Not exact matches
It's because the old
educational establishment — the left - wing local authorities, the
leaders of the teachers
unions, the Labour party theorists — stood in the way.
It follows warnings from
union leaders that councils are powerless to intervene when they hear about
educational underperformance and poor attendance in academies, and after MPs questioned the accountability
of the government's network
of schools commissioners.
... Throughout this long period, we have been repeatedly frustrated by the gulf between the clear and present need, the burning desire
of parents to have more control over the schooling
of their children, on the one hand, and the adamant and effective opposition
of trade
union leaders and
educational administrators to any change that would in any way reduce their control
of the
educational system.
In a more sober moment, Helen Farias, a local
union leader from the Sweetwater Education Association intoned, «The types
of legislation ALEC promotes will create a two - tiered
educational system, one for the privileged and one for the rest
of us.»
The hypocrisy
of this legislation is that it is sponsored by CTA and UTLA, two
unions that pride themselves for standing up for the due process rights
of their teachers and yet they would dare deny due process for parents, students and other
educational leaders with this kind
of draconian legislation.
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.
Guy Kilpatric,
educational farm manager at the University
of Maryland's Terp Farm, will be speaking at the Washington D.C. Food Tank Summit, titled «Cultivating the Next Generation
of Young Food
Leaders,» in partnership with The George Washington University, The World Resources Institute, the National Farmers
Union, the National FFA Organization, and the National Young Farmers Coalition on February 28, 2018.