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This Education Week special report offers a detailed look at the leadership of governors in shaping their states» education agendas through legislation, regulatory action, public involvement, and proposal or endorsement of ballot measures.

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* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

One insider suggested to me that Cuomo allowed this tax exemption to go through in order to draw attention away from his radical education agenda.

And in Niger state, we remained on track through delivery of people - oriented policy and programmes in tune with APC manifesto and in line with the Restoration Agenda in Agriculture, health, education, peace and security, youth and women empowerment and infrastructural development».

The lecture would have given him a fine chance to relate the free market, minimal state, individual empowerment agenda Joseph was so fond of to modern education policy, illustrating how the ideas that underpin the CPS have permeated through to Gove's own thinking in the area.

Ofsted was not set up to push through education reforms against resistance from unions, nor was it established to push any particular party political agenda.

He further noted that the President had done well in the areas of power supply, education, network of roads as well as second Niger Bridge project, adding that not a few Nigerians would bear testimony to his monumental achievements through his transformation agenda.

De Blasio has pledged to maintain Bloomberg's focus on closing the achievement gap, but his education agenda has revised the means: turnarounds instead of closures, heavy emphasis on addressing the «root causes» of K — 12 underperformance through pre-kindergarten education and social services, less antagonistic relations with the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and more - relaxed school - discipline policies.

The overall agenda that I have been trying to develop since the mid-1990s is captured in the description of what István Mészáros calls socialist education: «the social organ through which the mutually beneficial reciprocity between the individuals and their society becomes real.»

«Pence's K through 12 education agenda has had serious, deleterious consequences for public education,» Bob Arnove, the Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies at Indiana University, told Business Insider.

The Incheon Declaration, adopted at the World Education Forum in Korea in May 2015, entrusted UNESCO to lead and coordinate Education 2030 through guidance and technical support within the overall SDG agenda.

Amid fanfare around the billions of dollars being delivered to schools through the federal economic - stimulus package, members of the National Conference of State Legislatures are warning that the education agenda being pushed by the Obama administration is shaping up to be just as prescriptive and intrusive as the 8 - year - old No Child Left Behind Act.

Meanwhile, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has been busy fulfilling her conservative agenda that seeks to broaden school choice and market - based schooling in pre-K through higher eEducation Betsy DeVos has been busy fulfilling her conservative agenda that seeks to broaden school choice and market - based schooling in pre-K through higher educationeducation.

Through frequent discussions and special workshops, the education staff of arts organizations learn about specifics of DCPS content standards and other curriculum requirements as well as other pressing topics in arts and humanities education to be able to adapt their offerings to better meet classroom needs and to plan and strategize around approaches to leading the education improvement agenda.

Duncan has used the Race to the Top fund, created through the economic stimulus law, as leverage to drive the president's education agenda in Rhode Island, Tennessee, Colorado and elsewhere.

The Corporate Education Reform Industry, with the help of elected officials likes of Dannel Malloy, Andrew Cuomo, Jeb Bush and others, have used the problems facing public schools in poorer communities to institute an agenda of more standardized testing, inappropriate teacher evaluation programs and the privatization of public education through the creation of privately owned, but publicly funded charterEducation Reform Industry, with the help of elected officials likes of Dannel Malloy, Andrew Cuomo, Jeb Bush and others, have used the problems facing public schools in poorer communities to institute an agenda of more standardized testing, inappropriate teacher evaluation programs and the privatization of public education through the creation of privately owned, but publicly funded chartereducation through the creation of privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools.

Before joining Joyce, Beth served as Deputy for Education in the administration of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, working collaboratively with education and community leaders to define the city's education policy agenda from birth throughEducation in the administration of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, working collaboratively with education and community leaders to define the city's education policy agenda from birth througheducation and community leaders to define the city's education policy agenda from birth througheducation policy agenda from birth through college.

When it comes to their new proposed education agenda, it is bad enough that Malloy and Wyman plan to give more money to the privately owned but publicly funded charter school industry while making the deepest cuts in state history to Connecticut's public schools, but in a little understood piece of proposed legislation, the Malloy administration is trying to sneak through legislation that would give his Commissioner of Education and the political appointees on his State Board of Education a new mechanism they would use to punish taxpayers in certain communities where more than 5 percent of parents opt their children out of the wasteful and destructive Common Core SBAC testingeducation agenda, it is bad enough that Malloy and Wyman plan to give more money to the privately owned but publicly funded charter school industry while making the deepest cuts in state history to Connecticut's public schools, but in a little understood piece of proposed legislation, the Malloy administration is trying to sneak through legislation that would give his Commissioner of Education and the political appointees on his State Board of Education a new mechanism they would use to punish taxpayers in certain communities where more than 5 percent of parents opt their children out of the wasteful and destructive Common Core SBAC testingEducation and the political appointees on his State Board of Education a new mechanism they would use to punish taxpayers in certain communities where more than 5 percent of parents opt their children out of the wasteful and destructive Common Core SBAC testingEducation a new mechanism they would use to punish taxpayers in certain communities where more than 5 percent of parents opt their children out of the wasteful and destructive Common Core SBAC testing program.

