Sentences with phrase «dc public school reform»

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I liked DC Public School Superintendent Michele Rhee and her oft - brilliant reforms.

At DC Public Schools (another district that has taken on significant reforms in recent years) while overall results are slightly higher than NPS, students at NPS who qualify for free or reduced lunch (FRL) drastically outperform those at DCPS

DC School Reform Now is educating, organizing and advocating to build support for public education strategies that prepare kids to become college and career ready.

DC School Reform Now was founded in 2008 with a desire to support new education reforms in the changing climate of public education in the District.

In a letter to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, NSBA and more than 50 organizations, as members of the National Coalition for Public Education (NCPE), urged Congress to oppose the reauthorization of the DC school voucher program.

From the other end of the ideological spectrum, school reform advocates including former Washington DC public schools superintendent Michelle Rhee have questioned whether the tentative deal is strong enough.

The New Teacher Project (TNTP) has recently released a new report, Keeping Irreplaceables in D.C. Public Schools: Lessons in Smart Retention, which holds up the reforms begun in DC public schools by former schools chancellor Michelle Rhee as a model for human capital rPublic Schools: Lessons in Smart Retention, which holds up the reforms begun in DC public schools by former schools chancellor Michelle Rhee as a model for human capital Schools: Lessons in Smart Retention, which holds up the reforms begun in DC public schools by former schools chancellor Michelle Rhee as a model for human capital rpublic schools by former schools chancellor Michelle Rhee as a model for human capital schools by former schools chancellor Michelle Rhee as a model for human capital schools chancellor Michelle Rhee as a model for human capital reform.

A recent poll by Education Reform Now, a non-partisan partner of DFER - DC, showed that 76 % of voters and an overwhelming 86 % of parents believe that public charter schools should be part of the solution to the city's supply of vacant school buildings.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, D.C. — Following the nomination by Mayor Muriel Bowser of Antwan Wilson, current superintendent of Oakland Unified School District, to serve as DC Public Schools Chancellor, Democrats for Education Reform - DC...

Additionally, she is the founder of Sapientis, a nonprofit organization dedicated to mobilizing a diverse and informed network of change agents committed to improving the quality of public education in Puerto Rico, and was part of the founding team of DC School Reform Now, a non-profit organization committed to supporting education reform in WashingtonReform Now, a non-profit organization committed to supporting education reform in Washingtonreform in Washington, D.C.

Today is the last day of Center for Inspired Teaching's two - week Institute, and as the rest of the country talks about the merits and shortcomings of the Obama administration's education plan — particularly its belief that external systems of accountability and extrinsic motivators like performance pay are an essential ingredient in reforming public education — I'm watching the same debate unfold here, on the ground, as a small group of DC teachers prepares for the coming school year.