Sentences with phrase «talk about our failing schools»

St. Louis is my home and we need to talk about our failing schools and the chaos of violence among young people in this community.

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He talks about Klein's $ 1.3 billion reduction in infrastructure spending from 1994 to 1997 and his $ 18.9 billion spending on infrastructure from 1998 to 2006 without any reference to the need for even more infrastructure because (1) Klein failed to maintain schools, roads and hospitals (in fact he blew the hospitals up) and (2) Alberta's population ballooned by 500,000 during that period.

Inspectors failed schools on «diversity» criteria based on young children declining to talk about their «attitudes to homosexuality».

«They talk about the school - to - prison pipeline, where people fail in school, can't get a job and wind up in prison,» Cuomo said.

Speaking about Cuomo's proposal to implement state takeover of failing schools, «that hit me more than anything else,» said Mulgrew, who went on to talk again about the lack of school aid offered up by Cuomo.

Bernie's big brother talks about their childhood and the Vermont senator's failed bid to be high school president.

Video: Andy Smarick talks with Education Next about why the Obama administration needs to rethink its embrace of turnarounds and adopt a new strategy for the nation's persistently failing schools.

Known in education circles and beyond as an aggressive agent of change, Barr has been in talks with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan about how to boost failing schools and whether Green Dot's methods can serve as a blueprint for fixing schools across the country.

For some time now, I've been giving the Department a hard time about not releasing enough data on the performance of the SIG (School Improvement Grants) program — I'm trying to hold them accountable for the Secretary's talk of turning around 5,000 persistently failing schools over the course of five years.

I have seen apathetic students change to students who are excited, enthusiastic learners; students who were failing every subject become engaged in learning and making better grades; students who, in the past, avoided talking with me about their grades, come... waving their report cards in their hands to show me their improvement; students who thought of themselves as incapable begin to think of themselves as capable learners; and students who thought that dreams were for others, begin to dare to dream about the world outside their school and community and how they can contribute.

As liberal blogger Matt Yglesias has noted, «Apocalyptic talk about «failing» schools and intense elite focus on the problems of the least - privileged students tends to obscure the more banal reality that most schools are non-optimal in lots of ways.»»

Today we'll talk with Paul about these heroes, the impact they had on our schools, and his optimism that digital learning might finally succeed where so many other reform efforts failed.

Andy Smarick talks with Education Next about why the Obama administration needs to rethink its embrace of turnarounds and adopt a new strategy for the nation's persistently failing schools.

Josh Dunn talks with Education Next about continuing efforts by New York City Chancellor Joel Klein to close chronically failing schools — despite a ruling by a state court that the closings could not proceed — using a federal School Improvement Grant.

In surveys, no matter how much talk there is about «failing» schools and problems with tenure, teachers are trusted and popular.

Those are the kind of statistics that people cite when they talk about «failing schools.»

While it failed to «change the mindset» of the American people on education, he takes some comfort in the fact that the candidates talked about «standards, a longer school day, a longer school year in some cases, better teaching, and incentive compensation and charter schools.»

And when we talk about improving public education, and the very real and increasing threat that is coming from the corporate «education reform» types, who want to layoff teachers, ban or reduce collective bargaining rights, take - over public schools and transfer the care and control of our public schools to various third parties... let's not forget that many districts do not fund enough IA positions and every district fails to fairly compensate IAs for the incredible work they do.

Parent trigger laws are a controversial and drastic step when schools are failing, but are being increasingly talked about.

Parent Keeley McSweeney also talks about the impact this has had on the schooling of her children while Tower Hamlets Labour councillor Joshua Peck says the council failed to respond to the need for schools.

Holliday «talked convincingly about how schools were failing African - American children and that the new Common Core state standards would change that,» Cosby said.

He talked tough about closing failing schools and firing bad teachers.

After years of talking about failing (and now coasting) schools, the question will inevitably be asked — why aren't you helping all failing schools?

In other words, the reformers do not know what they are doing or talking about when they talk about «failing schools»!

Schools are failing, make them better — so what is there to talk about?

After all, there is much talk in education about «failing» schools.

In talking with teachers you even hear stories of the entire school experience being distorted by these tests because the school is worried only about kids who are just on the edge of passing or failing the tests.

Before arriving she tried to talk with district staff about where to enroll her daughter: «They didn't tell me McKinley was a failing school.

Krish Mohip, CEO of Ohio's much smaller, 5,400 - student Youngstown City School District, talked about his experience improving failing schools and promised to push Boulder Valley.

He talked about how the current public school system has failed too many children across multiple generations.

The school reform movement was shocked last week when likely Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton declared to talk show host (and school reformer) Roland Martin that public charter schools fail to work with «the most challenging students», and made other points about the schools that have no substance in fact.

«State of Mind» will appeal to those in the know before it appeals to the general public — Tom Marioni's Process Print (1969) failed to capture the attention of the dozens of school kids running around the day I visited, as did Chris Burden's video piece, Documentation of Selected Works (1971 - 74), in which Burden talks about most of his iconic performance pieces (Bed, Shoot).

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