Sentences with phrase «schools in favor of»

«Siphoning monies away from public schools in favor of selective charter organizations is a reckless choice.»

In the name of efficiency, all three sought to reduce variation among schools in favor of greater centralized standardization and control, hallmarks of the rationalizing process.

(I even hesitate to use the word, «empower,» because it has long been co-opted by corporate reformers and pasted over their obvious top - down efforts to kill community schools in favor of under - regulated «choice» strategically placed just out of true control of those whom «choice» supposedly empowers.)

He wants to focus on accelerating academic achievement and luring middle - class parents — many of whom have removed their children from the county's schools in favor of private schools or other jurisdictions — back to the public school system.

Despite the fact that 90 percent of students attend public schools, this budget dramatically reduces funding for these schools in favor of a massive investment of $ 1 billion — four times the amount in last year's proposal — in ineffective private school voucher schemes, putting the most vulnerable students at risk.

According to Greene, some families that pulled their children out of Partnership schools in favor of a charter have returned.

A handful of districts and two states are doing away with the forced placement of teachers in schools in favor of a system requiring both the teacher and principal to agree to a transfer.

According to educators at the conference, more minority students are turning away from existing private schools in favor of African - American academies and other schools that focus...

The day before, I had called for the elimination of assigned schools in favor of universal choice — a nearly unforgivable act as far as many suburban parents are concerned.

The best I could come up with at the end of last semester for my students, whom I absolutely adored, was that I felt like a bit less of a sellout for having left teaching in the Boston Public Schools in favor of the indulgences of Appian Way.

A couple of weeks after the report was released, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, who has resisted expanding charter schools in favor of proposed «readiness schools,» reversed course and proposed raising the cap on how much a school district could spend on charter schools, from 9 to 12 percent.

(Advocates for the bill, chiefly the Catholic Church, argued that there was no point of passing it in the Senate when it wouldn't succeed in the Democratic - led Assembly, where union - allied lawmakers argue the tax credit is a voucher that drains funds from public schools in favor of privates.)

The evidence for evolution is more than bones, but clearly you were so hellbent on not learning in school in favor of your own mumbo jumbo you decided to ignore the overwhelming amount of evidence that we have and are finding more everyday.

Grateful parents swoon, while bright, cheerful students meet their academic manifest destinies as their awesome teachers reject the discredited orthodoxies of industrial - age schooling in favor of hands - on projects and authentic, real - world tasks.

At the Clayton Christensen Institute, we track disruptive innovations in K — 12 schools that upend the traditional factory - based model of school in favor of instructional approaches that better center on each individual student.

«I think the problem with the ESA, it's basically throwing up your hands and saying, «it's not fixable,» and abandoning the public school in favor of some other option,» said Carr.

After dropping out of high school in favor of the Naval Medical Corps and unsuccessfully pursuing the pre-med program at Long Beach City College, Moses eventually enrolled in art classes and received an MFA from UCLA.

Not exact matches

The decision also weighs in the favor of entrepreneurs and investors who live outside places like Silicon Valley, where old - school networking and personal connections are how financing deals typically happen.

Calling it the «privacy paradox,» University of Michigan School of Information professor Cliff Lamp says in studying social computing he has found that people make a lot of noise when it comes to privacy, but push concerns aside in favor of convenience.

The result: Stanford tends to attract a very high percentage of prospective students who want to do their own thing and, once in Silicon Valley, the school serves up enough opportunities to push the odds in their favor.

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In 2015, Gates spoke out in favor of national Common Core standards in grades K through 12 and charter schoolIn 2015, Gates spoke out in favor of national Common Core standards in grades K through 12 and charter schoolin favor of national Common Core standards in grades K through 12 and charter schoolin grades K through 12 and charter schools.

After surveying 400 college and high school students and 400 parents, more than half of the people were in favor of using an ISA over a private student loan to pay for their degrees.

Washington (CNN) Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, facing an outraged constituent audience of school shooting survivors Wednesday, signaled a willingness to vote in favor of limited gun control measures.

When the lawsuit reached the Connecticut Supreme Court, gun control advocates, school officials and emergency doctors who treated victims of assault rifle fire submitted amicus briefs in favor of the lawsuit.

The U.S. House responded to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre on Wednesday by voting overwhelmingly in favor of legislation aimed at helping reduce school vioSchool massacre on Wednesday by voting overwhelmingly in favor of legislation aimed at helping reduce school vioschool violence.

«Amendments to the bill face an uphill battle, says John Coffee Jr., a professor at Columbia University Law School who testified in favor of bananas yesterday, «but they sometimes win.»

Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, facing an outraged constituent audience of school shooting survivors Wednesday, signaled a willingness to vote in favor of limited gun control measures.

I think American Jesus would be in favor of hanging the Ten Commandments in state - run schools.

