Sentences with phrase «scapegoat teachers»

I hope that Mayor Harp and other area representatives start asking NHPS management hard questions about what they are really doing, aside from scapegoating teachers, to improve our school learning environments.

«It is insane to once again scapegoat teachers for a process that the state controlled, reviewed and directed.»

At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

Re-electing Andrew Cuomo will mean four more years of scapegoating teachers, underfunding public schools, cutting staff and programs, and proliferating privately - managed charter schools.

«The attack on teacher tenure is about scapegoating teachers for the conditions of our schools,» remarked Brian Jones, a former NYC school teacher running for Lieutenant Governor.

«You can not scapegoat teachers, then say «We're going to give them more tests and more evaluations,» and walk away from the significant constitutional underfunding that's been going on in this state for years,» Miner said.

Union leaders, who are paying for television ads urging opposition, argue that it would gut due - process rights and scapegoat teachers during bad economic times.

But it's no longer okay to swamp our schools with societal negligence, then scapegoat teachers when collapse occurs.

«It is unacceptable to scapegoat teachers for the variability in identifying pupils with SEN and ensuring their complex needs are met.

In a subsequent interview, Miner said Cuomo's policies «scapegoat teachers» and fail to account for inadequate funding of poor districts.

Saying Cuomo's educational policies «scapegoat teachers» for the problems of failing schools, Miner said many failing schools do not get as much state aid as they are entitled to by law.

Chris Keates, general secretary of teachers» union NASUWT, said: «It is unacceptable to scapegoat teachers for the variability in identifying pupils with SEN and ensuring their complex needs are met.

However, teaching unions have reacted angrily to the report, warning it is «unacceptable to scapegoat teachers».

«Scapegoating teachers» Teaching unions reacted furiously to Ofsted's conclusion.

It's further confirmation that people who say they care about educating children are really just satisfied to scapegoat teachers.

And, as opposed to your conspiracy theory about the «Faustian bargain,» the teachers» unions will be on your side when we do work to solve real problems rather than scapegoat teachers and demonize their unions.

«Since the beginning, Duncan's department has been led by graduates of the Broad Academy, Education Trust - West and other organizations determined to scapegoat teachers and their unions,» the California group wrote.

If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the misguided policies that threaten democracy, turn American children into robotic test takers, narrow and homogenize our children's education, encourage standardization instead of helping the needy children and stimulating innovation, value testing over teaching, and scapegoat teachers, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.

Excluding the voices of the community and real education stakeholders by using the courts to rewrite education laws and scapegoat teachers is unfair.

Whoever gets elected will aim to gut the public education system and scapegoat teachers.