Sentences with phrase «education reform issues like»

Education reform issues like teacher tenure, teacher certification, teacher evaluations, early childhood education, charter schools, school funding and more need input from all educators.

Sorry to be the bearer of unpleasant news, but the SOS (Save Our Schools) March on Washington — an attempt to con the public by diverting the debate away from real education reform issues like failing schools, irresponsible spending, retaining bad teachers, etc. — will be setting up their Big Top in Washington D.C. from July 28th to July 31st.

Not exact matches

Priorities like Raise The Age and education aid are being watered - down, while issues like ethics reforms and the DREAM Act are being forgotten completely.

«The speaker laid out a comprehensive agenda this week on issues like education, reproductive rights and criminal justice reform, so we have a lot of work to do here in Albany and that is what we will be focusing on,» said Michael Whyland, spokesman for Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, D - Bronx.

But Cuomo says he still wants the Senate to agree to the plan and for it to be approved along with the state budget, and he said previously that he will make the budget late if there's no three way deal on ethics, as well as other issues like education reform.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has repeatedly threatened to hold up the state budget over ethics reform and other issues, like education policy.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos says he disagrees with Cuomo's attempts to link unrelated policy items, like education issues and an ethics reform package to the state budget.

Forget about the fact that Nixon has worked hard on substantive issues like education and political reform.

«That's why I've decided to join the Independent Democratic Conference, where I can best affect progressive change on issues like affordable housing, higher education, school funding equity, homelessness reforms, economic development, infrastructure upgrades, affordable healthcare, senior citizen protections and so much more,» Peralta said in the statement.

That's why I've decided to join the Independent Democratic Conference, where I can best affect progressive change on issues like affordable housing, higher education, school funding equity, homelessness reforms, economic development, infrastructure upgrades, affordable healthcare, senior citizen protections and so much more.

Governor Cuomo has repeatedly threatened to hold up the state budget over ethics reform and other issues, like education policy.

«The governor is linking everything,» he said, meaning upstate - downstate issues like tax caps and rent control, charter schools and education reform and ethics.

Cuomo said previously that he will make the budget late if there's no three way deal on ethics, as well as other issues like education reform.

Have students practice skills they've learned or topics they've come to understand in service learning, debates, leadership / volunteerism / community service, or by having opinions on «real» issues like education reform or the 2012 election (shriek!

To be sure, mistakes were made: Not understanding the limitations or unintended consequences of federal leadership on education; a disastrous, ill - timed excursion into teacher evaluation reform; a technocratic impulse that was insufficiently sensitive to parents» concerns about issues like student privacy; and on and on.

Earlier this year, a National Academy of Sciences committee charged with evaluating education reforms in DC issued a report that included scathing comments on the difficulty of obtaining education data: «The lack of readily available data presented a significant challenge for our committee, and it is a source of frustration for some senior DCPS officials who would like to rely more heavily on data to support their decision making.

In addition to advising prominent politicians like Senator John McCain, Moe is a board member of the Center for Education Reform, a pro-privatization think tank that issues policy papers and ads to influence the debate.

Other equity warriors followed the path carved by our nation's first black president, whose education secretaries (Arne Duncan and John King) also wielded their respective pulpits expertly, moving issues like «teacher quality» front and center in the reform agenda.

What they will do is tackle a range of intriguing K - 12 and higher ed projects, dealing with issues like entrepreneurship, higher ed productivity, philanthropy, mobilizing parents, higher ed transparency, the future of the teaching profession, ESEA reauth, technology, K - 12 and higher ed leadership, career and technical education, Common Core implementation, citizenship, state - and district - level reform, and much else (the mix would be, in part, a matter of interest).

Later, after earning her doctorate in education at UCLA, Nicole noticed that leaders in religious communities were using their voices to advocate around issues like immigration reform and the environment.

Education policy would let him play up his focus on bipartisan cooperation, at least on issues like tenure reform, while maintaining his image of being tough on the teacher unions and low performing school districts.

NEW YORK CITY The fall issue of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform's Voices in Urban Education is chock - full of powerful essays reflecting on disparities in school discipline and highlighting efforts to reform discipline practices in cities like Denver, Nashville, Oakland and ChReform's Voices in Urban Education is chock - full of powerful essays reflecting on disparities in school discipline and highlighting efforts to reform discipline practices in cities like Denver, Nashville, Oakland and Chreform discipline practices in cities like Denver, Nashville, Oakland and Chicago.

Over the past six years of his career, while working in government and for education nonprofit groups like StudentsFirst and TNTP, he has specialized in breaking down complex education reform policy issues into easy - to - understand concepts.

Critics not pleased with reform plan Like other critics, Angermeyer is concerned that the reform plan touted by Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan replaces sticks with carrots without addressing fundamental issues raised by NCLB's failure, such as the appropriateness of using student tests to rate teachers.

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.

It is also an issue because, like the Obama administration's signature reform effort, Race to the Top, there is an (implied) emphasis on cooperation with AFT and National Education Association affiliates.

In recent years, left - leaning groups like Democrats for Education Reform worked closely with Republican governors on issues like charter schooling, teacher evaluation, digital learning, and much else.

Leaving aside the racial implications of using language like «dark money» — let's dig into some of the problems with issue and messaging in the education reform context.

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