Sentences with phrase «suburban parents»

But this opposition has been empowered by the skepticism of many suburban parents, who have paid a premium to buy homes in better school districts.

Parents, including suburban parents, increasingly expect educational options such as charters, home - schooling, magnet programs and career academies.

Given that, it's not hard to see why vouchers and charter schooling have played so poorly with suburban parents and homeowners.

I've got to believe, it's not just suburban parents who are upset about education.»

Really bad if the pushback forces succeed in drawing in white, middle - class, suburban parents by convincing them that charters drain money from their high - functioning schools.

What do Brooke charters in Boston offer suburban parents in Newton?

In All Fall Down, Weiner tackles a growing epidemic in our society: middle - and upper - class suburban parents who abuse prescription medication to cope with their overworked and overstressed lifestyles.

Some reformers hoped that the poor results of the new tests would persuade even suburban parents to lose faith in their community schools and demand not only new products but school closings, charters, and vouchers.3

New York's outgoing Board of Regents chancellor, Merryl Tisch, says the greatest disappointment of her tenure was being unable to convince suburban parents to «move the standards movement beyond the rhetoric and politics.»

The Westchester County executive even chose to have his children «opt out» of state - administered English exams earlier this month, a position that resonated not only with unionized teachers but also suburban parents, both important constituencies for Cuomo.

Just like most suburban parents I only need two strollers: a full - featured one that turns into a travel system for going to the park, and a lightweight umbrella one for running errands and traveling.

Lisa is my favorite resource, so it was wonderful to ask her to share advice for suburban parents who would like to start their own flock but don't have any experience with chickens.

It is a campaign Cuomo waged from the start of his tenure as governor in 2011, but eased off of in recent years due to significant backlash from teachers unions, suburban parents upset by high - stakes testing, and others, like AQE.

John Goodman and Julie Hagerty intermittently amuse as clueless suburban parents but Lupe Ontiveros as maid Consuelo gets no opportunity to show that beyond her hapless fate and grief she is capable of a horrendous act.

This one opens a vein of morbid black comedy rather than one of blood, sending up suburban parenting oneupmanship and the motherly desire that everything be absolutely perfect for a child's big day.

The movie tells the interwoven tales of close to a dozen suburban parents and high - schoolers, united by the common themes of sex, alienation, and the Internet — a kind of techno - misanthropic Love Actually.

Jennifer Aniston will star in an untitled R - rated suburban parenting comedy from writer / director Sophie Goodhart, says Deadline.

Director Gil Kenan's Poltergeist stars Sam Rockwell and Rosemarie DeWitt as two suburban parents whose home becomes terrorized by an evil spirit.

This truth - telling was one reason so many suburban parents ended up souring on the law.

That narrative says that charters are really supposed to be for failing urban districts, that suburban parents don't want or need them, and rather than expand charters to the suburbs to bolster Republican support, advocates should rather work on their rhetoric.

Suburban parents already bought that and now have to think about what they want their children to experience, the academic engagement, and whether they want to be part of that as true partners.»

«I think suburban parents, when they found out that your ninth grader could enter Edison and over the course of the first two years become a student enrolled at Edison and Monroe Community College; and in the course of five or six years, depending on the student's ability to move through the program, graduate with an associate's degree at that point for no money, that gets people's attention.»

In Maplewood, New Jersey, suburban parents derailed, at least temporarily, a proposed charter school that would have offered instruction in Mandarin.

My post last week urging New York parents to say «yes» to the state standardized tests generated many comments, mostly from angry suburban parents.

There is also the skepticism of school reform among suburban parents, who may realize public schools are in atrocious shape, but also have a relationship with schools and teachers that few school reformers (save for the Steve Barrs and Geoffrey Canadas) have dared to match.

Suburban parents indicated they would take 5.0 steps, on average, whereas rural and urban parents indicated they would take «only» 4.7 steps.

«These are city parents behaving like persistent suburban parents.

Charters with all their instances of fiduciary malfeasence well - documented in the courts, etc. are a political, monetary boondoggle at the expense of those who are powerless, (unlike suburban parents), to do anything to either check them or put a stop to them.

Vouchers have been blocked by unions resisting market forces and by suburban parents reflecting those forces.

But Cuomo caved once teacher unions and wealthy suburban parents launched an anti - accountability / pro-local control campaign funded by UFT member dues.

However, after blowback from teacher union leaders and suburban parents aiming the weapon of test refusal squarely at Cuomo's political aspirations, the Governor folded and declared a four - year moratorium on that linkage.

A series of stories last week by the Daily Herald and WBEZ radio makes that case emphatically, and it also gives suburban parents ample reason to start caring about this issue, because it's now very much in their back yard.

The claim raised a few eyebrows, given that white kids are on the rise in DCPS, private school enrollment has been declining, and DCPS had to start a fraud unit because suburban parents were faking residence to get their kids into district schools.

DC schools were so good that nearby suburban parents were faking residence in order to get their kids into District schools.

Others, however, including its stores in more suburban areas of California and Arizona, didn't make much sense for a retailer that was offering products geared toward the time - harried, urban consumer rather than the value - oriented suburban parent, Montgomery says.

Derrell noted that suburban parents in some New Jersey communities have been avidly battling charter schools seeking to open up in the «burbs,» and pointed to the enormous political power that a couple dozen suburban families can wield.

Rick Hess fingers the reformers» social justice agenda, which is at odds with the interests of middle class suburban parents.

They haven't won over suburban congressional Republicans such as House Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline, movement conservatives such as Victor Davis Hanson, hard - core progressives like Dana Goldstein and even suburban parents.

«The proliferation of charters in Mecklenburg County served as grist for the political activism of suburban parents who threatened a middle - class exodus from CMS to the charter sector if new assignment boundaries did not honor their current neighborhood school assignments.

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.

Such is the madness of many a suburban parent, a folly stoked by ego and fear.

Naturally, he succeeds in adapting to the suburban parent's lifestyle (living up to the «World's Greatest Mother» bumper sticker on the Plummers» minivan).

As researchers have documented (see «U.S. Students from Educated Families Lag in International Tests,» features, Fall 2014), even middle - class and suburban parents have reason to find fault with their schools.

New Jersey isn't the only state where a loud cohort of teacher union leaders, affiliated lobbyists, and (mostly) white, suburban parents are rebelling against annual assessments that show how much our kids are learning.

Although much of the media coverage surrounding parents opting their children out of state tests has focused on white, suburban parents, these families are not alone in taking a stand against tests they see as having no value for their children or schools.