Neighboring governor and fellow Democrat Andrew Cuomo of New York staked a huge portion of his agenda for 2015 on ramming through controversial education reforms, and his approval rating both overall and especially on education have tanked in a highly visible manner.

Through her family's fortune and conservative political connections, Betsy DeVos has targeted public education and pushed a right - wing school choice agenda for decades.

This package of emails is yet another reminder of just how committed the Malloy administration has become in their effort to silence parents, teachers and public school advocates as part of their ongoing effort to push through their corporate education reform industry agenda.

The National Center on Education and the Economy was created in 1988 to analyze the implications of changes in the international economy for American education, formulate an agenda for American education based on that analysis and seek wherever possible to accomplish that agenda through policy change and development of the resources educators would need to carrEducation and the Economy was created in 1988 to analyze the implications of changes in the international economy for American education, formulate an agenda for American education based on that analysis and seek wherever possible to accomplish that agenda through policy change and development of the resources educators would need to carreducation, formulate an agenda for American education based on that analysis and seek wherever possible to accomplish that agenda through policy change and development of the resources educators would need to carreducation based on that analysis and seek wherever possible to accomplish that agenda through policy change and development of the resources educators would need to carry it out.

As a critical friend of the privatization movement, he was one of the first to see through the guise and sales talk of the corporate school reform agenda of Dr. Tony Bennett, the Mind Trust, and the mayor's Office of Education Innovation.

In hindsight, it must be said that the former commissioner came up through the ranks of policy development and, lacking classroom teaching experience, was unable to recognize and see the damage his privatization agenda was doing to public education.

Thursday, May 31, 2012 For more information contact: Leonie Haimson: 917-435-9329; [email protected] Julie Woestehoff: 773-538-1135; [email protected] Rhee report card exposes flaws in corporate agenda and failures to push through legislation in many states this year Parents Across America (PAA) unveiled a report card (in pdf and below) today that gave Michelle Rhee's education lobbying organization, StudentsFirst, failing grades.

The press release also fails to address what the CEA expected since the union leadership had overruled its own endorsement committee and through the union's support behind Governor Dannel Malloy who has pledged to stay the course on his Corporate Education Reform Industry Agenda.

But this ideological think tank is a disturbing example of all that is wrong with the current education reform movement that has allowed people without experience or expertise as educators to perpetuate an education reform agenda through the weight of money, political influence, and media compliance.

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.

With 48 states and Washington, D.C. now jointly developing common state standards — which are meant to «include rigorous content and application of knowledge through high - order skills» — the concept of rigor will be a mainstay of the education agenda for the foreseeable future.

Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Schools Chancellor Joel Klein pushed a bold agenda to transform education, increasing parent choice through charters and new small schools and phasing out low - performing schools.

While its network is limited to public art centers and museums, e-flux offers similar platforms to commercial galleries through its art - agenda subsidiary, and to art schools and art academies through art & education, which e-flux jointly administers together with Artforum International.

Established 90 years ago, the ADAA provides continuing education to dental assistants through home study courses, professional journals and local, state and national meetings with educational agendas.

Gift of Hope, Biddeford, ME 6/2014 to Present Community Outreach Coordinator • Establish and maintain effective and cooperative relationships with representatives of designated community • Develop and implement outreach campaigns, grassroots programs and special events to provide education on designated agenda • Create effective tracking tools and maintain databases to monitor and analyze program effectiveness • Identify, recruit and train volunteers such as donor families, recipients and healthcare professionals • Write and edit written materials and web based content in conjunction with program directions • Plan and execute events such as events, open houses and seminars • Represent organization at health fairs and other community events • Respond to interest parties» requests for information and resources • Identify and maintain relationships with donors and referral resources • Establish brand awareness through contacts, trade shows and community education programs

United States Department of Education (Washington, DC) 2005 — 2007 Communications Director, Office of Legislation and Congressional Affairs • Oversee all communications and manage support staff ensuring effective and efficient operations • Compile and draft a daily report summarizing congressional activity for senior department officials • Further the department's legislative agenda through targeted correspondence and messaging • Collaborate with the executive director for the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) on communication initiatives • Design layout and write copy for the department's informational brochure for the HBCU community • Assist with restructuring the HBCU initiative to increase its effectiveness and efficiency

They cite anything from «reversing the decline in moral values in our nation» to «restraining evil by exposing the works of darkness» as a mission statement, but they all share a common theme: the mischaracterization of sexuality education programs through inaccurate descriptions of research, and the use of fear tactics to promote their own agenda.

The primary strategies used to carry out the organizational agenda include 1) development of public policy alternatives, creation of coalitions and legislative advocacy, and 2) education of the public and decision - makers through online information outreach, forums, policy papers, and periodic informational alerts.

The Agenda is coordinated through the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.

Education of both tenants and landlords is very high on their agenda that can empower and enable wealth creation through property.