Sentences with phrase «purpose of public education in»

I am hopeful that we can sit alongside each other and do the hard work of answering the questions most central to our democracy: What is the purpose of public education in a democratic society?

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With growing interest and support from public markets (including through the incorporation of DanoneWave as the largest public benefit corporation in the U.S. and their public commitment to become a Certified B Corp by 2020 as well as Laureate Education's IPO in early 2017), multi-billion dollar companies are following suit and choosing to operate their businesses with purpose and accountability.

The Christian Right wants public money to be used for private religious education (vouchers), buildings and services to be used for private religious purposes (this article), and they want subsidies in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions of other sorts, and they even want to destroy Aid to Needy Families so they can drive people into seeking help at their private religious «missions» where you are not allowed to eat unless you are a Christian, and so on.

No doubt this will be helpful for purposes of interfaith dialogue or in interfaith settings such as public education where particular religious allegiances must remain muted.

Waldorf educators, whether they work in independent or in public schools, hold Rudolf Steiner's goal for education to be eloquently expressed in this quote: «Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and meaning to their lives.»

«The basic purpose of this commission, according to the governor's charge, was to «comprehensively review and assess New York State's education system, including its structure, operation and processes...» In failing to deal at all with such major issues as funding, special education, the lack of appropriate supports for English language learners, as well as ignoring major current controversies such as implementation of [teacher evaluations] and common core systems, the commission has ill - served students, parents, and the public at large.»

What started out as a small, off - budget, temporary surcharge on insurance to help pay for charity care, hospital debt and graduate medical education as New York hospitals deregulated in the late 1990s, has ballooned over 19 years into a multibillion - dollar all - purpose revenue fund that supports dozens of public health programs, and plugs billion - dollar holes in the state's general budget.

The Parental Choice in Education Act would provide tax credits for those who donate to private and parochial schools for purposes of scholarships, tax credits to parents who pay tuition to private and parochial schools and tax credits to teachers - in both public and private schools - who make personal purchases of school supplies and food to support their underprivileged students.

AQE formed in 2001 with a singular purpose: to push the state to meet its obligation of funding a «sound basic education» for children in public schools, as per the New York State constitution.

My purpose here is to provide a simple overview of the pivotal roles that teacher unions actually play in public education - and to suggest why, if Americans want to improve their schools, something needs to be done about the unions and their extraordinary power.

Any school in the UK can take part in the challenge, which tasks students with designing one building to live in; and designing a public building for one of a range of purposes, including social, sport, education or health.

If that's the case, then why is the mayor's chancellor of schools, Carmen Fariña, the board chair of the Fund for Public Schools, whose express legal purpose is «improving New York City's Public Schools by attracting private investment» in public educPublic Schools, whose express legal purpose is «improving New York City's Public Schools by attracting private investment» in public educPublic Schools by attracting private investment» in public educpublic education?

In particular, Russo argues that Eli Broad thought, «The main purpose of ED in ’08 [was to make] education a number - one issue with the public: the «outside» half of the organization's strategIn particular, Russo argues that Eli Broad thought, «The main purpose of ED in ’08 [was to make] education a number - one issue with the public: the «outside» half of the organization's strategin ’08 [was to make] education a number - one issue with the public: the «outside» half of the organization's strategy.

In a 2006 article, Citizenship, Identity and Education: Examining the public purposes of schools in an age of globalization, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Fernando Reimers stressed the importance of teaching tolerance and global values, as well as developing foreign language skills and knowledge of world history, cultures, and geographIn a 2006 article, Citizenship, Identity and Education: Examining the public purposes of schools in an age of globalization, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Fernando Reimers stressed the importance of teaching tolerance and global values, as well as developing foreign language skills and knowledge of world history, cultures, and geographin an age of globalization, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Fernando Reimers stressed the importance of teaching tolerance and global values, as well as developing foreign language skills and knowledge of world history, cultures, and geography.

In Ohio alone, some 250,000 current pupils — about 15 percent of all children in public education there — have been identified by their school districts as «gifted» (using the several metrics that the Buckeye State employs for this purpose, including superior «visual or performing arts ability»In Ohio alone, some 250,000 current pupils — about 15 percent of all children in public education there — have been identified by their school districts as «gifted» (using the several metrics that the Buckeye State employs for this purpose, including superior «visual or performing arts ability»in public education there — have been identified by their school districts as «gifted» (using the several metrics that the Buckeye State employs for this purpose, including superior «visual or performing arts ability»).

Get Rid of Compulsory Schooling In the April 1924 issue of The American Mercury, journalist and satirist H.L. Mencken ginned up a well - constructed piece on the true purpose of public education: «The aim... is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.»

One industry that is outside of K — 12 education yet similar to it in its multiple public purposes and has unreservedly embraced computer - based technologies is higher education (see Figure 2).

