Sentences with phrase «teachers and public»

Jo has worked closely with the NGA Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art collection, curators and artists to create curriculum resources and education programs for schools and teachers and public programs for children and families.

This has resulted in the so - called «consensus gap»: the mismatch between perceptions of the degree of scientific consensus that exists among teachers and the public at large, and the very strong agreement within the expert community.

The Academy arose when a group of artists, teachers and public intellectuals (including, famously, Tom Wolfe incongruously paired with Andy Warhol) decided New York needed an École des Beaux - Arts rooted firmly in the tradition of representational painting, drawing and sculpture.

Federal loans also come with several different deferment and forbearance options, as well as forgiveness programs for teachers and public servants.

«This company's actions have jeopardized the financial futures of teachers and public servants across the country,» Healey said at the time.

Only the federal government has the power to forgive debts, which they reserve for a select group of teachers and public servants.

As a result of having had the exposure of a school library media center headed by certified school library media specialists, coupled with good teachers and public librarians in Woodbridge, I myself became a teacher / school / public librarian.

This weekend, the 2016 Opt Out Conference in Philadelphia is bringing together parents, teachers, academics and public education advocates from across the country to discuss developments and share strategies in our ongoing battle to protect our children, teachers and public schools from the corporate education reform industry and the standardized testing companies that are turning our children into guinea pigs and our public schools into little more than testing factories and profit centers.

The powers that be need to stop the Common Core testing madness before they do even more damage to our children, our teachers and our public education system.

In this case, the issue isn't which major party candidate for governor will do more damage to teachers and public education, but whether the candidates and their supporters are accountable for the rhetoric and claims they make during this campaign season.

Meanwhile, the most important thing that all citizens can do for their children and Connecticut's teachers and public schools is to opt out of the unfair and discriminatory Common Core SBAC test.

It is interesting to note that most of these important bills have been proposed by Republican members of the Connecticut General Assembly, but an increasing number of Democratic legislators are standing up and speaking out in favor of Connecticut's students, parents, teachers and public schools.

Although many parents, teachers and public school advocates already know that Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy is the most anti-teacher, anti-public education Democratic Governor in the nation, Malloy's proposed budget drives the message home in a very big way.

The Common Core SBAC test is nothing short of a scheme designed to label the vast majority of Connecticut public school students as failures and it is rigged to undermine Connecticut's students, teachers and public schools.

In Connecticut, Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy, Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman and the «education reformers» have devoted themselves to ensuring that the children, parents, teachers and public schools of the Constitution State are saddled with an absurd and damaging teacher evaluation system that utilizes the Common Core SBAC testing scam results to evaluate teachers.

Please don't patronise teachers and the public by telling them that there is a shortage of money for education — there isn't!

Our children, parents, teachers and public schools deserve far better from our elected officials.

After the House and Senate ended session, many teachers and public education advocates met with their local state representatives.

They did not present any long term plan to tell parents, teachers and the public what CPS is trying to accomplish.

Led by Governor Dannel Malloy and Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman, the Democrats in the Connecticut General Assembly have proven, yet again, that they are unwilling to protect and support Connecticut's public school students, parents, teachers and public schools.

If you had a child in the Madison, Connecticut public schools you'd have a superintendent, school administrators and Board of Education that was committed to telling the truth about the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Testing System and dedicated to putting children, parents, teachers and their public schools above the Corporate Education Reform Industry's ongoing attempt to undermine public education in the United States.

His willingness to stand up and speak out on behalf of students, parents, teachers and public schools has earned him accolades and praise from the Washington Post to the Wait, What Blog and from many others.

The Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme is the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory national testing system that the Malloy administration instituted and are now being used to evaluate and label students, teachers and public schools.

It is bad enough that CCER is misleading the public and is lobbying on behalf of an agenda that is hurting students, parents, teachers and public schools, but it is even worse they are doing it with money that belonged to Connecticut consumers.

platform has also served as an important platform for other education advocates to add their voices to the battle to promote public education and fight for our students, parents, teachers and public schools.

As Governor Malloy's point person on education, Pryor led the effort to undermine Connecticut's students, parents, teachers and public schools.

With Election Day close at hand, candidates for the Connecticut State Senate and Connecticut House of Representatives should be making it clear that if elected on November 8th they'll shift gears and actually do what is right for Connecticut's students, teachers and public schools.

Michael Morton — the new Communications Manager who recently transferred from Texas to take on the task of explaining to Connecticut voters why charter schools, privatization and Malloy's damaging education reform strategies are what Connecticut's students, parents, teachers and public schools need to ensure a better future.

