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The charter school debate continues as Frank Cegelski talks with Mehmet Demirtas, Cheryl Sampson, and Jennifer Doyle.

Not exact matches

Kroger said it would stop selling guns to buyers under 21 years old through its Fred Meyer locations, the third major retailer to tighten its policies while lawmakers continue to debate how to respond to the latest school shooting in America.

According to Edward J. Larson's scholarly, informative, Pulitzer Prize - winning book, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, the prosecution of young John Scopes for presumedly violating a state law restricting the teaching of evolution in the public schools need not have resulted in the now legendary high - pitched standoff between the atheistic radical Clarence Darrow and the robustly religious populist William Jennings Bryan.

Debate won't begin until later this month, but Haas says «I'm optimistic there is some bipartisan support for continuing the school lunch program the way it is.

The debate over federal government intervention in school nutrition programs continues to be a point of contention in Congress.

In the film, leaders from all sides of the school food debate, including government officials, school foodservice experts, activists, and students, weigh in on the program and discuss ways to continue nourishing America's children for another 60 years.

Atheists» Handbook sent to every secondary school in England and Wales to be placed in their library, amid a continued debate over the role of religion in educational establishments

That's a question the community continues to debate in the week since the city school district announced its next superintendent would be longtime Nevada educator Kaweeda Adams.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo was called out by name on Thursday by National Rifle Association Vice President Wayne LaPierre as the national debate over gun control continues following the death of 17 people at a Florida high school.

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The tax cap has been heavily debated; school district leaders have said the property tax cap has unfairly constricted their programs and staffing, while many taxpayers continue to give high marks to a cap.

SUNY Buffalo State will be hosting a special forum this week to discuss issues on school violence as debate continues since the Parkland, Florida shootings.

Last night, during the race's only debate, Hawkins continued to push for teachers and public schools over Common Core and charters.

Senators had planned to debate and pass a one - house bill dealing with mayoral school control, but held off doing so as talks continued.

The continuing debate in Buffalo schools over a policy for transgender students drew such a large crowd Wednesday night that the meeting was moved from the usual, cramped board room to the much larger Common Council Chambers.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley says the issue of school safety continues to be debated in the wake of the Parkland, Florida school shootings.

That debate may continue, but the one about Ata's extraterrestrial origins should definitely end, says William Jungers, a paleoanthropologist and anatomist at the State University of New York in Stony Brook's School of Medicine.

Nonetheless, events like the famous Scopes trial in Tennessee in 1925 did not put an end to the furor in evangelical religious circles, which continues unabated and debated today regarding «intelligent design» in school teaching.

Two weeks after the New York City Board of Education adopted a controversial plan to distribute condoms in all of the district's high schools, local and national debate about the plan's merits, and its possible influence on other districts, continues unabated.

A marathon debate over education funding continues in Ohio, where school groups are already divided over a May 5 ballot measure that proposes hiking the state sales tax by 1 cent in order to raise revenue for schools.

Sobered and a bit battered, Fordham continues as an authorizer of Ohio charter schools — six of them today, with a seventh in the offing — and a vigorous participant in the state's larger education - policy debates.

Researchers and policymakers may be continuing to debate solutions to the nation's reading woes, but many struggling schools appear to have reached a consensus on the subject, even if not by choice.

As no two schools of education in this country share the same curriculum or approach to education, the debate on what will best serve educators continues to rage.

At a time of increasing global economic competition, continued signs of backsliding in state oversight of schools, and growing impatience with No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the debate over national education standards has heated up.

The implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA); debates about a potential large - scale federal school - choice initiative; and deep disagreements about civil rights enforcement continue to captivate — and roil — all of us involved in education policy, in D.C. and around the nation.

The heated debate over the growth of charter schools in Massachusetts continues to escalate, as advocates and opponents wrangle in legal suits and wage aggressive public relation campaigns to sway parents» opinions.

The continuing emphasis on common core standards, including the debates about the legality of them, is often interpreted as indicating that the common core is a really big deal in school reform.

As New York City continues to debate ways to make their schools less segregated following a very contentious rezoning process, a new narrative has emerged:

While the subject continues to be debated elsewhere, the Houston Independent School District is, according to Billy R. Reagan, superintendent of schools, «totally and completely sold» on the merits of technology in education.

Moreover, many of the Coleman findings foretold debates over school and teacher policy that continue to rage today.

While the proposals differ in many respects, the debates offer a window into the difficult questions surrounding race, ethnicity, and class that school districts continue to wrestle with.

As debate continues over components of NCLB, policymakers should consider whether it is realistic to assume voters will in fact use the polls to drive school improvement.

It may not be as sexy as the debates over vouchers, Detroit charter schools, «privatization,» or grizzly bears that have dominated the agenda over the past month or two, but the implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) continues apace.

«It was an opportunity to broaden the debate, but we continue to only see urban schools,» West said, noting that there are reform issues in all schools and that there is a need for change.

Education debate in England has continued to be characterised by the differences between those who focus on learning as a good in itself and those who see schooling as a means to employment.

James Coleman's (1966) conclusion that schools could have only a limited effect on students who live in poverty began a debate that has continued for decades.

I say this as one of the few government administrators openly interested in the rights of low - income families to access non-governmental schools: Absent better systemic answers than those offered by ideologues, publicly funded private school choice for all children will continue to be more of a factor in legislative debates and scholarly conferences than in the homes and neighborhoods of America's youth.

Although federal legislation has stressed the standardization of student learning, researchers continue to debate several key aspects of these students» high school experiences, specifically, school size, curriculum focus, school structure, and philosophical mission.

The public continues to oppose allowing parents and students to choose a private school to attend at public expense, but with 50 percent opposed to public funding of private school attendance and 44 percent in favor, it is apparent why this is a hotly debated issue.

It continues to be a hotly debated topic, not just among those in the school community, but in the academic community too.

While both President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan support charter schools, there continues to be a contentious debate over such schools.

As state lawmakers continue their debate, some contend the program makes for exciting headlines but will not lead to effective school reform.

Similarly, if schools like the Expeditionary Learning Schools, which achieve similar results to KIPP using much more progressive pedagogy, continue to replicate their success and become more widely known, they could move the debate forward another step by showing that there are other ways to achieve the same ouschools like the Expeditionary Learning Schools, which achieve similar results to KIPP using much more progressive pedagogy, continue to replicate their success and become more widely known, they could move the debate forward another step by showing that there are other ways to achieve the same ouSchools, which achieve similar results to KIPP using much more progressive pedagogy, continue to replicate their success and become more widely known, they could move the debate forward another step by showing that there are other ways to achieve the same outcomes.

As policymakers, educators and parents continue to debate concepts like standardized testing, it's worth remembering that school accountability has a proud parentage that is worth preserving and modernizing.

The summer issue of Education Next includes a debate over whether charter schools should continue to expand in cities like Washington, D.C. so that a larger share of students are attending charter schools.

The debate over the city's aging school infrastructure continued to heat up Thursday while light snow kept Baltimore students home.

As one of the founding members of the Association of Black Psychologists, the group largely responsible for minimizing the use of IQ tests in schools, I continue to find the testing debate fascinating, even though it has taken several politically irresponsible turns of late.

Alexandria, Va. (July 15, 2015)- As the U.S. Senate approaches the end of debate on the nation's largest education law, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) continues to actively engage with our nation's lawmakers in support of a comprehensive, strategic modernization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

But debate continues over whether such privately run, but publicly funded, schools are an improvement over other public schools.