Sentences with phrase «based education advocacy group»

But in the coming years, they'll be «trying to make equity at the heart of education in states,» said Ryan Smith, executive director of The Education Trust - West, the California arm of the Washington - based education advocacy group.

This report from a Connecticut - based education advocacy group aims to Fix Our Broken School Funding System with a reverse Robin Hood take - from - the - poor approach nicely wrapped in a pious package of verbiage designed to hide its true effects.

Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Washington - based education advocacy group, said the family will face a tough choice among public, private and charter schools in a city where attempts at education reform have become symbolic of the issue nationwide.

It would meet the requirements of a judge's ruling in a lawsuit brought by EdVoice, a Sacramento - based education advocacy group, that test scores must be included.

ConnCAN, a Connecticut - based education advocacy group, has released a report comparing assessment systems in other states.

Not exact matches

The CSPI, a Washington - based non-profit consumer advocacy and education group, is often derisively referred to as the «food police» for coming out against a range of foods, including fettuccine alfredo («heart attack on a plate») and ice cream («coronaries in cones»).

The state Legislature in 2007 approved an increase in need - based school funding in response, but reduced school aid again in subsequent years, undoing the progress, according to Alliance for Quality Education, an Albany advocacy group.

Higher education is also suffering, says Belinda Robinson, chief executive of Universities Australia, an advocacy group based in Canberra.

The council is a Washington - based advocacy group, and Mr. Bauer was the undersecretary of education under Mr. Bennett.

«Each of these audiences will be critical in building a broader - based education reform movement that goes beyond the wonks, advocacy groups, and charter folks.»

«We've got to end this rampant dishonesty about graduation rates,» Kati Haycock, the director of the Education Trust, the Washington - based research and advocacy group that put together the report, said in a statement.

Their request for a court order was drafted in consultation with EdVoice, a Sacramento - based education - advocacy group.

«The provisions dealing with teacher quality in No Child Left Behind have done a wonderful job of focusing attention on the issue of teacher quality in the United States,» said Jack Jennings, the director of the Washington - based Center on Education Policy, a nonpartisan advocacy group that sponsored the gathering.

The Quality Education for Minorities Network, a Washington - based advocacy group, announced the program this month; it was planned in partnership with several organizations, including the American Federation of Teachers and the National Urban League.

Along with attendance, testing, GPA checks, and tracking their students post-high school, Build SF uses rubrics for student projects, develops peer assessments, and asks mentors to fill out formal exit surveys on students, based on skills developed by the Partnership for 21st Century Learning, an acclaimed advocacy group dedicated to infusing twenty - first - century skills into education through collaborative community efforts.

Kati Haycock, who leads the Washington - based advocacy group Education Trust, called the November change an «about - face» that let states «keep sweeping under the rug the gaps in teacher quality that contribute so heavily to longstanding achievement gaps.»

The report, scheduled for release this week by Mass Insight Education and Research Institute, a Boston - based research and advocacy group, envisions a broad - based and highly cooperative system of rapid school improvement.

CEE - Trust, an initiative of the extraordinary The Mind Trust, convenes and collaborates with reform - minded, city - based education groups, like foundations and advocacy organizations.

The founder of a grassroots public school advocacy group based in northern Wisconsin says Rep. Mary Czaja backs «draconian» budget cuts to public education at the behest of Republican party leadership.

«The bad news is we're not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,» said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida - based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning.

One of Trump's biggest education promises — a proposed $ 20 billion block grant promoting charter and private schools — was developed with input from DeVos» D.C. - based advocacy group, the American Federation for Children.

«There are countless examples of where the appropriate use of technology has had and is having a positive impact on achievement,» said Bruce Friend, the chief operating officer of iNACOL, a U.S. - based advocacy group for increasing the use of technology in education.

Parent advocacy group TREE — Tennesseans Reclaiming Educational Excellence — released a legislative report card ranking lawmakers based on votes on education - related isues.

Samantha Tran, senior director for education policy at the Oakland - based advocacy group Children Now, said more specifics are needed throughout the accountability plans so community members can clearly see what districts plan to do.

«There are a lot of factors that go into a teacher's performance in the classroom, and certainly some of those do happen after teachers leave the preparation program,» said Sarah Almy, director of teacher quality at the Education Trust, a Washington D.C. - based advocacy group that pushes for more accountability in eEducation Trust, a Washington D.C. - based advocacy group that pushes for more accountability in educationeducation.

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.

Indeed, on such issues as the common core and teacher evaluations, many might choose a cautious approach, said Iris Maria Chavez, the assistant field director for the Education Trust, a Washington - based advocacy group.

