Sentences with phrase «education nonprofit groups»

Over the past six years of his career, while working in government and for education nonprofit groups like StudentsFirst and TNTP, he has specialized in breaking down complex education reform policy issues into easy - to - understand concepts.

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It's very common to see public education, private education, city government, entrepreneurs, and nonprofits come together to solve a problem as a group.

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Dave holds an MPA in Nonprofit Management and is the former Chair of the Leadership Education group for the International Leadership Association.

We appreciate Lincoln Financial Group's corporate giving program that awards grants to nonprofits supporting arts, education, and community development.

Correction: The nonprofit group Childbirth Education Association of Metropolitan New York offers a certification program.

In addition to the special education program BOCES is also working with a nonprofit group to host a mental health program at the building.

NYPALS currently is represented by one of the state's most prominent public strategy firms, Mercury Public Affairs, whose noteworthy education clients include High Achievement New York, a pro-Common Core nonprofit coalition of mostly business groups, and Success Academy.

The event is sponsored by Education Reform Now, a group that has ties to Taveras: the New York - based 501 (c) 3 nonprofit is helping support the national Mayors for Educational Excellence Tour, which is meant to highlight new educational efforts in four specific U.S. cities.

The Network for Public Education, a nonprofit education advocacy group co-founded by historian Diane Ravitch, is calling for a national «opt out» of high - stakes standardizedEducation, a nonprofit education advocacy group co-founded by historian Diane Ravitch, is calling for a national «opt out» of high - stakes standardizededucation advocacy group co-founded by historian Diane Ravitch, is calling for a national «opt out» of high - stakes standardized testing.

The group's affiliated 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization, the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, seeks to encourage participation in the political process and educate the public and policymakers regarding what the group considers to be significant environmental issues.

At the time, the state faced a lawsuit filed in 1993 by the nonprofit group Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which argued that the state's education funding formula was unconstitutional.

Anticipating the mayor's austerity executive budget that if approved would slash education and social services while leaving the wealth of city banks, corporations and rich New Yorkers untouched, the UFT joined progressive City Council members and a coalition of unions, community groups and nonprofit service providers at City Hall on May 4 to release an alternative «people's budget.»

Most of the cash, which goes towards assisting hundreds of nonprofit groups citywide, is earmarked for progressive causes like bilingual education services, legal services for immigrants and aid for gay, bisexual and transgender persons.

December 3, 2017 • The nonprofit group STIR Education sees the existing teacher force as the solution, not the obstacle, to improving learning in the developing world.

Several groups, led by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), a nonprofit legal advocacy organization, filed suit in 1993 claiming that New York State was depriving New York City public school students of their constitutional rights to a «sound basic education,» a standard that had been prescribed in 1982 by the state's highest court (in New York, the Court of Appeals).

Among today's advocates for young people are nonprofit insurgent groups that challenge the education establishment by organizing, educating, and mobilizing parents in a variety of roles and in different ways, empowering them to engage in K — 12 reform efforts.

Nov. 15, 2 p.m. ET: Powerful Partnerships: Creating Community Coalitions for District Reform The Syracuse City School District and Say Yes to Education have launched an innovative partnership intended to link public, private, and nonprofit community groups in support of the 19,000 - student district.

Celina Marie Benavides Human Development and Psychology Current city: Claremont, California Current job: Director of nonprofit, Project Vistas — Family Child Care Higher Education Academy, which provides family child care providers in Los Angeles County access to higher education and professional development training; doctoral student in Positive Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University Career highlights: At Project Vistas, assisting a marginalized, nontraditional student group, while overseeing budget, managing program operations, coordinating staff, and fulfilling targeted outcomes; Basic Research Scientist of the Year award by the AS&F Foundation and Claremont Graduate UEducation Academy, which provides family child care providers in Los Angeles County access to higher education and professional development training; doctoral student in Positive Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University Career highlights: At Project Vistas, assisting a marginalized, nontraditional student group, while overseeing budget, managing program operations, coordinating staff, and fulfilling targeted outcomes; Basic Research Scientist of the Year award by the AS&F Foundation and Claremont Graduate Ueducation and professional development training; doctoral student in Positive Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University Career highlights: At Project Vistas, assisting a marginalized, nontraditional student group, while overseeing budget, managing program operations, coordinating staff, and fulfilling targeted outcomes; Basic Research Scientist of the Year award by the AS&F Foundation and Claremont Graduate University

Business, higher education, cultural, and nonprofit groups are rallying to help teachers and students improve the quality of our educational experience.

The California Department of Education is following in the footsteps of Texas by launching an official presence on iTunes U, a dedicated area within Apple Inc.'s iTunes store that offers free downloads of lectures, lab demos, and access to educational content from state agencies and nonprofit groups.

In that time, he was also the founder and president of the MarcoPolo Education Foundation, a nonprofit consortium of education groups and the MCI FoEducation Foundation, a nonprofit consortium of education groups and the MCI Foeducation groups and the MCI Foundation.

Advocacy Groups Empower Parents to Act as Catalysts for School Reform A growing number of nonprofit organizations bypass PTAs to force change in public education

He and the CEP appear frequently in the New York Times and the Washington Post commenting on education issues and are variously described as «nonpartisan» (Times, January 27, 2004; March 14, 2004; «Post, March 16, 2004), «nonprofit» (Times, August 18, 2004; February 7, 2006), «a research group» (Times, April 4, 2005; May 11, 2005), and «independent» (Post, February 19, 2004; August 29, 2004; March 24, 2005).

