Sentences with phrase «city education foundation»

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In 1995 when PepsiCo offered to assist our nonprofit scholarship foundation with private charitable contributions, the Jersey City Education Association threatened a state and national boycott of all Pepsi products.

His masterworks — On Christian Teaching, The Confessions, The Trinity, and The City of God — became bulwarks of Christian education in the West, and eventually served as the intellectual foundation for the first universities at Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge in the later Middle Ages.

Education policymakers — including big city mayors such as Chicago's Rahm Emanuel (D)-- see rating teachers by student test scores as reasonable and know voters and big foundations feel the same way.

There are 13 high schools under the domain of the local education authority, 12 of which are either comprehensive, foundation or voluntary - aided, and one city academy.

Back in 2014, Mayor de Blasio vowed that his Renewal Schools program would «shake the foundations of New York City education.»

When three Washington - based research and consulting organizations, backed by five leading foundations, launched the «Superintendents Prepared» program this year («Foundations Seek To Expand Pool of City School Chiefs,» Education Week, Feb. 5, 1992), I wonder whether they considered an alternative: abolishing the troubled office foundations, launched the «Superintendents Prepared» program this year («Foundations Seek To Expand Pool of City School Chiefs,» Education Week, Feb. 5, 1992), I wonder whether they considered an alternative: abolishing the troubled office Foundations Seek To Expand Pool of City School Chiefs,» Education Week, Feb. 5, 1992), I wonder whether they considered an alternative: abolishing the troubled office completely.

Footwear aside, McCartney, Lesser Professor of Early Childhood Development at HGSE, managed her honorary role well as one of 100 business, government, and education leaders who participated on November 1 in the third annual «Principal For A Day» event sponsored by the Boston Public Schools (BPS) and the Boston Plan for Excellence, an organization started by corporations and foundations in 1984 to benefit the city's school system.

Now, with diploma in hand, Sanders is heading back to Greenville, where he accepted a position as associate director of Public Education Partners, a local education foundation that partners with city schools to find solutions to Education Partners, a local education foundation that partners with city schools to find solutions to education foundation that partners with city schools to find solutions to problems.

Grogan believes that because the parent constituency of inner - city schools is not politically powerful, foundations serve as necessary advocates for education reform, pushing for improvements and using their influence and resources on behalf of these families.

He simply lacked the requisite education, hadn't taken the plenitude of pedagogic courses, expensive college credits in such vital subjects as: Methods of Teaching Science for Dummies; Educational Technology for Idiots; Band Aids & First Aid; Tae Kwan Do for the Inner City; Teaching & Testing the Test Takers; Touchy - Feely 101, 201 & 301; Understanding Special Kids, Gifted Kids, Not - so Gifted Kids, Kids with Attitude, and Kids with ADD; Curriculum Simulacrum; EL / Cross-Cultural AC / DC Current; Self - Esteem for the Worthless; and, last but not least: Foundations of Education: Sarcasm & Humiliation for Fun education, hadn't taken the plenitude of pedagogic courses, expensive college credits in such vital subjects as: Methods of Teaching Science for Dummies; Educational Technology for Idiots; Band Aids & First Aid; Tae Kwan Do for the Inner City; Teaching & Testing the Test Takers; Touchy - Feely 101, 201 & 301; Understanding Special Kids, Gifted Kids, Not - so Gifted Kids, Kids with Attitude, and Kids with ADD; Curriculum Simulacrum; EL / Cross-Cultural AC / DC Current; Self - Esteem for the Worthless; and, last but not least: Foundations of Education: Sarcasm & Humiliation for Fun Education: Sarcasm & Humiliation for Fun & Profit.

The Sutton Trust, a London - based foundation that aims to improve social mobility in the United Kingdom, will host an all - day summit on education and social mobility at The Paley Center for Media in New York City on Thursday, April 19, 2018.

Ako Kambon, the president of the Visionary Leaders Institute, a Columbus - based education foundation that is sponsoring Ball's visit to several of the city's schools, offers the teachers a hint of things to come when he warns, «This is not your typical workshop.»

In Milwaukee, for example, the deans of the city's five Catholic universities obtained a start - up grant from a local foundation to launch the Greater Milwaukee Catholic Education Consortium (GMCEC).

CEE - Trust, an initiative of the extraordinary The Mind Trust, convenes and collaborates with reform - minded, city - based education groups, like foundations and advocacy organizations.

Education Week Assistant Editor Stephen Sawchuk sat down last week in New York City with Melinda Gates, the co-chair and a trustee of the foundation that bears her and her husband's names, to discuss its investments in teacher quality and other matters related to its work in the K - 12 sphere.

Brass City Charter School depends on the generosity of foundations, corporations, public agencies, and individuals to realize its mission of providing our students a rigorous, well - rounded and emotionally supportive education that will eliminate the achievement gap characteristic of urban underserved students and enable them to lead meaningful and productive lives both for themselves and for their community.

* Laying the policy foundations for education innovation * Scaling up proven innovations that boost student outcomes * Reinventing the local education ecosystem in cities and regions

Nikki was founder and Executive Director for the Pre-K Program for the city of Scottsboro and also served on the Board of Directors for Scottsboro and Muscle Shoals Education Foundations.

