Sentences with phrase «education groups hoping»

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Hence, some of us continued our education in Western universities but kept alive our hope of being able to contribute to the efforts of articulating our Filipino identity.13 To what extent either group has been successful remains to be seen since, unfortunately, political and economic considerations have overshadowed the more cultural ones.

In addition we hope that the series will be useful in seminary courses, clergy support groups, continuing education workshops, and lay befriender training.

«Local authorities have created groups to share best practice, and we're seeing what I hope is an increasing trend to stop treating home education as a problem to be regulated, and instead see it as an opportunity to be facilitated and supported,» said the Conservative MP and former chairman of the education select committee.

The group had hoped to confront the State Education Commissioner to demand Carl Paladino be kicked off the Buffalo Board of Education.

Billy Easton, executive director of Alliance for Quality Education, a labor - backed advocacy group, said the groups «hope [s] it is true» that the proposals are discrete.

New York State United Teachers, a statewide union, along with national and city - based groups, is hoping to leverage the outrage expressed by parents, teachers and lawmakers over state education commissioner John King's decision to «suspend» four town - hall meetings after a raucous forum in Poughkeepsie.

Labor leaders and some public - education advocacy groups, on the other hand, are hoping for a majority of exclusively mainstream Democrats which would be more inclined beat back pro-charter legislation and a controversial tax credit proposal.

Kirstin Fearnley, who is part of AAAS» Education and Human Resources group, said «We hope that this will allow kids to go home and talk to their families about science.»

Here are some suggestions that we hope will be helpful to students as they search for programs, new scientists as they develop an education philosophy, and faculty groups as they formulate a new program.

Mosca also hopes to work with Mississippi's Department of Education to begin testing all students in selected high schools for HIV, whether or not they appear to fall into a high - risk group.

She was hoping to get a group of us to visit that pizza place while at that large education technology conference this summer.

The hope is that the students, clustered in small groups of only 25 each year, will build a cohort for life, a close network of leaders who are ready and equipped to transform the education sector as superintendents, chief academic officers, chiefs of staff, commissioners, executive directors, and more.

Comprehensive school reform has been identified by both Democratic and Republican administrations and Congress as a key strategy in turning around the country's lowest performing schools, but this fact does not make NAS just like any other education group in D.C. Instead, it means that after a great deal of review, comprehensive school reform emerged as one of the country's best hopes for public school improvement on a grand scale.

Nothing much got done in those years, but I knew there was hope when I listened to an envoy from the Education Trust (whom a bunch of us invited in) give a reading from the actual law to a group of mostly minority parents.

Those groups hope to convince higher - education officials, members of Congress, and possibly the Administration that modifications in the current system can achieve the $ 4.2 billion in savings the Administration estimates would occur under a direct - loan system.

Massachusetts education officials have released data that they hope will counteract what they say is a false public perception that most students in the class of 2003 who haven't yet passed the state's high school exit exams are members of minority groups or come from poor families.

The 13 organizations that make up the National Task Force on Seeking Common Ground for the Improvement of Public Education hope their efforts will foster more civil debate and agreement among traditionally antagonistic groups.

A handful of reputable organizations have partnered with Digital Promise to issue micro-credentials that teachers can collect on BloomBoard's online platform, such as the Relay Graduate School of Education, Hope Street Group, Learning Forward, the Friday Institute at North Carolina State University, the Center for Teaching Quality, Teaching Matters, KQED, TNTP (The New Teacher Project), the New Teacher Center, and Arizona State University.

Through the extension of compulsory education, subsidy of secondary education, provision of continuing equivalency education for specialized groups such as local leaders and the workforce, distance education and the establishment of community colleges across the country, we hope to upgrade the level of functional literacy.

Where once there was hope that the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case would radically alter the way education is delivered in the city, crucial issues like accountability, choice, and much - needed changes to bargaining contracts have been virtually swept aside by New York - style interest - group politics.

Nonetheless, I persist, both hoping for an effective panel and believing that the group will provide a model for integrating student input about their education into schooling and planning.

It is also hoped that this report will reinforce what the Delors Commission saw as the ultimate purpose of education: an exceptional means to bring together individuals, groups and nations to build a more peaceful, prosperous and equal society.

Two groups representing independent all - girls» schools nationwide hope their recent merger will increase support for single - sex education.

In addition to her full schedule of classes in the International Education Policy Program (IEP), Chan interned at UNICEF, participated in a study group on educational access and quality that applied their coursework to evaluations of a teacher accreditation program in Mexico, was on IEP's advisory board, and led a number of outreach activities connecting her peers to the young students they hope to serve.

The project's creators hope it will help the national groups drawing up academic - content standards for students match their benchmarks with those for teacher education.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan kicked off the meeting with a group that included national and regional education advocates, lobbyists, and others looking for policy updates, by saying the department still hopes to get $ 300 million from Congress for a new early - childhood education inEducation Arne Duncan kicked off the meeting with a group that included national and regional education advocates, lobbyists, and others looking for policy updates, by saying the department still hopes to get $ 300 million from Congress for a new early - childhood education ineducation advocates, lobbyists, and others looking for policy updates, by saying the department still hopes to get $ 300 million from Congress for a new early - childhood education ineducation initiative.

