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The outcome will be a collaborative and mutual Whole Child education policy agenda for Texas.

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

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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

ALBANY — As he gets ready to roll out his agenda for 2017, Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to introduce a proposal for tuition - free two - year college — a move that will make a splash in state education policy and could draw wider attention, with the governor seemingly considering a national run in 2020.

John and Furnish in a statement credited Cuomo for having «championed a progressive agenda that has included significant policy and legislative progress on affordable housing, public education reform, and women's rights.»

She released a policy agenda two weeks ago that highlights her goals for improving education, women's rights and housing.

At 6 p.m., the Education Panel for Educational Policy holds a public meeting, with the agenda including an update from NYC Education Chancellor Chancellor Carmen Farina, amendments to the chancellor's home instruction services regulation and approval of contracts, Prospect Heights High School, 883 Classon Ave., Brooklyn.

He said «education is the most effective weapon against poverty» and that the policy formed the basis for the country's development agenda.

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.

For years, the Republican «Long Island Nine» in the State Senate stayed out of the way when Cuomo looked to pass liberal social policies like gay marriage and gun control, and supported his fiscally conservative agenda on taxes, education, public sector unions and regulation.

In a joint letter on Friday, June 17, the officials together urged the DOE to withdraw the co-location proposal from the June 22nd Panel for Education Policy meeting agenda and to work on an alternative location to accommodate the new school.

The stage was set for a serious interrogation of de Blasio's education agenda by the Senate Republicans who engineered the mayor's embarrassingly brief one - year extension last session, which guaranteed he would have to return to Albany frequently to defend his education policies.

Rose and Dede, who were part of a 15 - person team focused on developing a new National Educational Technology Plan to provide a vision for how information and communication technologies can help transform American education, shared how to make a government report, formulate policy, and how you get it on the national agenda.

While working under Kennedy, Rodriguez managed the Democratic education agenda for the committee and led policy development and strategy for legislation addressing early childhood education, elementary and secondary education, higher education, and adult education.

American philanthropy, by local and national foundations, corporations, and wealthy individuals, has played many important roles in K — 12 education: creating new schools, underwriting research, funding scholarships, testing hypotheses, generating new curricula, invoking ideals, setting agendas, bolstering training, and building a case for policy changes.

For those interested in the finer points of education policy, I'd also recommend: Alyson Klein on helping long - term English - language learners, Chad Aldeman on the difficulty of «raising the bar» for teacher preparation entry, Mike Petrilli's Education Next piece on a schools agenda for working - class families, Kathleen Porter Magee on a great - news story for Catholic schools, Nat Malkus on the Title I funding fight, and Paul Peterson on the «Bush - Obama» approach to refoFor those interested in the finer points of education policy, I'd also recommend: Alyson Klein on helping long - term English - language learners, Chad Aldeman on the difficulty of «raising the bar» for teacher preparation entry, Mike Petrilli's Education Next piece on a schools agenda for working - class families, Kathleen Porter Magee on a great - news story for Catholic schools, Nat Malkus on the Title I funding fight, and Paul Peterson on the «Bush - Obama» approach teducation policy, I'd also recommend: Alyson Klein on helping long - term English - language learners, Chad Aldeman on the difficulty of «raising the bar» for teacher preparation entry, Mike Petrilli's Education Next piece on a schools agenda for working - class families, Kathleen Porter Magee on a great - news story for Catholic schools, Nat Malkus on the Title I funding fight, and Paul Peterson on the «Bush - Obama» approach to refofor teacher preparation entry, Mike Petrilli's Education Next piece on a schools agenda for working - class families, Kathleen Porter Magee on a great - news story for Catholic schools, Nat Malkus on the Title I funding fight, and Paul Peterson on the «Bush - Obama» approach tEducation Next piece on a schools agenda for working - class families, Kathleen Porter Magee on a great - news story for Catholic schools, Nat Malkus on the Title I funding fight, and Paul Peterson on the «Bush - Obama» approach to refofor working - class families, Kathleen Porter Magee on a great - news story for Catholic schools, Nat Malkus on the Title I funding fight, and Paul Peterson on the «Bush - Obama» approach to refofor Catholic schools, Nat Malkus on the Title I funding fight, and Paul Peterson on the «Bush - Obama» approach to reform.

