Sentences with phrase «education reform advocacy»

Furthermore, he is also the founder of 50 - CAN, a national education reform advocacy group.

One of the most striking developments in the entire campaign was the arrival of Michelle Rhee's national education reform advocacy organization, StudentsFirst, although here, in Connecticut, they've created a front - group called GNEPSA.

After spending record amounts of money lobbying for Governor Dannel Malloy's Corporate Education Reform Industry Initiatives, Connecticut's corporate funded education reform advocacy groups continue to spend millions of dollars misleading parents and policy makers, denigrating teachers and the teaching profession and promoting the discriminatory, inappropriate and unfair Common Core and Common Core Testing Scheme.

Twenty - odd years into school reform (and at least five into my blathering about the need for such a thing) there's still no national education reform advocacy group or PAC.

03/26/2010: LULAC and many other education reform advocacy organizations submitted ESEA priorities and recommendations to the House Education and Labor subcommittee in response to Congress» attempt to reauthorize NCLB in 2010.

Parents and students across New York, including grassroots activists organized by education reform advocacy organization StudentsFirstNY and Derrell Bradford, executive director of NYCAN, view Governor Cuomo's reforms as critical to improving public school options.

Albany, New York — StudentsFirstNY, a statewide education reform advocacy organization, today was joined by public school parents and advocates in testifying before a New York State Joint Committee on Education in support of Governor Andrew Cuomo's Opportunity Agenda.

Last year, those hearings proved uncomfortable for Senate Republicans too, when they seemed to find themselves unable to criticize specific aspects of de Blasio's education agenda, despite the assistance of powerful education reform advocacy groups in New York City.

Some of the state's lowest performing schools — including several in Pueblo City Schools (D60)-- are in worse shape today than before they received more than $ 60 million in federal grant money to improve achievement, a report from a Denver education reform advocacy group said.

Johnston now, «develops and implements strategies for philanthropists on education reform advocacy and political initiatives.»

Taken in total, the various emails back and forth between the Malloy administration, the Hartford Board of Education employees, Friendship Charter School and outside education reform advocacy groups explain how hard these «public» officials have been working to force the Clark School community to accept their «destiny» of seeing their school handed over to a private corporation named Friendship Charter Schools.

National black and Hispanic education reform advocacy groups, as well as Florida - based coalitions of minority clergy, have argued that the scholarships provide opportunities for high - quality education to predominantly minority children who wouldn't get it otherwise.

Although they noted the massive expenditure by the lead education reform group, Families for Excellent Schools, which is based in New York, they didn't total all of the funds being spent by the corporate funded education reform advocacy group.

Sackler also formed ConnCAN, ConnAD and 50CAN, all major corporate education reform advocacy groups.

MarylandCAN: Launched in January 2012, MarylanCAN: The Maryland Campaign for Achievement Now, is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit education reform advocacy organization building a movement of Marylanders with the political will to enact smart public policies so that every Maryland child has access to a great public school.

In 2012, Patrick McGuinn wrote about DFER and other education reform advocacy organizations (ERAOs) for Ed Next.

readers will recall, Mandel and his aide, Meghan Lowney, played the pivotal role in the creation of Excel Bridgeport, Inc. the corporate funded education reform advocacy group that supported Malloy's education reform bill, worked to pass Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch's failed charter revision proposal to do away with an elected board of education in Bridgeport and has been the biggest boosters for Paul Vallas and Kenneth Moales Jr, the disgraced former chair of the Bridgeport Board of Education.

I got a job working in communications for a school choice and education reform advocacy group in New Jersey.

In the new era, education reform advocacy groups, passionate about their views on public education, are harnessing millions in contributions to further their work.

Building on those findings, this month, the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (Richmond's group), and 50Can, an education reform advocacy group, jointly released a report with recommendations for states to hold virtual charters more accountable for student performance.

This report from an education reform advocacy group notes that «For digital learning to fulfill its enormous potential, a wholesale reshaping of the reform agenda itself is required, particularly in the realms of school finance and governance.

Rather than find common ground with the teacher's union over support for the governor and opposition to the Common Core, the Republican elected officials and corporate education reform advocacy groups are now targeting the union endorsed candidates for defeat, including those that are running on an anti-Common core agenda.

Sackler was also the funding force behind the corporate education reform advocacy groups ConnCAN, ConnAD, and the national education reform advocacy group 50 - CAN.

Families for Excellent Schools (FES) is a major New York City based, corporate funded, charter school and education reform advocacy group.

Educators 4 Excellence (E4E) is the corporate funded education reform advocacy group that purports to be «working across the state to provide a more elevated teaching profession and improved student outcomes.»

The report was commissioned by the education reform advocacy publication Education Post.

MarylandCAN, the local chapter of a national education reform advocacy group, reached a similar conclusion.