Sentences with phrase «undermines school efforts»

Understand how teacher / leader «monocultural» competence in a changing context, undermines school efforts to meet the needs of ELLs.

Not exact matches

For the Chicago Public Schools, the empty seats undermine efforts to boost achievement and cost the district millions in attendance - based funding.

«Rewarding children with unhealthy foods in school undermines our efforts to teach them about good nutrition.

Gee, let's see, we now have a $ 15 billion food and beverage industry directly marketing to kids that's undermining our parenting efforts... pummeling junk food messaging incessantly (like PopTarts and Pizza Pockets being hawked at school lunch concession stands STILL even though many thought that was long gone, sigh).

Bettina Siegel said: First Lady: School cafeterias & vending machines shouldn't undermine parents» efforts to get kids to eat well.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, White House threatened to veto the spending bill if it contains the school meal waiver, saying that such a bill would be «a major step backwards for the health of American children by undermining the effort to provide kids with more nutritious food.»

-LSB-...] The Lunch Tray has a problem with how «bake sales» are used to undermine efforts to improve the nutrition of food offered in schools.

«But these efforts are sadly undermined if countries such as your own are welcoming our corrupt to hide their ill - gotten gains in your luxury homes, department stores, car dealerships, private schools and anywhere else that will accept their cash with no questions asked.

But David Laws, the former schools minister, said that Farron had done more than just undermine the party's general election efforts.

«There are too many schools where poor behaviour is undermining teachers» efforts to raise standards and which is driving teachers out of the profession.

Evangelical state legislators and school board members mounted similar efforts this year in Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Alabama, and the Texas Republican Party platform opposes «the teaching of... critical thinking skills and similar programs that... have the purpose of challenging the student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.»

The leaked documents also outline Heartland Institute's efforts to attack climate science and undermine the teaching of climate change in public schools.

We found that large international NGOs and humanitarian organizations feel that their expertise and experience was going unrecognized and unappreciated by government actors, and that government actors sometimes view NGOs as competitors who were undermining their efforts to get as many children as possible into public schools.

One way to do this is avoid complex index systems that only confuse educators, parents, and the public and which ultimately undermine efforts to improve schools.

The investigations revealed that the schools identified provided a sub-standard education, placed children at risk and undermined the government's effort to ensure all schools promoted British values.

The phenomenon has long been recognized as undermining efforts to maintain discipline in schools.

Local efforts can be undermined by theatrical but unserious approaches to school accountability.

Indeed, Russakoff quoted Booker's approach to school reform efforts with Zuckerberg: «I'm thinking, «Do everything you can right now, instead of worrying what tomorrow will be like or the next day... People allow their inability to control everything to undermine their determination to do something.»

Failing to account for natural fluctuations in test scores could undermine the very idea of holding schools accountable for their efforts — or lack thereof

Her newest book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, which was published last week by Basic Books, is the result of that effort.

This week, a dozen civil rights groups issued a statement in support of testing, noting that when parents opt out, even over legitimate concerns, «they're not only making a choice for their own child, they're inadvertently making a choice to undermine efforts to improve schools for every child.»

The NBPTS approach undermines commonsense efforts to link teacher compensation or recognition to their effectiveness as a classroom teacher, faculty colleague, and member of the school community.

A closer look at both assessment and other student data can help administrators recognize red flags in class access, school climate, parent involvement, and other areas that could be undermining their efforts to close achievement gaps.

When parents «opt out» of tests — even when out of protest for legitimate concerns — they're not only making a choice for their own child, they're inadvertently making a choice to undermine efforts to improve schools for every child.

He argued that Success Academy and other similar public charters had provided cover for the Bloomberg administration's efforts to undermine collective bargaining and close struggling district schools.

Whatever the inadequacies of the engagement efforts, shouldn't we focus our criticism first and foremost on those elected officials, union leaders, and activists who were pursuing a strategy of deception and vitriol — who woke up every day seeking to thwart positive change for kids, seeking to prevent the expansion of schools that were getting outsized success for children, seeking to undermine policies designed to increase equitable access to the district's better schools, seeking to gum up efforts to empower parents with choice, and seeking to thwart all efforts aimed at fostering an honest conversation about which educators were truly superlative and which were badly underserving children?

