Sentences with phrase «school advocates argue»

Funding disparities create barriers to charter school proliferation in some communities, and charter school advocates argue that these disparities are inequitable.

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.

Over time, conservative charter school advocates argued that having a nonunion environment in charter schools was a key advantage — perhaps the defining advantage — over regular public schools.

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An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the education, arguing Bridge focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.

I am not arguing for advocating religion in public schools.

Organic food advocate Greg Christian, Chicago's answer to Alice Waters, argues that every school should have an organic garden on site, teach sustainable agriculture in the classroom, and serve food that's organic and made from scratch, everyday.

The union's advocates are expected to pressure lawmakers for an increase of at least $ 1.5 billion — a figure that education advocates have argued satisfies a lawsuit over school funding.

Supporters of gun rights have argued the remedies proposed by gun control advocates won't prevent another shooting, leaving them to push for school safety measures.

Nevertheless, advocates have pushed him to spend more, arguing urban and rural school districts have been left short changed by the state's complicated formula for funding schools.

Cuomo said education advocates have argued for years that local property taxes shouldn't be used to fund schools, because wealthy communities have an obvious advantage.

Mr. Rodriguez, the representative of the district where the rally took place, argued that the Assembly had given a great deal to teachers unions and public education advocates by proposing a $ 1.8 billion outlay for schools in the budget.

A state supreme court has ruled against elected officials and education advocates who argue that Cathleen Black is not qualified to be the New York City Schools Chancellor, and should not get a special waiver.

A Manhattan judge gave an «F» to Public Advocate Letitia James on Friday, tossing her case to shut down «co-located» charter schools after a city lawyer argued that her suit...

Some groups condemned the governor for calling on districts to direct more of their state aid to their neediest schools — an exhortation that seemed at odds with his history of fighting the state's Foundation Aid formula, which directs more money to the state's poorest school districts and which advocates argue is itself underfunded.

(Advocates for the bill, chiefly the Catholic Church, argued that there was no point of passing it in the Senate when it wouldn't succeed in the Democratic - led Assembly, where union - allied lawmakers argue the tax credit is a voucher that drains funds from public schools in favor of privates.)

Teachers» unions and public - school advocates have railed against Cuomo, arguing that he's prioritizing privately run charters over traditional public schools.

Astorino's campaign responded to Weingarten's criticisms on Friday evening, arguing he is an advocate for public schools.

Some advocates said there is no room to allow for a big jump in charter schools seeking space in traditional public school buildings, and argued against Gov. Andrew Cuomo's call to expand charters.

Gotbaum, a long - time schools advocate and father of three, sold himself as the education candidate, arguing that the city needs a stronger voice to represent public school parents.

Advocates of online schools argue that new technologies used in online learning have the potential to expand the courses available to students and provide flexibility in location and scheduling.

Beginning with the Serrano court case in California, advocates for changing the way public schools were financed argued that reliance on local property taxes denied children living in property - poor communities the right to a good education.

For one, choice advocates forcefully argue that parents can judge school quality.

My advice to school choice advocates is to take Peter Greene's excellent if unintended advice and spend more time arguing for choice based on school culture and values, and less on test scores.

At the same time business has become an influential advocate for school reform, Robert B. Reich, a prominent political economist at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, argues in The Work of Nations, it has quietly worked to procure subsidies and tax breaks from state and local governschool reform, Robert B. Reich, a prominent political economist at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, argues in The Work of Nations, it has quietly worked to procure subsidies and tax breaks from state and local governSchool of Government, argues in The Work of Nations, it has quietly worked to procure subsidies and tax breaks from state and local governments.

But some school lawyers and advocates of strict church - state separation argued that some of the guidelines go beyond settled law.

Charter advocates argue that charters are public schools, too, serving local children, and that they deserve a fair share of local education dollars.

Charter advocates have disputed the IBO's analysis (PDF), arguing that they don't take district schools» large pension costs into account.

For years now, advocates (present company included) have used state math and reading test scores as the primary means to argue that school choice «works.»

