Sentences with phrase «school debate heats»

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As I argued in one of my first Lunch Tray posts («The Birthday Cupcake Debate Heats Up «-RRB-, when a child is at school, he or she is as captive to what goes on there as a person in an elevator is captive to second - hand smoke.

Nationwide, there have been years of discussion about how to improve school lunches; this summer, the debate heats up again as Congress takes up the reauthorization of child nutrition programs that President Obama has made a centerpiece of his domestic agenda.

Armed security officers are becoming more prevalent at America's schools, according to a federal study released amid a heated debate over whether teachers and other school officials should carry guns.

National debate has heated up over the issue of gun control, and the NRA's role in opposing it, since Feb. 14, when a former student killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, using an AR - 15 assault rifle he had purchased legally.

Things got heated on the New York State Senate floor this week over a debate on bills that majority party Republicans say will improve school safety.

«Americans are experiencing a heated debate over gun policy in the wake of the latest school shooting,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

While these schools represent only a fraction of the 1.1 million schoolchildren in the public education system, the charter school movement has spurred heated debate across the country.

UPPER WEST SIDE — A state senator's use of the n - word is adding fire to an already heated debate about Harlem Success Academy's plans to open an Upper West Side charter school.

Knowing the local community and the schools concerned, albeit not recently, there will indeed be heated debate.

The debate got most heated over a bill to create a «Guardians for Schools» license plate to raise money to help pay for school resource officers.

The issue of Christian science teaching is at the centre of a heated debate between the top administrator of France's Catholic school system and a group of prominent scientists.

It has been a rising topic of heated debate throughout youth baseball, and is now making it into the likes of women's volleyball and tennis; how do we keep our youth athletes from being put under the knife before they hit high school?

A Sticky Week for College Admissions as Affirmative Action Debate Heats Up (The Christian Science Monitor) Ivy League Schools Brace for Scrutiny of Race in Admissions (The Boston Globe via The Associated Press) Affirmative Action in Higher Education (WOSU) Centering on «Diversity» Ignores the Real Focus of Affirmative Action (The Boston Globe) For Now, Federal Focus On Affirmative Action Centers On Harvard (WBUR) Sometimes, Perceptions of Affirmative Action Don't Mesh With Reality (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Natasha Warikoo weighs in on the Department of Justice's plans to investigate affirmative action in college admissions.

As the debate over school choice heats up once again, in the halls of Congress and in many state capitals, a favorite gambit of defenders of the status quo is to damn such changes as «sure to undermine public education» or «bad for the public schools.»

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.

With a new administration taking office, ESSA implementation underway, and the debate over school choice heating up, it can be a challenge to stay abreast of the most important developments in the education field.

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.

These schools have successfully raised money, but not without raising eyebrows and sparking heated debate.

Nowhere has the debate over the power and perquisites of schools» building engineers been more heated than in New York City, where the board of education is now engaged in contract negotiations with Local 891 of the International Union of Operating Engineers.

America is engaged in a heated debate over school vouchers.

Second, these heated debates have led school - choice proponents to pay too little heed to crucial questions of market design and implementation — especially the extent to which reforms have, or have not, created a real market dynamic in education.

As usual, some of the debates got heated and anger boiled over about the role of tests in schools.

At the next meeting, the school board passed a resolution condemning the incident and calling for an investigation — but only after some heated debate, and even that bipartisanship was short - lived.

This is a local control debate that is sure to heat up as we stumble through the current financial crisis, with more and more proposals to increase the centralization of school governance and financing.

There's broad commitment to ensuring that all high - school graduates are college - and career - ready, but heated debate about the best means of achieving that goal.

As our new presidential administration has moved school choice into the spotlight, the debate surrounding access and success for charter - school students with disabilities has grown increasingly heated.

As the debate on school choice heats up next week, I share this post as a voice in support of the nation's public schools, which remain the number 1 choice, a great option for families and communities across the country.

The dispute over Wolf's methods and the resulting data, which can grow quite heated, reflect the ideological divides — teacher unions versus school choice advocates — that shape many of today's education debates.

The most heated discussion focused on the state's merit - pay program, which lawmakers decided to fund for the 1985 - 86 school year at $ 16.6 million, despite a rancorous debate over the quality of the evaluation process that has been used to choose the first year's crop of merit teachers.

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

So while critics will rightly debate and second - guess the administration's decisions, management styles, and personnel moves as they relate to schools, the point of this governing structure was that someone should be forced to feel the heat when things go horribly wrong in schools.

The debate is especially heated in communities that practice co-location, in which charters and district schools operate in the same building and share common spaces like libraries and gymnasiums.

In the heat of the school choice debate, one of our parents at North Broward Academy of Excellence wants to spread the good news about charter schools.

(Calif.) Middle and high schools will be prohibited from starting the regular school day before 8:30 a.m. under a bill at the center of a heated debate Wednesday during a Senate Education Committee hearing.

A few weeks ago, a permanent substitute teacher, «Coach Ryan» at Benjamin Franklin High School in New Orleans, La. found himself in a very heated debate with a student about the use of the n - word.

While these schools represent only a fraction of the 1.1 million schoolchildren in the public education system, the charter school movement has spurred heated debate across the country.

As the debate about the value of charters is heating up to new levels since the news that billionaire school reform leader Eli Broad and several other powerful players are planning a massive expansion of charter schools in LA Unified, these numbers are likely to be spun in both directions by the opposing sides of the charter debate.

The debate of charters over traditional public schools appears to be most heated in Rutherford County, a rural manufacturing community in the Blue Ridge Mountains foothills with unemployment rates nearly twice the state average.

As Congress considers bills to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the most heated debate has been over how to hold schools accountable for student performance, and...

Climate change debate is heating up in schools.

It also kicked off a heated debate about how best to regulate public schools.

The Forum developed in 1997 out of a sense of urgency that middle - grades school improvement had stalled, amid a flurry of descending test scores, increasing reports of school violence, and heated debates about the nature and purpose of middle - grades education.

Along with turning up the heat in the national debate over gun laws, the horrific attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida on Feb. 14 has introduced the nation to a new generation of articulate, passionate teenagers.

As the Trump administration seeks to expand school choice nationwide, the academy was thrust into the national spotlight last month as part of a heated debate over whether schools that receive money from taxpayer - funded vouchers can discriminate against certain groups of students, such as LGBT children or students with disabilities.

PS 199 was in a heated school zoning fight in 2017 that tipped off the school segregation debates on the Upper West Side that are now grabbing headlines.

After heated debate, New York charter schools receive boost; school aid increases by $ 1.1 billion Chalkbeat New York, April 10, 2017

The push comes amid a heated debate over the voucher program, which the state teachers union and local officials contend pulls money away from traditional public schools.

Gov. Greg Abbott pledged on Tuesday to sign any school choice legislation that reaches his desk, adding his voice to what promises to be one of the most heated debates this legislative session.

The charter school debate is getting even more heated.