Sentences with phrase «texas public education policy»

Meetings with your statewide elected officials provide you the opportunity to initiate and grow relationships with decision - makers who shape Texas public education policy and funding.

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Builders, based in Aledo, Texas, whose expressed goal is «to exert a positive influence in government, education, and the family by 1) educating the nation concerning the Godly foundation of our country; 2) providing information to federal, state and local officials as they develop public policies which reflect Biblical values; and 3) encouraging Christians to get involved in the civic arena.

Isaac McFarlin Jr. is assistant research scientist of public policy at the University of Michigan and research scholar with the Center for Research on Education Policy at the University of Texas at Dallas's Texas Schools Prpolicy at the University of Michigan and research scholar with the Center for Research on Education Policy at the University of Texas at Dallas's Texas Schools PrPolicy at the University of Texas at Dallas's Texas Schools Project.

Though he lost a close race for the governorship to incumbent Lawton Chiles in 1994 (the same year brother George won the Texas gubernatorial bid), Bush set up a nonprofit, the Foundation for Florida's Future, which would keep him focused on public policy and education until the next election, in 1998, which he won handily.

Andrea Guengerich Education Policy and Management Hometown: Austin, Texas Experience: High school teacher in Brownsville, Texas, one of the largest cities along the Texas - Mexico border; position at Breakthrough Austin, a community - based organization that provides a path to college, starting in middle school, for low - income students who will be first - generation college students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whole child

Ashton Trumble works in the Center for Higher Education at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

Raise Your Hand Texas identifies and pilots promising ideas to improve public education, and supports the conditions and public policies needed to scale proven approaches to benefit all Texas students.

Thomas K. Lindsay, Ph.D., Editor in Chief and Director, Center for Higher Education, Texas Public Policy Foundation

For over 20 years, Laura Koenig has been working with families through direct child care, parent education, provider education, public policy and advocacy in Central Texas.

Cost Study of Bilingual / ESL and Compensatory Education, Invited Testimony of IDRA — Presented by David Hinojosa, J.D., IDRA National Director of Policy before the Texas House Public Education Committee, March 7, 2017

When we examine the education priorities of Texas» political leadership as evidenced by the policy initiatives of the 79th Session of the Texas Legislature, we find a policy mix dominated by three priorities: property tax relief, fixing the broken «Robin Hood» system of school finance, and providing more money for public education.

The Texas Institute for Education Reform has a longer history and a smaller footprint, spearheaded by, among others, Houston businessman and former Texas Public Policy Foundation board memberJim Windham.

So last year, two of the state's leading education reform organizations, Texans for Education Reform (TER) and the Texas Institute for Education Reform (TIER), partnered to establish a new group: Texas Aspires, a bipartisan, non-profit organization of education, business and community leaders committed to advancing public policies that benefit all Texas education reform organizations, Texans for Education Reform (TER) and the Texas Institute for Education Reform (TIER), partnered to establish a new group: Texas Aspires, a bipartisan, non-profit organization of education, business and community leaders committed to advancing public policies that benefit all Texas Education Reform (TER) and the Texas Institute for Education Reform (TIER), partnered to establish a new group: Texas Aspires, a bipartisan, non-profit organization of education, business and community leaders committed to advancing public policies that benefit all Texas Education Reform (TIER), partnered to establish a new group: Texas Aspires, a bipartisan, non-profit organization of education, business and community leaders committed to advancing public policies that benefit all Texas education, business and community leaders committed to advancing public policies that benefit all Texas students.

Earlier this year, the Texas Public Policy Foundation and the Texas Conservative Coalition Research Foundation published a list of principles for school finance which includes the fundamental point that the basis of the equity argument for increased education funding should be challenged, because educational equity is not the same as school funding equity.

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The Texas Legislature is now in full swing and, of course, the Texas Institute for Education Reform (TIER) is at every table on every significant public education issue at stake, hopefully providing meaningful policy advocacy leEducation Reform (TIER) is at every table on every significant public education issue at stake, hopefully providing meaningful policy advocacy leeducation issue at stake, hopefully providing meaningful policy advocacy leadership.

Since 2001, Crowe has worked on projects related to teacher quality policy for the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO), and with the public higher education systems of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin; for the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) on teacher preparation projects, and on research on the cost of teacher turnover; as an adviser to the Hunter Foundation of Scotland and to the Scottish National Executive on teacher quality; has been a member of the Advisory Council for the Texas Center for Research, Evaluation and Advancement of Teacher Education (CREATE); and was a member of the national advisory panel for the Ohio Teacher Quality ParEducation Executive Officers (SHEEO), and with the public higher education systems of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin; for the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) on teacher preparation projects, and on research on the cost of teacher turnover; as an adviser to the Hunter Foundation of Scotland and to the Scottish National Executive on teacher quality; has been a member of the Advisory Council for the Texas Center for Research, Evaluation and Advancement of Teacher Education (CREATE); and was a member of the national advisory panel for the Ohio Teacher Quality Pareducation systems of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin; for the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) on teacher preparation projects, and on research on the cost of teacher turnover; as an adviser to the Hunter Foundation of Scotland and to the Scottish National Executive on teacher quality; has been a member of the Advisory Council for the Texas Center for Research, Evaluation and Advancement of Teacher Education (CREATE); and was a member of the national advisory panel for the Ohio Teacher Quality ParEducation (CREATE); and was a member of the national advisory panel for the Ohio Teacher Quality Partnership.

