Sentences with phrase «touted as a national model»

Despite its failings, however, «reformers» tout it as a national model.

A recently approved plan to spend $ 100 million over the next five years to make preschool more widely available to youngsters in Los Angeles County is being touted as a national model.

New York City Community School District # 2, whose reforms are widely touted as a national model, also benefited from the fact that its superintendent had a virtuoso's grasp of community and school - system politics.

When it was signed almost a year ago, Newark's new teacher contract was touted as a national model for rewarding strong teachers and for improving or in some cases, getting rid of weaker ones.