Sentences with phrase «public resources away»

McGrath Goodman writes that the ultimate sucker punch is that we're giving our public resources away and then asking Big Oil to sell it back to us at top dollar.

Vouchers undermine this vital function, however, by diverting desperately needed public resources away from the public school system to fund the education of a few students at private schools — without offering any actual reforms.

The advocacy and lobbying group is also behind the multi-million dollar advertising campaign to undermine New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's decision to make New York City's public schools a high priority compared to the Bloomberg administration's approach that diverted tens of millions in public resources away from the public schools and to the city's privately run charter schools.

Not exact matches

The labor theory of value aimed at isolating the economic rent as a margin that either was to be taxed away (for land and natural resources that were privatized) or kept in the public domain (for infrastructure and other natural monopolies).

The decision to not release detailed documents could signal a desire for the government to shift away from the public quarterly budget updates, which are meaningless in terms of fiscal planning due to the province's dependence on fluctuating natural resource commodity prices and have become little more than public relations exercises for the government over the past two decades.

Devoting public resources to staffing sporting events draws potential first responders away from elsewhere, not to mention complicating travel issues and putting lots of people into confined areas.

Ms. Teachout blamed Mr. Cuomo for the «most segregated schools in the nation» and accused him of seeking to privatize education and take resources away from public classrooms.

Today's report by the Public Accounts Committee into the National Audit Office's report on Managing the costs of clinical negligence in the NHS concludes the Government has been sluggish in its response to these predictable rising costs which are taking scarce resources away from frontline services and patients.

But charter school critics immediately slammed the concessions, saying the deal will funnel more resources away from the public school system to the privately - managed charters.

Parents said the charter school, which is a public school, would take classroom space and resources away from non-charter students.

But our planet's atmosphere is a public resource that must not be given away to users.

By shifting funds, public attention and scarce organizational and budgetary resources away from schools and into the coffers of the testing industry vendors, the futures of poor and minority children and the schools they attend get compromised.»

Simultaneously we must capitalize on the resources at HGSE to embark on an endless pursuit of best practices and strong practitioners with whom we can foster equity in public education and begin to chip away at the opportunity debt that still plagues our nation.

School unions, for example, have been cautious in their support, often seeing charters as drawing funds away from resource - starved public school districts and diverting the discussion from how to fix public schools, which continue to serve the vast majority of American students.

The solutions to every perceived or claimed public education problem seem to revolve around standardizing teachers and children, closing public schools, giving away taxpayer resources like school buildings to charter schools, and stripping local control from community stakeholders.

I am the proud product of traditional public education from kindergarten through 12th grade and I always felt that public charter schools take away money, space, and resources from traditional schools.

Voucher programs diverts desperately needed resources away from the public school system to fund the education of the few voucher students.

Opponents say charter schools will take money away from existing public schools at a time when resources are scarce.

Opponents say charters siphon away needed resources from traditional public schools.

It is encouraging to see Governor - Elect McCrory advance at least some proposals designed to support teachers and students and put them in a position to be successful, especially following the recent wave of measures designed to punish students and teachers while diverting resources and support away from public schools.

Comparative results from the first Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) show that education systems can best support teachers by shifting public and governmental concern away from the mere control over the resources and content of education toward a focus on outcomes, by moving from hit - and - miss policies to targeted interventions, and by moving from a bureaucratic approach to education to devolving responsibilities and effective school leadership that supports teachers through targeted professional development, appraisal, and feedback.

Critics say they take vital resources away from traditional public schools and that while some charters are well - run and successful, many are poorly operated.

Also, charter schools tend to take away from resources earmarked for public schools, and we already have trouble keeping our schools open,» William DC Clark, ICARE (Inner City Alumni for Responsible Education) president said.

Conservatives have attacked the plan because of the limits on enrollment, while opponents of vouchers say they should not be allowed to expand statewide because over time participation in the program will grow and take resources away from public schools.

But the larger effect of Trump's remark is not that it is wrong but rather that it is part of a pattern of his — and of DeVos's — to disparage public education as they promote programs that take resources away from public school systems.

