Sentences with phrase «school reform efforts work»

A Bit of Progress (USA Today) Newark Students See Modest Gains From Mark Zuckerberg's $ 100M Gift (EdSurge) Did Newark's School Reform Efforts Work?

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If Republicans, many of whom are allied with SNA in this effort, win control of the Senate this fall, we may well see decades of work on school food reform go up in smoke.

«Dennis Walcott has been working his entire life to help New York City's school children, and I am confident that experience will help him build on the successful reform efforts of the past nine years and improve our classrooms for the generations to come,» Bloomberg said in a statement praising Steiner's decision.

At the same time, the findings from the study, by the Geiger Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, show that health centers working in restrictive states are hampered in their outreach and enrollment efforts and are significantly less optimistic about the impact of health reform in their communities.

Democratic senator Mary Landrieu, a cosponsor of the «Three R's» bill, worked tirelessly, and against considerable opposition from members of both political parties, to increase the targeting of federal education dollars to low - income communities and schools in an effort to better support their school reform efforts.

Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

Fortunately, findings from two generations of school improvement efforts, lessons from similar work in other industries, and a budding practice among reform - minded superintendents are pointing to a promising alternative.

I'm looking forward to working within a district currently in the process of so many innovative and exciting school reform efforts.

«Kemple's work examining high school reform efforts and assessing performance trends in New York City led to the design of rigorous impact evaluations, the results of which help city leaders better serve students and families by more meaningfully assessing school and student performance, effectively allocating resources, and identifying both positive trends and areas for improvement in schools.»

These efforts invariably provided occasion for litigation and sometimes, as in the case of school finance reform, worked primarily through it.

It argues that SEAs generally think about these activities through a lens provided by federal law; it discusses how today's reform - minded state chiefs prioritize this line of work; it highlights how SEAs need to alter how they interact with LEAs if these schools are to improve; it details how some departments have reorganized themselves to do this work; it discusses the challenges associated with launching new school - improvement efforts in an era of austerity; and it offers a three - category framework for comparing SEAs.

In the bubble of optimism that came with the dawn of former schools chief Al Davis» tenure, all seven of the city's universities and colleges joined with the Orleans Parish School Board to work with some of the district's most academically troubled public schools by training teachers and nurturing reform efforts.

Insight in action As part of community - engagement work that accompanied district reform efforts, teacher leaders worked on district mathematics committees, facilitated grade - level meetings, presented at school board meetings, led professional development sessions and took on many other leadership roles.

Insight in Action During one school system's reform efforts, 25 - 30 teacher leaders whose release time from the classroom ranged from no - time to 3 / 4 - time engaged in work at the school and district level.

Teacher leaders — current or former classroom teachers who work with other teachers and educators in their schools or districts to help improve instruction — are a key feature of many school reform efforts.

Teacher leaders - current or former classroom teachers working with other classroom teachers and other educators in the school or district - are present in many reform efforts in mathematics and science education.

Indeed, the reality of the matter is that both of California's teachers» organizations support Gavin Newsom because he has pledged to work with them rather than join the billionaire boys club behind corporate education reform efforts and the unregulated spread of charter schools that will continue to drain funding from other public schools and, if left unchecked, ultimately undermine public education itself.

Rubinstein and McCarthy write in the Working Paper that «over the past 16 years, federal efforts to improve public education have focused on market reforms like charter schools and voucher programs.

Her book, The School Reform Handbook: How to Improve Your Schools (1995) ignited parent - led efforts for education reform and her latest publication Education Reform: Before it Was Cool (2014) documents critical milestones during her work over the past 20 + Reform Handbook: How to Improve Your Schools (1995) ignited parent - led efforts for education reform and her latest publication Education Reform: Before it Was Cool (2014) documents critical milestones during her work over the past 20 + reform and her latest publication Education Reform: Before it Was Cool (2014) documents critical milestones during her work over the past 20 + Reform: Before it Was Cool (2014) documents critical milestones during her work over the past 20 + years.

Despite the overwhelming evidence that school choice works, opponents of parental choice have increasingly stepped up their efforts to defeat these common - sense educational reform measures.

According to the last set of federal and state campaign finance reports, Governor Malloy, the champion of the corporate education reform industry and the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers working in the poorest schools has received well over a quarter of a million dollars from leaders and political action committees associated with the national education reform and privatization effort.

School Reform Minister Nick Gibb welcomed the 40 % drop in early exam entries and said the changes were necessary to «correct» a system that had «worked against the best efforts of teachers and the best interests of pupils».

Whether working in Indianapolis Public Schools or one of the city's innovative charters, Indianapolis Teaching Fellows make a difference in a state that is leading reform efforts nationally.

Her journey taught her that top - down efforts to reform a district don't work; only by starting over school by school — like businesses emerging from bankruptcy — could real improvement occur.

