Sentences with phrase «education reform advocates»

In many states, politicians have argued that teachers should be held personally responsible for the failure of students to progress academically, bolstered by education reform advocates who push for more teacher accountability.

Many education reform advocates have not fully embraced the phrase, which is often used by critics of charter schools that promote strict, zero - tolerance discipline codes.

Education reform advocates from across the country maintain that preparing students for college should be a top priority.

Yesterday, Dr. Howard Fuller, Derrell Bradford, Darrell Allison, and Kevin Chavous led a media conference call following the astonishing attack on families and education reform advocates by AFT President Randi Weingarten.

A solid plurality of Americans would be amenable to their local school districts seriously shaking up the way they operate, according to a new poll from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, which portrayed the poll's results as good news for education reform advocates.

(Pro-charter groups Families for Excellent Schools and StudentsFirstNY, along with education reform advocate Campbell Brown, sent out statements criticizing the plan.

Vouchers have remained a fringe idea among education reform advocates here, and some have expressed concern that DeVos» embrace of vouchers could alienate the mainstream charter movement from its much - needed allies in the Democratic party.

Vouchers have remained a fringe idea among education reform advocates here, and some have expressed concern that DeVos» embrace of vouchers could alienate the mainstream charter movement from its much - needed allies in the Democratic party.

Despite recent victories giving students more opportunities in education, Robert Pondiscio, senior fellow with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, recently accused education reform advocates of «cowardice» — of having lost their will to fight.

But her latest attacks, on former CNN journalist turned education reform advocate Campbell Brown, have exposed a level of contemptibility previously unthinkable, turning the American Federation of Teachers into peddlers of pathetic sexist attacks.

I'm a long - time labor activist turned education reform advocate who works with families across the Commonwealth to find their voice at the education table and to put kids back at the center of the conversation.

Considering Malloy and his corporate education reform advocates don't want the Common Core testing and teacher evaluation issues to even be discussed in public, it will take a lot to convince Democratic rank and file legislators that they should put their constituents ahead of Malloy's politics.

Fuller, a nationally - recognized education reform advocate, served as the Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent during the 1990s.

His initiatives were praised by numerous education reform advocates who called him a «Hero of Reform.»

This development leaves the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) along with education reform advocates without a candidate to support in the general election, according to the New York Daily News.

Nevertheless, such strongly negative results should give education reform advocates great pause about the regulatory strategies employed in Louisiana.

Several researchers and education reform advocates reached similar conclusions, including Matthew Ladner, Adam Peshek, Michael McShane, Lindsey Burke, and Jonathan Butcher.

Education reform advocates nationwide are putting together their wish lists for the state legislative sessions that generally start in January.

Seeing this, charter schools and their friends in «Big Philanthropy» have invested in charter school associations and broader education reform advocates to fight to keep the world safe for chartering.

While most education reform advocates cloak their goals in the rhetoric of «putting children first,» the conceit was less evident at a conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, earlier this year.

As Matt Dicarlo recently pointed out, education reform advocates sometimes do appear to be living in a fantasy world — in that they make academic performance predictions that they will inevitability not meet.

The investments from outside groups in Denver, Aurora and Douglas County — where education reform advocates and teachers unions are locked in heated battles for control — are a sharp contrast to dozens of school districts across the state where elections have been canceled due to a lack of interest.

Civil rights activist and education reform advocate Dr. Howard Fuller talks about why he supports Ms. DeVos.

A longtime education reform advocate, Villaraigosa attempted to take mayoral control of Los Angeles Unified in 2006.

«Proposition 30 is a bandage on the current system,» said former state Sen. Gloria Romero, an outspoken education reform advocate.

A San Francisco conference gave Black and Brown teachers a chance to express their viewpoints — and White education reform advocates a directive to listen

Education reform advocates at «The Mind Trust» bussed community leaders into Indianapolis schools that work Tuesday to show them a different side of IPS.

However, it is par for the course that Pryor put Qadree into the State Department of Education's «Turnaround Office» where, along with Turnaround Director, Morgan Barth, inexperienced education reform advocates will be controlling the purse strings for Connecticut's 30 poorest school districts.

Other education reform advocates should learn from the Colorado case taking in the context of their own political and policy setting so that policy can be drafted and effectively enacted.

Education reform advocate Peter Cunningham shot back in a blog post that the study's premise that charters siphon money from traditional public schools «is like arguing that a younger child deprives an older child of parental attention.»

One thing that is not clear and transparent is what you say is irrefutable evidence about the relationship between Achievement First and Education Reform Advocate groups and data on Achievement First schools.

Long time education reform advocate, Caprice Young, is taking over the troubled Magnolia Public Schools charter network, but it won't be official until a set of test results come in.

Any support that Malloy, Finch or others, including Connecticut's charter school and corporate education reform advocates provide to Moales will be quite a commentary.

Howard Fuller, civil rights activist and veteran education reform advocate, tweeted, «The issue for low income Black children is how to get an effective education.

ICYMI: Education reform leaders respond to the attack on families and education reform advocates by AFT President Randi Weingarten.

Education reform advocates who back the tax credit measure point to teachers unions that have sought to play a role in campaigns as well.

Some education reform advocates are advocating that the renewal of mayoral control in the city be linked to lifting or eliminating the state's cap on charter schools.

Cuomo spent much of the 2015 session pushing for the education reforms advocated by private schools and charter school networks, and the hedge fund managers who funded some of these advocates gave him $ 286,700 and hosted a Hamptons fundraiser on his behalf.

On March 2nd, they traveled to Albany and joined clergy members and education reform advocates to ensure state leaders understood the importance.

Both the UFT and education reform advocates will be without a candidate to support in the general election.

Education reform advocates, on the other hand, are facing the possibility that de Blasio is elected mayor and immediately works to stop the expansion of NYC's charter schools:

Cucco, meanwhile, has been backed by education reform advocates.