Sentences with phrase «undermining local public schools»

Despite this growing consensus, opponents of school choice programs persist in their attempts to spread fear among parents and the general public by falsely accusing these programs of undermining local public schools and of further restricting educational access.

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To the best of our knowledge, and based on all evidence that we're aware of, neither the signers of the Shanker Institute manifesto, nor leaders in the Obama / Duncan Education Department, advocate a «nationalized curriculum» that would «undermine control of public school curriculum and instruction at the local and state level» and «transfer control to an elephantine, inside - the - Beltway bureaucracy.»

While most legislators would agree that local control of public schools is important, this bill would take all control over the creation of charter schools out of the hands of local officials and give it to an unelected state commission — while simultaneously undermining the financial structure of traditional schools which are under local control.

We have the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPSS) supporting proposals that not only undermine local school boards but destroy some of the most important tenets of public education — this from the people who are supposed to be the head cheerleaders for teachers, public schools and public educPublic School Superintendents (CAPSS) supporting proposals that not only undermine local school boards but destroy some of the most important tenets of public education — this from the people who are supposed to be the head cheerleaders for teachers, public schools and public educSchool Superintendents (CAPSS) supporting proposals that not only undermine local school boards but destroy some of the most important tenets of public education — this from the people who are supposed to be the head cheerleaders for teachers, public schools and public educschool boards but destroy some of the most important tenets of public education — this from the people who are supposed to be the head cheerleaders for teachers, public schools and public educpublic education — this from the people who are supposed to be the head cheerleaders for teachers, public schools and public educpublic schools and public educpublic education.

Daniel A. Domenech, executive director of AASA, The School Superintendents Association stated, «The impact these changes would have on state and local governments to adequately and appropriately invest in and support critical infrastructure investments, including public schools, are unacceptable and put our nation on a path that undermines progress in student learning, graduation rates, college completion rates and career readiness.»

This from the Democratic governor whose «Commissioner's Network» program has undermined local control, handed public schools over to the disgraced Jumoke / FUSE charter school chain in Hartford and Bridgeport and devastated a number of urban schools by implementing a «money follows the child» system that has left troubled schools without the resources they need to even serve the students that have remained in those schools.

Not only has the Malloy administration undermined the very people public schools were created to help, his efforts have cut deep into the fabric of Connecticut's historic system of local control.

From the moment Stefan Pryor arrived in Connecticut, the Malloy administration's education policy has been consistently designed to destroy local control, belittle and demean teachers, reduce parental involvement, undermine our public schools and divert scarce public resources to out - of - state consultants and carpetbagging staff.

Although the three organizations are funded primarily from local taxpayer funds and are supposed to be advocating for local public schools, all three have spent the last three years lobbying for Governor Malloy's restrictive, centralized and top - down Corporate Education Reform Industry agenda... An agenda that undermines local control of education, seeks to limit the rights of parents, denigrates teachers and turns Connecticut's public schools into little more than Common Core testing factories.

The charter school front groups, ConnCAN and the Connecticut Council for Education Reform, with the help of the Connecticut School Finance Project, the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education (CABE) and the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPSS)-- the latter two groups which are funded through local school budgets and are supposed to be advocating for public schools — have proposed a set of principles for a new school funding formula for Connecticut that will undermine the state's public school districts and drain local municipal buschool front groups, ConnCAN and the Connecticut Council for Education Reform, with the help of the Connecticut School Finance Project, the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education (CABE) and the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPSS)-- the latter two groups which are funded through local school budgets and are supposed to be advocating for public schools — have proposed a set of principles for a new school funding formula for Connecticut that will undermine the state's public school districts and drain local municipal buSchool Finance Project, the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education (CABE) and the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPSS)-- the latter two groups which are funded through local school budgets and are supposed to be advocating for public schools — have proposed a set of principles for a new school funding formula for Connecticut that will undermine the state's public school districts and drain local municipal buPublic School Superintendents (CAPSS)-- the latter two groups which are funded through local school budgets and are supposed to be advocating for public schools — have proposed a set of principles for a new school funding formula for Connecticut that will undermine the state's public school districts and drain local municipal buSchool Superintendents (CAPSS)-- the latter two groups which are funded through local school budgets and are supposed to be advocating for public schools — have proposed a set of principles for a new school funding formula for Connecticut that will undermine the state's public school districts and drain local municipal buschool budgets and are supposed to be advocating for public schools — have proposed a set of principles for a new school funding formula for Connecticut that will undermine the state's public school districts and drain local municipal bupublic schools — have proposed a set of principles for a new school funding formula for Connecticut that will undermine the state's public school districts and drain local municipal buschool funding formula for Connecticut that will undermine the state's public school districts and drain local municipal bupublic school districts and drain local municipal buschool districts and drain local municipal budgets.

Do they stand with Connecticut's students, teachers, parents, public school advocates and taxpayers or will they continue to turn our public schools into little more than testing factories and money pits for an industry that is gorging itself on scarce taxpayer funds while undermining the role of teachers, parents and the local control of public education.

While recognizing that public education continues to face major challenges and problems that must be addressed, Representative Ziobron has become an advocate for parents who wish to opt their children out of the Common Core tests and for policies that support, not undermine, the role of parents, teachers, and local citizens in how their local schools should be run.

Plaintiffs alleged in their lawsuit that HB7069 took away some of the constitutional powers to make decisions about public schools and undermined local control of public schools.

Caputo - Pearl and other teacher union leaders, local and national, have fought against the rise of charter schools, asserting that they undermine public education by draining financial support from public education systems and creating an educational caste system that favors some demographic groups over others.

We also believe the video risks undermining the work of the many thousands of members of the public, schools and universities, local authorities and many businesses, of which Sony is one, who support the long - term aims of the 10:10 movement and who are actively working towards the reduction of carbon emissions.