Sentences with phrase «chartered national commission»

In February 2011, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan appointed members of the congressionally - chartered national Commission on Educational Equity and Excellence to make recommendations to the U.S. Department of Education and the nation.

He co-chaired the congressionally chartered National Commission on Education Equity and Excellence (2011 - 13), appointed by Secretary Arne Duncan.

In its 1986 report Pioneering the Space Frontier, the congressionally - chartered National Commission on Space, for example, recommended a Variable Gravity Research Facility in earth orbit.

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The AU Committee of Experts seeks to promote and protect the rights enshrined in the Charter particularly; collect and document information, commission inter disciplinary assessment of situations on African problems in the fields of the rights and welfare of the child, organize meetings, encourage national and local institutions concerned with the rights and welfare of the child and where necessary, give its views and make recommendations to Government.

Meanwhile, the congressionally chartered Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering, and Technology Development is holding public hearings (the next will be held 7 December at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland) and is formulating a report on specific strategies for how to deal with the slow pace of change in academia as well as business and government.

Evers is a past member of National Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board, a past commissioner on the California State Academic Standards Commission, past trustee on the Santa Clara County Board of Education, and a past president of the board of directors of the East Palo Alto Charter School.

Along the way, Brill gives background on Albert Shanker and the rise of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the 1983 report of President Reagan's National Commission on Excellence in Education and what presidents have done since, the creation of TFA by Wendy Kopp, and on David Levin and KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) and other successful efforts to create charter schools.

«The development of statewide chartering commissions or boards where this is all they do is likely the best structure to ensure quality within the charter school sector,» said Greg Richmond, the president and chief executive officer of the National Association of Charter School Authocharter school sector,» said Greg Richmond, the president and chief executive officer of the National Association of Charter School AuthoCharter School Authorizers.

It's a shame being open hasn't made it through as the report otherwise reflects many of the National Association of Public Charter Schools» recommendations for school commissioning based on decades of examining what worked in the US.

The network grew out of the work of the 2011 - 2013 Congressionally chartered, national, bipartisan Commission for Equity and Excellence in Education.

He is a member of the CAEP Commission on Standards and Performance Reporting, and is a member of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools Policy Advisory Council.Terry has co-authored two books on education.

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[20] The National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado Boulder Think Tank Review Project has, since 2006, commissioned and published 96 third - party expert reviews of research published by think tanks related to the topics of value added assessment (7), virtual schools (7), privatization (11), charter schools (45), and vouchers (26).

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Affiliations American Society for Training & Development 2009 — Present Ethnic America Network, Board Member 2009 — Present Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston, Treasurer 2009 — Present Excel Music Instruction, Board Member 2001 — Present Cambridge Black Pastors Association, Education Chair 2011 Massachusetts Higher Education Council 2001 — 2003 Governor's Advisory Commission for Responsible Fatherhood & Support 2001 — 2003 Riverside Leadership Council, Board Member 1999 — 2003 Boston Ten Point Coalition, Charter Member National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship Certified Consumer Credit Counselor