Sentences with phrase «education reform battle in»

Twelve years ago, I joined the education reform battle in California because too many of our kids were failed by traditional public schools in our...

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Show Me Democracy tells the story of seven St. Louis college students who are battling injustice, raising awareness about police brutality and fighting for real reform in their community and within the local education system.

Bill Hammond on this year's education reform battle: «What lawmakers should be focused on is not merely shoveling more cash toward schools, but better spending the billions already in the system.»

Back in December 2014, a top aide to the governor, Jim Malatras, broached the subject in a letter to the regents chancellor and then - state education commissioner that was widely seen as the first salvo in what would be a protracted battle over reform.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — In his first - ever joint State of the State address / budget presentation, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday presented his plan for 2015 Opportunity Agenda, spending much time on education reform that he expects will be an uphill battle and will take up most of the increase in the state budgeIn his first - ever joint State of the State address / budget presentation, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday presented his plan for 2015 Opportunity Agenda, spending much time on education reform that he expects will be an uphill battle and will take up most of the increase in the state budgein the state budget.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is no longer pushing the dramatic education reforms he was advocating a few years ago, and recently has placed his focus on fighting the Trump administration, a battle in which the teachers union will be a likely ally.

But perhaps most substantially, there is a growing awareness in the world of education reform that the big battles over getting new teacher - evaluation laws passed or school accountability systems implemented are not the end of the story («The Teacher Evaluation Revamp, In Hindsight,» features, Spring 2017in the world of education reform that the big battles over getting new teacher - evaluation laws passed or school accountability systems implemented are not the end of the story («The Teacher Evaluation Revamp, In Hindsight,» features, Spring 2017In Hindsight,» features, Spring 2017).

On February 6, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visited the Ed School for the Askwith Forum, «Fighting the Wrong Education Battles,» at which he discussed either - or orthodoxies about school reform, including competing claims about the importance of in - school and out - of - school influences on student achievement, and the struggle to advance both a well - rounded curriculum and school accountability.

What I've found is a story that confounds the traditional battle lines in public education, and gives each side in the school reform war reason both to cheer and to rethink its assumptions.

The story he found, which appears in the Washington Monthly magazine, confounds the traditional battle lines in public education and points to the D.C. reforms as a model for the nation.

The warm greetings given by both Republicans and Democrats on the committee reflect Duncan's reputation as a centrist in the ideologically fraught battles over education reform.

Last year, Richard Whitmire took a close look at education politics in LAUSD in «Ed Reform Battle in Los Angeles.»

Washington — Asserting that «it is in the public school... that the battle for the future of America will be won or lost,» the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has concluded a three - year analysis of public secondary education with a series of detailed proposals for reforming and revitalizing the nation's high schools.

A nearly $ 6 billion infusion from Proposition 30 and a Democratic supermajority in the Legislature are a welcome pre-holiday gift to public education from voters, but it also could set the stage for battles between those laboring for education reform and suddenly fortified unions protecting teacher interests.

Los Angeles Unified School Board Election Has Nation's Attention The race for three Los Angeles Unified school board seats has drawn more than $ 4 million in donations — as well as the attention of education leaders nationwide — as the district's powerful unions and the reform movement battle for control of public education.

And, as Diane Ravitch reminds us in today's blog (http://dianeravitch.net/2014/07/01/do-teachers-unions-have-any-friends-in-the-obama-administration/), we are part of the national battle against the corporate education reform industry, which has many and varied threats:

readers know, Wendy and Sarah are playing the pivotal role in the battle against the corporate education reform industry and in the on - going effort to re-take control of our public education system.

With the regular Texas legislative session about one - third complete, the battle lines in public education are coming into sharper focus on the four major issues identified last year by our organization, the Texas Institute for Education Reforeducation are coming into sharper focus on the four major issues identified last year by our organization, the Texas Institute for Education ReforEducation Reform (TIER).

In any event, AFT's latest battles against education reform have been centered on Michigan and Pennsylvania — the former because it recently stopped forcing its teachers to join the union as a condition of employment and the latter because of a squabble over education funding.

The battle for education reform in Louisiana has major implications both for the future of the nation's schools and for the future of American politics.

Key Bridgeport activist in battle to stop education reform industry leaves Working Families Party

The two men share vastly different backgrounds and overall educational beliefs, leading the LA Weekly to characterize the election as a reform vs. union battle for the heart of the Democratic Party and the Los Angeles Times to call it «a prime example of the strange rift in education, in which liberal Democrats are sharply divided on such issues as charter schools, job protections for teachers, the authority of the federal government in schools and the value of standardized test scores.»

A Monday morning in the on - going battle to stop the education reform industry and take back our public schools.

Perhaps it is only an uncanny coincidence, but during the recent battle in New York, the Educators 4 Excellence partners, Education Reform Now and Democrats for Education Reform ran television ads that included one parent saying, «Albany's listening much too much to the teachers union,» and a second parent, looking to the camera and saying, «Stop listening to the teachers union.»

If you were not at Quinnipiac University (in Connecticut) tonight to hear Diane Ravitch speak about our continuing battle to beat back the corporate education reform industry and re-take control of our nation's public education system then you not only missed an extraordinary speech, but you also failed to experience the hope that comes with seeing the glimmer of light which serves to push back the shadows associated with these dark times.

on Key Bridgeport activist in battle to stop education reform industry leaves Working Families Party

It would probably be an uphill battle with regard to rolling back education reforms given fact that the legislature's likely to be Republican majority in both chambers.

And because struggles in the education reform war continually demonstrate that words are determining outcomes of our battles, we should pay close attention.

Michelle Rhee Group Donates $ 250,000 to Candidates in LAUSD Races A group led by former District of Columbia schools chancellor Michelle Rhee donated $ 250,000 Wednesday to contests for seats on the Los Angeles Board of Education, adding further political fuel to a battle over the direction of reform efforts in the nation's second - largest school system...

Connecticut's students, parents and teachers need and deserve the help and support of Connecticut's teacher unions in this historic battle against the corporate education reform and testing industry and those like Governor Dannel Malloy who continue their anti-teacher, anti-student, anti-parent, anti-public education initiatives.

In a recent Which Way L.A. segment, host Warren Olney discusses the battle brewing in Sacramento over Gov. Jerry Brown's approach to education budget reforIn a recent Which Way L.A. segment, host Warren Olney discusses the battle brewing in Sacramento over Gov. Jerry Brown's approach to education budget reforin Sacramento over Gov. Jerry Brown's approach to education budget reform.

She may not have asked to be called a hero, but in the face of the corporate education reform industry she has been willing to stand up, speak the truth and lead the battle to take back control of our public education system.

Connecticut has become one of the most important battle grounds in the national «Education Reform» movement.

This weekend, the 2016 Opt Out Conference in Philadelphia is bringing together parents, teachers, academics and public education advocates from across the country to discuss developments and share strategies in our ongoing battle to protect our children, teachers and public schools from the corporate education reform industry and the standardized testing companies that are turning our children into guinea pigs and our public schools into little more than testing factories and profit centers.

The large amounts of outside money flowing into the Los Angeles Unified school board election represent a new front in the reform battles that have shaken up education politics over the last decade.

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