Bacon and Olson,
whose school board campaigns were backed by the Denver teachers union, made their comments before the board voted to approve the contracts of five new charter schools set to open this fall and renew the contracts of 14 existing schools.»
Not exact matches
StudentsFirstNY, an advocacy group that promotes charter
schools and other education reforms, on
whose board several of those donors sit, strongly endorsed the governor's
campaign to make test scores matter more in evaluations, saying the existing system bore «zero resemblance» to how students themselves were performing across the state.
The general election pits Douglas, a social conservative and a former
school board member in the Phoenix area
whose campaign focuses on her opposition to the Common Core, against David Garcia, a former state department of education official and current faculty member at Arizona State University who supports the Common Core.
I am holding you responsible for the 9 - year - old student who came to
school with hardly any sleep after witnessing his mother administer Narcan to save his father's life, only to then take a three - hour test and I am holding you responsible for the autistic child
whose parents opted him out of the test but the
school counseled him back into... I hold you responsible for not passing legislation that allows for a public -
school TEACHER to serve on the
Board of EDUCATION, yet the chair of this
Board, Paul Sagan can contribute $ 600,000 to a
campaign that sought to charterize, segregate, and create a two - tiered system of privilege using high - stake test scores as the ammunition.»