The Education Law Center, the Newark - based advocacy group, this month released an analysis of district data that indicated during their first year the «renaissance schools» — including KIPP - Cooper - Norcross had enrolled a smaller share of students with special needs than public schools in the district.

Our campaign includes more than 50 education advocacy organizations plus teachers and school administrators, representatives of charter schools and traditional public schools, urban and rural interests, business and organized labor, faith - based groups and community groups.

David Sciarra, executive director of the Education Law Center, a Newark - based school advocacy group, noted that many traditional urban public schools are older and in worse condition, and have to wait for the state Schools Development Authority to take any action on facilities.

Sket is the county leader of Fund Education Now — an Orlando - based advocacy group concerned about educatEducation Now — an Orlando - based advocacy group concerned about educationeducation cuts.

Edgerley has also donated millions in support of the privatization of public education, including hundreds of thousands of dollars to New Profit, Inc. and Strategic Grant Partners, a Massachusetts based foundation that has been funding the expansion of charter schools and charter school advocacy groups in that state.

Although they noted the massive expenditure by the lead education reform group, Families for Excellent Schools, which is based in New York, they didn't total all of the funds being spent by the corporate funded education reform advocacy group.

Families for Excellent Schools (FES) is a major New York City based, corporate funded, charter school and education reform advocacy group.

Change the Stakes, a New York based pro-public education advocacy group, provides Eight Reasons to Opt Out of SBAC testing.

Students from all socioeconomic backgrounds are left footing the bill, which includes a sizable $ 380 million in student loan debt, according to the report from the Washington, D.C. - based think tank Education Reform Now, an affiliate of the advocacy group Democrats for Education Reform.

Among the «teacher advocacy group's» major funders is Education Reform Now, another corporate funded advocacy group that spends its money promoting charter schools and an end to tenure and «seniority - based layoff.»

Shavar Jeffries, the mouthpiece for a corporate funded, New York based, charter school advocacy group that calls itself «Democrats for Education Reform (DFER)» uses the space to urge Connecticut legislators to DEFEAT a bill that, if passed, would require Governor Dannel Malloy and his administration to develop an honest and effective teacher evaluation system rather than continue with Malloy's present program that is dependent on the results of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme.

Today, PURE joined with the Washington, D. C. - based legal advocacy group Advancement Project and Voices of Youth in Chicago Education (VOYCE) in a press conference and march to protest the Noble Charter School Network's predatory student discipline policy.

Both Democrats for Education Reform and the Northeast Charter School Network are corporate - funded charter school advocacy groups based in New York City and both receive the bulk of their money from the billionaires and millionaires who are trying to privatize public education in the UniteEducation Reform and the Northeast Charter School Network are corporate - funded charter school advocacy groups based in New York City and both receive the bulk of their money from the billionaires and millionaires who are trying to privatize public education in the Uniteeducation in the United States.

New Profit, Inc. also «invests» in a variety of other corporate education reform industry companies and front groups including Educators 4 Excellence, a New York based anti-union advocacy group that recently opened offices in Connecticut; the Kipp Charter School Chain, a company that runs well over 100 charter schools around the nation; the «Achievement Network» and «Turnaround for Children,» two other corporate education reform organizations.

He also coordinated Communities for Los Angeles Student Success (CLASS), a Los Angeles - based coalition of civil rights, education and community advocacy groups dedicated to closing the opportunity and achievement gaps for students - of - color and students living in poverty.

The Albany - based public education advocacy group issued a statement saying the lawsuit «will only divert more money away from public schools, at the expense of our children.»

From 2012 - 2016, Oliveira served on the Executive Committee of the Council for the Great City Schools, a national urban education policy and advocacy group based in Washington, DC.

National black and Hispanic education reform advocacy groups, as well as Florida - based coalitions of minority clergy, have argued that the scholarships provide opportunities for high - quality education to predominantly minority children who wouldn't get it otherwise.

It was just two weeks earlier that ConnCAN, the charter school advocacy group, conducted a public opinion survey designed to show broad - based public support for Malloy and Malloy's education reform initiatives.

Kati Haycock, who leads the Washington - based advocacy group Education Trust, called the change, first reported by Education Week, an «about - face» that lets states «keep sweeping under the rug the gaps in teacher quality that contribute so heavily to longstanding achievement gaps.»

Those ratings, by the nonprofit advocacy group National Council on Teacher Quality, which has been a vocal critic of teacher preparation programs, were based heavily on education school curriculum and selectivity.

I received a call today from a consumer advocacy group telling me that my loan wasn't consolidated through the Department of Education and since my load consolidation is through Great Lakes that it's not a true consolidation and that it's not a real Income Based Repayment plan.

GAO interviewed Education officials, representatives of borrower advocacy groups, and visited 6 selected collection agencies, based on their loan volume and geographic location.