Sentences with phrase «most education advocacy groups»

Most education advocacy groups, including both teachers unions and the National School Boards Association, as well as the National Governors Association, have signaled their support for the bill.

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Most recently, the advocacy group held a Blockchain Education Day event in Washington, DC, in which members of Congress mingled with representatives from more than 70 leading companies in the blockchain industry to promote the use of new innovations like blockchain and distributed ledger technology.

Says Robert Pondiscio, executive director of the advocacy group CitizenshipFirst, those are «the most important fifty - seven words in education reform since the publication of A Nation at Risk in 1983.»

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.

ConnCAN is the charter school advocacy group that helped make the lobbying campaign in support of Malloy's education reform bill the most expensive in state history.

Our series of papers is meant to inform state school chiefs, state education agency staff, governors and legislative staff, and state advocacy groups about how to support the most promising local improvement efforts.

What's surprising in a new survey published today by 50CAN, a reform - oriented advocacy group that supports more rigorous teacher evaluations and early education, is the relatively lukewarm response to some of the most favored ideas for improving the school system among education advocates and many elected officials.

So far, eight states have policies requiring them to do a similar analysis, most of them adopted in the last few years, according to the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), a research and advocacy group that supports higher standards for schools of education.

ConnCAN, known to us as the charter school advocacy group formed by Achievement First Inc., the charter school management company, that was set up by Stefan Pryor and friends, beat out every other «education reform» group in the country, do to their ability to consistently misrepresent the facts on the most constant basis.

Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) is known as one of the most anti-union, anti-teacher «education reform» advocacy groups in the country and, according to a recent job posting, they are now «looking for a dynamic and «jack of all trades» state director to lead its CT expansionEducation Reform (DFER) is known as one of the most anti-union, anti-teacher «education reform» advocacy groups in the country and, according to a recent job posting, they are now «looking for a dynamic and «jack of all trades» state director to lead its CT expansioneducation reform» advocacy groups in the country and, according to a recent job posting, they are now «looking for a dynamic and «jack of all trades» state director to lead its CT expansion efforts.

According to the group's most recent filing with the State Ethics Commission (filed yesterday), the corporate funded education reform advocacy front group also spent $ 14,000 for subway sandwiches and $ 6,771 to Staples to pay for the signs demanding that Connecticut legislators hand over nearly $ 21 million in scarce taxpayer money so that the infamous Steve Perry can open a publicly funded, but privately owned charter school in Bridgeport and a Bronx, New York charter school chain can save Stamford by opening up a charter school there.

According to Achieve Hartford's own website, the education reform advocacy group is funded by some of the most powerful corporate education reform industry companies in the country including the Aetna, Prudential, Travelers, Bank of America, ING, The Phoenix and Metro - Hartford Alliance.