Sentences with phrase «school advocates fear»

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

So when the archdiocese scheduled a meeting to discuss the future of the consortium, Catholic - school advocates feared the worst.

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While Schakowsky's bill was welcomed by school cafeteria managers and food - safety advocates, industry officials said the dissemination of safety records could stoke unnecessary public fears and prove difficult for cafeteria managers to interpret.

Charter school teachers need a union for the same reason as other teachers — to have a voice, to be able to advocate for students without fear of losing their jobs, and to be treated like the professionals they are.

He conceded that «incidents of school violence have decreased overall,» so why should he advocate policies that have as their likely consequence exposing the good kids who have avoided violence to the greater fear from others who engage in it?

When President Clinton fired Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, he set off alarms in the school - health community, where advocates fear that the Administration is abandoning the policies she championed.

Advocates hope it would give poor children access to better schools and critics fear it would dilute funds available to the nation's neediest schools.

Legislators refused to consider the request of school boards, superintendents and advocates that professional educators be allowed the time to write a new accountability system free of sanctions and fear.

Although the public presentation of charter school research today is nearly as contentious as it was when the AFT report made waves in 2004, beneath the radar screen is a growing convergence on a set of findings that fit neither the rosy predictions of the early advocates nor the dire fears of the early critics:

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Trump loyalists celebrated what appeared to be DeVos successful effort to keep from derailing her own confirmation, while public education advocates strengthen their belief that DeVos» performance reiterated their worst fears about the pro-charter school champion.

The purpose of tenure — a term that is frequently misused — is to provide due process protection that allow teachers to voice their opinions, advocate for their students, and challenge inequities and bad practices without fear of unjust retaliation by principals, superintendents or school boards.

Lastly, while I advocate an active role for school leaders, I fear a temptation amongst policy makers to overly standardize collaboration.

Advocates of public education in the United States have worried that President - elect Donald Trump would tap an education secretary who would speed up the privatization of public schools, a move that many fear could destroy America's public education system, the country's most important civic institution...