The groups, led by the League of Education Voters, filed a ballot initiative in the hopes of forcing a November vote on the free but independent public schools, which are allowed to use unconventional techniques and hire nonunion employees.

The book will offer stories of people and groups that have stood up to the recent attacks on public education to offer hope and some ideas for resistance.

Joanna is committed to public education and collaborates with organizations such as Hope Street Group and the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) to include educator voice in policy discussions.

Their hope is that students, parents, citizens and public school advocacy groups will use the film to help start an important conversation about the role and value of public education in America.

Those who have said they'd like to apply include a couple who run a Montessori preschool in Enumclaw and want to expand to grades K - 3; another couple who operate a home - school support program in Mount Vernon and wish to offer a tradition - based schoolhouse education to K - 12 students; a parents» group in Lewis County that hoped to keep Packwood Elementary School open despite school board plans to close it; and the principal of a private K - 8 school in Seattle seeking to add a charter high school.

The Caucus of Rank and File Educators (CORE) is a group of dedicated teachers, retirees, Paraprofessional School Related Personnel (PSRPs), parents, community members and other champions of public education who fight for equitable public education and hope to improve the Chicago Teacher's Union (CTU) so that it fights both on behalf of its members and on behalf of Chicago's students.

Audrey Soglin: executive director, Illinois Education Association Mark Sass: social sciences teacher, Legacy High School, Denver, CO; 2014 Hope Street Group National Teacher Fellow Cynthia Robinson - Rivers: former director of Teacher Retention and Recognition, D.C. Public Schools Chris Poulos: Spanish teacher, Joel Barlow High School, Redding, CT; Teacher - Leader in Residence, CT State Department of Education; vice president, National Network of State Teachers of the Year; Connecticut Teacher of the Year 2007 David Low: high school science teacher, The Sound School, New Haven, CT; 2013 New Haven Teacher of the Year; vice president of high schools, New Haven Federation of Teachers Tony Klemmer: founder and president, National Academy of Advanced Teacher Education and The Center for Better Schools Emily Ayscue Hassel: co-director, Public Impact Celine Coggins: founder and chief executive officer, Teach Plus

I'm hoping that the current administration is committed to seeing this plan take flight, instead of treating it as a side note uttered to appease a small group of educators and families that are desperate to see true equity in education.

Beth Oswald, a Doctor of Education (EdD) student, was one of only 13 educators nationally selected for the Hope Street Group's 2014 cohort of National Teacher Fellows.

Hope Reagan and Alice Oakley co-founded Education Resource Group in 2004.

Group hoping to rebuild a Provo elementary school playground as a memorial tribute to late Utah State Board of Education Member C. Mark Openshaw and his family.

Danielle has served as the president of her local education association, a Candidate Support Provider for National Board candidates, and was a 2015 - 2017 Hope Street Group National Teacher Fellow.

«Local authorities have created groups to share best practice, and we're seeing what I hope is an increasing trend to stop treating home education as a problem to be regulated, and instead see it as an opportunity to be facilitated and supported,» said the Conservative MP and former chairman of the education select committee.

«We were honored to be asked to co-sponsor this event and help plan it,» commented Dr. Tabitha Grossman, the National Director, Education Policy and Partnerships for Hope Street Group.

• The Hope Street Group utilizes teacher leaders to communicate directly with teachers and encourage teachers to voice their opinions concerning current education issues.

«Hope Street Group is doing amazing work in preparing education specialists to be advocates for students and for their profession.

Let's hope at least one education question gets added the list of questions put to our next group of leaders, sorry, I should have said corporate employees.

Hope Street Group in partnership with the National Network of State Teachers of the Year (NNSTOY) selected the first cohort of Utah Teacher Fellows to join a cross-state teacher leader network that will participate in high - quality professional learning, mobilize their colleagues and amplify teacher impact in education policy and practice.

Salt Lake City, Utah — August 1, 2017 — Hope Street Group in partnership with the National Network of State Teachers of the Year (NNSTOY) selected the first cohort of Utah Teacher Fellows to join a cross-state teacher leader network that will participate in high - quality professional learning, mobilize their colleagues and amplify teacher impact in education policy and practice.

«My hope is that she has a very open mind... and doesn't think the Michigan approach is the right one,» said Peter Cunningham, a former Obama Education Department official who is now executive director of the Education Post, a nonprofit group that supports charter schools.

«If you create a system that doesn't have maximum teacher input, it doesn't matter how technically sound it is,» said Dan Cruce, a former official in the Delaware Department of Education who now works for the nonprofit policy organization Hope Street Group.

The group hopes to inform the debate over the future of career education; the report comes as the House education committee members unanimously voted to approve a new federal career education bill.

Hope Street Group is an independent non-profit organization that is working closely in partnership with the Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE), the Tennessee Educators Association (TEA), and the State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE).

The national education groups said Monday that they are filing an amicus brief in the case, saying that they hope the Supreme Court will reverse the lower court decision.