Sentences with phrase «saw public school advocates»

Since the turmoil that saw public school advocates protest across the state — New York State United Teachers decried he tests as an «erosion of local control» — the state Department of Education has revised the controversial testing, reducing the number of questions on the exams, encouraging more teacher involvement in developing them, no longer timing the tests and reducing potential teacher penalties.

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He advocated for state databases containing college and career outcome information of public school graduates, so parents can see the life outcomes of former students of their children's current or future schools.

For example, in 1996 CMU saw the need for charter schools to have representation in the state capitol and with the media, which led to the founding of the Michigan Association of Public School Academies, which now serves as the unified voice for Michigan's charter schools and was a major advocate for removing the cap.

Phoenix (May 7, 2018)-- In a record - breaking year that saw national charter public school enrollment surpass 3.2 million students for the first time, Arizona is proud to join students, families, educators and advocates across the country in celebrating National Charter Schools Week.

The Bridgeport Board of Education race has garnered national attention and is now seen as proof that parents, teachers and public school advocates can use elections to beat back the corporate education reform industry.

«A lot of my members are concerned that she's never been seen as an advocate for public education,» said Dan Rossmiller, lobbyist for the Wisconsin Association of School Boards.

I feel compelled to advocate, not just for my own children, but for every filled - with - potential face I see at my daughter's public charter school.

Charter advocates who emphasize greater choice for students hope that eventually people will see a charter school as just one of a wide array of diverse public school opportunities available to students.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to pour billions of dollars into a high - tech idea that has been billed as the future of learning, but which critics see as a half - baked notion that could jeopardize student privacy and spread ideas despised by public school advocates.

However, Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor has put Connecticut's public school superintendents in an untenable position and now they must choose whether they see their job as carrying out orders from above or serving as the voice and chief advocate for the students, parents, teachers, staff and taxpayers that are part of their school district.

For parents, teachers and public school advocates who were looking to see if Malloy was going to soften his pro-corporate education reform industry agenda, there was no sign that the governor intended to hold Connecticut's charter schools accountable for their use of public funds nor was there a suggestion that the Malloy administration was going to fix their unfair «Teacher Evaluation» program by decoupling the inappropriate Common Core Test scores from the evaluation process for Connecticut's public school teachers.

But Indiana's voucher program is seen by many public school advocates as a cautionary tale.

However, no mention on the CASEL website do I see advocating for the reinstatement of recess in public schools.

CHICAGO — Chicago teachers stayed away from public schools for a third day on Wednesday in a strike over Mayor Rahm Emanuel's demand for tough teacher evaluations that U.S. education reform advocates see as crucial to fixing urban schools.

But even though more schools see advertising as an answer to slashed budgets, parents and public advocates may not warm to the idea of speeding the commercialization of schools.

Democrats and gun control advocates accused Republicans and the National Rifle Association of using school safety to divert attention from what they see as the real issue: the proliferation of guns that have been used in mass shootings at concerts, in movie theaters, on college campuses, in churches and at workplaces, as well as at public schools.