If anything, the lack of space made Leach and his staff reevaluate the purpose of the institution, how to serve the public in a variety of ways, and the different ways that education plays a role in the museum.

One of the central features of By All Means is a set of convenings which serve two purposes: 1) to bring together teams from the six or seven cities in which we'll be establishing learning labs for our design work; 2) to bring together a national audience of thought leaders to consider some controversial subjects relating to the future of public education and that system's work with economically disadvantaged students.

Professor Alan Reid observes how the emphasis on democratic purposes has been trumped by individual, private purposes that result in such things as marketing of schools, residualisation of public education and the growth in disparity of resources between schools, and by an economic purpose that casts students as human capital to be enlisted in the cause of economic recovery and growth.

To establish that the school was a «state actor,» he made five arguments: that Arizona law defines a charter school as a public school; that a charter school is a state actor for all purposes, including employment; that a charter school provides a public education, a function that is traditionally and exclusively the prerogative of the state; that a charter school is a state actor in Arizona because the state regulates the personnel matters of such schools; and that it is a state actor because charter schools, unlike traditional private schools, are permitted to participate in the state's retirement system.

Today, convoluted Title I formulas coupled with policies in some states that assign students to public schools based on their parents» zip code, do not make Title I a vehicle conducive to achieving its primary purpose of «provid [ing] a good education for every boy and girl — no matter where he lives.»

In addition to suffering from the problems that all voucher bills have in common, this bill would also undermine the main purpose of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which is designed to target federal funds to public schools with high concentrations of poverty in order to provide additional educational services for these studentIn addition to suffering from the problems that all voucher bills have in common, this bill would also undermine the main purpose of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which is designed to target federal funds to public schools with high concentrations of poverty in order to provide additional educational services for these studentin common, this bill would also undermine the main purpose of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which is designed to target federal funds to public schools with high concentrations of poverty in order to provide additional educational services for these studentin order to provide additional educational services for these students.

The Massachusetts Supreme Court held that using public funds to pay for special education services from private schools was not for the purpose of founding, maintaining, or aiding private institutions in violation of Massachusetts» Blaine Amendment.

If one took all the information presented at the meeting last night, and coupled it with just plain old investigative reporting (hint, hint RR) one would see a pattern: All decisions (state / local) have been made in alignment with the purpose of the having charter schools privatize public education in SAISD and elsewhere (including these calculated layoffs, when charter school hire their own).

Also in November, former Wake County superintendent Del Burns, who resigned on principle when conservatives began trying to re-segregate the public schools, released a significant new book, Preserving the Public in Public Schools, which details the importance of pursuing integrated education and drives home the larger message that the broader purpose of public education is to preserve our democratic reppublic schools, released a significant new book, Preserving the Public in Public Schools, which details the importance of pursuing integrated education and drives home the larger message that the broader purpose of public education is to preserve our democratic repPublic in Public Schools, which details the importance of pursuing integrated education and drives home the larger message that the broader purpose of public education is to preserve our democratic repPublic Schools, which details the importance of pursuing integrated education and drives home the larger message that the broader purpose of public education is to preserve our democratic reppublic education is to preserve our democratic republic.

Lewis Robinson is Executive Director of the Prince George's County Educators» Association (PGCEA), the professional employee organization whose purpose is to improve the teaching and learning conditions in the Prince George's County public schools and the professional well - being of its members, which is affiliated with the National Education Association.

The purpose of the demonstration, they said, is «to fight back corporate privatization and stand up for fully - funded public education; to reclaim the promise of public education in LA.»

After 13 years in secondary public education, I entered the teacher preparation arena and found the value of Twitter and social networking for professional development purposes.

What this report shows is that there is currently a systemic failure to ensure that the moral purpose of public education as defined by the Wisconsin Supreme Court in Vincent v. Voight is being fulfilled: «An equal opportunity for a sound basic education is one that will equip students for their roles as citizens and enable them to succeed economically and personally.»

The four «guiding principles» for the march are: equitable funding for all public school communities; an end to high - stakes testing used for the purpose of student, teacher, and school evaluation; curriculum developed for and by local school communities; and teacher, family, and community leadership in forming public education policies.

The purpose of this roundtable is to hear from members of the public and District education officials on the state of serving students with special needs and disabilities in our public and public charter schools.

In New York City, a small piece of data collected by the Department of Education for internal purposes was made public in FebruarIn New York City, a small piece of data collected by the Department of Education for internal purposes was made public in Februarin February.

Background Preparation for employment has always been considered one of the major purposes of public education, but the particular ingredients of current career - oriented programs were specified in the School - to - Work Opportunities Act adopted by the U.S. Congress in 1994.

