Sentences with phrase «education reform groups thanked»

In a joint letter, education reform groups thanked Governor Cuomo, Senate Leaders Skelos and Klein, and Assembly Speaker Silver for the substantial improvements you made to New York State's teacher evaluation law as part of this year's budget.

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To recap, thanks largely to Race to the Top incentives (a cool $ 700 million), a group of New York State reformers, including the state's Commissioner of Education and its Chancellor (the head of the Board of Regents) had pushed for teacher evaluation reforms that included linking those evaluations to student performance.

The Coalition for School Reform's District 6 (East San Fernando Valley) runoff election coffers have been replenished thanks to big donations received from Los Angeles philanthropist Eli Broad and StudentsFirst, Michelle Rhee's education advocacy group, among others.

last spring when the education reform industry lobby group, A Better Connecticut, spent money on a poll to test various messages to promote Malloy and then over $ 2 million on campaign advertisements «thanking» Malloy for his leadership in promoting charter schools and the privatization of public education.

In addition to their lobbying work with ConnCAN, Alexander and Johnson were the individuals who formed A Better Connecticut, Inc. yet another education reform industry front group that spent more than $ 2 million on television ads during the year before the last gubernatorial election to «thank» Governor Malloy for his «leadership» on behalf of the corporate education reform agenda.