Sentences with phrase «education advocacy group ascd»

«Eliminating subsidized loans would increase the cost of college by thousands of dollars for many of the six million undergraduates who receive those loans each year,» according to the blog run by the Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS), a non-profit higher education advocacy group.

That task has been made all the harder, said Shelly Spiegel - Coleman of Californians Together, an education advocacy group, by the lack of timely advice or direction from national or state proponents of Common Core.

A committee plans to meet Feb. 16 at the state Education Department in Montgomery to work on the draft of that contract, according to Commissioner Thomas Rains, who is also vice president of operations and policy at the A + Education Partnership, a state education advocacy group.

Nashville Rise, it turns out, is actually a part of Project Renaissance — an education advocacy group created by former Mayor Karl Dean.

Recently, Carmen L. Lopez, a retired Superior Court judge, raised a series of concerns about Excel Bridgeport, a corporate funded education advocacy group that has been actively pushing an «education reform» agenda.

By Moriah Costa, June 12, 2015 «The D.C. Language Immersion Project, a language education advocacy group, is the biggest force behind expanding programs in the District.

The Albany - based public education advocacy group issued a statement saying the lawsuit «will only divert more money away from public schools, at the expense of our children.»

Here we go again... Yet another faux education advocacy group appears unwilling or unable to follow Connecticut's ethics laws.

This video from pro-union Education Advocacy Group, shows the mass of people the ISTA is able to bring out in defense of its position.

Change the Stakes, a New York based pro-public education advocacy group, provides Eight Reasons to Opt Out of SBAC testing.

There had been some community opposition prior to the Phase 1 decision, driven primarily through an online letter created by a local education advocacy group, Montclair Cares About Schools.

ConnCAN, the «independent» education advocacy group, is already working closely with the Malloy Administration.

With the assistance of Rose's wife, who is also an attorney, he prepared a presentation drawing on data from ConnCAN, an education advocacy group headquartered in New Haven.

Jennifer Alexander, chief executive of Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, an education advocacy group, said the suggestion that schools can not be expected to help students overcome the challenges of poverty was dispiriting.

During the annual meeting of the Chalkboard Project, an independent Oregon K12 education advocacy group, a video message from Education Secretary Arne Duncan was played for the staff, board, trustees, and affiliate members.

Kentucky's Commissioner of Education, Terry Holliday, knew this year's results might cause a backlash from parents and students, so his department partnered with the state's Chamber of Commerce and the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, an education advocacy group in the state, to help get the message out to parents about what was in store.

But in the coming years, they'll be «trying to make equity at the heart of education in states,» said Ryan Smith, executive director of The Education Trust - West, the California arm of the Washington - based education advocacy group.

The Coalition for School Reform's District 6 (East San Fernando Valley) runoff election coffers have been replenished thanks to big donations received from Los Angeles philanthropist Eli Broad and StudentsFirst, Michelle Rhee's education advocacy group, among others.

Sherlett Hendy - Newbill has won the endorsement of the Network for Public Education, a public education advocacy group led by Diane Ravitch, one of the strongest voices in the country opposed to standardized testing and charter schools.

StudentsFirst, an education advocacy group headed by former Washington Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, released a education policies report Monday that gave 11 states, including California, failing grades.

Colorado Education Commissioner Katy Anthes joins education advocacy group Chiefs for Change chalkbeat.org/posts/co/2017/...

California Schools Flunk Education Group's Ratings California is sorely lacking when it comes to school reform, failing to adopt policies to limit teacher tenure and use student test scores in teacher evaluations, according to a rating of states issued Monday by a high - profile education advocacy group.

Today, newly - formed education advocacy group TREE (Tennesseans Reclaiming Educational Excellence) hosted a presentation by Elaine Weiss of the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education.

Parent Revolution, an education advocacy group that has led the parent trigger effort in California, will host the meet and greet...

