Sentences with phrase «education reform group families»

Hudson, who last performed Friday at Madison Square Garden for Pope Francis» Mass, will sing no fewer than four songs for the upcoming rally organized by education reform group Families for Excellent Schools.

Not exact matches

Families for Excellent Schools, an education reform group that backs charter school expansion, spent just over $ 2 million.

Topping the list: Families for Excellent Schools, a group that backs education reform measures as well as strengthening charter schools.

Families for Excellent Schools, an education reform group that supporters charter schools, will call on the state to lift the cap on the alternative public schools.

«We're going to do everything we can to support the governor in advancing a bold education reform agenda that improves the quality of traditional public schools and expands choice for families,» the group's executive director, Jenny Sedlis, said in an interview.

The corporate funded New York based entity called Families for Excellent Schools has set up yet another «education reform» front group in Connecticut.

Families that Can and CCSA are working with a coalition of minority and civil rights groups to push education reform in LAUSD, including supporting the Public School Choice initiative.

INNOVATIVE FAMILY ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY FOR SYSTEMATIC EDUCATION REFORM — 2010 by National School Family and Community Engagement Working FAMILY ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY FOR SYSTEMATIC EDUCATION REFORM — 2010 by National School Family and Community Engagement Working Family and Community Engagement Working Group.

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.

... The local and national groups that signed the letter are Democrats for Education Reform, Education Reform Now, Educators 4 Excellence — New York, Families for Excellent Schools, National Council on Teacher Quality, NYCAN, StudentsFirst NY, Students for Education Reform — New York, Teach Plus, TNTP, and Turnaround for Children.

And for all the education reform rhetoric around trusting and empowering families, Moskowitz depicts parents who protest her plans as having been «shamelessly exploited» and «manipulated» by teacher unions and union - backed groups.

Although they noted the massive expenditure by the lead education reform group, Families for Excellent Schools, which is based in New York, they didn't total all of the funds being spent by the corporate funded education reform advocacy group.

The new lobbying entity includes most of the same groups that spent in excess of $ 6 million lobbying for Malloy's initial education reform initiative, including ConnCAN, the Achievement First, Inc. charter school management company, the Northeast Charter School Network and Families for Excellent Schools, another pro-charter group entity.

Watch the bouncing ball... as the Corporate Education Reform Industry, Families for Excellent Schools, the Coalition for Every Child, Governor Malloy's former press secretary Andrew Doba, Achievement First Inc. and the other charter school lobby groups try to divert even more public funds away from Connecticut's public schools and into the coffers of charter school companies...

(ConnCAN); Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Advocacy; StudentsFirst / GENEPSA (Michelle Rhee); Families for Excellent Schools Inc.; Families for Excellent Schools Advocacy Inc.; Connecticut Council for Education Reform Inc. (CCER); North East Charter Schools Network; Bronx Charter School of Excellence; Students for Education Reform; Educators 4 Excellence; Excel Bridgeport, Inc.; Achieve Hartford, Inc. and their newest front group, the Coalition for Every Child, are pumping more and more money into lobbying and advertising programs.

Families for Excellent Schools (FES) is a major New York City based, corporate funded, charter school and education reform advocacy group.

Schneider adds that since Education Reform Now Advocacy (ERNA) and Families for Excellent Schools Advocacy (FESA) are registered as non-profit foundations and not campaign groups, neither is required to disclose who they collect their money from.

Formed in 2011, the Charter School and Corporate Education Reform Industry advocacy group Families for Excellent School's fundraising has skyrocketed from $ 642,042 in 2011 to $ 1,000,053 in 2012 to $ 12,264,668 in 2013.

Here in Connecticut there are a number of charter school front groups including ConnCAN, Northeast Charter Schools Network, Families for Excellent Schools, the Coalition for Every Child, the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER), Excel Bridgeport, Achieve Hartford and others.

It was just a few weeks ago that CT News Junkie columnist Sarah Darer Littman wrote a scathing column on the ethics problems associated with the New York based corporate education reform industry group called Families for Excellent Schools and its subsidiary, and entity called the Coalition for Every Child.

«We're really thrilled to see some of the state leaders talking about providing real solutions for these thousands of Maryland families who are trapped in schools that, quite frankly, just don't prepare children for college and career readiness,» said Jenese Jones, deputy director at MarylandCAN, an education - reform advocacy group.