Sentences with phrase «weaken state school»

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I just received an email from the Houston ISD School Health Advisory Council on which I sit, alerting me to the fact that the Texas state legislature is presently considering a wide - ranging school accountability bill (HB400) which will weaken... [Continue reSchool Health Advisory Council on which I sit, alerting me to the fact that the Texas state legislature is presently considering a wide - ranging school accountability bill (HB400) which will weaken... [Continue reschool accountability bill (HB400) which will weaken... [Continue reading]

The AAP opposes the current bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, because it would reduce access to free breakfast and lunch for children under the Community Eligibility Provision, endanger our child nutrition programs through a harmful 3 - state block grant program, weaken the evidence - based school nutrition standards, and fail to adequately invest in WIC, child care and summer feeding programs.

Disregarding sound nutritional science has real and troubling implications for all of us, regardless of what state we live in, in that it may weaken the proposed Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) and undercut our federal school food nutritional standards.

In February 2012, for example, the New York State Council of School Superintendents and New York State School Boards Association sent a joint letter to Cuomo, warning that the hurried process would pressure local superintendents and boards into making concessions to unions and weakening the system.

Mayor Bill de Blasio flunked two of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top education proposals that would weaken his say over school policy — including one that would allow the state to put failing city public schools into receivership.

The deep education spending cuts states have enacted will weaken that future workforce by diminishing the quality of elementary and high schools.

The bill by state Sen. Brian Benjamin (speaking), a Democrat, would weaken mayoral control over the schools.

After eight years of work, we were able to identify an entirely new mechanism for how spinal cord injury weakens the immune system,» said principal investigator Dr. Jan M. Schwab, neurologist and physician at Ohio State's Neurological Institute, who collaborated with researchers from several institutes in Germany, along with the University of Alabama in Birmingham, Harvard Medical School and Boston's Children's Hospital.

New research by Harvard Kennedy School Professor Paul E. Peterson and Matthew Ackerman finds that 20 states strengthened their student proficiency standards between 2011 and 2013 while just eight states weakened them.

In 2012, the legislature seemingly weakened its oversight of the charter sector by eliminating a requirement that the state education agency report on charter school quality each year.

In Mr. Behr's view, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold those vouchers breaks down the wall between church and state, weakening the opportunity for religious people and schools to stay independent and be a conscience for society.

...» But this was more or less what Ali Mazrui wrote 15 years ago in the report of a commission on multiculturalism in New York State schools, and it provoked the same counterattack from those who saw this as weakening a necessary common loyalty to the existing sState schools, and it provoked the same counterattack from those who saw this as weakening a necessary common loyalty to the existing statestate.

«The Nevada Association of School Boards continues to oppose efforts to weaken the public education system, which is the foundation of a free and democratic society,» stated Dr. Dotty Merrill, Executive Director, Nevada Association of School Boards.

By painting a false picture of student achievement, they compromise public confidence in the nation's schools, in the process undermining education and weakening the United States.

When Republicans have taken control of Congress and state legislatures, they have often tried to push through legislation that weakens unions and provides funds for private schools.

Despite successful efforts, mostly by teachers» unions, to weaken and restrict charter laws, there are now nearly 3,000 charter schools in the United States, and enough kids on their waiting lists to fill 900 more...

Responsibility for schools often falls to multiple parties, including school districts, charter school authorizers, and state agencies, weakening accountability and making it difficult for leaders to address the challenges facing parents.

This campaign, it says, is really «a proxy for a broader assault on public education itself» and is coming at a time when public schools have been weakened by funding cuts, «vitriolic political attacks on teachers and their unions, and state programs to privatize schools through vouchers, charter schools and other «school choice» measures.»

Giving state funding to schools the state does not run, she worries, would weaken the «public» side of accountability.

But while some of the nation's most prominent education lobby groups are backing the bill, there is apprehension from others that lawmakers might have overreacted to political pressure to limit the role of the federal government — considerably weakening Washington's ability to step in if a state fails to address its most troubled schools.

Stated purposes may obscure far less lofty aims, such as weakening entrenched and distrusted local school boards, creating the illusion of reform without investing more resources, putting a positive spin on central office downsizing by calling it decentralization, or simply trying to shift the blame for failure to the school itself.

Education advocates Friday hailed the eleventh - hour defeat of controversial efforts to rewrite state rules on teacher evaluations that they said would have weakened initiatives in Los Angeles and elsewhere to improve the quality of public school instructors.

Maass believes voucher programs weaken public schools and school districts in ways that go beyond just losing state aid, although that is devastating during a time of unprecedented cuts to public education.

Michael DeArmond cautions that state - mandated teacher evaluation systems can weaken principals» ability to manage teacher talent and urges flexibility for schools that have purposeful HR systems.

The state teachers union agrees, saying it is part of an effort to weaken public schools.

In 2012, we joined with the California State PTA, the California School Boards Association, education reform, and civil rights organizations to oppose AB5, which, as written, would have significantly weakened California state policies regarding teacher evaluaState PTA, the California School Boards Association, education reform, and civil rights organizations to oppose AB5, which, as written, would have significantly weakened California state policies regarding teacher evaluastate policies regarding teacher evaluation.

«Gov. Walker's approach has weakened neighborhood schools and made a mess of the state budget.»