Sentences with phrase «many education reform advocates»

His initiatives were praised by numerous education reform advocates who called him a «Hero of Reform.»

Some education reform advocates are advocating that the renewal of mayoral control in the city be linked to lifting or eliminating the state's cap on charter schools.

On March 2nd, they traveled to Albany and joined clergy members and education reform advocates to ensure state leaders understood the importance.

Education reform advocates who back the tax credit measure point to teachers unions that have sought to play a role in campaigns as well.

This development leaves the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) along with education reform advocates without a candidate to support in the general election, according to the New York Daily News.

Education reform advocates, on the other hand, are facing the possibility that de Blasio is elected mayor and immediately works to stop the expansion of NYC's charter schools:

Vouchers have remained a fringe idea among education reform advocates here, and some have expressed concern that DeVos» embrace of vouchers could alienate the mainstream charter movement from its much - needed allies in the Democratic party.

Cucco, meanwhile, has been backed by education reform advocates.

Many education reform advocates have not fully embraced the phrase, which is often used by critics of charter schools that promote strict, zero - tolerance discipline codes.

Nevertheless, such strongly negative results should give education reform advocates great pause about the regulatory strategies employed in Louisiana.

Several researchers and education reform advocates reached similar conclusions, including Matthew Ladner, Adam Peshek, Michael McShane, Lindsey Burke, and Jonathan Butcher.

Despite recent victories giving students more opportunities in education, Robert Pondiscio, senior fellow with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, recently accused education reform advocates of «cowardice» — of having lost their will to fight.

Seeing this, charter schools and their friends in «Big Philanthropy» have invested in charter school associations and broader education reform advocates to fight to keep the world safe for chartering.

Some education reform advocates who lean to the left are questioning the foundations of the educational system as well as the reform efforts that have been made — not always by people of their preferred political persuasion — since the 1990s.

While most education reform advocates cloak their goals in the rhetoric of «putting children first,» the conceit was less evident at a conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, earlier this year.

[19] The substantive change was a result of a continual give and take among political, business and education reform advocates that came together to remake one of the worst systems in the country.

Considering Malloy and his corporate education reform advocates don't want the Common Core testing and teacher evaluation issues to even be discussed in public, it will take a lot to convince Democratic rank and file legislators that they should put their constituents ahead of Malloy's politics.

Civil rights activist and education reform advocate Dr. Howard Fuller talks about why he supports Ms. DeVos.

Yesterday, Dr. Howard Fuller, Derrell Bradford, Darrell Allison, and Kevin Chavous led a media conference call following the astonishing attack on families and education reform advocates by AFT President Randi Weingarten.

I consider myself probably as strong of an education reform advocate as anyone else in the country, and I'm not in a bad mood about it.

A longtime education reform advocate, Villaraigosa attempted to take mayoral control of Los Angeles Unified in 2006.

LA School Report: In 2013, Zimmer went up against a candidate that was well - financed and supported by several prominent education reform advocates, like Broad and Michael Bloomberg, but still lost.

They were joined by a roster of charter school operators and TFA employees, as well as state legislator and education reform advocate, Carlos Mariani.

A San Francisco conference gave Black and Brown teachers a chance to express their viewpoints — and White education reform advocates a directive to listen

Education reform advocates at «The Mind Trust» bussed community leaders into Indianapolis schools that work Tuesday to show them a different side of IPS.

As the 2004 presidential campaign takes shape, President Bush's education platform emphasizes the education reforms he advocated in the «No Child Left Behind» legislation enacted in 2002.

A solid plurality of Americans would be amenable to their local school districts seriously shaking up the way they operate, according to a new poll from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, which portrayed the poll's results as good news for education reform advocates.

,» Wait, What explored the latest move by Stefan Pryor to bring in more inexperienced, out - of - state, education reform advocates to tell Connecticut's Alliance Districts what to do.

In California, education reform advocates are suing the state's school system over rules that require layoff decisions to be based solely on seniority.

In many states, politicians have argued that teachers should be held personally responsible for the failure of students to progress academically, bolstered by education reform advocates who push for more teacher accountability.

Though some education reform advocates have dismissed the idea that districts can't sufficiently downsize when students leave for charters — they chalk the problem up to bureaucratic recalcitrance — many people acknowledge that such expenses as pension commitments simply can not be scaled back when student enrollment shifts.

However, it is par for the course that Pryor put Qadree into the State Department of Education's «Turnaround Office» where, along with Turnaround Director, Morgan Barth, inexperienced education reform advocates will be controlling the purse strings for Connecticut's 30 poorest school districts.

Education reform advocate Peter Cunningham shot back in a blog post that the study's premise that charters siphon money from traditional public schools «is like arguing that a younger child deprives an older child of parental attention.»

In recounting the history of charters, the report reveals how a cause originally supported by education reform advocates, including the leader of a national teachers» union, was hijacked by libertarian ideology, advocates for big business, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who view the public education system as a playground for exerting their influence and ideas.

If «proficient» and «highly proficient» are achievement labels that should be reserved for students likely to go to a four year college or university, then education reform advocates have never effectively made that case to the public, preferring instead to point to the results on state testing that have been designed with this specific result in mind and declaring themselves correct about how poor a job our nation's schools are doing.

Education reform leaders and school choice advocates Dr. Howard Fuller, Derrell Bradford, Darrell Allison, and Kevin P. Chavous held a conference call following an astonishing attack on families and education reform advocates by AFT President Randi Weingarten.

One thing that is not clear and transparent is what you say is irrefutable evidence about the relationship between Achievement First and Education Reform Advocate groups and data on Achievement First schools.

Good Morning Yesterday, Dr. Howard Fuller, Derrell Bradford, Darrell Allison, and Kevin Chavous led a media conference call following the astonishing attack on families and education reform advocates by AFT President Randi Weingarten.

Long time education reform advocate, Caprice Young, is taking over the troubled Magnolia Public Schools charter network, but it won't be official until a set of test results come in.

And to top it all off, all the money going toward systems that fail: The Education Reform advocates claim success after success, but the most basic research reveals that their claims are nothing more than lies.

Meanwhile, for any education reform advocates out there looking to join that anti-public education effort, Connecticut's new DFER Director will be expected to provide the following services: Continue reading «And yet another Education Reform Group targets Connecticut»

Heck, even Arne Duncan, Obama's Secretary of Education and leading corporate education reform advocate, claims that he supports public schools while sending his children to one of the most elite and expensive private schools in the country.

In an effort to win market share, the College Board, along with the standardized testing industry and the corporate education reform advocates are pushing states are mandate that high school juniors MUST take the SAT.

Another nationally - recognized corporate education reform advocate to pour money into Malloy's campaign is billionaire Stephen Mandel Jr..

Jonathan Sackler, a leading corporate education reform advocate in Connecticut and another major Malloy donor has been part of the Achievement First Inc..

Force teachers deemed fully or partially ineffective to face layoffs, even if they have seniority, a key element demanded by education reform advocates.

Vouchers have remained a fringe idea among education reform advocates here, and some have expressed concern that DeVos» embrace of vouchers could alienate the mainstream charter movement from its much - needed allies in the Democratic party.

It's supported by education reform advocates.

The decision to award first - phase funding to only two states surprised some education reform advocates.

CHICAGO — Chicago teachers stayed away from public schools for a third day on Wednesday in a strike over Mayor Rahm Emanuel's demand for tough teacher evaluations that U.S. education reform advocates see as crucial to fixing urban schools.