And me – instead of a deficient school-leaver, I'll look like a well-read sophisticate.
The case attracted attention from Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, whose efforts to expand school choice have put her at odds with teacher unions, which she has called "defenders of the status quo". She has been critical of teacher movements — backed by unions — that swept several states this year, when teachers shut down schools to draw attention to their paltry pay and deficient school funding.
The Legislature will be the forum this fall for debate on a controversial Kean proposal that would allow the state to take control of deficient school districts, dismiss local superintendents and school boards and replace them with a state-appointed superintendent for a minimum of five years.
Bates sentenced King to less than the 14 to 17½ years prosecutors sought, noting King's age and lesser financial benefit in the overall scheme, but said King led and orchestrated multiple schemes involving multiple bribes from several "grossly deficient" schools over more than two years, victimizing veterans, taxpayers and VA.
In one way or another, all the artists have been affected by the mass demonstrations that broke out in Brazil last month to protest corruption, extravagant spending on the 2016 Olympics and next year's soccer World Cup, deficient schools and hospitals, and other social ills.
In a related vein, School Chancellor Joel I. Klein stressed, of supposedly deficient schools, "Closings are meant to be curative, not punitive".
In addition to poverty, other major barriers for ethnic girls include the need to work, low awareness among families of the value of education, deficient school infrastructure, and poor quality of teaching and learning.
Earlier this year, I founded a 501c3 called The Situation Project in an effort to provide high performing, arts-deficient schools in underserved, NYC communities exposure to arts and cultural experiences.
The "achievement gap" is not about the ability of students to succeed, but rather, about the ways in which generations of deficient public schools have robbed children of their real academic potential; impoverished families cannot send their kids to private schools, hire tutors and coaches, spend money on all of the perks that open pathways to elite colleges.
The AMA convinced lawmakers to shut down "deficient" medical schools, drastically paring back the supply of doctors almost 30% over 30 years.
Most students wander between precarious public schools and deficient subsidised or voucher schools.
