Sentences with phrase «education reform groups did»

The prominent pro-charter and education reform groups did not file itemized spending reports in January and February.

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- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

«We're going to do everything we can to support the governor in advancing a bold education reform agenda that improves the quality of traditional public schools and expands choice for families,» the group's executive director, Jenny Sedlis, said in an interview.

Comprehensive school reform has been identified by both Democratic and Republican administrations and Congress as a key strategy in turning around the country's lowest performing schools, but this fact does not make NAS just like any other education group in D.C. Instead, it means that after a great deal of review, comprehensive school reform emerged as one of the country's best hopes for public school improvement on a grand scale.

Reforms of the sector are vitally important, however, the recent Teacher Education Ministerial Advisory Group report didn't go far enough.

Which means, to our eyes at least, that what groups like Democrats for Education Reform, Stand for Children, and StudentsFirst are doing to challenge the hegemony of the unions is appropriate, important, and good for the country.

But looking at followers does allow a few additional groups to make the list: Reform powerhouse StudentsFirst, the Washington Post's and the Los Angeles Times's education feeds *, and AIR's education policy center, among others.

But they didn't want the Futures of School Reform working group to be just academics, so they pulled people from various circles and with differing ideologies, including academics, government officials, politicians and policy wonks, practitioners already working on reform, foundation folks, entrepreneurs, and one international deputy minister of educReform working group to be just academics, so they pulled people from various circles and with differing ideologies, including academics, government officials, politicians and policy wonks, practitioners already working on reform, foundation folks, entrepreneurs, and one international deputy minister of educreform, foundation folks, entrepreneurs, and one international deputy minister of education.

Core group members did, however, agree on one thing: When it comes to education reform, we're thinking too small.

The group is independent and nonpartisan, but it doesn't hide its leanings toward the current school - reform movement's focus on accountability and assessment, which is seeing its day in New Jersey under Gov. Chris Christie and his education commissioner.

For one, there remains a core group of influential reformers — including former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, congressmen on both sides of the aisle, and reform - minded governors, who know that AYP has done more to focus the nation on dealing with the widespread problems within American public education than any other policy decision in the past fiveEducation Margaret Spellings, congressmen on both sides of the aisle, and reform - minded governors, who know that AYP has done more to focus the nation on dealing with the widespread problems within American public education than any other policy decision in the past fiveeducation than any other policy decision in the past five decades.

The educational establishment — school boards, teachers unions and other special interest groups, dubbed the «Government Education Complex» by Bruno Behrend, director of the Center for School Reform at The Heartland Institute, don't like the law since it allows a group of parents to trump their power.

Ravitch, whose scholarship once upon a time landed her on the prestigious Koret Task Force, a group that focuses on education reform options has now, for reasons known only to her, done a 180 practically overnight and become a shill for the teachers unions.

A number of other charter school and education reform front groups, including Educators 4 Excellence, Excel Bridgeport and Achieve Hartford were active around the state but claim that they did not communicate with the governor or legislators and therefore do not need to reveal how they spent their money.

The group of companies in question had either done work with Pryor when he was working for Newark Mayor Cory Booker or were other education reform associates who had done work in New Jersey.

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.

ConnCAN, known to us as the charter school advocacy group formed by Achievement First Inc., the charter school management company, that was set up by Stefan Pryor and friends, beat out every other «education reform» group in the country, do to their ability to consistently misrepresent the facts on the most constant basis.

CABE, as the story does note, has partnered with ConnCAN, the superintendents» association, and a number of business groups to lobby on behalf of Governor Malloy's «Education Reform» bill.

Van Roekel didn't call out Duncan by name, but he did blast Democrats for Education Reform, a group that supports Duncan, in his keynote address.

TRENTON, N.J. (WTW)-- New Jersey teachers believe the current teacher evaluation system is subjective and does not help them do their jobs better, a study commissioned by two education reform groups concluded following an unprecedented series of focus groups with nearly 300 teachers.

And of course, par for the course with these folks who love to throw shade at education reform groups while disclosing NONE of their own funding sources — they don't talk about where the funding comes from for the new endeavor, but let's see what we can piece together.

Beyond the fact that «help districts workshop their applications» is a bizarre concept, what the hell is a registered corporate education reform lobbying group doing instructing school districts on how to work with the State Department of Eeducation reform lobbying group doing instructing school districts on how to work with the State Department of EducationEducation?

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.

For these groups to remain relevant, they must adapt the school reform agenda, as the United Negro College Fund has done under Michael Lomax (who sits on the board of the Education Equality Project); the 100 Black Men is another example;, it cofounded the Eagle Academy Foundation, which operates two boys - only charters in New York City.

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 Eeducation 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 Eeducation 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 Eeducation in Bridgeport and has been the biggest boosters for Paul Vallas and Kenneth Moales Jr, the disgraced former chair of the Bridgeport Board of EducationEducation.

We have a Democratic Governor proclaiming, with pride, that he will veto any «education reform» bill that doesn't give that same Commissioner the ability to take over 25 schools, fire the staff, ban collective bargaining and turn the schools over to some group of unnamed third - party entities who will then be exempt from Connecticut's laws on bidding and the use of consultants.

To date, board members of these two Connecticut - based education reform groups have donated well in excess of $ 50,000 to Malloy's political aspirations and that doesn't even count another $ 50,000 that these same people dumped into another political action committee affiliated with Malloy.

Not only do these «education reform» groups support the Common Core and the Common Core testing fiasco, they actively oppose the fundamental and inalienable right of parents to opt their children out of the SBAC tests.

Interestingly rather than telling NBC news the truth, the whole truth and nothing be the truth, the spokesperson for Governor Malloy's Department of Education and the paid lobbyist for one of Connecticut's Corporate Education Reform Industry groups decided that they would intentionally mislead the mother, NBC news and the people of Connecticut into thinking the mom did not have the right to opt her child out of the Common Core SBAC Test.

However, please note that the tweet had nothing to do with the E4E event but was merely inviting E4E and other corporate education reform groups in Connecticut to participate in the event that the Neag School was co-hosting with Achieve Hartford!

And last year, education reform groups — led by FES — did what was once unthinkable and outspent the state and city teachers» unions on lobbying.

Throughout Florida's legislative session, education reform groups and teachers» unions have done battle over proposals to pass a very controversial «parent trigger» law.

«We're really thrilled to see some of the state leaders talking about providing real solutions for these thousands of Maryland families who are trapped in schools that, quite frankly, just don't prepare children for college and career readiness,» said Jenese Jones, deputy director at MarylandCAN, an education - reform advocacy group.