While there is no disagreement about the need to provide funding to support public education in the United States, there has always been dissension about how much funding to provide, for what purposes, and out of what pockets.

For students whose needs are not being met in public school, school choice programs, such as Education Scholarship Accounts, allow parents to withdraw their child from public school and utilize the state education funds that would have been spent on the child's behalf on a variety of education purposes, such as private school tuition, tutoring, textbooks, theraEducation Scholarship Accounts, allow parents to withdraw their child from public school and utilize the state education funds that would have been spent on the child's behalf on a variety of education purposes, such as private school tuition, tutoring, textbooks, theraeducation funds that would have been spent on the child's behalf on a variety of education purposes, such as private school tuition, tutoring, textbooks, theraeducation purposes, such as private school tuition, tutoring, textbooks, therapy, etc..

(c) The sum of $ 500,000 appropriated in section 67 of public act 11 - 61 to the Department of Education, for OPEN Choice Program, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, shall not lapse on June 30, 2012, and such funds shall continue to be available for the purpose of funding a loan to the city of Bridgeport to be included in the budgeted appropriation for education for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, for the city of Bridgeport during the fiscal year ending June Education, for OPEN Choice Program, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, shall not lapse on June 30, 2012, and such funds shall continue to be available for the purpose of funding a loan to the city of Bridgeport to be included in the budgeted appropriation for education for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, for the city of Bridgeport during the fiscal year ending June education for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, for the city of Bridgeport during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2013.

In the former view as Hargreaves and Fullan point out, «the purpose of public education is increasingly to yield a short - term profit with quick returns for its investors....

Before a single child's information is turned over to any 3rd party, policymakers should give assurance to parents and educators that no harm will come to Tennessee school children by adopting the following principles: The state and districts should be required to publish any and all existing data sharing agreements in printed and electronic form, and include a thorough explanation of its purpose and provisions, and make it available to parents and local school authorities statewide; The Department of Education should hold hearings throughout the state or testify before the legislature to explain any existing data agreement, and answer questions from the public or their representatives, obtain informed comment, and gauge public reaction; All parents should have the right to be notified of the impending disclosure of their children's data, and provide them with a right to consent or have the right to withhold their children's information from being shared; The state should have to define what rights families or individuals will have to obtain relief if harmed by improper use or release of their child's private information, including how claims can be made; and finally, any legislation must ensure that the privacy interest of public school children and their families are put above the interests of any 3rd Party and its agents and subsidiaries.

MABE remains dedicated and vigilant to our purpose — to advocate for local school board governance as the cornerstone of excellence and equity in public education.

As organizations adjust to keep pace with 21st Century learning demands, Avis» Letters serve to re ignite in each of us our moral purpose as educators and inspire us to reaffirm our unwavering commitment to an inclusive, sustainable and high quality public education system.

«In this timely book, Hatch exposes the massive effort to dismantle public education, while reminding readers of its purpose.

Outstanding Educator of The Year 1995: In acknowledgement of distinguished service to education and in appreciation of leadership in relating the aims, purposes, and objectives of Phi Delta Kappa to public educatioIn acknowledgement of distinguished service to education and in appreciation of leadership in relating the aims, purposes, and objectives of Phi Delta Kappa to public educatioin appreciation of leadership in relating the aims, purposes, and objectives of Phi Delta Kappa to public educatioin relating the aims, purposes, and objectives of Phi Delta Kappa to public education.

Our experience extends to the areas of economic development corporations and municipal law, and in the representation of special purpose districts, cooperatives, shared service arrangements, utility districts, head start agencies, private schools, public and private colleges and universities, chambers of commerce, and education foundations as well as other nonprofit organizations.

Like so much of corporate education reform, its real purpose is not to help the needy, but to steer the educational debate in the preferred direction of more privatization of public schools.

The purpose of this organization is to promote public education and improve administrator quality in the state of Alabama.

These are the contending purposes of public education that David Labaree discussed in his 1997 essay entitled «Public Goods, Private Goods,» arguing that American education had become too lopsided in favoring a view of schooling based upon individuals accumulating credentials for their own private bepublic education that David Labaree discussed in his 1997 essay entitled «Public Goods, Private Goods,» arguing that American education had become too lopsided in favoring a view of schooling based upon individuals accumulating credentials for their own private bePublic Goods, Private Goods,» arguing that American education had become too lopsided in favoring a view of schooling based upon individuals accumulating credentials for their own private benefit.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

The primary purpose of directory information is to allow the Creative Minds International Public Charter School to include this type of information from your child's education records in certain school publications.

A key improvement of ESAs over school vouchers and tax credits is that funds not used for K - 12 educational purposes can be «saved» or rolled over each year and used for continuing or higher education, thus changing the «use it or lose it» mentality in the current public school funding system.