Sentences with phrase «schools as a red herring»

«So long as districts continue to ignore the crushing reality of the looming financial crisis at the hands of unfunded retiree liabilities, and so long as the Legislature fails to fundamentally overhaul the authorizing structure in California, we anticipate that powerful special interests will continue to use charter public schools as a red herring to avoid the hard decisions that lie ahead,» continued Marquez.

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BMI is only one indicator, and not an entirely sound one, of health in children; and I think that using it as a measurement of good nutrition work in schools is a red herring.

It's not as entertaining as X-Ray, but it does sport a more competent cast and plot, with enough red herrings to choke an actual school of herrings.

The strategy is becoming all too clear — ignore poverty, blame the effects of poverty on teachers, maintain the public perception of failing teachers and schools with an A-F formula that is designed to rank order students so that the bottom 33 percent will always exist (no matter how much achievement gains are made), use it to designate teachers and schools with low grades, then create a red herring for an impatient public by offering a placebo known as charter schools and school choice to appease them.

A typical law school exam is as follows: You will be asked to draft several long essays based on prompts (usually fact patterns), often with the aim of «issue spotting» — facts are peppered in that raise potential legal issues, as well as some red herrings designed to throw you off.