Sentences with phrase «education policy decisions»

When it comes to making education policy decisions, teachers need to be consulted as the experts on what is best for children in our classrooms.

The Republican candidates all stress accountability and favor school choice, though they prefer leaving the federal government out of education policy decisions.

But such data have been scarce at the state level, where the most important education policy decisions are made.

Such a system might be sufficient in countries where education policy decisions are made at the federal level and where there is greater continuity of leadership.

The financial incentives for states to implement federal education policies have been scaled back, leaving education policy decisions to be made by the state, and at times, local policymakers.

While research shows that classroom teachers are the single most important in - school factor in improving student achievement, their diverse voices are consistently left out of education policy decisions.

Because ESSA emphasizes stakeholder involvement, National Board Certified Teachers have a unique opportunity to participate in education policy decisions at the state and district level.

Instead, each state's unique circumstances, standards, history, demographics, and geography all argue for education policy decisions to remain within the state and local purview.

Our next President will be forced to make a number of important education policy decisions almost immediately upon taking office.

The mission of the NCHEMS Information Center for State Higher Education Policymaking and Analysis (The Information Center) is to provide state policymakers and analysts timely and accurate data and information that are useful in making sound higher education policy decisions.

A. Grassroots organizing is a relatively new notion in education policy where independent local organizations composed of low - income students and parents engage directly in local, state, or national education policy decisions.

The Texas Classroom Teachers Association created TexasTeachersVote in 2006 to help educators become more informed and more active in the political process at the state level at a time when education policy decisions in the Texas Legislature were at a turning point.

Overview As education policy decisions shift to the state level, State Education Agencies are well positioned to use high quality research in policy and practice decisions.

CECs are the local representative bodies that help inform education policy decision making and have been highlighted during the «Mayoral Control Forums» held by Public Advocate Letitia James in recent weeks.

Shaping education policy decisions in California and across the nation on issues ranging from academic improvement to equity and access.

Sydney co-founded Educators for Excellence to address the lack of teacher input in the crucial education policy decisions that shape our classrooms and the teaching profession.

2011 — The VIVA Project report gives voice to the arts In a project designed to dramatically increase classroom teachers» participation in important state and national public education policy decisions, the VIVA Project issues a report sanctioned by both the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools.

Congress used ESSA to shift considerable education policy decision - making back to states and school districts.

This is because the federal government ultimately amplifies education policy decisions made at the state level, especially by those reform - minded governors and legislators (along with reformers) who also seek help from the federal level to beat back opposition to their efforts by entrenched traditionalist interests.

Among the long list of accomplishments that includes participation in nearly every major education policy decision since the mid-1980s - O'Connell said he is most proud of his role in getting voters to approve a ballot measure that reduced the threshold for passing school bonds to 55 percent.

As Glazerman and his coauthor Liz Potamites wrote, severe and correctable errors in the measurement of student performance are often used to make critical education policy decisions associated with the law.

This is Connecticut and local education policy decisions are made by the local board of education.

That means putting students over special interests, expanding access to high - performing schools, empowering parents and loosening the federal government's grip on education policy decisions that are better left to local officials.

The Texas Legislature requires the collection of PEIMS and other data to determine school accountability ratings, to provide an empirical foundation for education policy decisions, and as the basis for many aspects of school funding (in combination with data from TEA's Foundation School Program).

In fact, our next President will be forced to make a number of important education policy decisions almost immediately upon taking office.

The NCHEMS Information Center for State Higher Education Policymaking and Analysis (The Information Center) provides state policymakers and analysts» timely and accurate data and information that are useful in making sound higher education policy decisions.

But policymakers, pundits, and others suffering from PLDD who control our increasingly centralized education system focus almost exclusively on economic utility as the criteria for making education policy decisions.

If there were a «single provider» of education policy decisions, the country would suffer a disastrous loss of competition.

Skelos says «Right now, it's basically Shelly Silver picking the Regents...» And, he is in support of «it's basically Andrew Cuomo» picking the one and only one person who'll make education policy decisions.

The Coleman Report connected education research to education policy decisions, an accomplishment that has been elusive in the years since.

In Los Angeles, by contrast, education policy decision - making is more decentralized and diffuse.

International experience shows that education policy decisions can either increase or reduce disparities between a nation's schools.

Berliner noted that Australia appoints teachers to make education policy decisions.

Congress is making education policy decisions that affect you, your local schools, and your students.

The way these STFs have contributed to the state's education policy decisions was a major reason Mary Elaine Vaughn, a high school math teacher and Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching finalist, decided to apply to join the program.

Under the Texas Education Code (TEC), section 42.006, originally passed in 1995, the Texas Legislature requires TEA to collect a range of student data via the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) program that is used as the basis for education policy decisions, for accountability and determining school funding, and — on a strictly FERPA - compliant basis — for education research.

My experience on Capitol Hill showed me that the voice of one school principal who was willing to speak up was not only heard by people making education policy decisions but was also tweeted across the country within minutes of my words being spoken!

In his current role, Eberts studies factors that contribute to student academic achievement, as well as the effects of collective bargaining and education policy decisions on student performance.

Before coming to SAISD, Martinez was Superintendent - in - Residence for the Nevada Department of Education and was responsible for advising the Governor's office and the State Superintendent of Instruction on education policy decisions.

During the opening session the conference layout and break - out sessions were introduced, and I learned that Teach Plus was a program for teachers who were interested in becoming involved in education policy decisions.