A study by the Center on Education Policy, a public education advocacy group in Washington, D.C., found that states and school districts are having problems meeting the law's stringent requirements with limited funding and staffing.

This report from a Connecticut - based education advocacy group aims to Fix Our Broken School Funding System with a reverse Robin Hood take - from - the - poor approach nicely wrapped in a pious package of verbiage designed to hide its true effects.

The A + Denver education advocacy group has released results of a Denver Public Schools board candidate survey, but several candidates didn't consider it a valid exercise.

Parent Revolution, a well - funded education advocacy group, got involved and began organizing parents.

The education advocacy group A + Denver has released a report detailing just how few of Colorado's low - income kids go to top - tier colleges — just 3 percent of such graduates.

A local education advocacy group «Protect our Public Schools plans to protest this afternoon.

This year's State Teacher Policy Yearbook, released this week by the education advocacy group, gave an average grade of C - minus.

It was written by former award - winning high school principal Carol Burris, who is now executive director of the nonprofit Network for Public Education advocacy group.

Our Voice Nuestra Voz, a non-profit education advocacy group in New Orleans, analyzed the school performance scores data and found that approximately 15,000 students attend these failing schools.

An education advocacy group founded by two New York City teachers and backed financially by Bill Gates is launching a public - relations push to pressure the city and the local teachers union to strike a deal on a new teacher evaluation system, two weeks before a state - mandated deadline that could cost the city millions of dollars in education funding.

Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Washington - based education advocacy group, said the family will face a tough choice among public, private and charter schools in a city where attempts at education reform have become symbolic of the issue nationwide.

Ohioans for Local Control is an education advocacy group.

From the outside looking in, Wilson's efforts are regarded by at least one education advocacy group as exactly the medicine the district needs.

Chalkbeat.org: With new name but same mission, rebranded black education advocacy group introduces itself to Memphis http://bit.ly/2bP9cno

«It's very difficult to compare Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse to New York City,» said Billy Easton, executive director of the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE), a left - leaning education advocacy group.

It would meet the requirements of a judge's ruling in a lawsuit brought by EdVoice, a Sacramento - based education advocacy group, that test scores must be included.

Earlier in the day a handful of teachers affiliated with the education advocacy group Stand for Children invited a half - dozen reporters to Ritz's statehouse office, urging the state superintendent to allow implementation of the Common Core to continue.

Snow is now executive director of Teach for America — Connecticut and is on the board of Excel, a local education advocacy group.

Co-founders Tamir Harper and Luke Risher presented all of the basic ideas behind UrbEd, including the need for an education advocacy group composed of and run by students.

ConnCAN, a Connecticut - based education advocacy group, has released a report comparing assessment systems in other states.

Using data from the Department of Education, the education advocacy group StudentsFirst wrote in a blog post that 32 percent of ATR teachers were in the pool due to a legal or disciplinary case; 25 percent had been in the pool for six years or more; and the percentage of teachers in the ATR who were found by evaluators to be «Ineffective» or «Unsatisfactory» was 12 times that for the overall teaching force for the 2014 - 15 school year.

«What happened was you had a whole bunch of folks who wanted standards but not standardization,» said Arnold Fege, president of Public Advocacy for Kids, a nonprofit public education advocacy group.

Michael Phillips, board chair of the leading education advocacy group 50CAN, spoke last month at a TEDxWilmingtonED Conference on the topic, «When Kids Learn on Broken Chairs.»

More than half the California school districts surveyed by an education advocacy group said they've spent all or most of the funds set aside to implement Common Core State Standards, but still have more to do to prepare for the new academic standards.

Over the next year, Aaron Tang and Ethan Hutt, the energetic founders of a new education advocacy group, aim to get 1 million middle school, high school, and college students to sign a petition calling for high - quality public education for all students, not just those in suburban and middle - class neighborhoods.

(In Illinois, for instance, the education advocacy group Advance Illinois is in the know.)