Sentences with phrase «to reform public schools»

The march attracted only about 3,000 participants, but their message reflected the standard opposition by teachers unions and their allies to efforts at reforming our public schools.

Results from the poll showed that 74 % of respondents favored expanding the number of charter schools in Los Angeles, and 87 % supported reforming the public school system in Los Angeles.

«Democracy Prep runs all of its schools on public dollars which allows us to meet the challenge of reforming public schooling in America.»

In the tradition of Connecticut's great advocacy movements, from the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association to Harriet Beecher Stowe and the abolitionists, ConnCAN emerged to build a movement of concerned citizens advocating to fundamentally reform our public schools through smart public policies.

The President's America 2000 plan has been alternately characterized as a political agenda, a strategy for reforming public schools, a call to involve the private sector, an attempt to bring choice into the educational arena, and a crusade.

In the tradition of Connecticut's great advocacy movements, from the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association to Harriet Beecher Stowe and the abolitionists, ConnCAN is building a new movement of concerned citizens advocating to fundamentally reform our public schools through smart public policies.

There is a big debate in America on reforming the public school lunch program.

Lee said that an increasing number of public school teachers are enthusiastic about reforming public schools because hagwons are hollowing out the purpose and value of the classroom.

Texas Zero Tolerance is dedicated to reforming public school disciplinary codes.

After a decade of haphazardly reforming our public school system, we have reached a crucial junction.

Mission: For parents, grandparents, schools, faculty or any other caring adult to pledge to help our community's children achieve a truly independent future by reforming public schools, including district evaluations, fitness and nutrition, funding, green schools and technology and six slices of parent involvement and engagement.

Charter schools have become a very popular instrument for reforming public schools, because they expand choices, facilitate local innovation, and provide incentives for the regular public schools

An earlier report for the Center for American Progress, «Reforming Public School Systems through Sustained Union - Management Collaboration,» examined cases of school reform that resulted from collaborative partnerships between teachers unions and administrators working together in innovative ways to improve teaching quality and student performance.

Despite its less than stellar track record, teacher evaluation has taken center stage in recent efforts to reform public schools in the United States.

Broad has become a major target of teacher unions for his efforts nationwide to reform public schools through charters and an academy that trains executives to run them.

Why not spend equal money on two parallel tests: a test of vouchers in a dozen places, and a test of the best «reform the public schools» proposals in a dozen other places.

Reform the Public Schools: No widely endorsed package of comprehensive reforms exists.

Eugene W. Hickok is right to say that the struggle to reform public schools is «a battle over ideas.»

The liberal's calling is not to reform the public school, but at long last to create it.

Meanwhile, support for the most far - reaching federal effort to reform public schools — the No Child Left Behind Act — has slipped.

«My determination is to reform the public school system,» said candidate Booker, who was opposed by the state's powerful teachers union, with 192,272 members, in part because of his support of vouchers.

«I will fight to reform our public schools,» she said, according to text of the speech e-mailed to reporters.

While the city's charter schools ran independently of Rhee's efforts to reform the public school system, the slow improvement in the schools overall paralleled the city's growth — as the city's population grew over the last decade, more parents chose to enroll their children in the city's school system, creating pressure for better schools and more schools.

As the United States is looking to reform its public school system, education experts have increasingly looked at other countries for examples on what works and what won't.

«The most critical piece of the effort to reform public schools is local input and having local communities be a part of that effort,» Mr. Turner said.

Here's a suggestion for Bill and his buddies who want to reform our public schools: FEED THE CHILDREN.

New Schools For Phoenix is training leaders to open, replicate or reform our public schools — district or charter — providing a path out of poverty for students.

Silicon Valley Education Foundation Chief Executive Officer Muhammed Chaudry agrees with Torlakson that California already has adopted an ambitious agenda for reforming its public schools and said he thinks Tuck's candidacy is premature.

As Nashville continues to reform its public school system, it must look to the successes and failures of particular reforms in other cities as a guide.

«She has seen and studied the effects of education privatization across the country and is the nation's foremost expert on what works and doesn't work when it comes to reforming our public schools.»

As the nation challenges itself to reform public schools, increase teacher quality, engage parents, strengthen core content, and raise student achievement, we are still compelled to ask ourselves to what extent we have fulfilled the promise of Brown vs. Board of Education and Mendez vs. Westminster.

Politicians and pundits, some misguided, others malicious, have called for reforming public schools, but leave educators out of the reform plans.

Garcetti, who's been making a big play for the Latino vote, constantly adds an insulting post script to his «support» of the Parent Trigger by saying he doesn't think the law is the only thing that can reform public schools.

Reforming public schools through sustained union - management collaboration.

Or as they would put it, blessed are the wealthy for they shall reform our public schools, with or without our consent.

Bono said innovation plays a big role in reforming public schools, mainly because the State has been underfunding public education.

In reforming its public schools, New Orleans seeks to provide equitable educational opportunities for a student population that has historically been inadequately served.