At the November 19th, 2013 City Hall Hearing on Rocketship Tamien, community members discussed John Danner's concept of «Minimum Viable Instruction ``, the foundation upon which he hopes to grab a chunk of the $ 4trillion education market with his for profit software company, Zeal.

Jason is a senior fellow at Bellwether Education Partners where he researches, writes about, and advises foundations, nonprofits, and government agencies on city - level education reform initiatives, governance, innovation, anEducation Partners where he researches, writes about, and advises foundations, nonprofits, and government agencies on city - level education reform initiatives, governance, innovation, aneducation reform initiatives, governance, innovation, and talent.

At the forum, held at PS 89 in New York City's Tribeca, Ravitch — author of the best - selling «The Death and Life of the Great American School System» — warned in her keynote speech about the harm done by excessive reliance on standardized tests, privatization through charter school expansion, and the growing influence of wealthy private foundations on education policies.

CEE - Trust is a growing national network of 22 city - focused foundations, non-profits, and mayors» offices that work together to promote education innovation and reform

In 2012, after Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder put Detroit under emergency management, the manager closed 16 city schools and handed 15 to the Education Achievement Authority, which received millions from the likes of the Kellogg and Gates foundations.

The areas identified by the panel laid the foundation for the work with four pilot districts, including Harrison Township (NJ), Stamford Public Schools (CT), The Partnership for Inner - City Education (NYC private) and Explore Schools (NYC charter network).

A former teacher in both South Central, Los Angeles Unified School District and Bed - Stuy, New York City Department of Education, she earned her bachelors in cultural communication from University of California San Diego, teaching credential at San Diego State University, and her masters in Social and Multicultural Foundations at California State University, Long Beach.

The foundation's work in Dallas supported the building of a national model for improving arts education for city children.

At www.wallacefoundation.org, the foundation maintains an online library about what it has learned, including knowledge from its current efforts aimed at: strengthening education leadership to improve student achievement, helping selected cities make good afterschool programs available to more children, expanding arts learning opportunities for children and teens, providing high - quality summer learning programs to disadvantaged children and enriching and expanding the school day in ways that benefit students, and helping arts organizations build their audiences.

From 2002 to 2014, the foundation awarded the Broad Prize for Urban Education, which gave scholarships to graduating seniors from top - performing districts, including Houston, Boston, and New York City.

's most recent post, about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's $ 45 million worth of bogus Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) studies that were recently honored with a 2013 Bunkum (i.e., meaningless, irrelevant, junk) Award by the National Education Policy Center (NEPC), it seems that the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation are, once - again, «strong - arming states [and in this case a large city district] into adoption of policies tying teacher evaluation to measures of students» growth.»

If you are a city - based nonprofit or foundation, primarily focused on increasing the number of great public schools in your city, you may be eligible to join the Education Cities network.

Jolie Medina is an Assistant Professor of Teacher Education at Borough of Manhattan Community College / City University of New York where she teaches Social Foundations of Education.

Two of the city charter sector's most generous donors, the Walton Family Foundation and the Robertson Foundation, each gave at least $ 1 million to the Foundation for Excellence in Education, the education reform organization founded by former Florida governor Jeb Bush; DeVos has been on the board of the foundation siEducation, the education reform organization founded by former Florida governor Jeb Bush; DeVos has been on the board of the foundation sieducation reform organization founded by former Florida governor Jeb Bush; DeVos has been on the board of the foundation since 2012.

While the GPSN plan differs from last summer's charter - focused plan, the success of independent charter schools in LA laid the foundation for the latest evolution of education reform in the city, several board members said.

He lives and works in the Los Angeles and recently co-founded Art + Practice, an art and education foundation in the city's Leimert Park neighborhood near his studio.

Common Ground Foundation (Insert City, ST) 2007 — 2009 Executive Director • Launched foundation and directed all operations on behalf of Grammy Award Winner Common • Created and implemented marketing collateral to educate, engage, and inspire clients and supporters • Recruited key corporate, private, and industry players for Board of Directors and Advisory Board • Generated in excess of $ 500,000 in first year of operation through varied fundraising efforts • Obtained pro bono legal team saving foundation more than $ 75,000 annually • Directed youth outreach events furthering social service, education, and character development including Be Empowered, «A Minute» Campaign, & The Corner Book Club • Partnered with MTV, Kaiser Family Foundation, National Education Association / Read Across America, American Library Association, and nationally acclaimed singers, songwriters, and authors • Directed multiple charity concerts featuring Common, Kanye West, Ludacris, The Rootseducation, and character development including Be Empowered, «A Minute» Campaign, & The Corner Book Club • Partnered with MTV, Kaiser Family Foundation, National Education Association / Read Across America, American Library Association, and nationally acclaimed singers, songwriters, and authors • Directed multiple charity concerts featuring Common, Kanye West, Ludacris, The RootsEducation Association / Read Across America, American Library Association, and nationally acclaimed singers, songwriters, and authors • Directed multiple charity concerts featuring Common, Kanye West, Ludacris, The Roots, and Nas