Sentences with phrase «as the education reform council»

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Speaking to the Council, Mark - Viverito pledged to tackle issues such as reforming the education system and fighting for a higher minimum wage.

Mayor Bill de Blasio won a second term in a landslide on Tuesday, bringing four more years of Democratic rule to New York City as Council members hope for more action on key issues such as police reform, affordable housing and education.

It is widely recognized as the first step toward ambitious national standards in science for all students and a major influence on current efforts to reform science education in the U.S., including the National Research Council's A Framework for K - 12 Science Education (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by Achieveeducation in the U.S., including the National Research Council's A Framework for K - 12 Science Education (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by AchieveEducation (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by Achieve in 2013.

During his time as schools chief, he took on the reform groups, the local school councils, the education schools, the state board of education, and the education research community.

The conference, billed as the first attempt to bring together representatives from private and public education to discuss reform, was co-sponsored by the Council for American...

The authors quote Jeanne Allen, president of the Center for Education Reform, as describing this as «more than 200 associations, federations, alliances, departments, offices, administrations, councils, boards, commissions, panels, organizations, herds, flocks, and coveys....»

In addition, Robert capitalized on his ties to such national figures in the voucher movement as Wal - Mart heir John Walton and his American Education Reform Council; Howard Fuller, the former Milwaukee superintendent who now heads the Black Alliance for Educational Options; and the Institute for Justice, the voucher movement's legal brain trust.

«Public education isn't so much who provides it, as much as who pays for it,» said Jim Blew of the American Education Reformeducation isn't so much who provides it, as much as who pays for it,» said Jim Blew of the American Education ReformEducation Reform Council.

The education secretary Nicky Morgan said: «From helping to set up one of the country's top academy chains, to acting as a council member for the Institute of Education, to overseeing our ambitious qualification reform programme, Amanda has extensive experience at the frontline of the education system, making her uniquely qualified to take up this importeducation secretary Nicky Morgan said: «From helping to set up one of the country's top academy chains, to acting as a council member for the Institute of Education, to overseeing our ambitious qualification reform programme, Amanda has extensive experience at the frontline of the education system, making her uniquely qualified to take up this importEducation, to overseeing our ambitious qualification reform programme, Amanda has extensive experience at the frontline of the education system, making her uniquely qualified to take up this importeducation system, making her uniquely qualified to take up this important role.

By and large, organizations such as the... American Association of School Administrators and the Council of Chief State School Officers were cool, and in some cases openly hostile, to the calls for education reform.

At the top of the Bronin's donor list stands Greenwich corporate executive Steven Simmons who serves as Chairman of the corporate - funded «education reform» front group that goes by the name of the Connecticut Council for Educatioeducation reform» front group that goes by the name of the Connecticut Council for Education Rreform» front group that goes by the name of the Connecticut Council for EducationEducation ReformReform.

As if all of that wasn't clear enough, Bronin's donor list even contains most of the lobbyists who represent the pro-privatization, anti-teacher and anti-public education groups in Connecticut including the lobbyists for ConnCAN, the Northeast Charter School Network and the Connecticut Council for Educatioeducation groups in Connecticut including the lobbyists for ConnCAN, the Northeast Charter School Network and the Connecticut Council for EducationEducation Reform.

Professional and policy organizations such as the University Council for Education Administration, the Council of the Great City Schools, and the Bush Institute's Alliance to Reform Education Leadership have all recognized Illinois for exemplary partnerships between school districts and school leader preparation programs.

UI principal success in improving student learning has been recognized by such leading organizations as the Council of Great City Schools, the University Council on Education Leadership, and the Alliance to Reform Education Leadership.

This is the auditorium of Rockville Centre's South Side High School on Jan. 13, where approximately 120 students, teachers and education advocates witnessed the latest front in what has been an all - out war against Common Core, the education reform created by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers and financed with more than $ 4 billion of «Race to the Top» funds as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

National Council on Teacher Quality attributed the rapid pace of change to the Race to the Top, the federal government competition that had recession - addled states vie for money in exchange for implementing education reforms, such as teacher evaluations.

Notably, the «National Council on Teacher Quality attributed the rapid pace of change to the Race to the Top, the federal government competition that had recession - addled states vie for money in exchange for implementing education reforms, such as teacher evaluations.»

