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...She was a staunch defender of public education and criticised the spread of charter schools — privately operated, taxpayer-funded schools — and their affluent proponents....
...So I would charter a plane, fly her out to Murano in the Venice lagoon and beg to accompany her around whatever food market she bought all the ingredients from....
...He has instructed the education ministry to prepare national legislation to prohibit teaching about gender at all in elementary schools....
...They have also called for a ban on charter schools backed by billionaire donors....
...China is mandating inspections of all textbooks used in elementary and middle schools across the country to remove foreign content, as education increasingly becomes a target of the Communist party’s ideological...
...Take the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in suburban Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012 when 20 children and six adults were killed. The public response was deeply empathetic and deeply misguided....
...It has lost more than 33,000 students, or 40 per cent of those enrolling, since 2010 as Detroit’s population has shrunk and charter schools have grown....
...Freedom Group’s Bushmaster rifle was used in the shooting that killed 20 children and six adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14 last year....
...Rhee’s detractors see her, and the charter school movement, as a Trojan horse for privatising US public schools....
...Amid lower birth rates and increased popularity of charter schools, numbers at urban public schools across the US have been falling....
...In its first public statement since 20 children and six adults were killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, the National Rifle Association, the gun lobby group, said it was “prepared to offer meaningful...
...Many have also agreed to promote publicly funded but independently run charter schools and to improve student data collection....
...It wants limits on the number of independently run “charter schools” lifted. And so on. The policy foresees carrots as well as sticks....
...I ask: what is the elementary unit? The EU or the nation state?”...
...I was suspicious of charter schools when the movement began a decade ago, writes Jurek Martin ....
...He along with his 21-year-old mother Tessa, are among 275 homeless victims of Hurricane Katrina being sheltered by the Red Cross in Central elementary school, Gulfport, Mississippi....
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