Sentences with phrase «education advocacy group»

Three of the state's largest public education advocacy groups are leading opposition to legislation that would greatly restrict the use of long - term bond issues by school districts.

I will begin meeting with education advocacy groups and legislators to advocate for school funding and good education policy.

A consortium of education advocacy groups in New York and New Jersey argue that the trial court's justiciability concerns were misplaced.

E4E was thrilled to be able to work with such a wide range of education advocacy groups in this effort, including United Way of Los Angeles, Education Trust — West, Teach Plus, Parent Revolution, Alliance for a Better Community and many others.

The State University of New York is considering letting its charter schools create their own teacher certification programs, a proposal that teachers unions and education advocacy groups say endangers students and the teaching profession.

StudentsFirst Rallies Troops for California Teacher Evaluation Bill StudentsFirst, the Sacramento - based education advocacy group headed by school reform crusader (and wife of Sacramento major Kevin Johnson) Michelle Rhee, has launched a major blitz in advance of a hearing today on Senate Bill 441, a union - opposed teacher evaluation bill that was granted reconsideration after registering a 4 - 4 committee vote last week, with Democrats and Republicans on both sides.

This year, the special education advocacy group posed seven questions on pressing topics in its field — such as student discipline, teaching conditions, and medical services — to Gov. George W. Bush of...

During the 2014 budget session, we joined forces with other education advocacy groups and organized a campaign to share student stories about school funding shortfalls and ensure the legislature restored school investment to more adequate, pre-Recessionary levels.

Michael Phillips, board chair of the leading education advocacy group 50CAN, spoke last month at a TEDxWilmingtonED Conference on the topic, «When Kids Learn on Broken Chairs.»

Snow is now executive director of Teach for America — Connecticut and is on the board of Excel, a local education advocacy group.

The Network for Public Education, a nonprofit education advocacy group co-founded by historian Diane Ravitch, is calling for a national «opt out» of high - stakes standardized testing.

«I remember walking into the school three or four months after it opened,» said Van Schoales, leader of education advocacy group A + Denver.

The Network for Public Education, a nonprofit education advocacy group co-founded by historian Diane Ravitch, is calling for a national «opt out» of high - stakes standardized testing, urging parents across the country to refuse to allow their children to participate in this spring's testing.

With schools and other public services threatened with more budget cuts this year, UFT President Michael Mulgrew joined fellow labor leaders and representatives from community and education advocacy groups at a «99 New York» rally on Oct. 17 on the City Hall steps demanding that the state millionaire's tax be extended.

In addition, the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and the Prichard Committee (the most prominent education advocacy group in the state) have created a joint initiative called «Business Leader Champions of Education» that is pushing for overall improvements in the state's schools.

Recently, Carmen L. Lopez, a retired Superior Court judge, raised a series of concerns about Excel Bridgeport, a corporate funded education advocacy group that has been actively pushing an «education reform» agenda.

Summary: Education advocacy group ASCD is calling for a two - year moratorium before high - stakes exams are tied to teacher evaluations.

«Sometimes, what looks good on paper doesn't work on the ground,» said Katherine Shek, a legislative analyst for the National School Boards Association, which praised Obama's commitment to school nutrition but joined two other national education advocacy groups — the American Association of School Administrators and the Council of the Great City Schools — in opposing the legislation.

Most education advocacy groups, including both teachers unions and the National School Boards Association, as well as the National Governors Association, have signaled their support for the bill.

In an effort to break the stalemate between Los Angeles Unified and union leaders, several education advocacy groups have come forward with their own proposals for teacher evaluations.

From the outside looking in, Wilson's efforts are regarded by at least one education advocacy group as exactly the medicine the district needs.

The group has ties to the Alliance for Quality Education, a public education advocacy group who Nixon has worked closely with and has been deeply critical of Cuomo.

Eliot Spitzer, who challenged claims education advocacy groups have made themselves about the funding stipulations laid down by the ruling.

Members of several good government, fiscal watchdog and education advocacy groups Wednesday took issue with the bill, saying it benefits mainly rich donors, and violates the separation of church and state.

What is WAPF??? The Weston A Price Foundation is a non-profit nutrition education advocacy group with over 500 chapters around the world.

Her tenure has been marked by a pragmatism that is both political and based on the real - world state of affairs in education: a jumble of noisy education advocacy groups, unhappy state education chiefs, and members of her own party who don't support the law's federal reach into local schools.

But the rise of education advocacy groups bears watching, as in some instances they have broken a virtual union monopoly on the policymaking process.

Concerns about potential budget cuts were so great last week that at least two vocational education advocacy groups warned their members by Internet and e - mail to urge members of Congress to fight any such proposal — whether it exists officially on paper or not.

A coalition of education advocacy groups on Tuesday started the process of once again asking voters to allow charter schools in Washington state...

«It's very difficult to compare Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse to New York City,» said Billy Easton, executive director of the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE), a left - leaning education advocacy group.

He withdrew the state from the standards in June, but education advocacy groups sued and a state judge ruled last week that the Common Core would stand in Louisiana.

Prior to joining JFF in 2014, Dr. Heller was an independent consultant for many years, serving as a writer, editor, and strategic counsel to numerous education advocacy groups, foundations, associations, and other organizations.

The A + Denver education advocacy group has released results of a Denver Public Schools board candidate survey, but several candidates didn't consider it a valid exercise.

This report from a Connecticut - based education advocacy group aims to Fix Our Broken School Funding System with a reverse Robin Hood take - from - the - poor approach nicely wrapped in a pious package of verbiage designed to hide its true effects.

Today, newly - formed education advocacy group TREE (Tennesseans Reclaiming Educational Excellence) hosted a presentation by Elaine Weiss of the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education.

California Schools Flunk Education Group's Ratings California is sorely lacking when it comes to school reform, failing to adopt policies to limit teacher tenure and use student test scores in teacher evaluations, according to a rating of states issued Monday by a high - profile education advocacy group.

Collectively, CLASS represents 115,000 students, teachers, parents and other community members, and has also cast its net wider than traditional education advocacy groups to include parent groups, health advocates and foster youth organizations

Indeed, to date none of the major statewide education advocacy groups has endorsed the GOP's Whitman.

Education advocacy groups unified as Communities for Los Angeles Student Success today announced they are holding a rally tomorrow morning at district headquarters to encourage Deasy not to resign and to call for an end to...

Parent Revolution, in addition to 13 other California education advocacy groups, like United Way, California Charter Schools Association, Students Matter and The Education Trust - West, submitted their own joint letter to the U.S. Department of Education supporting the proposed regulations.

During the annual meeting of the Chalkboard Project, an independent Oregon K12 education advocacy group, a video message from Education Secretary Arne Duncan was played for the staff, board, trustees, and affiliate members.

Eight education advocacy groups last week wrote to Cerf opposing approval of virtual schools, raising objections from the cost, to the fact they say the state does not have legislative authority to approve online charters under existing law.

An early - childhood education advocacy group has released a new report on how states are using the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, to leverage federal support for early learning.

The diverse coalition that included undersecretaries of education from the Clinton and both Bush administrations, representatives from the NEA and AFT, and individuals leading a broad aray of education advocacy groups came together around a bold new direction.