Sentences with phrase «education reform group conncan»

It was strongly supported by Buffalo ReformED, an upstate education reform group that wants to implement a local parent trigger law patterned after California's.

He is a member of the education reform group Chiefs for Change.

In 2012, he called for major changes to teacher tenure in Connecticut, earning praise from ConnCAN, an education reform group promoting charter schools.

Part of the confusion may be due to the fact that while the Neag School of Education was not working with E4E on their event, it was, at the very same time, working to publicize an event it was co-sponsoring with another corporate funded education reform group called Achieve Hartford!

You can read more about Achieve Hartford's claim that Perry is above the rules and laws that apply to everyone else at: Corporate funded education reform group speaks out for Steve Perry.

«Led by business - backed education reform group ConnCAN, some advocates are now speaking out in support of the standards.

post entitled, UConn's Neag School of Education aligns with faux «Educators 4 Excellence» reform group, reported that UConn's Neag School of Education had co-sponsored a «happy hour» on April 23, 2015 with the corporate funded education reform group that goes by the name of Educators 4 Excellence (E4E).

Excel Bridgeport, the corporate funded education reform group that has been lobbying for Bridgeport's public school privatization efforts reported spending $ 101,803.36.

The newest corporate funded education reform group to invade Connecticut's education policy debate is called the Connecticut School Finance Project and according to its PR;

is the corporate funded education reform group that is has been at the forefront of the effort to expand the number of charter schools in Hartford, while implementing other aspects of the education reform agenda in the Capital city.

Meanwhile, for any education reform advocates out there looking to join that anti-public education effort, Connecticut's new DFER Director will be expected to provide the following services: Continue reading «And yet another Education Reform Group targets Connecticut»

Taken together, Residents for a Better Bridgeport, StudentsFirst and Excel Bridgeport, a corporate sponsored education reform group, appear to have spent more than half a million dollars to persuade Bridgeport voters to give up their right to choose who should serve on the local Board of Education.

The education reform group known as the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc (ConnCAN) will most certainly be at the table.

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.

Parents at 24th Street Elementary School, with the help of Los Angeles - based education reform group Parent Revolution, will deliver the required signature petition to L.A. Unified officials in downtown on Thursday morning to start the process of taking over the school, according to Parent Revolution officials.

Herbert Hilgado, who has worked closely with the Los Angeles - based education reform group Parent Revolution, which has led the effort to organize parents and help them use California's Parent Trigger law to take over McKinley Elementary School, writes in his complaint:

In 2009, an education reform group known as The New Teacher Project (TNTP) issued an influential report finding widespread «institutional indifference to variations in teacher performance.»

Partnership for Educational Justice (PEJ), a national education reform group that aims to challenge teacher job protections across the country, funded the New Jersey lawsuit.

A new survey from the education reform group Achieve shows that 69 percent of voters support implementation of Common Core when presented with a description of it.

Parents and paid organizers with the Los Angeles - based education reform group Parent Revolution managed to work mostly under the radar while gathering signatures from some 60 percent of parents whose children attend McKinley Elementary School.

In 2015, for example, the Philadelphia School Partnership, a local philanthropic education reform group, offered to pay the Philadelphia School District $ 25 million in order to take the issue of stranded costs «off the table.»

This year, the superPAC has been funded primarily by the Firefighters union but in July, the superPAC received a $ 28,000 contribution from the advocacy arm of Michelle Rhee's education reform group, Parents and Teachers for Putting StudentsFirst.

They're being told students are proficient, but by external benchmarks they're not prepared at all,» said Michael Cohen, the president of Achieve, the education reform group that conducted the survey.

In 2009, a report entitled «The Widget Effect» was released by a national education reform group, The New Teacher Project.

In comments on Twitter, Tenicka Boyd, national director of an education reform group called the Leaders of Color Initiative, called Ford a «true champion and education reform pioneer.»

In 2008, frustrated by years of education stagnation, the National Governors Association, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and Achieve, a nonpartisan, nonprofit education reform group began the process of developing the math and language arts standards that eventually became the Common Core State Standards.

