Sentences with phrase «education agenda items»

And he was frequently attacked by parents and educators who said he bulldozed through his education agenda items without consulting the people most impacted by them.

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.

The Green Party's Howie Hawkins weighs in on the shift of leadership in the Assembly and his objections to Governor Cuomo's education agenda items.

Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a slew of new education initiatives on Wednesday, supplementing his administration's key education agenda item — universal pre-kindergarten — with programs for students in grades K - 12.

Not exact matches

It's an indication of two things: that de Blasio learned from his tactical mistakes in confronting charters last spring, and that the mayor has far bigger items than charters on his education agenda.

«Among other items, the agenda will include a revised version of the Education, Labor and Family Assistance Article VII bill that I was forced to veto earlier this year to prevent an unaffordable increase in school aid, an appropriation bill to authorize distribution of $ 607 million in federal Education Jobs Fund money to school districts, and necessary legislation to reorganize the New York City Off - Track Betting Corporation.»

Education, of course, must compete with other items on Obama's ambitious agenda, as well as with erupting crises that will inevitably distract the White House.

But there are two serious problems for GOP administrations with this ideology - free, «agenda - by - items» approach to education.

We ask our members to work with their local school board to make the resolution a meeting agenda item, and that the board and superintendent work together to adopt their district's «I Love Public Education» resolution this fall.

The improvement of teacher - preparation programs in the South must become an «urgent» item on the agenda of policymakers and college presidents, concludes a new report by the Southern Regional Education Board.

These four items can and should form an alternative education policy agenda for Tennessee.

Clearly the US has much to learn about education from this, for it is concluded that the research on these high success countries includes no evidence that any of them have gotten there «by implementing any of the major agenda items that dominate the education reform agenda in the United States, with the exception of the Common Core State Standards» (p, 209).

Park City Manger Diane Foster and Planning Director Bruce Erickson discuss some of the agenda items for Thursday's City Council meeting, including a new amended plat for the Alice Claim project, which puts the houses into the gully instead of the hillside and members of a new group Citizens for Better Education, Jim Tedford and Ali Zeisler talk about why they can't support the $ 56 million school bond.

According to the draft «Statement to the Commissioner,» Connecticut's top local education leaders are planning to inform Commissioner Pryor that there is, «very deep concern that if the following items are not addressed aggressively and in the immediate future, ENTIRE REFORM AGENDA THAT WAS ENACTED IN 2012 WILL COLLAPSE.»

This year, more than two dozen paid lobbyists are running around the State Capitol and Legislative Office Building working to divert more money to charter schools, while supporting the Common Core SBAC testing scam and other «education reform» agenda items.

On behalf of parents of public school students across Connecticut, I am writing to request that you add an agenda item to the April 6, 2015 State Board of Education Committee meeting to review and address the actions taken by your Interim Commissioner of Education and other State Department of Education staff as they relate to the issue of a parent's fundamental and inalienable right to opt their children out of the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing program and how local school districts should deal with children whose parents have opted them out of the SBAC testing.

«We need to make connecting education and our economy the number one education reform agenda item in our state because there's nothing more important,» said Steinberg.

As a PS on my comment above about the CA - specific 3 - week test administration window for each school, for interested readers you can find more on this change on the State Board of Education agenda material for their Nov 7 meeting, Item # 9, Attachment 1, pg 10 of the scope - of work (or pg 16 of 76 for the overall attachment).

Every school always has an agenda, some items of which can put at risk the ability to provide the best education possible, but when one of your top items is to make a profit, it definitely seems to make the education aspect a lot less important, no matter what rhetoric they might spew to try to convince people otherwise.

The biggest items on the agenda: setting up humane education and outreach, establishing low - cost spay and neuter services, and implementing a TNR program as quickly as possible.