For the first time, a Democratic president, Barack Obama, is espousing ideas that have been anathema to teachers' unions — chiefly, encouraging school choice through charter schools and holding teachers accountable for student learning.
Why any of this, you might ask, at what was once chiefly a school of engineering, albeit a great one?
City officials said the responsibility for absenteeism lies chiefly with school principals, who are required by the state to submit attendance plans.
"I'm for English-plus," said Mr. Bush, describing his approach, chiefly for schools, that English must be the main language of instruction, but that other languages could also be used in school environments.
Chiefly, many schools views open course platforms as a feature, rather than the future of education and, while being necessary and integral to the democratization of access to courses and learning content, are not yet sufficient.
Another initiative, filed by a coalition headed by the California Federation of Teachers, would raise about $6 billion a year, chiefly for schools, exclusively by raising taxes on rich Californians.
A third proposal, developed by longtime education activist Molly Munger (co-founder of the Advancement Project and daughter of billionaire Charles Munger, Warren Buffett's partner at Berkshire Hathaway), would raise about $10 billion annually, chiefly for schools and preschools, by hiking the income taxes of all but the poorest Californians.
Normal schools were established chiefly to train elementary-school teachers for common schools (known as public schools in the United States).
In so doing, he will conduct some concerts next season, will supervise existing in-school and family-matinee concerts, and will help set up a Pacific Academy of Music, a conservatory chiefly for high school students, at the orchestra's new headquarters in Santa Ana.
This demonstrates the increased attention and importance that especially History has been given in the Danish school, chiefly driven by the goal of making students intimate with Danish culture.