Schools Week understands one such campaign, the StudentsFirst movement in America — an education reform group that pledged to empower parents — had «impressed» PTE's strategists as the «right way to take the debate to ordinary people».

The recent case, Doe v. Deasy, was filed in 2010 by several students in the district and sponsored by EdVoice, the nonprofit education reform group backed by billionaire Eli Broad, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and Richard Merkin, CEO of the Heritage Provider Network, among others.

Speaking of the rest of the state, Timothy Daly, the president of the New Teacher Project, an education reform group that advocates more rigorous teacher evaluations, said, «Many districts appear to have completely botched this.»

The bill's defeat comes as disappointing news to the bill's supporters, which included education reform group StudentsFirst and LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy, who has been pushing to improve the teacher evaluation system in LAUSD.

Teachers with the Minnesota chapter of Educators for Excellence, a policy - focused education reform group...

Julio Fuentes, president and CEO of the Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options, a national education reform group, said the FEA challenged the tax - credit scholarship program but not other Florida voucher programs because the scholarships help predominantly low - income students.

The trend threatens to erase the performance edge Indiana's charter schools have enjoyed over their public and charter school peers in other states, according to David Harris, CEO of The Mind Trust, an education reform group based in Indianapolis.

A landmark study released in December by The Mind Trust, the locally based education reform group, calls for dramatically downsizing the central IPS office and pushing the resources and grass - roots governance to individual schools.

However Mark Lehain, director of the education reform group Parents and Teachers for Excellence (PTE), said the government still has «plenty to be getting on with».

An education reform group (along with four public schoolteachers) has sued the state's two teachers unions, affiliated with the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers (AFT).

Randi Weingarten of the AFT responded to the suit by taking potshots at the education reform group that helped file the claims.

«There's a subset of these conversions that aren't charters, and we shouldn't think of them as charters,» said Bryan Hassel, a co-director of Public Impact, an education reform group that works with policymakers, districts and charters.

Teacher Evaluations At Center Of Chicago Strike NPR: In California, after the state legislature mandated the use of student progress benchmarks to rate teachers, an education reform group sued the Los Angeles Unified School District to force the issue.

In an unprecedented partnership announced Tuesday night, locally based education reform group The Mind Trust, the mayor's office and Indianapolis Public Schools are teaming up to try to improve the district's poorest performing schools.

However, following an ethics complaint it was later revealed that the money appeared to actually come from StudentsFirst, a national corporate education reform group that was headed, at the time, by Michelle Rhee.

In a MUST READ commentary piece published in the CTNewsjunkie, Robert Cotto Jr. reviews the flawed special education proposal submitted by The Connecticut School Finance Project, a corporate education reform group that has apparently violated state law by illegally engaging in lobbying activities with Governor Dannel Malloy and his administration.

(See: In violation of state lobbying laws, corporate education reform group develops Malloy's disastrous special education funding proposal.)

The Alliance for School Choice, a national education reform group, set up PACs in several states to elect state lawmakers.

«It is hard to get these people hired,» says John Ayers, executive director of Leadership for Quality Education, a Chicago education reform group that has worked with New Leaders and supports its efforts.

StudentsFirstNY, another influential education reform group that has advocated both for charters and for Common Core standards, increased its spending on lobbying nearly tenfold in 2015, to $ 2.4 million, the lobbying reports show.

But then news surfaced that education reform group PennCAN had hired a leading GOP pollster and commissioned a secret report urging the governor to use the Philadelphia school crisis as a wedge issue to rally his base.

Hudson, who last performed Friday at Madison Square Garden for Pope Francis» Mass, will sing no fewer than four songs for the upcoming rally organized by education reform group Families for Excellent Schools.

Before that, he spent a year as the executive director of StudentsFirstNY, a pro-charter school and education reform group.

Before rejoining Mr. Schneiderman's staff as Mr. Kwatra's replacement, Mr. Lasher spent 15 months as executive director of the education reform group StudentsFirstNY, but before that, he worked for Mayor Bloomberg as the administration's chief lobbyist in Albany.