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Thursday, December 10, 2015

Parents will demand better education funding, keynoter predicts



Claudio Sanchez, a 25-year veteran of education reporting, provided the keynote address Thursday at the ASBA/ASA conference.

Sanchez believes education can provide a "window to the nation's future." His own background set the stage for some of this belief, starting his early years in Sonora Mexico and immigrating to America, where he studied at Northern Arizona University and went on to earn numerous awards for local and national education issues

Through his experience, he gave the audience a set of education predictions for education - largely circling equity issues - in 2016, including:
  • There will be more scrutiny by parents and organized parties for better funding and better teachers;
  • The Common Core controversy will die down;
  • There will be more calls for a common space and conversations between charter schools and traditional public schools;
  • Charter schools will become a lead education issue in the presidential race;
  • There will be a strong backlash to undocumented students — or " Dreamers" — in higher education, mostly due to the anti-immigration rhetoric;
  • The U.S. Supreme Court will ban ethnicity and race in college admissions; and
  • Higher education institutions will have to "mobilize to justify the enormous money" students and parents have to borrow.
Mr. Sanchez went on to call on the heroes of education - those in the audience - to rise up those hard working teachers who are "fully invested" in meeting the needs of every single student.

"Teachers are fighting against incredible odds and they are doing an incredible job," he said. "Losing one child is losing one too many."

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