A nonprofit research group, The Milwaukee Center for the Analysis of Commercialism in Education, recently discovered that these corporate - sponsored classroom materials often subtly steer class lessons in directions advantageous to the sponsor.

A joint effort by Mayor Baraka, the Newark City Council, school board members, the leaders of many charter organizations, education - related nonprofit groups, and several local and state representative to procure state aid for both district and charter schools is another sign factionalism is waning.

National Survey Will Find 100 Best Communities for Music Education in America The American Music Conference, a nonprofit organization that promotes music education, and other groups are currently running the second annual survey to identify the top 100 communities for music education inEducation in America The American Music Conference, a nonprofit organization that promotes music education, and other groups are currently running the second annual survey to identify the top 100 communities for music education ineducation, and other groups are currently running the second annual survey to identify the top 100 communities for music education ineducation in America.

The National Center on Education and the Economy, the nonprofit group that produced «America's Choice: High Skills or Low Wages,» announced last week that it will use more than $ 3 million in funding from private foundations to form a consortium of those states.

Mr. Hart has spent the past five years as a co-director of the California State University Institute for Education Reform, a nonprofit policy - research group in Sacramento.

Giving many cause to celebrate the first day back to school in Boston, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced two grants to HGSE and the nonprofit group Center for Collaborative Education (CCE) on Wednesday, September 6, at the Mission Hill School.

Another nonprofit organization that offers fellowships is America Achieves, founded in September 2010 in New York City by a group that includes Jon Schnur, who has been an advisor to President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

About two - thirds of low - income community - college students — and one - third of poor students at four - year colleges — need remedial (aka «developmental») education, according to Complete College America, a nonprofit group.

The Washington - based nonprofit group hired an executive director this past summer to lead the organization through its crossroads: G. Thomas Houlihan, who had served as chief education adviser to former Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. of North Carolina.

For example, earlier this year Mayor Baraka, the Newark City Council, school board members, the leaders of many charter organizations, education - related nonprofit groups, the Newark City Council, and several local and state representatives all signed a letter asking Christie to provide additional state aid.

The grant is the largest yet received by the nonprofit group, rounded in 1989, and the largest ever awarded by Philip Morris to a single education organization, officials said.

The White House launches the New American Schools Development Corporation, a nonprofit, business - led group seeking to raise $ 150 million to $ 200 million in private money to finance research in support of President Bush's education - reform plan.

The Department of Education has released an audit of the Education Leaders Council that concludes the nonprofit group misused nearly a half - million dollars in federal grant money.

«Maybe the federal government has taken pity on the state of education funding here,» said Ms. Pedersen, president of the nonprofit, nonpartisan group, which advocates for improved education funding.

Individuals and groups from K — 12 and higher education are invited to participate in this program, especially faculty, administrators, school and district leaders, and higher education administrators, as well as individuals and groups from educational nonprofits, funding organizations, and nongovernmental organizations.

* In Sacramento County, the nonprofit group Linking Education and Economic Development (LEED) has created a collaboration of 21 school districts, the county office of education and dozens of labor organizations and eEducation and Economic Development (LEED) has created a collaboration of 21 school districts, the county office of education and dozens of labor organizations and eeducation and dozens of labor organizations and employers.

Beginning later this year, several elementary and secondary schools in Chicago, Moscow, and Amsterdam will take part in «Project Metropolis,» a collaborative effort funded by International Movement Towards Education, a nonprofit advocacy group.

Several forceful nonprofit groups, such as the National Math and Science Initiative, Equal Opportunity Schools, and MassInsight Education, are doing excellent work in pushing AP into kindred high schools in lots of places — and changing educator expectations and school cultures to cause more disadvantaged youngsters to enter and succeed in such rigorous classes.

More than 6,500 CTE courses qualify for some «a-g» credit, according to a review by EdSource, a nonprofit, nonpartisan education - research group in California.

These include large urban school districts like Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Philadelphia, and New York, and nonprofit education - focused groups such as Achieve, Jobs for the Future, KIPP, the New Teacher Project, the New Schools Venture Fund, and Teach For America.

Last weekend, at the Celebration of Teaching and Learning, surrounded by educators, representatives from the nonprofit and business worlds, global education experts, academics, and education advocates of all stripes, I found it inspiring how committed the group as a whole was to not just improving family engagement in schools, but expanding engagement beyond the family, to the community in general.

Education Superhighway, a nonprofit advocacy group backed by tech entrepreneurs, estimates that 72 percent of America's schools lack sufficient Internet infrastructure for digital learning.

The success of that first venture led to the group's incorporation as Editorial Projects in Education, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, and the production of further reports and publications oriented to higher eEducation, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, and the production of further reports and publications oriented to higher educationeducation.

This is required reading for anyone involved in education, business, government, nonprofits, community groups, and other types of organizations, industries, or professions.

CASSA was rated highly by the nonprofit education group Battelle for Kids in 2014 for making year - to - year progress on student learning, but the school's latest state report card essentially labels it a failure.

Critics on the right, meanwhile, worry such a plan would increase the federal role in education and pressure states to standardize state tax credit programs, many of which now allow nonprofit groups to prioritize a particular type of school, such as those of particular religious denominations, for instance.