This pressure will also come from some of the creators of the new schools of choice, who will feel the effort to reach the standard will undermine what is original and distinctive in the school's approach, the reason for its creation in the first place.

With school choice likely to be a big focus of the new Administration's education agenda, these efforts will be undermined if parents lack the basic information they need to make an informed choice about other options, which the regulations provide.

There's no denying the state's racist history of school segregation or its ugly efforts in the late 1960s and early 1970s to undermine desegregation orders by helping white children to evade racially integrated schools.

Indeed, the reality of the matter is that both of California's teachers» organizations support Gavin Newsom because he has pledged to work with them rather than join the billionaire boys club behind corporate education reform efforts and the unregulated spread of charter schools that will continue to drain funding from other public schools and, if left unchecked, ultimately undermine public education itself.

Relay Graduate School of Education — Illegal lobbying marks effort to undermine Connecticut's teacher certification law

Too often, opponents of turnaround schools (a system of accelerating growth of student achievement partly by changing the adults who serve the students and removing restrictions that impede student success - including any collective bargaining agreements that don't put students» interest in the forefront) remain steadfastly wed to the failing status quo that undermines families» efforts to improve their circumstances through education.

Schools suffer from continual churn, undermining long - term improvement efforts.

As Catharine MacKinnon argues in the pages of this Issue, these decisions have undermined efforts to hold schools accountable through the private right of action because schools can do very little and still satisfy the standard.

Democrats predictably attacked the administration's budget proposal as an effort to undermine public schools and low - income students» ability to attend college.

58 As Catharine MacKinnon argues in the pages of this Issue, these decisions have undermined efforts to hold schools accountable through the private right of action because schools can do very little and still satisfy the standard.59 As such, it is possible that this state of affairs further encourages individuals to seek relief from OCR, elevating the need for OCR to provide «effective protection» and decrease the time it takes to investigate claims.

These moves to undermine reform efforts have created an unholy alliance between the far right that wants no state or federal intrusion into local school districts and the extreme left who mindlessly support teacher unions rather than support great teachers.

Of course DeVos, an ardent voucher / ESA fan, has invested heavily in her effort to undermine public schools.

The National Education Union was among the organisations that called for Young to go, claiming his appointment undermined the government's efforts to tackle sexism in schools.

That's why I'm so enraged by the «opt - out» movement, which does indeed «undermine efforts to improve schools for every child.»

For some, charters represent a determined effort to privatize public education and undermine public commitment to neighborhood schools.

But even as parents celebrate their accomplishments in Adelanto and elsewhere, school - reform opponents are renewing their efforts to undermine the law.

Minority teachers are being driven out of schools by poor working conditions at rates higher than their non-minority colleagues, which only undermines years of recruitment efforts that have targeted minority teachers.

«When parents «opt out» of tests — even when out of protest for legitimate concerns — they're not only making a choice for their own child, they're inadvertently making a choice to undermine efforts to improve schools for every child,» the statement said.

An overreliance on standardised data undermines our efforts to keep schools improving.

Unfortunately, for too many students, what happens «on the outside» undermines the best efforts and intentions of teachers and administrators at their schools.

And Duncan's insistence last summer that school districts had already cut «through... fat, through flesh, and into bone» only served to undermine the state and local leaders who had been inclined to swing the budget ax by making their efforts seem mean - spirited.

The report, titled «Subtraction by Distraction: Publishing Value - Added Estimates of Teachers by Name Hinders Education Reform,» published by the Center for American Progress (CAP), argues that publicly identifying teachers with value - added estimates of their abilities actually will undermine efforts to improve public schools.

Not only does this seriously disrupt children's lives, but it also undermines communities and fatally weakens the effort to recruit and keep high - quality teachers in our neediest schools.

As if the state and local effort to undermine parental rights wasn't outrageous enough, parents are reporting that some school districts are actually going after the children themselves.