Sentences with phrase «education agenda»

Our hope is that by helping make data accessible and meaningful, superintendents will have a stronger evidence - informed voice in setting education agendas in the state.

Surprisingly, however, political candidates from the program aren't just pushing its national education agenda, they're advancing local issues as well, according to a new study.

The idea behind them is to place schools at the heart of the evidence - based education agenda, and it's for this reason that it makes my list.

After examining these values and behaviors, it is clear that high - quality charter schools must remain at the forefront of a progressive education agenda.

You don't like Race to the Top or the corporate education agenda that all presidents subscribe to.

In 2008 it will be difficult for a Republican to make the case that electoral necessity requires a strong education agenda, much less national standards.

The first thing on the Republican governor's hefty education agenda might sound great to teachers: a pay increase of $ 1,000.

The mayor's education agenda faces its toughest test in the African - American communities that gave him strong support in 2011.

We will keep you informed about opportunities to provide information and support to advance our collective efforts for social and emotional learning in the national education agenda.

Both will be charged with directing an ambitious higher education agenda for President Barack Obama's second term.

(New York, NY)-- Hundreds of public school parents joined education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and other advocates on the steps of City Hall today to urge new Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza to hit the reset button on Mayor Bill de Blasio's failing education agenda.

And now the Koch brothers and deep - pocketed conservative activists are attempting to use that anxiety to push an anti-public education agenda of vouchers, privatization, and attacks on teachers and their unions.

Protests against Gov. Andrew Cuomo's harmful public education agenda peaked in New York City on March 12, when parents, their children and educators joined hands to form a human chain around their buildings before or after classes as if to protect them from the governor's proposals.

In his State of the State speech on Jan. 9, Gov. Cuomo announced an ambitious education agenda for 2013 that includes full - day pre-kindergarten in the poorest areas, community schools such as those being piloted by the UFT this year, and a «bar - like exam» to qualify future teachers that was first proposed by the AFT.

ED in ’08 may also have contributed to Obama's decision to press forward with national standards and performance pay for teachers once he was in office... Teacher effectiveness and national standards [would] come to dominate the Obama education agenda and the education debate for the next four years.

Teachers, parents and community members crowded into Long Island City HS for the monthly Panel for Educational Policy meeting on May 18 and made it clear they had a lot more on their minds than the Department of Education agenda items.

Even U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan - a big fan of most of the new education agenda in Florida - took notice last week and urged action.

In telling the Daily News editorial board he hoped to break «one of the only remaining public monopolies» with stricter teacher evaluations and competition from charter schools, the Democratic governor laid out a second - term education agenda in sync with charter school advocates — including several deep - pocketed hedge fund managers — who have donated millions to his campaign and to Republicans trying to keep their majority in the Senate.

It was held as budget negotiations are set to begin in earnest, in order to put pressure on state lawmakers to pass Governor Andrew Cuomo's ambitious, controversial education agenda.

«The administration's efforts to bypass Congress and impose its own education agenda through executive fiat are unacceptable — but so is continuing to leave states and school districts tied to a failing law,» Rokita said in a statement.

Listen to Lance Izumi, director of PRI's Center for Education and Koret Senior Fellow in Education Studies, discuss his recent books The Corrupt Classroom and An American Education Agenda on «The David Webb Show» on Sirius XM Patriot Channel 125.

Little had been critical of the governor's education agenda at several public meetings.

The Professional Development program is a key component of the DC Collaborative's continuing education agenda for teachers, arts educators, and arts organization staff.

Cuomo has been laying the groundwork for an aggressive education agenda as he begins his second term, signaling that he will seek several major changes that, atypically for a Democrat, will put him in direct conflict with teachers» unions.

The Senate Education Committee rejected legislation in Gov. John Bel Edwards» education agenda which proposed restricting Kindergarten eligibility for students entering the LSP.

«The MOU provisions in current law were specifically negotiated in 2011 in the context of a larger higher education agenda,» Cuomo wrote in his veto message.

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In New Mexico, we moved a public education agenda with the Legislature over the objection of the governor, and in Missouri, we moved a working families agenda with the governor over the objection of the Legislature.

The Nevada Department of Education looks forward to working with the Advisory Group to use the new ESSA flexibility to align the Governor's historic 2015 education agenda into a coherent strategy that will ensure all Nevada students are college and career ready.

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At a speech outlining his K - 12 education agenda last month, de Blasio offered some rare words of praise for the sector, saying he believes collaboration between district and charter schools is «essential.»

Tallahassee politicians keep trying to hide their real education agenda.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew opened the March 25 Delegate Assembly by thanking delegates for their tireless work in countering Gov. Andrew Cuomo's destructive education agenda.

He made peace with his biggest nemesis in the labor movement, the teachers unions, by denouncing much of the state education agenda he had pushed in his first term.

The Broad education agenda emphasizes the promotion of charter schools, the adoption of corporate methods for school leadership, and changes in the way teacher are compensated.»

«While no longer a candidate, I will continue to passionately and relentlessly pursue a reform education agenda as an education activist, a columnist and blogger, and as the co-owner of the influential political news organization,» Allon said in a statement.

StudentsFirst was a particularly vocal supporter of Cuomo's education agenda early last year, before he switched gears to accommodate unions in late 2015.

The outcome of the Conference will be a document that outlines a new global environmental education agenda beyond 2015 to meet current needs and future challenges.

Four years earlier, Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole had pledged to abolish the Education Department, but in polls, voters said they preferred Clinton's ambitious federal education agenda to Dole's plan by a margin of 30 percentage points.

«In Monday's State of the State address, Governor Ducey introduced an ambitious, comprehensive education agenda built upon a simple but vital premise: «focus on what really works.»

The two main objectives of the 2nd Forum were to consider GCED in the context of the post-2015 education agenda including consideration of the emerging Framework of Action, and the role of GCED for peace.

Former state Sen. Gloria Romero, also a long - time legislator, had embraced some of President Barack Obama's education agenda contained in the federal Race to the Top competition.

In particular, she has worked to better understand the family - school relationship — how families create their own education agenda, how they socialize educational goals, how they advocate for their youth, and how they teach teens to also advocate for themselves.