Sentences with phrase «education reform groups planned»

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Frankfort, Ky — More than a year before Kentucky's General Assembly meets again, two citizens» groups have already begun to mobilize grassroots support for new education - reform plans in the state.

The White House launches the New American Schools Development Corporation, a nonprofit, business - led group seeking to raise $ 150 million to $ 200 million in private money to finance research in support of President Bush's education - reform plan.

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A group calling itself the «Badass Teachers Association,» citing opposition to what it considers market - based education reform, plans a June 26 protest outside the Gates Foundation's headquarters in Seattle.

After numerous listening sessions and tribal consultations, the study group released a «Blueprint for Reform,» a comprehensive plan to redesign the BIE to achieve one overarching, mutual goal for the BIE and tribes: to deliver a world - class education to all students attending BIE schools.

United Opt Out National, a group devoted to eliminating high - stakes testing in public education, and Save Our Schools, a grassroots movement that opposes federal education reforms like NCLB and Race to the Top, have planned a series of events called Occupy the DOE (Department of Ededucation, and Save Our Schools, a grassroots movement that opposes federal education reforms like NCLB and Race to the Top, have planned a series of events called Occupy the DOE (Department of Ededucation reforms like NCLB and Race to the Top, have planned a series of events called Occupy the DOE (Department of EducationEducation).

And for all the education reform rhetoric around trusting and empowering families, Moskowitz depicts parents who protest her plans as having been «shamelessly exploited» and «manipulated» by teacher unions and union - backed groups.

New Profit, Inc., a financial group that invests in Achievement First Inc. and other private companies associated with the education reform industry, told investors in their annual report last year that, «Over the next five years, Achievement First plans to grow to a network of 38 schools serving more than 12,000 students.»

Board includes Gregory Prince (President, Educational Services Associates), Carol Thompson Cole (President & CEO, Venture Philanthropy Partners), Deborah McGriff (Partner, NewSchools Venture Fund), Chris Whittle (an education entrepreneur who founded the ill - fated Edison Schools and now serves as the chief executive officer of Avenues: The World School, «a planned international system of independent pre-K-12 schools) and Kevin P. Chavous (CEO of the Chavous Group, an education reform consulting and public relations grGroup, an education reform consulting and public relations groupgroup).

Today is the last day of Center for Inspired Teaching's two - week Institute, and as the rest of the country talks about the merits and shortcomings of the Obama administration's education plan — particularly its belief that external systems of accountability and extrinsic motivators like performance pay are an essential ingredient in reforming public education — I'm watching the same debate unfold here, on the ground, as a small group of DC teachers prepares for the coming school year.