Sentences with phrase «called education reform movement»

Skandera is a core member of the advocacy group Chiefs for Change, created by Bush in 2008 to highlight leaders of the so - called education reform movement.

The findings are important because of what they may contribute to the debate over changing how teacher evaluation is conducted, which has emerged as a hot - button political issue favored by the so - called education reform movement.

Cuomo has insisted that he will only increase education spending by a few million dollars if the Legislature does not agree to his reform package, which is lauded by those in the so - called education reform movement.

Though Cuomo and de Blasio are both Democrats, they have differing philosophies on education, with Cuomo supporting the so - called education reform movement and supporting the expansion of charter schools.

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For our efforts to go beyond such survival - mode, and to actually do what conservative pundits are calling for, depend a great upon a broader reform movement to restore genuine liberal education to the general curriculum and to give its champions real power.

ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

WASHINGTON — The standards - based education reform movement calls school change «the civil rights issue of our time.»

The education - reform movement has begun to have some impact, particularly in what might be called its second stage.

Groups consider trying to put charter - school initiative on ballot As prospects for a bill allowing charter schools dims in the Washington Legislature, some in the so - called «education reform» movement are considering compromise options or again asking the voters about it.

These are some of the leading examples of school choice — a catchy phrase referring to what others call education reform or, more simply put, school privatization — and the movement has most definitely made inroads in North Carolina.

It acknowledged that the education reform agenda can not be called a «movement» until those most harmed by inequality are leading it.

This so - called reform movement is all about accountability but no one seems to be responsible for the education stifled and careers ruined by NCLB, not to mention the billions of dollars wasted.

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Those who support corporate school reform have attempted to claim the mantle of the civil rights movement, with one of their biggest champions, former U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan calling education the «civil rights issue of our timEducation Secretary Arne Duncan calling education the «civil rights issue of our timeducation the «civil rights issue of our time.»

Given Trump's general opposition to criminal justice reform, the antipathy among Republicans and many conservative reformers to the Black Lives Matter movement (which has championed Obama's efforts), and the skepticism among so - called conservative reformers (most - notably Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and his amen corner at Education Next) on school discipline reform, expect nothing more after January.

Parent Revolution, a non-profit organization aligned with the education reform movement, has been the key architect in pulling the so - called Parent Trigger in California.

Lacking any evidence that their so - called «reforms» are working, many in the corporate education reform movement resort to bullying as a way to force the changes that are presently threatening the quality of education in our public schools.

The calls for charter - school accountability come as Democrats who support the market and data - based movement that's become known as «education reform» seek to define themselves against Republicans who see charters as a privatizing alternative to vouchers.

Although the corporate reform movement has made unprecedented gains in the last twenty years, its roots go back more than sixty years to Milton Friedman's essay, «The Role of Government in Education,» which laid out the call for privatizing public education in the UniteEducation,» which laid out the call for privatizing public education in the Uniteeducation in the United States.

These days, the «reform» movement seems to believe that American education is so terrible that it must be torn apart and reorganized, something that is called «creative destruction.»