CCER's Executive Director, Jeff Villar, who once served as the superintendent of schools in Windsor, left his position there three months ago to become the six - figure executive director and lobbyist for the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER).

We certainly know that reality here, as Governor Malloy's education reform associates like Mayor Bill Finch, «Education Reformer Extraordinaire» Paul Vallas, and corporate business organizations like Excel Bridgeport and the Council for Education Reform, are spending over $ 100,000 to eliminate Bridgeport's democratically elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by teducation reform associates like Mayor Bill Finch, «Education Reformer Extraordinaire» Paul Vallas, and corporate business organizations like Excel Bridgeport and the Council for Education Reform, are spending over $ 100,000 to eliminate Bridgeport's democratically elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by the reform associates like Mayor Bill Finch, «Education Reformer Extraordinaire» Paul Vallas, and corporate business organizations like Excel Bridgeport and the Council for Education Reform, are spending over $ 100,000 to eliminate Bridgeport's democratically elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by tEducation Reformer Extraordinaire» Paul Vallas, and corporate business organizations like Excel Bridgeport and the Council for Education Reform, are spending over $ 100,000 to eliminate Bridgeport's democratically elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by tEducation Reform, are spending over $ 100,000 to eliminate Bridgeport's democratically elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by the Reform, are spending over $ 100,000 to eliminate Bridgeport's democratically elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by teducation and replace it with one appointed by the Mayor.

He has also served as a member of the National Commission on Governance, Education Commission of the States, Educational Leadership Advisory Council of the Wallace - Readers Digest Funds, and as a consultant to the Annenberg Institute for School Reform.

The corporate CEOs and Presidents have set up a website, retained lobbyists and hired a staff including their new Executive Direct, Rae Ann Knopf, who served as Vermont's Deputy Secretary of Education from 2006 until she left to take the position the Connecticut Council for Education Reform.

At the time Katie Roy was actually serving as the Chief Operating Officer for the Connecticut Council for Education Reform, one of the leading entities lobbying on behalf of Malloy's anti-public education Education Reform, one of the leading entities lobbying on behalf of Malloy's anti-public education education policies.

Today I am asking WNPR's Where We Live, WFSB's Face the State, FOXCT's The Real Story, CT Report with Steve Kotchko and other appropriate news forums to host a debate between myself and any one of the leaders of these corporate advocacy fronts such as Jeffrey Villar, the Executive Director of Connecticut Council for Education Reform and Jennifer Alexander, the Chief Executive Officer of ConnCAN.

Prior to joining the Council, Dr. Grafwallner worked on early childhood policy and school reform as an Assistant State Superintendent at the Maryland State Department of Education.

The Mastery Examination Task Force was comprised of four members from the State Department of Education including the Commissioner herself as chair, two representatives from the State Board of Education, two from the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education, two from the CT Association of Public School Superintendents, two from the CT Association of Schools (which oversees The Principal's Center), three from the CT Parent Teacher Association, and two chosen at - large by the Commissioner: the Executive Director of the CT Council for Education Reform and a Southern Connecticut State University professor with a math / technology background.

MYTH: The main problem with education is the lazy or incompetent teacher, who is protected by corrupt unions and supervised by out - of - control local school councils, so the key to reform is a system of rewards and punishments and the dismantling of rights to organize (as with state legislation currently under debate).

Together with Louise Phipps Senft, Esq., he serves as a Trustee on the Board of Convergence, Center for Policy Resolution — a bi-partisan non-profit organization based in Washington DC, dedicated to bi-partisan dialogue and policy reform in pressing issues of the day, such as K - 12 education reform, healthcare and nutrition, and US - Pakistan relations.He is a past member of the Leadership Council of the Environment and Public Policy Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution, the ADR Section Council for the Maryland State Bar Association, and the American Bar Association Committee on Use of Collaborative Processes by Federal Agencies to Improve Citizen Participation.

As part of our role as Strategic Reform Partner to the Department for Education, the Council for Disabled Children hav.As part of our role as Strategic Reform Partner to the Department for Education, the Council for Disabled Children hav.as Strategic Reform Partner to the Department for Education, the Council for Disabled Children hav...

2 A significant contribution towards the funding of the 2008 NATSISS was provided by the Council of Australian Governments (CoAG), as agreed through the Working Group on Indigenous Reform, and the Victorian Government Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD).