Sentences with phrase «comprehensive reform efforts»

>> Job posted by Connecticut Council for Education Reform — March 20, 2012, New Haven, CT, US Director of Operations: THE ORGANIZATION The Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER) is a statewide non-profit organization that represents the business and civic in advocating for comprehensive reform efforts to close the achievement gap while raising academic outcomes for all student...

Without coaching, many comprehensive reform efforts will fall short of real improvement.

Comprehensive reform efforts must be planned, public, realistic, and shared; and they need core leadership, management systems and skills, conviction and momentum, and credibility and legitimacy to have any hope of success.

The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) was a comprehensive reform effort.

Not exact matches

Without comprehensive immigration reform, which President Barack Obama estimates could lead to an expansion of up to $ 250 billion in economic output, this effort marks the latest in a patchwork of initiatives proffered by the administration.

President Obama supported comprehensive gun reforms after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012, but the effort ultimately failed in Congress.

We strongly support efforts from the global community toward comprehensive international tax reform and a far simpler system.»

If the product of their work is not taken seriously» as, for instance, an invaluable reference in a synod of bishops dedicated to a program of comprehensive reform» it may be a very, very long time before people of their quality will make a comparable effort to help the bishops with much of anything.

«Therefore, we welcome the opportunity to review and discuss the Governor's proposal as part of our effort to arrive at a comprehensive reform package that rebuilds the public trust, and includes action on issues previously raised by members of the Senate Republican Conference.»

Following in the not - so - proud footprints of Comprehensive School Reform and NCLB school restructuring, it was only the latest in a long series of failed federal efforts to boost outcomes in struggling schools.

«It is a comprehensive effort to reform a system.»

Steven R. Covey, best - selling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, wrote this book to promote the efforts of principals around the globe who are preparing children for the 21st century by organizing their schools around Covey's «7 Habits,» a sort of accidental comprehensive school - reform model created by fans.

Whereas past reform efforts generally targeted one element, Race to the Top asked states to build comprehensive and coherent education agendas across four key pillars or «assurances.»

In addition, Kentucky and Vermont have incorporated portfolios into their statewide assessments of student achievement — another effort to offer a broader picture of student achievement, and the now - defunct Massachusetts Reform Review Commission convened representatives from various stakeholder groups to devise a strategy for expanding the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System to make it fairer and more cComprehensive Assessment System to make it fairer and more comprehensivecomprehensive.

Several of the schools that we studied began their improvement efforts by adopting a Comprehensive School Reform model, but later customized that model to better fit their needs.

Studies on evaluation reform efforts in Cincinnati, Chicago, Denver, New York City, and Washington, D.C. have found that comprehensive evaluation systems can help identify teachers who need to improve their practice, nudge low - performing teachers out of the profession, and, ultimately, boost student achievement.

Because of the way Congress creates and funds programs, the department traditionally operated in program - based silos, which led to similar silos in states and hampered efforts to link together programs in comprehensive reform.

Three studies reported on the effects of comprehensive school reform efforts, which included a teacher leadership component, on student learning outcomes.

Council of State Governments Justice Center released a school discipline publication that documents how five states — CA, CT, IL, NC, and TN — reduced their reliance on suspensions and encourages policymakers and education leaders everywhere to take the critical steps needed to move toward a more comprehensive vision of school discipline reform — one that ensures efforts to limit disciplinary removals also foster supportive learning environments that keep all students engaged in school and improve student outcomes.

Unlike the early Comprehensive School Reform program days, there are no yearlong planning efforts this time.

that documents how five states — CA, CT, IL, NC, and TN — reduced their reliance on suspensions and encourages policymakers and education leaders everywhere to take the critical steps needed to move toward a more comprehensive vision of school discipline reform — one that ensures efforts to limit disciplinary removals also foster supportive learning environments that keep all students engaged in school and improve student outcomes.

The Center for Advanced Research and Technology (CART) is the most comprehensive, state - of - the - art education reform effort at the secondary level to date.

Talent Development Secondary, a comprehensive school reform effort, has emerged after over 20 years of research, applications and practices, well equipped to respond effectively to the needs of schools and districts seeking the strategies, tools, materials, supports and personnel needed to dramatically improve middle and high schools marked by low achievement and low graduation rates.

Several of the schools began their improvement efforts by adopting a comprehensive school reform model.

Professor Joe Nation, Project Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, has produced a comprehensive examination for Secure Futures Colorado of why past efforts to reform Colorado PERA have fallen short, and what it would take for this latest legislative push to be successful.

