Sentences with phrase «public school advocates like»

Except, unlike other charter schools, traditional public school advocates like those supporting Nixon are not calling for its closure.

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Now advocates have a new tool to help achieve just such a lofty goal: It's called the Good Food Purchasing Policy and after its successful passage in 2012 by the Los Angeles Unified School District and the city of LA, school districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proSchool District and the city of LA, school districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proschool districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proschool lunch, is procured.

Philip Blonde takes an almost Democratic Republican ideology towards public service reform in advocating using social entreprises to manage schools, hospitals, sure start centres etc, which would be democratically connected to all other schools etc through out the country and collectively elect the central management who allocate budget spending to each and every school etc. http://www.respublica.org.uk/publications/ownership-state It sounds more like a radical libertarian socialist solution to public services than a free market conservative solution to public services.

Parents were split on the decision to open city schools, which had drawn some ire from local leaders like Public Advocate Tish James and state Senator Jose Peralta.

In September, he joined thousands of Bronx families and advocates like me at the #PathToPossible rally in Prospect Park, giving an inspiring speech about the power of a great public education and supporting our effort to grow New York City's public charter schools to 200,000 students by 2020.

But he had largely refrained from offering charter schools as a key solution to those problems, instead advocating systemic changes like teacher evaluations in traditional public schools.

Despite the united front of opposition, with studies like Carol Klein's 2006 Virtual Charter Schools and Home Schooling finding high levels of parent satisfaction and student achievement at virtual schools, it is highly unlikely that independent home schoolers and advocates for traditional public schools will be able to stoSchools and Home Schooling finding high levels of parent satisfaction and student achievement at virtual schools, it is highly unlikely that independent home schoolers and advocates for traditional public schools will be able to stoschools, it is highly unlikely that independent home schoolers and advocates for traditional public schools will be able to stoschools will be able to stop them.

Until recently, the movement advocating public single - sex education consisted mainly of people such as Ransome and DeBar — girls» advocates steeped in books like Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls and Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls, by researchers Myra and David Sadker.

The price for having former public officials advocating for school reform is that we must every so often be subjected to a book like this one.

Ohio officials are weighing their next move after the Ohio Supreme Court dealt a huge blow to Gov. Ted Strickland, the legislature, and public school advocates by ruling that the legalization of slot - like machines at horse - racing tracks is subject to a statewide referendum.

Irvin and Lettre launched CBP, Irvin says, after a fellow guest she'd met at a Washington dinner party asked her how a public - school advocate like himself could find out about charter - school boards that could use his help.

In states like Colorado, where charters are perceived as public schools serving local students, advocates may find they can build bipartisan support, especially in light of traditional conservative support for charter schools and the sector's continued focus on serving disadvantaged, urban students, which appeals to liberals.

In the meantime, we wait, fingers crossed, expecting that someday soon the New York City children that attend public charter schools are treated like equals in a system that has flaws aplenty, as well as advocates and passionate leaders willing to make a significant change.

Also during Public School Volunteer Week, Governor Haslam signs legislation that requires parents to take parental involvement report cards like the one advocated in Project Appleseed's toolbox.

Now, DeVos is President - elect Donald Trump's pick for U.S. education secretary, and observers expect her to lessen the federal role in public education and vigorously advocate to expand access to voucher and charter schools in other states just like she has done here.

While privatizers and their advocates claim that charters and schemes like blended learning will increase students» test scores, national research shows that charter schools, on average, perform no better than public schools.

If advocates for public schools want them to have more money for educational programs, one solution appears to be to expand programs like the Louisiana Scholarship Program.

Education reform advocate Peter Cunningham shot back in a blog post that the study's premise that charters siphon money from traditional public schools «is like arguing that a younger child deprives an older child of parental attention.»

Like those working in the city's public schools, advocates of a state - run school district that consists primarily of charter schools undoubtedly believe this will improve schools and help kids.

Like any good advocate, they closed their presentation with an «ask» of the Legislators: to support funding equity for California's charter public schools.

While voucher advocates like to use words like «choice,» «freedom» and «opportunity,» AB1 is really nothing more than a measure to take over public schools and accelerate the privatization of public education — «charting a course for the end of our neighborhood public schools as we know them,» says Betsy Kippers, a physical education teacher for students with special needs who is serving as president of the Wisconsin Education Association Council.