Sentences with phrase «education reform group develops»

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

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Based on years of research studying how to improve the quality of education in Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, Mexico and many other countries in Latin America, as well as his work as an advisor to governments, private groups, and foundations involved in education reform, Reimers recommended developing three sets of competencies.

The Annenberg Institute for School Reform (AISR) has developed a popular education activity to help community groups increase understanding about sustainable community schools as a strategy to achieve the schools all our children deserve.

As Wendy Lecker writes in her latest commentary piece for the Stamford Advocates and Hearst Media Group newspapers, «The time has come to repeal Malloy's education reforms and develop proposals that will actually improve our schools.»

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.

Also, many new players in the education field — hedge funds, foundations, and other external groups — are now engaging in direct lobbying of policy makers and are having an important impact on how policy makers may be developing new reforms.

In 2008, Canter joined Mississippi First, a nonprofit she heads as executive director, that has been leading the charge to introduce charter schools to the state (the group is also developing sex - education curricula for public schools) and to advocate for systemic public - school reform.

This document was developed by the National Forum on Assessment to help guide assessment reform and has been signed by over 80 education and civil rights groups (see Appendix F).

Shavar Jeffries, the mouthpiece for a corporate funded, New York based, charter school advocacy group that calls itself «Democrats for Education Reform (DFER)» uses the space to urge Connecticut legislators to DEFEAT a bill that, if passed, would require Governor Dannel Malloy and his administration to develop an honest and effective teacher evaluation system rather than continue with Malloy's present program that is dependent on the results of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme.