Sentences with phrase «earlier reform efforts»

Another important factor on the side of charter school advocates is the greatly diminished power of the teachers union, which had often been an obstacle in earlier reform efforts.

In 2013, when one could just start to glimpse that some reforms might be going south, I mused, «Reformers have greeted with a surprising lack of interest the seemingly self - evident fact that the fruits of policy innovation depend as much on how policies are carried out as on whether they're carried out... Earlier reform efforts failed when their champions got mired in changing «professional practice» while ignoring policy.

As a first - generation college student, education and advocacy was personally important to me, so my fellowship led me to work for LAUSD on its early reform efforts and subsequently as a Field Deputy for the former School Board President.

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But since Hoover died and Watergate was exposed in the early 1970s, major efforts have been made to reform the Bureau and DOJ to keep them from infringing civil liberties and intervening in politics.

Q) You say early in the book that reform efforts based on content have failed to affect achievement gaps, and, that an emphasis on character in some way seems like a better alternative.

Had the kids staged a full - fledged revolt against the new food and beverage rules, there was a good chance that our school food reform efforts would have been derailed early on.

The advocacy efforts of the Vote Better NY coalition focus on reforming these laws in three critical areas, through bills I've introduced: fully modernizing and transforming voter registration through the Voter Empowerment Act, instituting early voting, and ensuring ballots are clear and usable through the Voter Friendly Ballot Act.

Efforts to enact early voting and other reforms were unsuccessful when the state Senate, led by a coalition of Republicans and breakaway Democrats, did not act on the bills.

Following the defeat of the latest Republican - led effort to repeal «Obamacare» earlier this week, Congress and President Trump have pivoted to tax reform.

Borough President Katz's efforts to reform the Queens Borough Public Library's governance began early in February 2014 when news reports surfaced about questionable spending decisions made by Thomas Galante, the Library's former President and CEO.

Borough President Katz's efforts to reform the Queens Borough Public Library's governance began early in February 2014 when news reports surfaced about questionable spending decisions made by Mr. Galante.

The governor's unusual effort — potentially granting mass clemency on a level rarely seen — comes as efforts to reform the state's juvenile justice laws have met resistance in the Legislature; most states have raised the age of criminal responsibility after reviewing studies that showed people are often not psychologically mature until early adulthood.

Earlier this month, the advocacy group Sense About Science launched an effort to reform those laws, arguing that they were being used to stifle scientific discourse on controversial topics, usually ones of medical interest.

Imagine that all of our reform efforts prove successful, from initiatives to bolster the prenatal health of disadvantaged babies, to high - quality early - childhood experiences, to dramatic improvements in K - 12 education, to serious interventions and supports at the college level.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

One early effort at reform was a proposal from the University of New Orleans (UNO) in the summer of 2001 to create and oversee a new charter school district, converting 10 existing public schools to charters.

Amid continuing criticism that music and the arts have been left out of national education - reform efforts, Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander earlier this month disclosed his intention to form a national «partnership» to strengthen schooling in those subjects.

Duncan drew praise from Republicans like Newt Gingrich and Jeb Bush early in his tenure for his aggressive efforts to promote school reform.

State Sen. Rosemary McAuliffe, chair of the Senate Early Learning and K - 12 Education Committee, said lawmakers were committed to education reform, especially the efforts to help the lowest performing students rise to their potential, and they would find the money to make reform happen.

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

As early as February of last year, President Obama was already making speeches tying education reform to job creation and touting efforts like Race To The Top.

Helping children experience early learning success and acquire essential skills by third grade is a crucial part of any school reform effort.

School Reform Minister Nick Gibb welcomed the 40 % drop in early exam entries and said the changes were necessary to «correct» a system that had «worked against the best efforts of teachers and the best interests of pupils».

ProgressNow, by the way, was one of the key players in ousting school reform - minded Michigan legislator Paul Scott from his statehouse seat earlier this month and has decried Gov. Rick Snyder's efforts to allow for the expansion of charter schools and school choice....»

Earlier this month, Dropout Nation mentioned the dismay among the Civil Rights faction of the school reform movement over the Obama administration's effort to eviscerate the No Child Left Behind Act and its Adequate Yearly Progress accountability provisions.

Gist's efforts to reform education prompted the mass firings earlier this year at Central Falls High School, where just 7 percent of 11th - graders tested proficient in math last fall.

It suggests that many recent reform efforts — among them improved developmental conditions from birth to age five, universal prekindergarten, reduced class sizes in the early grades, and standardized curricula — are succeeding in keeping Baltimore...

Thus, we draw the tentative conclusion that access to the IDS facilitated their efforts to implement reforms - based instruction very early in their teaching careers.

Dr. Cárdenas was actively involved in the school finance reform efforts since the early days of the Rodríguez vs. San Antonio ISD litigation when he was superintendent of the Edgewood ISD.

Tennessee was one of the earliest recipients of the grant money and has long been considered a model for other states to emulate in their reform efforts.

All of this has to be considered within the state's failed efforts at pension reform earlier this year.

This paper argues that decentralizing decisionmaking authority to schools is a reform worthy of a new look, despite the perceived failure of earlier school - based management (SBM) efforts to improve student performance.

Some readers may remember my earlier columns about the inter-connections between the various «Education Reform» leaders, organizations and the billionaires and millionaires that are funneling money into their efforts.

Denver: In 2005 Michael Bennet outlined a plan to right size the district financially while setting forth a number of instructional reform efforts including the approach to early childhood education, types of literacy programs, and providing college level courses.

When Governor Malloy proposed his «education reform» legislation earlier this year, these groups, funded by millionaire and billionaire hedge fund owners, along with the Gates, Walton and Broad Foundations, engaged in the most costly lobbying, advertising and public relations effort in Connecticut history.

Allen informed attendees that education reform stumbled in the early 1990s because of what she called a «top - down error,» because efforts to improve public schools were addressed through administrators, not parents.

«Charter schools became the most catalytic reform effort in the early 1990s,» she said.

In the early 1990s, in an effort to promote standards - based reform through Goals 2000, the U.S. Department of Education made competitive awards available to states to develop curriculum frameworks in the core subject areas.

Allen said that despite those «top down» reform efforts, in the early 1990s similar numbers of children and college students still needed remedial education assistance.

Thanks to the non-stop effort of Florida's school «reform» agenda, the state has lost veterans by the thousands to self - imposed early retirement and DROP while new - hires routinely conclude the profession is not for them.

Antiquity Revived: Neoclassical Art in the Eighteenth Century examines early efforts of stylistic reform, how the renewal of classical taste found its roots in ancient sources, and how artists in a variety of disciplines forged an imaginative, classical style that satisfied the needs of their own age.

So after 11 years in government, despite some notable efforts in the early years, Labour's constitutional reform project can be broadly categorised as having had limited successes, followed by a longer fallow period in which the government has seemed more preoccupied by reforming the constitutions of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Recent ideas for reform have drawn on diverse sources, including the Carnegie Report, 6 as well as newly proposed recommendations for «best practices» in legal education7 and highly publicized accounts of changes in law school curricula at elite schools like Harvard.8 Like several earlier proposals, 9 these reform efforts concentrate on law schools» failure to deal systematically with training for legal practice, as well as on these schools» haphazard approach to teaching legal ethics.

The early policy decisions to use hospitals for the delivery of publicly funded health care has constrained efforts to reform health care policy in Canada ever since.

Earlier efforts at reform failed in each of the 2013 - 2017 legislative sessions.

In particular, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin started talking tax reform and adjusting the debt ceiling deadline earlier in order to get funds for Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.

This national initiative takes its place among other Australian Government early childhood reforms and efforts, including universal access to pre-school.

MSPCC targets its children's mental health public policy goals to support proven efforts, improving capacity for early identification and treatment, and reforming practices that inhibit school success.

The grant enabled Maryland to create a seamless Birth - to - Grade 12 reform agenda to ensure that all young children and their families are supported in the state's efforts to overcome school readiness gaps and to move early childhood education in Maryland from a good system to a great system.

This PowerPoint presentation was part of a webinar on early childhood data systems and the relationship between birth to five policy agendas and early elementary reform efforts.