The legislation also indicates that one purpose of the recognition program is to help spur systemic collaboration and coordination within and beyond schoolhouse doors and to promote a shift from narrowly defined student achievement and traditional education reform to broader, more comprehensive efforts that recognize the crucial out - of - school factors that influence teaching and learning.

I was the lead teacher of a small school - within - a-school project inside my large comprehensive high school and a facilitator for the whole - school reform efforts that had grown out of a school funding case known as Abbott v. Burke.

Paula White, NJ State Director for Democrats for Education Reform, added: «Democrats for Education Reform understands that the fight for high - quality public school choice is a crucial part of a larger, comprehensive effort to champion ALL of America's public school children, irrespective of their background or circumstance.

Such schools are part of the solution — and are just one part of our larger, comprehensive education reform efforts.»

As board member and president of the Oregon School Boards Association, she led the association's proactive response to the state's severe funding crises following passage of a property tax limitation and was involved in the development of Oregon's comprehensive standards - based reform effort.

Currently, there are several hundred external CSR models (also known as service providers) that districts and schools can turn to support local comprehensive school reform efforts.

Even long term reform efforts have proven ineffective if the vision does not include a comprehensive evaluation and refinement of the system that prepares and develops teachers.

The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center has released a new report, Realizing the Full Vision of School Discipline Reform: A Framework for Statewide Change, which documents how five states have reduced their reliance on suspensions while moving toward a more comprehensive vision of school discipline reform — one that ensures that efforts to limit disciplinary removals from the classroom are combined with strategies to foster supportive learning environReform: A Framework for Statewide Change, which documents how five states have reduced their reliance on suspensions while moving toward a more comprehensive vision of school discipline reform — one that ensures that efforts to limit disciplinary removals from the classroom are combined with strategies to foster supportive learning environreform — one that ensures that efforts to limit disciplinary removals from the classroom are combined with strategies to foster supportive learning environments.

And that despite the efforts by industry interests and certain politicians to claim such a transition would «devastate the economy» or whatever, people still want comprehensive energy reform.

A component of the NY - Sun program and the Governor's comprehensive Reforming the Energy Vision strategy, the «Solarize» campaigns are geared towards locally - organized community outreach efforts aimed at getting more homes and businesses to install solar.

Chip and his team negotiated and implemented bilateral logging agreements with China and Indonesia, coordinated the Climate and Environment Working Group under the U.S. - Indonesia Comprehensive Partnership, led trade - related efforts on forests with Peru, the Asia - Pacific region, and the European Union, and played a leading role in developing the U.S. relationship with Burma on forest policy since that country began its political and economic reform process in 2011.

In «Make a carbon tax part of reform effort» (Concord Monitor, 9/19/11), Holtz - Eakin argues for comprehensive tax reform to include a carbon tax so that more of the «true cost of burning a fossil fuel... in the form of air pollution, a negative impact on human health, harm to the environment or climate change [is a] component in economic decisions [such as] include whether to invest in a coal - fired power plant or a wind farm.»

That is why it is so important that Congress not abandon efforts to pass comprehensive patent reform legislation that will protect productive businesses and rein in the patent trolls.

At the forum, Planned Parenthood leaders will discuss the organization's role as a provider and advocate and share information on a variety of panels, including the following: Reforming the System: President Obama's Prospects for Health Reform; The Stakeholders Speak PPFA Vice President of Public Policy and Advocacy Rubiner will address Planned Parenthood's priorities in health care reform: any health care reform effort must include access to comprehensive reproductive health care, and women's access to essential community providers must be protReform; The Stakeholders Speak PPFA Vice President of Public Policy and Advocacy Rubiner will address Planned Parenthood's priorities in health care reform: any health care reform effort must include access to comprehensive reproductive health care, and women's access to essential community providers must be protreform: any health care reform effort must include access to comprehensive reproductive health care, and women's access to essential community providers must be protreform effort must include access to comprehensive reproductive health care, and women's access to essential community providers must be protected.

While not anticipating a comprehensive ESA reform legislative effort in 2017, NAR continues to pursue «rifle shot» opportunities as they arise.

Health care reform continues to be a primary concern for the administration and Congress; however, comprehensive «repeal and replace» efforts have lagged in momentum lately, losing support in favor of more attainable legislative goals.

While there is growing support for extending most, if not all, of these provisions, a potential debate on comprehensive tax reform may delay any Congressional effort to extend these rules.

«As the leading advocate for home ownership, Realtors ® agree that the existing housing finance system failed and that reforms are needed; however, those reforms must be done in a methodical, measured and comprehensive effort based on practical market experience,» said Phipps.