse CS and Leadership Prep Canarsie CS) as was noted in the original version of this post.

Why Public School Parents Oppose H.R. 2218 and Our Recommendations for Improving the Charter School Bill A Parents Across America Position Paper on the «Empowering Parents Through Quality Charter Schools Act» July 5, 2011 Parents Across America (PAA), a grassroots organization representing public school parents from across the United States, opposes the current version of H.R. 2218, the Empowering Parents Through Quality Charter Schools Act, which was recently reported from the House Education and Workforce CommPublic School Parents Oppose H.R. 2218 and Our Recommendations for Improving the Charter School Bill A Parents Across America Position Paper on the «Empowering Parents Through Quality Charter Schools Act» July 5, 2011 Parents Across America (PAA), a grassroots organization representing public school parents from across the United States, opposes the current version of H.R. 2218, the Empowering Parents Through Quality Charter Schools Act, which was recently reported from the House Education and Workforce Commpublic school parents from across the United States, opposes the current version of H.R. 2218, the Empowering Parents Through Quality Charter Schools Act, which was recently reported from the House Education and Workforce Committee.

Thumbnail of the 11/28/17 newsletter, Reclaiming our Time for Public Education — full issue here; printable version here; 112817 Action of the week: Support PAA and speak truth to power!

This year a group of Republican legislators in the Connecticut General Assembly introduced H.B. No. 7017, an Act Concerning Student Data Privacy, but following a public hearing, the Education Committee passed an extremely weak version of what might be called an attempt at beginning to address the student privacy problem.

Connecticut got its own version of this letter from Dr. Monique Chism in the office of state support, and Connecticut's Commissioner of Education Dr. Dianna Wentzell quietly sent the state's reply on December 4th, waiting until December 28th to release it to the public.

Parents Across America (PAA), a grassroots organization representing public school parents from across the United States, opposes the current version of H.R. 2218, the Empowering Parents Through Quality Charter Schools Act, which was recently reported from the House Education and Workforce Committee.

The dramatically Senate - revamped version that landed in the House Education Committee Thursday bore no resemblance, instead attempting to force traditional public schools to share more of their funds with charter schools.

(Phoenix, Ariz., Aug. 19, 2016)-- The Arizona State Board of Education and Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas today invited all Arizonans to share their feedback on draft versions of updated Arizona English Language Arts and Mathematics Standards.

«We believe that corporate school reformers are once again turning to Hollywood to sell a version of school reform that many parents reject, as they did with «Waiting for Superman» and its biased attack on public school teachers and idealization of charter schools,» said Julie Woestehoff, PAA co-founder and executive director of Chicago's Parents United for Responsible Education.

Brown v. Board of Education was not about saving Black children from inferior schools, as Malcolm Gladwell discussed recently on his Revisionist History podcast, even though that's the version of history we were all taught in our traditional public schooling.

The Common Core's call for coherent, content - based math and literacy standards threatens to undo the watered - down version of progressive education thinking that has dominated the public schools over the past half - century.

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