Sentences with phrase «education item on his agenda»

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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).

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.