Sentences with phrase «public education wars»

Zimmer acknowledged that the foundations» plans have opened a new front in public education wars that have roiled LA Unified and other large districts for years.

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In reaction to the war, our British colonial government rejected all things American, including public education, democracy and to the detriment of our portfolios, industrial capitalism and entrepreneurial innovation.

Rachel: You note that while Catholics, African Americans, Hispanics and many Mainline Protestants have continued to be involved in public education, White evangelical Christians are largely absent, until a «culture war» issue arises --(around school - led prayer, evolution, sex ed, etc.)-- and the protests begin.

Through meticulous research and fascinating interviews with parents and children, Sacks documents the fierce war being waged to keep public education segregated.

In Tearing Down the Gates, Sacks documents the fierce war being waged to keep public education segregated.

Religious affiliation appears to be a litmus test for people who don't want (or are unable) to think critically about more important issues like the economy, war, and support for public programs (education, social security, etc.).

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

The Supreme Court justices recognized a wall of separation between religion and public education in the first decisions with which they entered the field directly after World War II.

For example, many politicians demonstrate a need to engage in «moral top - up» of war aims, such adding democracy, girls education and economic development to the list of aims for the war in Afghanistan several years into the conflict, in order to retain the support of an increasingly war weary public for what is, in essence, a strategic, not a moral, policy.

Since becoming speaker 12 months ago, Heastie has had few public policy disagreements with Cuomo, save for the tug - of - war over education reform measures in last year's budget.

Cabrera's «war for our children» led him to lead a 2012 march over the Brooklyn Bridge demanding that the Department of Education end its policy barring church congregations from meeting in public schools.

ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

«Cuomo's war on public education is provoking mass civil disobedience by disgusted teachers, parents and students in the growing opt out movement.

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Nixon has been an outspoken activist for public education and other progressive causes, and is close to Mayor de Blasio, who has been at war with Cuomo.

Easton says Cuomo is waging a war on public education.

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When he became secretary of education, they passed that breathtaking amount of investment — $ 100 billion in public education, which is the biggest investment since World War II.

Created in 1921, in response to a 25 percent illiteracy rate among World War I soldiers, the event began as an attempt by the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Legion to generate public support for eEducation Association (NEA) and the American Legion to generate public support for educationeducation.

Just as nothing affects opinion about an ongoing war as quickly as communiqués from the front, so too a better understanding of the facts about the public schools could in the long run shape American education.

The larger public that engages in the K — 12 education debate could shrink dramatically, to just partisans engaged in the war of ideas around schooling.

What I've found is a story that confounds the traditional battle lines in public education, and gives each side in the school reform war reason both to cheer and to rethink its assumptions.

Despite often favoring coverage of the Iraq War or the economy, today's media remains a powerful voice for the American public on the issue of education.

The role of the government in terms of the history of public education, civil rights, our space program, World War II, and our national parks system

Cevin Soling, director and producer of The War on Kids, talked with Education World about his motivation for making the film and how he came to his perception of the public school system.

Within the foxholes of New Jersey's charter school wars, the target de jour is special education, specifically the accusation by school - choice opponents that alternative public schools intentionally discriminate against children with special needs.

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The reason we have been plagued by these public school wars is that we have compelled all taxpayers to support a single official organ of education.

Others include the 1975 civil rights law mandating public education for special needs children, the bilingual education act of 1968, and the original civil rights education law, which passed in 1965 as part of President Johnson's war on poverty and mandated federal funding to states, equal access for all children, and higher standards.

If DeVos is confirmed — if she shatters this hard - won consensus, if she reignites the education wars — she will demonstrate that her ultimate goal is to undermine public schools, the schools that 90 percent of American children attend.

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So while it's tempting to frame the fight in New York as a perilous fight between Democratic education reformers and «the de Blasio wing» of the party, public charter schools are just too local to drive a national political conversation — let alone a serious civil war within the Democratic party.

The candidates» views on charter schools, teachers unions and education reform have turned the race for state superintendent of public instruction into an expensive proxy war between big labor and big donors.

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Another favorite early education program, Head Start, a creator of which died on February 2, was launched in 1965 as part of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty and is another early education initiative that enjoys great public support.

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But on the way to making the film she imagined, she «stumbled on this political mayhem — really like a turf war about the future of public education.»

The future of public education in California has become a tug - of - war between different camps within the Democratic Party.

Following a nationwide series of public hearings, the NAACP said it «rejects the emphasis on charter schools as the vanguard approach for the education of children, instead of focusing attention, funding, and policy advocacy on improving existing, low performing public schools...» Next year's election of a new State Superintendent will amplify the school wars.

Cook examines the marketing and communication war that has played out behind the policy discussion and surveys the ways in which messaging and misinformation can warp the public's understanding of education reform.

Some educators say they are fueled partly by their war with Ducey over his latest expansion of a voucher - like program — a pioneering «education savings account» that allows virtually any family to get public dollars to pay for private school expenses.

If public education is ever going to meet the needs of low - income students, ideas for change must get beyond the constant war of words fueled by advocacy journalism, partisan blogging and fake news.

In Brill's telling, the education class war pits a heroic group of entrepreneurial philanthropists, highly successful hedge fund billionaires, and idealistic Ivy Leaguers who join Teach for America against somewhat grubby and grasping rank - and - file public school teachers and their union leaders, who often put their own selfish interests above those of the children.

If every educator in the United States gave ten to twenty dollars a month to the NEA Fund for Children and Public Education, we could build a war chest to match those who are working against public education.&Public Education, we could build a war chest to match those who are working against public educatioEducation, we could build a war chest to match those who are working against public education.&public educationeducation.»

The Center for Public Education provides more information on comparing state and NAEP assessments in two of its guides, Score wars and The proficiency debate.

While there is a war on public education it is no longer a one - sided battle, as educators across the country are showing the power of collective action.

In the hysterically titled «GOP War On Learning Continues In Senate Tax Plan, State Funding Cuts,» he writes, «As the Republican - controlled Congress continues to advance tax plans that slash funding from public education, a new report reveals how state and local government officials, especially where GOP leadership dominates, have continued a decade - long campaign to keep school funding below levels that preceded the Great Recession.»

teachers» strike in Chicago is being viewed by many as an early skirmish in a coming war over the crisis in public education — stagnant or declining graduation rates, substandard educations, dilapidated schools, angry teachers, underserved students.