This, however, is a topic where the White House is far from neutral, and one must conclude that its political and policy agendas have trickled down into the Institute for Education Sciences and National Center for Education Statistics, which is precisely what isn't supposed to happen.

There it's fairly obvious that the GOP doesn't know what it stands for on education anymore — partly because much of its reform agenda has been co-opted by Messrs. Duncan and Obama, partly because it has long tended (at least in Congress) to ignore this topic, partly because it has much else on its none - too - robust policy platter.

Jindal casts himself as a «policy wonk» and reformer, and his agenda for education features several ideas unfathomable in previous administrations: teacher pay for performance, school vouchers, and tax credits for private school tuition.

«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.

Previously, she worked as a Policy Analyst for StudentsFirstNY, where she executed advocacy strategies to support a student - focused policy agenda, including conducting quantitative and qualitative research, communicating to the press, and advising elected officials on education pPolicy Analyst for StudentsFirstNY, where she executed advocacy strategies to support a student - focused policy agenda, including conducting quantitative and qualitative research, communicating to the press, and advising elected officials on education ppolicy agenda, including conducting quantitative and qualitative research, communicating to the press, and advising elected officials on education policypolicy.

As much for political reasons as those related to policy, it made sense for Mr. Perry to proclaim that education's spot atop the state agenda would remain secure.

The 2018 Legislative Agenda calls on ASCD's 115,000 members, and all educational professionals to become more engaged with leaders at every level to better - inform policies that support a whole child education for every student.

«Parents will rightly question the motives of a Secretary of State for Education who appears hell - bent on pursuing a policy agenda that isn't evidence based and clearly not in the interests of children and young people.»

Tamara Azar joined NCTR in 2010 as Policy Director and is responsible for developing NCTR's policy agenda, advocating for policies that support and facilitate the development of high quality urban teacher residency programs, and supporting NCTR network partner programs to achieve scale and sustainability within the changing landscape of state and federal education teacher pPolicy Director and is responsible for developing NCTR's policy agenda, advocating for policies that support and facilitate the development of high quality urban teacher residency programs, and supporting NCTR network partner programs to achieve scale and sustainability within the changing landscape of state and federal education teacher ppolicy agenda, advocating for policies that support and facilitate the development of high quality urban teacher residency programs, and supporting NCTR network partner programs to achieve scale and sustainability within the changing landscape of state and federal education teacher policypolicy.

Certain reform groups like Democrats for Education Reform and StudentsFirst have very specific policy agendas for reforming eEducation Reform and StudentsFirst have very specific policy agendas for reforming educationeducation.

ASCD's 2012 Legislative Agenda, which outlines the association's public policy priorities for the year, calls for whole child — based education reforms.

As a policy center within Education Commission of the States, AEP has a unique and powerful opportunity to work with key state leaders to advance the 2020 Action Agenda for Advancing the Arts in Education and promote AEP's mission to ensure every child has access to a complete and competitive education that includes Education Commission of the States, AEP has a unique and powerful opportunity to work with key state leaders to advance the 2020 Action Agenda for Advancing the Arts in Education and promote AEP's mission to ensure every child has access to a complete and competitive education that includes Education and promote AEP's mission to ensure every child has access to a complete and competitive education that includes education that includes the arts.

Prior to joining the Patrick Administration, Mr. Reville had chaired the Massachusetts State Board of Education, founded the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy, co-founded the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education (MBAE), chaired the Massachusetts Reform Review Commission, chaired the Massachusetts Commission on Time and Learning, and served as executive director of the Pew Forum on Standards - Based Reform, a national think tank which convened the U.S.'s leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to set the national standards agenda.

