Sentences with phrase «education reform initiatives like»

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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.

Originally envisioned to resemble the Recovery School District reform initiative in New Orleans and Michigan's Education Achievement Authority, the Commissioner's Network hasn't been as well received by Parent Power advocates in the state as Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor would like.

As we contemplate how it is possible that elected officials like Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy remain steadfastly committed to his anti-teacher, anti-public education, pro-Common Core testing and pro-charter school corporate education reform initiatives we might do well to remember the words of the great Danish philosopher, Søren Kierkegaard, who observed that fools are those who «believe what isn't true [and / or] refuse to believe what is true.»

Like some type of gigantic octopus, the pro-charter school, pro-common core, pro-SBAC testing scheme and anti-teacher corporate education reform industry has set up multiple front groups while dumping more than $ 7.9 million dollars into their lobbying effort on behalf of Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy's «education reform» initiatives.

Connecticut's students, parents and teachers need and deserve the help and support of Connecticut's teacher unions in this historic battle against the corporate education reform and testing industry and those like Governor Dannel Malloy who continue their anti-teacher, anti-student, anti-parent, anti-public education initiatives.

She has also taken a leadership role in education reform in our state, and while I have not always agreed with all of the recommendations her work on these efforts has produced, I'm also realistic enough to understand that these sorts of initiatives are difficult operations to manage; a bit like teaching an elephant to dance — you can do it, but its going to take a long time, be very difficult to pull off, and a lot of people are going to get hurt.

Like many education reform initiatives (i.e., charter schools, merit pay), Teach for America was created out of what were once noble intentions: to provide bright, young teachers to fill vacancies in some of our nation's most difficult to staff classrooms.

HALCO and other specialized clinics like it focus «both on front - line work, such as direct legal services for people, in addition to public legal education, law reform and community development initiatives,» Peck said.