Sentences with phrase «quality of one's public schools»

«Florida is rated the fifth - best state on quality of our public schools by Education Week's Quality Counts report, despite the fact that the state is ranked close to the bottom in funding for schools and teacher pay,» said Andy Ford, president of the statewide teachers union.

Still others are concerned about perceived deterioration of the academic quality of public schools as a result of overcrowded classrooms.

Montgomery County, a Washington suburb nationally recognized for the high quality of its public schools, was one of the first and largest districts in the country to adopt an integration plan without having been ordered to do so.

Opponents argue the law will siphon money from struggling public schools and erode the education quality of public school students.

The Center helps Americans better understand the role of public education in a democracy and the need to improve the academic quality of public schools.

Although Brookline is best known as the home of wealthy and upper - middle - class residents, it also has a long association with working - class Irish families and, more recently, with Asian families and with other immigrant groups drawn to the town for the high quality of its public schools.

The brilliance of our students is a testament to the quality of our public schools.

What may be more worrisome is the prospect that home schooling will attract new recruits motivated mainly by disenchantment with the quality of their public schools.

Sad, considering the quality of our public school lunches............ all processed food.

As Paris parents know, the quality of public schools are in no way predictive of the quality of those schools» cantines.

Private schools are often prohibitively expensive, homeschooling can seem intimidating and the quality of public schools vary greatly from town - to - town.

Now, it's up to citizens across the state to hold the commission accountable and encourage its members to recommend real reforms to elevate the teaching profession and improve the quality of our public schools.

«New York has witnessed a vengeful governor refusing to engage in honest dialogue about the quality of our public schools,» said NYSUT President Karen Magee.

«Our landmark achievents on education has been manifested in the quality of public school products.

Our city government needs to do all it can — use every available resource — to help children achieve and improve the quality of our public schools.

The quality of our public schools has been measured in innumerable ways, and stakeholders may draw on any number of sources for rankings to support a particular agenda.

The program's effect on today's participants may differ due to changes in which private schools participate in the program, which students participate, and the quality of the public schools that FTC students would otherwise attend.

For much of the past few years, reflecting general concerns about the quality of public schooling, discussions of magnet schools have centered on their potential for providing intensive instruction in such subjects as science and mathematics, serving as models of effectiveness, and increasing family choice within the public system.

Micro-schools are gaining traction among families who are dissatisfied with the quality of public schooling options and can not afford or do not want to pay for a traditional private - school education.

If so, then it could appear that competition lowered the quality of public schooling when in fact the causal connection was in the opposite direction.

And today most Americans remain frustrated and confused about the quality of the public school systems.

These reforms were a response to the widespread impression that test scores and the quality of public schooling were in decline.

He noted that anyone longing for the «good old days» would have difficulty finding a time when critics were not bemoaning the quality of the public schools.

From the beginning, the state of New York has witnessed a vengeful governor refusing to engage in honest dialogue about the quality of our public schools, or how to improve teaching and learning.

The Federal Government should focus its attention and available resources on improving the quality of public schools for all students.

Micro-schools are gaining traction among families who are dissatisfied with the quality of public schooling options and yet can not afford or do not want to pay the ever - rising cost of traditional private schools.

A major conclusion is that post-secondary education must play a role in raising the quality of public schools.

In many states, education bureaucrats will use the results from the national tests to judge the quality of the public school system and those who learn and work in it.

Yet sadly, Mississippi is usually ranked last in the nation for academic achievement and the quality of our public schools.

Unfortunately, the Governor has made a tactical decision that union support in the November legislative elections is more important than the quality of our public schools and the needs of the children and families they serve.

About Partnership for Educational Justice (PEJ) An affiliate of the national education nonprofit 50CAN, PEJ pursues educational equity through legal action that empowers families and communities to improve the quality of public schools.

Partnership for Educational Justice is a nonprofit organization pursuing educational equity through legal action to improve the quality of public schools.

Said Johnson: «I want to improve student performance and the quality of public schools in Board District 1 and across the entire LAUSD.

PEJ pursues educational equity through legal action to improve the quality of public schools.

At that time, the quality of public schooling options available to these young people was much lower than the schools available to their wealthier peers in and outside of Boston.

Now, it's up to citizens across the state to hold the commission accountable and encourage its members to recommend real reforms to elevate the teaching profession and improve the quality of our public schools.

Has unionization, in your opinion, helped, hurt, or made no difference in the quality of public school education in the United States?»

This funding is needed to improve the quality of public schools.

Education advocates Friday hailed the eleventh - hour defeat of controversial efforts to rewrite state rules on teacher evaluations that they said would have weakened initiatives in Los Angeles and elsewhere to improve the quality of public school instructors.

It was back in 2008 when New York City first began using students» standardized test scores to rate the quality of public school teachers.

«If Congress passes legislation to help states and local communities improve the quality of their public schools absent federal intrusion, we applaud it, but this should apply to all students equally, not just those enrolled in charter schools.

When looking at the quality of public schools versus charter schools, public schools take home when considering student achievement in education.

Vouchers are not a magic bullet, and may do little to improve the quality of public schools.

The Coleman Report came under intense fire, but re - analyses of the Coleman data and the collection of new data in the decades since it appeared support its finding that the quality of public schools doesn't make much difference in student achievement.

Seventy - three percent of voters said making it easier to fire underperforming teachers would improve the quality of public schools; 71 percent said putting more money into public schools in economically disadvantaged areas; 64 percent said tying teachers» salaries to performance evaluations; and 52 percent said extending the tax increase that provides additional funding to public schools and other programs.

When asked to choose from a list of reforms that would improve the quality of public schools, the highest percentage of voters, 82 percent, chose providing teachers with a one - year apprenticeship with a high - performing experienced teacher before they are given their own classroom.

This week PURE and some other parent groups released a press statement thanking President Obama for recognizing the importance of class size in his weekly address, and for releasing a report that shows how the elimination of 60,000 teaching positions since 2009 is not only unprecedented in US postwar history, but has led to class size increases that are severely damaging the quality of our public schools.

Debates rage on over school vouchers, which some of my black neighbors favor because of serious remaining questions about the quality of public schools.

New Orleans's charter school experiment is built on the notion that the invisible hand of the free market, made manifest in «unprecedented» parental choice, will improve the quality of public schools through competition.