Sentences with phrase «education advocacy groups last»

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.

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Last year, those hearings proved uncomfortable for Senate Republicans too, when they seemed to find themselves unable to criticize specific aspects of de Blasio's education agenda, despite the assistance of powerful education reform advocacy groups in New York City.

In the last six months of 2015, two key education factions pulled back their advocacy efforts as imminent threats to unions subsided and charter groups dialed back their lobbying efforts in accordance with Cuomo's shifting priorities.

Polls indicating that voters have not warmed to the idea of giving state education money to children who attend private schools led officials at the leading school - choice advocacy group to announce the decision last month.

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.»

People for the American Way, a national civil - liberties advocacy group founded by the television producer Norman Lear, began working to have the procedures changed last year after it was denied the opportunity to testify in favor of textbooks criticized by Mel and Norma Gabler of Education Research Analysts, a nonprofit organization...

In last week's Communiqué, Antonucci's weekly newsletter, he tells us, «An Education Intelligence Agency analysis of NEA's financial disclosure report for the 2009 - 10 fiscal year reveals the national union contributed more than $ 13 million to a wide variety of advocacy groups and charities.

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.

So far, eight states have policies requiring them to do a similar analysis, most of them adopted in the last few years, according to the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), a research and advocacy group that supports higher standards for schools of education.

Last Friday, leading education advocacy groups, including the New York City Charter Center, Families for Excellent Schools, StudentsFirstNY, NECN, and the Coalition for Community Charter Schools stood with parents to call for an elimination of the charter cap.

Last week, ConnCAN, the pro-charter school and «education reform» advocacy group was trumpeting the results of a survey that they had conducted of Connecticut teachers.

Claiming to have over 100 chapters across the country, the «student run» advocacy group has, as of late last summer, collected more than $ 7.3 million since its inception to fund their «education reform» activities.

«What is new,» he tells NPR Ed, «is the tremendous amount of resources and energy in the last 10 or 15 years being put into what's referred to as «disrupting» the current system in favor of alternative certification, by philanthropy, think tanks, advocacy groups and the U.S. Department of Education.»

«In the last year New Jersey has moved from talk to action, from ideas to implementation,» wrote Kathleen Nugent, director of Democrats for Education Reform - New Jersey, an advocacy group active in the teacher quality debate, especially in the legislature.