Sentences with phrase «commons over the reforms»

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As reforms to the EU Common Agricultural policy (CAP) continue, processors have been faced with discontent from milk suppliers and, in case of cooperatives, their own members, over protecting profit and milk supply.

When advocates who share a common interest in fighting child obesity are at each other's throats over whether chocolate milk is a tasty way for kids to get important nutrition, or the Drink of Satan, the whole school food reform movement suffers, and that hurts kids.

Rob Astorino's push to launch the Reform Party — a re-naming of a ballot line created last year set up to oppose the Common Core education standards — is part of a larger struggle for the 2014 Republican gubernatorial nominee to gain some leverage over the state's Republican apparatus.

Common Cause and a coalition of reform groups, including the League of Women Voters, the New York Public Interest Research Group, and Reinvent Albany recommend reinstating the state Comptroller's role as a watchdog over state contractors.

Concerns over the proliferation of illegal tattoo shops and the spread of communicable diseases have increased due to the current opioid epidemic which has contributed to the spread of Hepatitis C. Legislator Burke's initiative is a common sense reform to ensure the health and safety of the residents of Erie County.

Walcott warned that his successor will be in a «unique» situation after he leaves on Dec. 31, jumping in mid-year to take over «a lot of new things that [are] in process right now, like our teacher evaluation, the total ramping up of the new Common Core and making sure we continue in our special ed reform.

Business secretary Vince Cable said he and chancellor George Osborne had come to a «common view» over the need for reform after a year of intensive lobbying against the changes by the City.

Flanagan tried to smooth things over by including «common sense» reforms to the SAFE Act among his top end - of - sesison priorities this year, even though he would be the first to admit that's more or less a non-starter with the Democrat - controlled Assembly and the governor.

Unrest over the Common Core intensified this fall, when education commissioner John King canceled and subsequently rescheduled a series of public forums on the state's education reforms.

Whether he will weigh in on the issue that is most on the minds of many teachers and parents — the controversy over the Common Core and other education reform policies — is an open question.

One interpretation of the emphasis on developing the common core curriculum is that these debates provide a convenient diversion from potentially more intractable fights over bigger reform ideas like using improved teacher evaluations for personnel decisions, expanded school choice, or enhanced accountability systems.

If teachers such as Schneider, Nielsen, and others are feeling put upon and use Common Core as a target for spleen venting over the excesses of ed reform, it is not entirely without reason.

If the Common Core's architects are done explaining its virtues — if they think that eighteen months of explaining its merits to a moderately attentive audience of self - selected elites amidst tumultuous debates over health care reform and the stimulus is sufficient — and that everyone needs to just sit down and get with the program, then I feel comfortable predicting that this whole exercise will end real poorly.

We're still in a war of explanation over Common Core, and, as many of the standards» detractors have noted, there isn't enough data or evidence to know whether the reforms will be a success.

Yet as seen with the battles over implementing Common Core reading and math standards, as well as the fights over implementing test score growth - based teacher evaluations, these reforms will be even more difficult to implement than the first round.

The consequences of these neglected tactics can be seen today in the battles over implementing Common Core reading and math standards, as well as in the limited success of the No Child Left Behind Act in systemic reform.

Parent advocates from across the country converged on New York City on Monday, February 7 for the first national forum of Parents Across America, a parent - led movement to make parent voices heard in the national debate over education reform — and to promote positive, common - sense solutions that will improve public schools nationwide.

Even as the party itself is divided over embracing Common Core standards, has a retrograde on education in the form of House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (who wants to eviscerate the strong accountability measures contained in the No Child Left Behind Act), and had a primary race for the presidential nod that had seen aspirants backtrack (of offer little information) on their respective school reform agendas, Republicans were able to paper over these issues thanks to strong calls by former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Texas teacher Sean Duffy, and onetime Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for expanding school choice, advancing Parent Power, and overhauling how teachers are recruited, trained, managed, and compensated.

Though some critics are expected to be up in arms over a private corporation getting involved in education reform, Time's Andrew Rotherham believes the gift will put into sharp Read more about Can GE Bring Common Core to Life?

Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.

Over recent weeks the focus of this blog has been on parental right and the importance of opting out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) test, but that issue is only one piece of the puzzle when it comes to the unprecedented activities of the Corporate Education Reform Industry and their supporters like Governor Dannel Malloy.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

In the #commoncore Project, authors Jonathan Supovitz, Alan Daly, Miguel del Fresno and Christian Kolouch examined the intense debate surrounding the Common Core State Standards education reform as it played out on Twitter over the 32 months from September 2013 through April 2016.

Despite the cacophony over the Common Core State Standards, new assessments, teacher evaluation, portfolio districts, and other hot - button issues, education leaders are bearing down ever harder on tried - and - true school reform strategies.