The change appears to be part of a broader strategy by the Malloy administration to approve some charter schools for this coming year and then return after the election to approve other applications when fewer parents, teachers and public school advocates will be paying attention.

With Governor Malloy implementing unprecedented cuts to vital state services, including public education, Malloy and the legislature should have started out by eliminating the funding for the SBAC testing scheme... long before the attacked the programs that are really helping Connecticut's children, parents, teachers and public schools.

In example, after example, after example, Stefan Pryor and his «team» have consistently put their political agenda ahead of what was best for the students, parents, teachers and public schools of our state.

It is a shockingly sad statement, and a powerful commentary on our times, that a leading proponent of the Common Core and the Common Core SBAC testing would engage in blatant lying in order to try and mislead students, parents, teachers and the public.

Rather than focus on poverty, language barriers, unmet special education needs and inadequate funding of public schools, the charter school proponents and Malloy apologists want students, parents, teachers and the public to believe that a pre-occupation with standardized testing, a focus on math and English, «zero - tolerance» disciplinary policies for students and undermining the teaching profession will force students to «succeed» while solving society's problems.

Equally disturbing, these unfair and discriminatory tests are being used to categorize, rank and punish students, teachers and public schools.

This package of emails is yet another reminder of just how committed the Malloy administration has become in their effort to silence parents, teachers and public school advocates as part of their ongoing effort to push through their corporate education reform industry agenda.

Given the opportunity to do the right thing and stand with Connecticut's students, parents, teachers and public schools by deemphasizing the destructive SBAC testing scam and ensuring that Connecticut's public school teachers are evaluated using a system that actually measures their effectiveness, Connecticut's legislators — once again — turned their backs and walked away.

It is time for Connecticut's elected and appointed officials to do the right thing and stop undermining Connecticut's parents, students, teachers and public schools.

A growing number of parents (and educators) understand that the Common Core standardized testing frenzy is bad for students, teachers and public schools.

Lower compensation and new restrictions on unions could also encourage increased voluntary turnover, with private - sector employment or retirement becoming relatively more preferable for teachers and public servants.

Doing Malloy's bidding, rather than what was right for Connecticut's children, parents, teachers and public schools, the Democratic leaders of the Connecticut State Senate and Connecticut House of Representatives refused to even bring this important bill up for a vote, thereby killing the legislation.

While school superintendents and administrators have been a major part of the anti-standardized testing coalitions in New York, far fewer Connecticut school administrators have been willingly to step forward and speak up on behalf of the students, parents, teachers and public schools they are sworn to serve.

This unprecedented development was the direct result of a growing awareness by parents, students, teachers and public education advocates that the standardized testing scheme isn't useful and that the Corporate Education Reform Industry is turning public schools into little more than testing factories.

For parents, teachers and public school advocates who were looking to see if Malloy was going to soften his pro-corporate education reform industry agenda, there was no sign that the governor intended to hold Connecticut's charter schools accountable for their use of public funds nor was there a suggestion that the Malloy administration was going to fix their unfair «Teacher Evaluation» program by decoupling the inappropriate Common Core Test scores from the evaluation process for Connecticut's public school teachers.

Hopefully Teacher Benham will use her classroom expertise to persuade Malloy and the State Board of Education that while standards are an important part of a successful educational system, the Common Core «s unfair, inappropriate and expensive Common Core Testing Scheme is hurting Connecticut's students, teachers and public schools and must be suspended until it can be redesigned and appropriately implemented.

Connecticut parents, now is the time to stand up for our children, their teachers and our public schools.

Since Malloy introduced his «Education Reform» agenda, the charter school industry and the corporate funded «education reform» advocacy groups have hired dozens of lobbyists and spent nearly $ 7 million, or more, to «persuade» Connecticut officials to adopt policies that are diametrically opposed to what is in the best interests of Connecticut students, parents, teachers and public school system.

But parents, teachers and the public in Hartford and across that state shouldn't be fooled.

Instead of fighting on behalf of Connecticut's students, parents, teachers and public schools, the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education (CABE) and the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPSS) are actually working hand - in - glove with the corporate education reform industry to move public policy in exactly the wrong direction.

The truth is that the SBAC is a colossal waste of time and scarce resources and it should be dropped as a vehicle to label and punish students, teachers and public schools.

The colossal and disastrous effort to privatize public education in the United States is alive and well thanks to a plethora of billionaires who, although they'd never send their own children to a public school, have decided that individually and collectively, they know what is best for the nation's students, parents, teachers and public schools.