Sentences with phrase «education policy director»

Author Bio: Charles Sahm is education policy director at Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.

Jim Bartholomew is education policy director for the Minnesota Business Partnership, which supported the new law, and until recently was a member of the teaching board.

But Sarah Archibald, education policy director in Olsen's office, was skeptical of the claim that there's virtually no support for voucher school choice in Green Bay.

A key reason for this growth is the competition among schools for status and prestige, says Kevin Carey, education policy director at the New America Foundation.

«It appears that the state is subtly recognizing what Mackinac Center analysts have consistently pointed out: The primary drivers of school spending are union contracts, and only until union contracts are dealt with can school districts rectify fiscal problems,» said Michael Van Beek, education policy director for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.

While states and local communities should offer as many quality choices to parents through things like education savings accounts and vouchers, that doesn't mean choice advocates should welcome federal initiatives to expand choice, said Lindsey Burke, the education policy director at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that backs limited government.

But Audrey Spalding, education policy director at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, wondered what these state officials have done to bring accountability to Michigan's conventional school system.

-- Peter Oppenheim, the Senate HELP Committee's education policy director and counsel, is a top contender for assistant secretary for legislation and congressional affairs at the Education Department, sources tell Caitlin Emma.

«I think it's no fluke that they're the two highest performing charter networks in New York City, says Charles Sahm, who's the education policy director at the Manhattan Institute.

She also worked as the education policy director at the Goldwater institute.

Coming out of grad school I was recruited to be the education policy director of a start - up in Boston called Be the Change.

That tracks with what Terry Spradlin, the education policy director at Indiana University's Center for Education and Evaluation Policy, told us last week — even if states leave, they may eventually come back later.

But Terry Spradlin, the education policy director at Indiana University's Center for Education and Evaluation Policy, says movement within the testing consortia is to be expected at this juncture.

Audrey Spalding, education policy director at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, said it is rare for a conventional school district to be closed or to suffer penalties for managing money irresponsibly.

The kind of support provided by the county offices varies, but it won't include more money, said Samantha Tran, Children Now «s education policy director.

Samantha Tran, Children Now «s education policy director, speaks to the state Board of Education in Sacramento on Wednesday.

And now, they have an ally in Bentley's education policy director, Emily Schultz, a protege of Michelle Rhee who recently served as a staffer at school reform outfit Mass Insight.

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 the plague.

WILL Education Policy Director, Dr. Will Flanders, writes in today's Milwaukee Journal - Sentinel: «So what does this research mean?

Says WILL's Education Policy Director, Will Flanders, Ph.D., author of the study, «The debate over school choice is almost always focused on the so - called costs.

«We're not saying resources can't make a difference in some cases,» said Ben DeGrow, the center's education policy director.

«Most of the complaints about the foundations are coming from teachers unions or education professors who happen, in this case, to disagree with their preferred strategies,» says Frederick Hess, education policy director at the American Enterprise Institute.

«People concerned about Michigan's failing schools should be concerned about conventional schools,» said Audrey Spalding, education policy director at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.

«It's past time to shut down the state's most consistently failing schools that leave so many students unprepared for the future,» said Ben DeGrow, education policy director at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.