Although North Carolina might not be considered union - friendly — it's a right - to - work state — the Priority Schools Campaign is still changing perceptions about public educators and what NEA has to offer to reform efforts.

Prior to joining ICEF in 2004, Ravare worked for Los Angeles Unified School District Board member Genethia Hudley - Hayes and was a facilitator with LEARN, a district - wide education reform effort.

American Institutes for Research (AIR), a research and evaluation think - tank, works with the school district to provide technical assistance on its reform plan, which has been critical to their ongoing efforts.

Crucial to change - minded leadership is making the law a tool of reform — to make ambiguity and uncertainty work for, rather than against, a leader's school improvement efforts.

The effort, in turn, builds upon the decades - long efforts of standards and accountability activists within the school reform movement — including conservative outfits such as the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and its president, Checker Finn — to improve the quality of curricula in schools; this began in the 1970s with the work of southern governors and chambers of commerce, accelerated during the Eighties with the Reagan administration's release of A Nation at Risk, and supported by Ronald Reagan's successor, George Bush, during his tenure as president.

But that would mean convincing Fulton County's legislative delegation (which can put a stranglehold on any reform effort, as they did during the 1990s with efforts by residents in what is now Sandy Springs to form their own city government), as well as working with the Republican - dominated legislature and new governor Nathan Deal (who is no exemplar on school reform).

The most dramatic change wrought by this effort to radically reform the education system was to place decision - making control in the hands of local schools.

We've created a system that allows them to validate that,» says Gene Bottoms, executive director of High Schools That Work, a reform effort now in about 1,000 schools in 30 Schools That Work, a reform effort now in about 1,000 schools in 30 schools in 30 states.

In the 11 years since the state took over Philadelphia, the district has gone through an array of overhauls, including the hand - off of school operations to outfits such as Edison Schools, and even the hard work of reformers such as Paul Vallas (who began Chicago's successful school reform effort and has just finished up a successful stint overseeing the revamp of New Orleans» school system).

They've done this through a range of efforts, from creating startup - style school incubators to attract the best education talent to Indianapolis, to hosting informational tours showcasing the city's top schools so the community understands the impact of education - reform work.

parents voted to «pause» their «Parent Trigger» petition efforts to work on a collaborative in - district reform plan for their school with teachers and the district.

Meanwhile in Pennsylvania, the AFT has worked with its Keystone State affiliate to challenge school reform efforts as well as take on moves by Gov. Tom Corbett to reduce education spending.

Again, school reformers must work harder on these fronts, while criminal justice reform advocates should work on such efforts within law enforcement.

Apparently, Hess ignores the decade of research on other issues — from the expansion of school choice, to teacher quality reform efforts, to even the work on the academic prospects of high - achieving students being conducted by Fordham and other outfits — as well as the focus of state and federal policymaking on such matters as bullying and using schools to combat childhood obesity.

What Bill Gates May Wrought in Education Philanthropy: Two years ago, your editor detailed the successes and failures of the school reform efforts undertaken by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Gray described the initiative he is leading, CEE - Trust, a network of 18 city - based organizations that support education innovation and reform, and discussed the efforts of a CEE - Trust working group that is exploring innovative ways to rapidly expand the supply of high - quality charter schools in seven CEE - Trust cities.

Working with outfits such as the Connecticut Parents Union (on whose advisory board your Dropout Nation editor serves)-- including helping them build financial and communications capacity — would further advance school reform efforts.

Herbert Hilgado, who has worked closely with the Los Angeles - based education reform group Parent Revolution, which has led the effort to organize parents and help them use California's Parent Trigger law to take over McKinley Elementary School, writes in his complaint:

Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.

During the last few years, Dr. Mucetti has gained tremendous experience in strategizing and leading innovative reform efforts as she works to address issues of equity and school district performance in the Hayward and San Jose Unified School Distschool district performance in the Hayward and San Jose Unified School DistSchool Districts.

I think that the thing that's really energizing to me about the work moving forward is that it really is an opportunity to continue to build on the lessons learned from prior generations of school reform efforts.

She first came to LA in late 1999 to work on a school reform effort called Los Angeles Annenberg Metropolitan Project, known as LAAMP, a $ 53 - million grant challenge program funded by the Annenberg Foundation.

Set within a grass - roots effort to implement reading program reform, this work investigates the relationship between the programmatic and classroom instructional factors of schools and students» reading and writing achievement.

Meanwhile, in addition to the Denver campaign work being funded through the SFER PAC, Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) was also engaged in a major effort to support the same set of pro-education reform candidates running for the Denver school Reform (DFER) was also engaged in a major effort to support the same set of pro-education reform candidates running for the Denver school reform candidates running for the Denver school board.

Every opportunity that I've had to work in school reform only renews my commitment to keep the needs of kids and parents foremost in every effort.