Texas has more than 1,200 public school districts, so it's understandable that what works in one place may not always be good education policy in another.

Under the Texas Education Code (TEC), section 42.006, originally passed in 1995, the Texas Legislature requires TEA to collect a range of student data via the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) program that is used as the basis for education policy decisions, for accountability and determining school funding, and — on a strictly FERPA - compliant basis — for education Education Code (TEC), section 42.006, originally passed in 1995, the Texas Legislature requires TEA to collect a range of student data via the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) program that is used as the basis for education policy decisions, for accountability and determining school funding, and — on a strictly FERPA - compliant basis — for education Education Information Management System (PEIMS) program that is used as the basis for education policy decisions, for accountability and determining school funding, and — on a strictly FERPA - compliant basis — for education education policy decisions, for accountability and determining school funding, and — on a strictly FERPA - compliant basis — for education education research.

Higher Education Policy as Secondary School Reform: Texas Public High Schools after Hopwood,» Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

A native of a small West Texas town, Addie has worked in political communications and public education policy for over ten years.

A Texas Public Policy Foundation study published last week said two - thirds of Texans favor the creation of statewide education scholarships and 72 percent favor business tax credits for private schools.

Trevor McGuire is a policy analyst with the Center for Higher Education at the Texas Public Policy Foundpolicy analyst with the Center for Higher Education at the Texas Public Policy FoundPolicy Foundation.

Texas AFT actively works to better the profession of educators by promoting effective public education policy and laws to help improve the pay and working conditions of our teachers, nurses, counselors and other professionals.

The chronic underfunding of special education on the federal level, and public education in general on the State level, have led the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to enact policies that many say harm Texas education on the federal level, and public education in general on the State level, have led the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to enact policies that many say harm Texas education in general on the State level, have led the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to enact policies that many say harm Texas Education Agency (TEA) to enact policies that many say harm Texas children.

That is the question two researchers at Vanderbilt — Ryan Balch (recent Graduate Research Assistant at Vanderbilt's National Center on Performance Incentives) and Matthew Springer (Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Education and Director of Vanderbilt's National Center on Performance Incentives)-- attempted to answer in a recent study of the REACH pay - for - performance program in Austin, Texas (a nationally recognized performance program model with $ 62.3 million in federal support).

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TEACHING / PRESENTATION HISTORY Graduate Assistant — Texas Woman's University 2010 to Present Theories of the Family, Family Public Policy, Family Sexuality, Family Change and Diversity Guest Lecturer — Mountainview College Spring 2010 Guest Lecturer, Black Family Course Instructor — Axia College (Online) Fall / Winter 2007 Psychology Instructor — North Central Texas College Fall 2007 Graduate / Research Assistant — Texas Southern University Spring 2005 Presentations: 2010 Ohio Early Care and Education Conference, Columbus, OH April 2010 Pretend Play & African American Families: Learning While Bonding (requested workshop) Educational First Steps Annual Conference, Dallas, TX Feb. 2010 Learning While Bonding (requested workshop) National Black Child Development Institute, Atlanta, GA April 2009 Strengthening Black Families Through Play (workshop) Collin College Educators Symposium, Plano, TX April 2009 Share My World: Play and African American Children (workshop) Texas Woman's University Student Research Symposium, Denton, TX April 2009 The Impact of Adolescence on African American Parent - Daughter Relations (poster presentation) Collegium for African American Research, Bremen, Germany (paper presentation) March 2009 The 20th Century Social Scientist and the African in America: Implications for 21st Century Research Pearls and Ivy Annual Healthy Relationship Forum, Plano, TX (workshop) April 2009 Beyond, Me, Myself, and I: Impact of Early Adolescence on Females» Interpersonal Relationships Pearls and Ivy Annual Healthy Relationship Forum, Plano, TX Jan. 2008 Maintaining Healthy Relationships and Recognizing Unhealthy Relationships (workshop) The Health Group, Houston, TX Feb. 2005 Recognizing Depression in Yourself and Others (workshop)

Jennifer Esterline is the founder of and project consultant for the Texas Education Grantmakers Advocacy Consortium, a collaboration of private, corporate and community foundations across the state working to promote, protect and improve Texas public education through advocacy and publiEducation Grantmakers Advocacy Consortium, a collaboration of private, corporate and community foundations across the state working to promote, protect and improve Texas public education through advocacy and publieducation through advocacy and public policy.