Sentences with phrase «school failure away»

They presented their own «5 - Point Plan,» which shifted blame for school failure away from classroom teachers and onto a lack of funding.

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Between the cuts to New York City's universal meal program and last year's Congressional failure to adequately fund the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, it's clear that we're a very long way away from school food expert Janet Poppendieck's utopian vision of school meals «free for all.»

However, by the time Sizer wrote his seminal 1985 report, A Study of High Schools, and A Nation at Risk warned of education failure and the need for deep reform, that earlier sense of utopia was slipping away.

The bill would have shut down charter schools by taking away their funding for failure to meet ridiculous quotas — even for one quarter of a school year.

The new legislation proposed by Ms Morgan is intended to «sweep away bureaucratic and legal loopholes» so «the best education experts can intervene in poor schools from the first day we spot failure».

They shouldn't feel that they are a failure because the school's focus is on something they can not achieve right away.

From where Casey sits, the criticism of Brown and others about the unwillingness of the AFT to embrace any reform of the obsolete process for teacher dismissals — including the Big Apple affiliate's successful opposition to Bloomberg's effort this year to give the city's schools chancellor final say over dismissing those alleged and convicted of criminal misconduct (and those engaged in inappropriate behavior with students)-- amounts to» a vicious slander» geared to «chip away at public support for the due process rights» and to «distract» people from the city's failures to put more effort into firing such teachers.

The last paragraph is key - «To date, the obsession with school structures has allowed the focus in education policy to move away from tackling failure and the long tail of underachievement, setting our schools system back immeasurably.

To date, the obsession with school structures has allowed the focus in education policy to move away from tackling failure and the long tail of underachievement, setting our schools system back immeasurably.

Complaints include students being counseled away from attending voucher schools, students being accepted and then encouraged to return to a public school and students suffering harassment or a failure to have their needs met, Murphy said.

Give them an equal chance to create better schools, but be equally quick to take away their right to repeated failure.

What I initially interpreted as a failure turned out to be a quite a blessing; the forced time away from school afforded me time to assess my professional goals and make a game plan to achieve them.