Sentences with phrase «based education reform organization»

Already at 28 members from coast to coast, CEE - Trust launched from Indianapolis - based education reform organization The Mind Trust in 2010, with support from Carnegie Corporation of New York and The Joyce Foundation.

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Democracy Matters is a campus - based organization that advocates for campaign finance reform as well as issues concerning the environment, civil rights, education, health care and foreign policy.

It has a national board overseeing state affiliates, a strong donor base, both 501 (c)(3) and 501 (c)(4) structures, and a political action committee (PAC) called Democrats for Education Reform (DFER), with a separate board but shared staff with its related organizations.

Lisa Graham Keegan is the chief executive officer of Education Leaders Council, a member - based organization for reform - minded chief state school officers.

As an independent, nonprofit, education - reform organization, Achieve has a mission of supporting standards - based education reform, and it offers both content and policy resources.

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.

New Visions for Public Schools, a New York City - based nonprofit education reform organization, has received an 8 - year, $ 20 million grant from the Radnor, Pa. - based Annenberg Foundation.

A Jackson, Miss. - based citizens» organization has launched a five - year campaign to recruit a grassroots army of parents to support education reform across the nation.

After all, they had come to Miami, thanks to Darrell Allison, president of Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina, a Raleigh - based school - reform organization, for a two - day event hosted by Jeb Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), to get advice about education reform, and they didn't want to embarrass Education (ExcelinEd), to get advice about education reform, and they didn't want to embarrass education reform, and they didn't want to embarrass the host.

Mr. Nelson will be responsible for the daily operation of the Washington - based organization's long - term effort to reform science education nationwide.

And Education Post, a new organization committed to supporting a «respectful» and «fact - based» debate on reform issues, including Common Core, just opened for business.

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.

What started as an exciting interest in public charter school performance eventually evolved into work at a research - based advocacy organization that collects data and publishes reports about educational choice and reform initiatives in K — 12 education.

The organization works with ALEC to write and promote education reform policies such as school grades, mandatory grad retention, high stakes testing, unmitigated charter growth, corporate tax scholarships, competency based education, personal learning accounts, virtual learning, tying student test scores to teacher evaluations, weakening teachers unions and attacking the constitutional authority of school boards.

The policy ideas put forth by these and other similar organizations have formed the basis for many of the education reforms that are in place today.

The Center for Education Reform, a Washington, D.C. — based organization supported by conservative foundations, coordinated the placement of a full - page ad in the New York Times, in which a number of prominent researchers both criticized the methodology of the AFT study and took the newspaper to task for failing to subject the report to a more rigorous and skeptical review.

RSCT efforts include education, research, advocacy, and building the capacity of grassroots leaders and community - based organizations to positively impact rural school reform.

For instance from its Statement of Principles, the explicitly party - based organization Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) claims change is needed because «particularly low - income and children of color — are trapped in persistently failing schools.»

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.

One reason D.C.'s education reforms attracted significant attention across the country was their timing: DCPS started using IMPACT to evaluate teachers during the 2009 — 2010 school year, just as the education reform organization The New Teacher Project (TNTP) released a report recommending that districts develop evaluation systems that rate teachers «based on their effectiveness in promoting student achievement.»

In 1930, he started an organization for educational reform called Soka Kyoiku Gakkai or «Value Creating Educators Society» based not only on his theories of education but also on Nichiren Buddhism.

Connecticut Council on Education Reform is the New Haven - based, corporate - funded education reform organization that joined ConnCAN and Michelle Rhee's Students First / GNEPSA in running television ads supporting Malloy'sEducation Reform is the New Haven - based, corporate - funded education reform organization that joined ConnCAN and Michelle Rhee's Students First / GNEPSA in running television ads supporting Malloy's reReform is the New Haven - based, corporate - funded education reform organization that joined ConnCAN and Michelle Rhee's Students First / GNEPSA in running television ads supporting Malloy'seducation reform organization that joined ConnCAN and Michelle Rhee's Students First / GNEPSA in running television ads supporting Malloy's rereform organization that joined ConnCAN and Michelle Rhee's Students First / GNEPSA in running television ads supporting Malloy's reforms.

In addition to «The Big Six,» other organizations that are presently lobbying Connecticut legislators in favor of the charter school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public funds.

We are talking about billionaires and millionaires and the major education reform companies, organizations and foundations dumping tens of millions of dollars into state and local efforts to elect handpicked accomplices or even, where necessary, changing the rules to make it easier to open charter schools and dismantle the core elements of a broad - based public education system.

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.

Darin sits on the board of the Justice Education Society, a Vancouver - based organization that carries out public legal education and information activities, justice reform and capacity building programs in British Columbia and in several jurisdictions outsidEducation Society, a Vancouver - based organization that carries out public legal education and information activities, justice reform and capacity building programs in British Columbia and in several jurisdictions outsideducation and information activities, justice reform and capacity building programs in British Columbia and in several jurisdictions outside Canada.

The American Tort Reform Association, based in Washington, D.C., is the only national organization dedicated exclusively to tort and liability reform through public education and the enactment of legislReform Association, based in Washington, D.C., is the only national organization dedicated exclusively to tort and liability reform through public education and the enactment of legislreform through public education and the enactment of legislation.

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.

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.