Sentences with phrase «school advocates»

Yet many outspoken charter school advocates say it's vital charter schools answer for their performance.

Some of the changes are being welcomed by public school advocates who have been fighting corporate school reform, which includes standardized test - based accountability systems and the expansion of charter schools.

Public school advocates say such a tax credit is a voucher program in disguise and would divert tax dollars from struggling public schools.

If schools advocated for its use, it could lose the «cool factor» the developers hoped it would have.

The results revealed that educators supported more traditional roles for parent involvement, whereas parents supported more active roles such as school advocate.

As a green schools advocate, finding the most recent environmental health statistic, appropriate green building case study or hands - on sustainability lesson for your work can be challenge.

Each session of After School Advocates covers a different theme relating to animal welfare.

As those ideas have produced less progress than anticipated, community school advocates hope their model can take over the mantle of reform.

But, with charter school advocates at the helm, I can tell you where it's not going.

The bill would give school districts more power to approve or deny charter schools, which charter school advocates argue would lead to many charter schools closing their doors.

First, Catholic - school advocates need to show that Catholic schools are willing to be an integrated part of the larger K - 12 environment.

Take for example the false claims being made by charter school advocates about the size of waiting lists for charter schools.

I think it will be a very valuable resource for healthy school advocates.

But home school advocates remain wary that equal treatment on one front could mean the loss of freedom on another.

In the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, private school advocates tried to build support for tuition vouchers, payments of public tax funds for private school tuition.

The After School Advocates program gives high school students an opportunity to explore animal welfare issues with hands - on activities, lectures from professionals in the field, and a group advocacy project.

Public school advocates fear an erosion of funding for public schools.

Public school advocates called the proposed legislation inadequate, saying it doesn't provide resources to improve schools.

The more I hear charter school advocates advocate for charter schools — the more concerned I become about the other 90 %.

That's because school advocates say enhancement teachers provide academic benefits to students and respite for core subject teachers to plan during the day.

Public school advocates offer one possible solution; voucher proponents urge another.

And some educators and school advocates criticized the report — either for relying on questionable data or for releasing potentially explosive statistics without context.

Virtual school advocates explain that students interact online during class, and that the schools offer field trip opportunities and clubs.

And that would make some charter school advocates very happy.

For one, the driving school advocates the policy of no driving when you are not feeling well.

Three school board seat races generated $ 6.7 million in campaign contributions, much of it from charter school advocates and labor groups.

But some public school advocates say the current bill is too far - reaching.

A major concern from public school advocates is that this could mean that there will be more testing in the name of accountability.

We joined together to build a broad coalition of public health, environmental and healthy schools advocates to successfully secure this critical foundation to protect children and point the way to future actions.

The task force also included 25 public and private school advocates and education officials.

DeVos may have problems not only from the left but from the political center as she appears to be out of step with many charter school advocates in cities where charters often represent 30 percent or more of student enrollment.

Bloomberg heaped praise on UFT President Mike Mulgrew, whose union is under fire from charter school advocates who believe it blocked efforts to raise the cap in Albany in advance of the state's «Race to the Top» application (which failed).

Texas state senators and representatives received hundreds of calls, emails, and visits from charter school advocates on this issue.

Except, unlike other charter schools, traditional public school advocates like those supporting Nixon are not calling for its closure.

Make your voice heard by joining with thousands of charter school advocates from across Georgia.

Earlier Monday, about 100 pro-charter school advocates rallied in support of Cuomo's proposals in the same location.

The Center also hosts the annual Green Schools Conference & Expo to connect green schools advocates nationwide.

Diane Ravitch, the nation's leading public school advocate pointed out the harsh reality in her blog yesterday, Connecticut Governor Malloy Increases Funding for Charters, Cuts Funding for Public Schools;

An academy trust set up by the long - standing free school advocate Toby Young has changed its name, dropping the term «free school» in the process.

Parents, students and charter school advocates gathered at the Rochester Academy Charter School to not only call for equal funding, but to register voters so they can contact their lawmakers.

Are school district reserves high enough to cover state cuts, and efficiencies in management available that would make teacher cuts unnecessary, as Cuomo administration staffers maintain, or are these areas so thin that the scale of reduced state aid made teacher layoffs unavoidable, as school advocates claim?

Tuesday night Clark Rising, a grassroots group of Clark Elementary School parents, SAND Elementary School parents and local public school advocates joined forces to fight back against the corporate takeover of both schools by Achievement First, Inc. and Capital Preparatory Magnet School, respectively.

As teachers, parents and public school advocates know, the corporate education reform industry has been putting out inaccurate and misleading statements, along with outright lies, to persuade the public that teacher tenure is bad.

Teachers unions and traditional public school advocates accused him of not listening to them, of failing to slow down and assess what was and wasn't working as the state implemented the Common Core (which was first introduced by his predecessor).

Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott told Downtown school advocates that he'd let them into the Department of Education's planning room to help influence the upcoming five - year plan to build more schools.

Wearing red T - shirts emblazoned with «Don't Steal Possible,» more than 18,000 parents, kids and charter school advocates rallied at Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn Wednesday to call for better schools in poor neighbors.

Charter school advocates want New York to re-write the formula used to fund its public charter schools.