Sentences with phrase «based education reform group»

Parents at 24th Street Elementary School, with the help of Los Angeles - based education reform group Parent Revolution, will deliver the required signature petition to L.A. Unified officials in downtown on Thursday morning to start the process of taking over the school, according to Parent Revolution officials.

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:

Parents and paid organizers with the Los Angeles - based education reform group Parent Revolution managed to work mostly under the radar while gathering signatures from some 60 percent of parents whose children attend McKinley Elementary School.

A landmark study released in December by The Mind Trust, the locally based education reform group, calls for dramatically downsizing the central IPS office and pushing the resources and grass - roots governance to individual schools.

In an unprecedented partnership announced Tuesday night, locally based education reform group The Mind Trust, the mayor's office and Indianapolis Public Schools are teaming up to try to improve the district's poorest performing schools.

To date, board members of these two Connecticut - based education reform groups have donated well in excess of $ 50,000 to Malloy's political aspirations and that doesn't even count another $ 50,000 that these same people dumped into another political action committee affiliated with Malloy.

Not exact matches

The event is sponsored by Education Reform Now, a group that has ties to Taveras: the New York - based 501 (c) 3 nonprofit is helping support the national Mayors for Educational Excellence Tour, which is meant to highlight new educational efforts in four specific U.S. cities.

But then news surfaced that education reform group PennCAN had hired a leading GOP pollster and commissioned a secret report urging the governor to use the Philadelphia school crisis as a wedge issue to rally his base.

Kahan told Fisher about New Visions for Public Schools, an education - reform group that helps fund small, theme - based schools in New York City.

Ben Austin, director of the Los Angeles based organization leading the parent trigger movement, notes that his group, Parent Revolution, is pro-charter but «unambiguously» opposed to vouchers, providing evidence, says Butcher, that «student - and parentcentric reforms» draw support from parents with diverse views on education reform.

«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.»

Officials of the group, the San Diego - based American Education Reform Foundation, had considered working to place a voucher proposal...

Based on years of research studying how to improve the quality of education in Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, Mexico and many other countries in Latin America, as well as his work as an advisor to governments, private groups, and foundations involved in education reform, Reimers recommended developing three sets of competencies.

On both substance and style, he has won praise from divergent interest groups, including the American Federation of Teachers and the New York City - based Democrats for Education Reform.

At issue is $ 102,000 earned by Mrs. Clinton in 1991 as a consultant for the National Center on Education and the Economy, a not - for - profit education - reform and policymaking group based in RochesEducation and the Economy, a not - for - profit education - reform and policymaking group based in Rocheseducation - reform and policymaking group based in Rochester, N.Y.

It's still possible at a fairly high level of abstraction to join moderate liberals and moderate conservatives around some key principles of education reform, much as the state - based reform groups joined under the loose umbrella of Policy Innovators in Education in their statement of «commitmenteducation reform, much as the state - based reform groups joined under the loose umbrella of Policy Innovators in Education in their statement of «commitmentEducation in their statement of «commitments.»

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.

A group calling itself the «Badass Teachers Association,» citing opposition to what it considers market - based education reform, plans a June 26 protest outside the Gates Foundation's headquarters in Seattle.

The corporate funded New York based entity called Families for Excellent Schools has set up yet another «education reform» front group in Connecticut.

In the School of Education case, the group objected to Johnston's «vision of education reform that relies heavily on test - based accountability while weakening the due process protections of teacherEducation case, the group objected to Johnston's «vision of education reform that relies heavily on test - based accountability while weakening the due process protections of teachereducation reform that relies heavily on test - based accountability while weakening the due process protections of teachers.»

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.

The trend threatens to erase the performance edge Indiana's charter schools have enjoyed over their public and charter school peers in other states, according to David Harris, CEO of The Mind Trust, an education reform group based in Indianapolis.

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.

«The group's proposed reforms correspond to criteria the federal government will use to award additional education stimulus dollars on a competitive basis starting this fall.»

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.

A NEW YORK - BASED education reform nonprofit funneled nearly $ 2.5 million to a related group in Massachusetts, according to new disclosuresunearthed as part of a legal settlement.

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.

(a) Provides employment and / or practicum experiences with adolescents in urban public school settings; (b) Provides ongoing support in the development of skills necessary to be an effective group facilitator, utilizing a science - based affective curriculum; (c) Heightens facilitators» understanding of the cultural and contextual factors that impact the psychosocial development of urban adolescents and their ability to achieve academically; (d) Exposes facilitators to the process of designing, implementing and evaluating large scale preventive interventions; (e) Examines educational policy and its implications for practice and research for urban education and school reform; and (f) Encourages facilitators» interest and pursuit of careers in education, psychology social work, counseling and / or other related fields.

Of the total amount of money Charters Care raised, the majority came from Education Reform Now, a shadowy New York based «Dark Money» group that refuses to identify its donors.

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

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.

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.

It was just a few weeks ago that CT News Junkie columnist Sarah Darer Littman wrote a scathing column on the ethics problems associated with the New York based corporate education reform industry group called Families for Excellent Schools and its subsidiary, and entity called the Coalition for Every Child.

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.

A New York - based education reform nonprofit funneled nearly $ 2.5 million to a related group in Massachusetts, according to new disclosures unearthed as part of a legal settlement.

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.

«I think you need to wake up the university presidents to the fact that schools of education can't be A.T.M.s for the rest of the college or university,» said Charles Barone, policy director for Democrats for Education Reform, a group that pushes for test - based teacher evaluations and has battled teachers»education can't be A.T.M.s for the rest of the college or university,» said Charles Barone, policy director for Democrats for Education Reform, a group that pushes for test - based teacher evaluations and has battled teachers»Education Reform, a group that pushes for test - based teacher evaluations and has battled teachers» unions.

Schnur, who runs a Manhattan - based school - reform group called New Leaders for New Schools, sits informally at the center of a network of self - styled reformers dedicated to overhauling public education in the United States.

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.

As a coalition of over 200 civil rights, consumer, labor, business, investor, faith - based, and civic and community groups, Americans for Financial Reform supports the Department of Education's announcement last month of a new competition for student loan servicing contracts.

State reforms and integrated health delivery systems in some regions are providing incentives for population health approaches, facilitating collaboration in healthy neighborhood initiatives.94 Collaborators with health care organizations may include education systems, social services, faith - based groups, and community development organizations.