Sentences with phrase «school establishment»

Finally, defenders of the public school establishment could martial hard evidence in their drive to halt school voucher programs.

In opposing vouchers and other remedies, the government school establishment invokes the separation of church and state.

Last week, Florida's state school establishment sued to kill an education tax credit program that benefits 60,000 low income, mostly black and Hispanic children.

Critics on the right lamented that the Bush administration and its allies within the parochial school establishment failed to go even further and make private school vouchers a bigger part of the new regime.

The fact is that state legislatures are where the traditional public - school establishment wields the most power and is best able — often working behind the scenes — to keep anything much from changing.

But implementing the law requires some minimum cooperation from the local school establishment, which in California has resisted parent trigger from day one.

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Yet as the letter showed, he had already managed to irk the entire school establishment, as well as the Republican majority in Congress.

George Drake is among many members of Pennsylvania's ed school establishment who spoke out in opposition to Relay's bid.

You could disdain them as tawdry ephemera, as the New York School establishment chose to do.

Enacted in 2015, Nevada's education savings account (ESA) policy was originally scheduled to launch at the beginning of this year, but it immediately drew two separate legal challenges from the government schooling establishment and the ACLU and its allies.

The church is invariably tied to what happens in public and private education, learning many of its educational habits and sensibilities from the schooling establishment.

For its part, the traditional public - school establishment, including district boards and superintendents, are hostile to charters, which they see both as competitors for students and resources and as possible threats to their reputations.

Likewise, charter schools, even if they are privately run, are not likely to be very good if they continue to receive less funding than traditional public schools; if they are started with sweat equity by people who hold mystical beliefs about organizational performance; and if they are run in an atmosphere of official hostility from the public school establishment.

Perhaps one can expect nothing more from a commission composed mainly of academics and former members of the public school establishment — folks that once were school superintendents, state education officers, school board members, teachers union officials, or school teachers.

They» ve acclimated to a stark reality: the change - averse public - school establishment is itself their principal client, customer and sometime regulator.

Giving parents and policy makers better information about the shortcomings of their schools offers the possibility of breaking the schools loose from the stranglehold the school establishment has on them.

But the public - school establishment is limitless in its capacity to exploit every fissure in the reform movement.

In the name of public service, let's agree to stop abetting the school establishment's «edu - speak.»

Unfortunately, in responding to this attack, civil libertarians, political moderates, and members of the public - school establishment have...

After four hard - fought charter initiative campaigns, legislative foot - dragging, and implacable opposition from the state's public school establishment — not just the teachers» unions — Washington voters have approved public charter schools.

Unlike Taylor, I refuse to sacrifice the education of Wisconsin's children at the altar of the public school establishment.

And, they don't want the head of the state's school establishment to be a Vergara decision supporter.

«With minor exceptions, no one has succeeded in getting a voucher system adopted, thanks primarily to the political power of the school establishment, more recently reinforced by the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, together the strongest political lobbying body in the United States.»

The typically overlooked race for state superintendent of public instruction is under a national microscope as it pits incumbent Tom Torlakson, a former teacher closely aligned with labor unions and the school establishment, against fellow Democrat Marshall Tuck, a charter school administrator backed by education reformers who advocate for controversial policy shifts like school vouchers and changes to teacher employment laws.