Charter school advocates have for several years sought the statewide mandate, arguing that they should be funded equitably with traditional public schools and that capital money should follow the child, not be dictated by the needs of a school.

Earlier this year, Dropout Nation argued that one way that school reformers — including school choice activists and Parent Power groups — could advance reform and expand school choice was to file lawsuits similar to school funding torts used for the past four decades by school funding advocates.

Digital learning advocates Tom Vander Ark, Susan Patrick, and John Bailey argued that we should have considered how innovations in digital assessments embedded in online coursework could inform school improvement and even roll up into district and state school performance dashboards.

The Met Council and charter advocates have disagreed with this assessment, the former arguing that cities are better off incentivized to carry fair - housing loads, the latter that school choice is hardly the same as forced segregation.

Advocates for school choice in the US (especially for vouchers) also argue that private schools are more adept at providing education to parents with a variety of different academic, vocational or religious preferences for their children.

The A-F grades have received mixed reviews because public school advocates say the lower grades will unfairly stigmatize schools, while proponents argue that progress indicators need to be easy for the average public to understand.

In 2006, Gloria Ladson - Billings, a leading education advocate, addressed the achievement gap at the American Education Research Association by arguing that the focus on the achievement gap is misguided because it shines the spotlight on education disparities along the lines of race and immigration but does not address the larger issues of institutional oppression (see From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. Schools).

Voucher advocates — including Nobel Prize - winning economist Milton Friedman — have argued that income should not limit access to good schools, and schools would be more efficient if forced to compete.

So she teamed up with other education advocates to sue the state, arguing that Florida is violating its Constitutional obligation to provide «a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools.»

The index revealed clusters of the neediest schools which community advocates argue should receive a majority of LCFF funds.

School advocates say North Carolina should be worried about similar issues in this state, even as virtual charter leaders argue that they're being unfairly judged.

The board's vote followed months of intense pressure to reject the proposal from other black education advocates, who argued that charter schools give children in poor neighborhoods better school options.

DeVos, in her role as chair of the Trump administration's newly formed Commission on School Safety, will also hear Wednesday from teachers and education advocates who argue that the federal guidance is needed to prevent minority and disabled students from winding up in the «school - to - prison pipeline.&School Safety, will also hear Wednesday from teachers and education advocates who argue that the federal guidance is needed to prevent minority and disabled students from winding up in the «school - to - prison pipeline.&school - to - prison pipeline.»

Ellis» ideas were mirrored by outspoken public education advocates in the legislature, who poured it on McCrory this week, arguing the governor needs to show a stronger commitment to funding schools and teachers.

Charter board officials and advocates have long argued that location can't be a factor in school approvals because real estate is so hard to find that schools often don't have much choice.

Charter - school advocates like Gassner - Snyder argue that the choice they provide to parents is worth the cost to local districts, adding that, if parents decide not to send their children to the charters, the schools don't see a dime.

Combatants on both sides of that fight could claim a measure of validation from the new research: Advocates of school choice who argue that it isn't fair to judge voucher programs based on test results from a student's first year in private school, given that it takes children time to adjust to a new environment, and critics who say vouchers drain funds from public schools without improving student achievement.

Citing the new Education Next results, Petrilli argues that charter advocates should focus on regaining GOP support, and suggests doing so by tamping down social justice rhetoric (such as closing achievement gaps and alleviating systemic inequalities), by emphasizing parental choice and personal freedom (i.e., that charters liberate families from their government - assigned schools), and by touting that most charters are non-union.

Advocates for vouchers argue that private schools and more competition would offer a better education for American students.

Advocates argue that charter schools will improve education for everyone, even for those who don't attend them, but that's not what the research says.

Education reform advocate Peter Cunningham shot back in a blog post that the study's premise that charters siphon money from traditional public schools «is like arguing that a younger child deprives an older child of parental attention.»

The advocates» brief argues that the state needs to reform the allocation of state funds for charter public schools, because current laws and policies threaten charter public schools» ability to provide a high - quality education to students.