That only makes conditions worse in the public schools and the surrounding community, as they typically lose more resources while having to serve more high - need students, and eventually quality educators get driven away.

NAACP has already released a national statement about charter schools, saying they do not believe it is the direction we should be headed towards, particularly because they increase segregation and take resources away from the public school district.

And that's exactly why parents and educators in East Nashville, Tennessee have teamed up to fight for the resources their public schools need to improve, rather than giving them away to national charter school chains.

Participating journalists will come away with a deeper context, new resources, and fresh story ideas to help cover this dimension of public schooling with an open mind and a healthy dose of skepticism.

Rural districts rely heavily on public schools, and many in those areas fear a voucher program could take away resources from their schools.

Schools and community groups based in smaller towns and rural communities, however, often do not regard public colleges and universities — which might be 50 or 100 miles away — as a resource for starting up, expanding, or improving afterschool and summer learning programs or for assisting them with their 21st Century Community Learning Centers.

Standardized testing takes resources away from public schools by stealing time instead of fostering a more multifaceted way of teaching and assessing students.

Supporters say they encourage classroom innovation by creating competition with traditional public schools; critics say charters drain away resources.

He noted that school choice policies like charters and vouchers are siphoning resources away from public schools and making it more difficult for them to adequately serve their students.

Disability rights advocates say the program will take away resources from public schools and funnel them to schools that do not face the same federal requirements as their public counterparts.

With so much at stake and progress being made, it is up to all of us to resist a Trump - DeVos privatization scheme that would forever take even more resources away from one of the pillars of our democracy: public education.

As hard - pressed, economically - challenged communities are starved of financial resources, the ability of citizens to control the education destiny of their local schools is being systematically taken away from their duly elected public servants.

It is critical that PA lawmakers who are committed to improving educational opportunities for minority students in low - income districts SUPPORT increased state funding for our public school and OPPOSE school privatization schemes that would drain resources away from the students who need them the most.

These are the most pressing reasons why this is an unjust and unfair takeover that is very clearly about the re-colonization of our city and pulling away our resources: Specifically, we are requesting the governor make a decision to not sign the take over of the Jackson Public Schools for the following reasons: 1.

And that any normal political candidate would have worked diligently to persuade teachers that he understood that he had been wrong to propose doing away with tenure; that given a second term he would de-couple teacher evaluation from unfair standardized testing; that he would settle the critically important CCEJF school funding lawsuit in order to ensure that long after he has left office Connecticut would have a school funding formula that was both constitutional and successfully guaranteed that every Connecticut public school had the resources need to ensure their students had the education they deserved.

@Warren Terra: The problem with Charter schools is that they are doing harm: they are pulling valuable resources away from the public schools, forcing the schools to do more with less.

This move should signal that he is not interested in providing adequate resources to public schools, but rather intends to shift money away from public schools to other «choice» schools, such as charters.

By the same token, when under - funded and under - resourced public schools do not show «adequate yearly progress,» our response should be to find out why these schools are struggling, and provide them with the materials and support they need to improve — not for the charter management companies that run these schools to walk away before the end of the school year, forcing families to scramble to get their kids placed into public schools with little notice and no assistance.

It's possible that the most wealthy parents are sending their kids to private schools outside West Haven, directing their resources away from the public school system.

K12 has done everything within its power to increase profits while mismanaging public education resources taken away from district schools.

They wanted their tax cuts and big spending and plundered away vital public assets and resources.

And because the County Shelter is a public facility, it can not turn away any animal just because there is no additional room or because resources are short.

Removing or regulating all threatening dogs would require enormous and unrealizable increases in enforcement personnel, which would draw resources away from other public safety issues affecting more people and would inevitably capture many dogs who would never harm anyone.

The goal of public safety is not served by diverting valuable resources away from regulating animals that represent a true threat to public safety.

Turning our backs on vast public oil and gas resources — instead of safely developing them — would throw away a generational opportunity to strengthen America's energy security, lift the economy, help U.S. consumers and aid friends overseas.