Sentences with phrase «reform war on teachers»

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Remember last year, when Cuomo was in full - on war mode against the teachers unions, and trying to force education reform down the Legislature's throat by inserting it into his budget language and tying his proposals to a boost in school aid?

As my Fordham colleague Chester Finn recently observed, longstanding bipartisan support for the education reform agenda has collapsed: «As Democrats pander to teachers» unions and minority grievances and Republicans focus on social issues and culture wars, little energy remains for school reform.»

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.

This is, indeed, a «war on teacher tenure» that, funded by this «latest batch of tech tycoons... follows in the footsteps of a long line of older magnates, from the Carnegies and Rockefellers to Walmart's Waltons, who have also funneled their fortunes into education - reform projects built on private - sector management strategies.»

The American Federation of Teachers and its boss, Randi Weingarten, have waged a national war on public school reform that spans decades.

This is the auditorium of Rockville Centre's South Side High School on Jan. 13, where approximately 120 students, teachers and education advocates witnessed the latest front in what has been an all - out war against Common Core, the education reform created by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers and financed with more than $ 4 billion of «Race to the Top» funds as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The current era of corporate education reform began with the 1983 publication of the Reagan administration's report A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Education Reform, prepared by a committee of prominent professors, politicians, teachers, and business executives.5 Not only did the report attack many of the equity - minded federal education reforms that preceded it, A Nation at Risk also manufactured a narrative of public education in crisis, steeped in the language of Cold War military paranoia: «If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war,» the authors reform began with the 1983 publication of the Reagan administration's report A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Education Reform, prepared by a committee of prominent professors, politicians, teachers, and business executives.5 Not only did the report attack many of the equity - minded federal education reforms that preceded it, A Nation at Risk also manufactured a narrative of public education in crisis, steeped in the language of Cold War military paranoia: «If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war,» the authors Reform, prepared by a committee of prominent professors, politicians, teachers, and business executives.5 Not only did the report attack many of the equity - minded federal education reforms that preceded it, A Nation at Risk also manufactured a narrative of public education in crisis, steeped in the language of Cold War military paranoia: «If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war,» the authors wroWar military paranoia: «If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war,» the authors wrowar,» the authors wrote.