But thanks to President Barack Obama's appointment of New York Republican John McHugh (and McKeon's successful effort to replace him as Ranking Republican on the House Armed Forces Committee), Kline has gotten the opportunity to reshape the Republican agenda on education, reversing support for the GOP's most - important stamp on education policy, the No Child Left Behind Act, and pursuing a local control - oriented platform.

Researchers will be looking at this data for years to come, but for now, one thing is clear: This time period also saw one of the most dramatic changes in education policy agendas this nation has ever seen.

Frederick M. Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, said that what happens next will depend on replacements for the two leaders and the agenda of the mayors who hire them.

The 2018 Legislative Agenda calls on ASCD's 115,000 members, and all educational professionals, to become more engaged with leaders at every level to better inform policies that support a whole child education for every student.

SMHC is pressing for a comprehensive and substantive national policy agenda on human capital reform in education.

In five months as the nation's education policy director, DeVos hasn't held a press conference, has blown off an invitation to speak at the Education Writers Association convention in May, hasn't discussed her agenda for the nation's schools with the mainstream media, and avoids unscripted contact with reporters like theducation policy director, DeVos hasn't held a press conference, has blown off an invitation to speak at the Education Writers Association convention in May, hasn't discussed her agenda for the nation's schools with the mainstream media, and avoids unscripted contact with reporters like thEducation Writers Association convention in May, hasn't discussed her agenda for the nation's schools with the mainstream media, and avoids unscripted contact with reporters like the plague.

Corporate education «reformers»» self - interest, by contrast, means advocating for policies that help private corporations profit off of public schools, diverting public attention from an anti-poverty economic agenda, and busting unions that prevent total oligarchical control of America's political system.

For two years I have been underscoring the growing influence on education policy in general, but specifically his foundation's deep influence on the Obama / Duncan agenda.

The educators from across the country who developed ASCD's current legislative agenda believe that it's time for federal education policy to support this whole child approach, helping to ensure that all children are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.

The resolution blamed Duncan for a «failed education agenda» consisting of policies that «undermine public schools and colleges, the teaching education professionals, and education unions.»

The first step for policy makers is to make tackling low performance a priority in their education policy agenda.

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.

The vote to delay Common Core and PARCC ended a particularly bad week for Governor Haslam's education policy agenda.

Regarding the legislators noted in the article in Education Week, the opening sentence says plenty, «Seeking more allies for his school improvement agenda, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today asked a select group of state legislators to keep «pushing very, very hard» on the policy levers that he and President Barack Obama have made a top priority.»

This is all about drawing a line under the education policy of David Cameron, and clearing the way for the agenda set out by Theresa May.

FOR YEARS, THE D.C. public schools have been known as factious battlegrounds for education reformers of all stripes; new plans and policies would be implemented every few years, only to have new leaders and competing agendas ushered in shortly afterwaFOR YEARS, THE D.C. public schools have been known as factious battlegrounds for education reformers of all stripes; new plans and policies would be implemented every few years, only to have new leaders and competing agendas ushered in shortly afterwafor education reformers of all stripes; new plans and policies would be implemented every few years, only to have new leaders and competing agendas ushered in shortly afterward.

Read policy recommendations for a rural education agenda.

A progressive education policy agenda should focus on putting economic mobility and opportunity within reach for all.

Of course, the proponents of corporate education reform have been riding high for more than two decades thanks to the policies and politics of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, both of whom used their time in office to promote charter schools and the broader corporate reform agenda.

Alexandria, VA (01/29/2014)-- ASCD released its 2014 Legislative Agenda (PDF) on Monday, January 27th, at the association's Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy in Washington, D.C. Developed by the association's Legislative Committee — a diverse cross section of ASCD members representing the entire spectrum of K — 12 education — the 2014 ASCD Legislative Agenda outlines the association's federal policy priorities for the year.

Prior to working in the federal government she was the Director of Public Policy and Community Partnerships for Green Dot Public Schools where she was responsible for executing Green Dot's reform agenda by advocating at the local, state and federal level for education reform, supporting existing schools with compliance and oversight, the development of new schools and overseeing the implementation a community schools model at the new Locke Wellness Center.