The government should not be permitted to create incentives for religious practice or belief (like giving favored status to religious organizations, as compared to other nonprofits), to facilitate the religious practices of some at the expense of others (like offering vocal prayers in public schools), or to accommodate one religion but not others with similar needs or problems (like limiting draft exemptions to members of traditional «peace churches») Within these guidelines, religious accommodations are fully in keeping with the First Amendment — albeit in conflict with strict separation.

Still a third national survey (1997) discovered not only that a strong majority of African - Americans (57 percent) and Hispanics (65 percent) favored vouchers, but also that it was precisely the black age group most likely to have children in the public schools (those 26 to 35) who supported vouchers most strongly (86.5 percent!).

A paper that thinks hermaphrodite rights one of the important questions of our time, a paper that editorially endorses the worship of the great nature goddess Gaia, a paper that advocates the demonstration of condoms to fourth graders in public school, a paper that condemns as religious fanatics those who favor the protection of the unborn, a paper that derides as extremist the views of a majority of Americans and of two Presidents they elected, this is simply not a serious paper.

Now out of favor in spite of his enduring scholarship and his central role in the development of academic sociology, Sorokin was already beginning to fade when I entered graduate school in the late - 1950s.

Both my pastor and my best girl friend in high school told me that in Genesis — when Isaac chose Jacob as his favored son and commanded him not to marry a Canaanite woman — we see evidence of God's desire to protect a certain racial order.

Even to this day, every school administrator knows that his former classroom colleagues regard him as having deserted «teaching» in favor of «educational administration.»

In other words, during the transition from a racially segregated to a desegregated school system, it may be desirable to substitute for the previous racial groupings new kinds of educationally pertinent groupings, in which any deficiencies of the less favored race can be taken into account automatically, without reference to race as sucIn other words, during the transition from a racially segregated to a desegregated school system, it may be desirable to substitute for the previous racial groupings new kinds of educationally pertinent groupings, in which any deficiencies of the less favored race can be taken into account automatically, without reference to race as sucin which any deficiencies of the less favored race can be taken into account automatically, without reference to race as such.

I agree that religion ought to be taught in schools from an historical and factual standpoint and not favor any religious point of view.

There was an immediate wave of schools that renounced their denominational allegiance in favor of «sympathy» in order to qualify for the grants: colleges such as Dickinson, Goucher, and Bowdoin.

You've accused me of not knowing jewish history by quoting the bible, as if that's the only authority on jewish history and I should ignore my judaism professors, parents, rabbi, peers and sunday school teacher in favor of this horribly contrived and unreliable book.

I'm all in favor of a school holiday to remember Islam, let's have it on 9/11 to truly remember what this religion has given America

«In May 2011, Rhee spoke in favor of school choice alongside the Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker at an event hosted by the American Federation for Children, a pro-school choice education organization founded and funded by Betsy DeVoIn May 2011, Rhee spoke in favor of school choice alongside the Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker at an event hosted by the American Federation for Children, a pro-school choice education organization founded and funded by Betsy DeVoin favor of school choice alongside the Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker at an event hosted by the American Federation for Children, a pro-school choice education organization founded and funded by Betsy DeVos.

A federal appeals court had ruled in favor of school officials in Plano, Texas, on the liability question, and the justices without comment let that decision stand.

State District Judge Steve Thomas of Hardin County implemented a temporary injunction Thursday in favor of the Kountze High School cheerleaders, and by setting a trial date of June 24, 2013, Thomas effectively allows the cheerleaders to keep displaying Bible - quoting signs at Kountze athletic events through the end of this current schoolSchool cheerleaders, and by setting a trial date of June 24, 2013, Thomas effectively allows the cheerleaders to keep displaying Bible - quoting signs at Kountze athletic events through the end of this current schoolschool year.

But the last application, for a rally in favor of same - sex unions, must be accepted or the District of Columbia would accuse the school of a human rights violation.

Wieman introduced Whitehead's works at the University of Chicago Divinity School, but later broke from the British philosophers metaphysics in favor of what he saw as a more thoroughgoing empiricism.

one of the more notorious western towns in America's collective imagination, claimed by its second year schools for one thousand children, three theaters, and a two - thousand - seat opera house where Italian operas were favored.»

your video (apparently done by some high school kid) is self refuting, it's premise is that — mutations exist in a population, — drastic environmental change dramatically favors one set of mutations — this natural selection is then what results in «rapid change»

People targeted our children to gain favor with the church leadership — like the man who was helping with Sunday School who insisted my 11 year old daughter speak in tongues, laying hands on her and yelling at her in front of the other kids — all without our knowledge.

While we are not in favor of mandating that creation be taught in public school science classes, we believe that, at the very least, instructors should have the academic freedom to bring up the problems with evolution.

Under the leadership of Horace Mann, the Massachusetts public - school system was thoroughly revamped, and the old practice of denominational religious instruction was eliminated in favor of instruction in universal Christian principles which were to be found in all denominations.