Sentences with phrase «education reform groups today»

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While the super PAC backed by the statewide teachers union faltered in aiding Democrats in down - ballot state Senate races, the education reform group StudentsFirstNY is taking a victory lap today as the chamber will largely remain the same.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Chandra M. Hayslett, Communications Director [email protected] 212-257-4350 New Yorkers Overwhelmingly Want Deal on New Teacher Evaluation System New Poll Shows Robust and Resilient Support; No Excuse Seen for Losing $ 300 million New York (Nov. 29, 2012)-- A new teacher evaluation system that would ensure that New York City received $ 300 million in additional State education funding enjoys overwhelming support among City voters in general and parents in particular, according to a new poll released today by StudentsFirstNY, the education reform advocacy group, and conducted by Anzalone Liszt Research.

Among today's advocates for young people are nonprofit insurgent groups that challenge the education establishment by organizing, educating, and mobilizing parents in a variety of roles and in different ways, empowering them to engage in K — 12 reform efforts.

Earlier today, writing on behalf of the reform - minded «Chiefs for Change» group (seven current and six past state superintendents), New Mexico education secretary Hanna Skandera politely disagreed.

The Center for Education Reform issued a statement sharply critical of the three groups» report, saying it «exemplifies precisely why the education reform movement is at risk — its conclusions endanger the ideals of opportunity and innovation that are so desperately needed in education todaEducation Reform issued a statement sharply critical of the three groups» report, saying it «exemplifies precisely why the education reform movement is at risk — its conclusions endanger the ideals of opportunity and innovation that are so desperately needed in education today.&Reform issued a statement sharply critical of the three groups» report, saying it «exemplifies precisely why the education reform movement is at risk — its conclusions endanger the ideals of opportunity and innovation that are so desperately needed in education todaeducation reform movement is at risk — its conclusions endanger the ideals of opportunity and innovation that are so desperately needed in education today.&reform movement is at risk — its conclusions endanger the ideals of opportunity and innovation that are so desperately needed in education todaeducation today.»

What's surprising in a new survey published today by 50CAN, a reform - oriented advocacy group that supports more rigorous teacher evaluations and early education, is the relatively lukewarm response to some of the most favored ideas for improving the school system among education advocates and many elected officials.

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As reported in today's CTMirror, it wasn't even two hours after Governor Malloy signed the «education reform» bill into law before the three groups representing the school superintendents, principals and school boards went back on their word, claiming that the new law gave them the right to implement policies that student's standardized test scores can account for 50 percent of a teachers evaluation rather than the 22.5 percent that was listed in the draft bill and agreed to by all of the parties last January.

You have more school reform groups in place today who could help state departments of education and school boards.

Some of the state's lowest performing schools — including several in Pueblo City Schools (D60)-- are in worse shape today than before they received more than $ 60 million in federal grant money to improve achievement, a report from a Denver education reform advocacy group said.

Prior to the Malloy administration even announcing that they would be releasing the 2015 SBAC results today, the state's two major corporate funded education reform lobby groups, ConnCAN and the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER), invited reporters to join a «media call» in which the groups would discuss the SBACeducation reform lobby groups, ConnCAN and the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER), invited reporters to join a «media call» in which the groups would discuss the SBAC rereform lobby groups, ConnCAN and the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER), invited reporters to join a «media call» in which the groups would discuss the SBACEducation Reform (CCER), invited reporters to join a «media call» in which the groups would discuss the SBAC reReform (CCER), invited reporters to join a «media call» in which the groups would discuss the SBAC results.

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Earlier today, the Global Strategy Group, a political consulting and public relations company released a memo about a public opinion survey that it had conducted for the «education reform» advocacy group, ConnCAN, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Group, a political consulting and public relations company released a memo about a public opinion survey that it had conducted for the «education reform» advocacy group, ConnCAN, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, group, ConnCAN, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc..

The gory details will continue to leak out in the coming days, but the strategy reached its zenith today when these education reform groups handed out flyers instructing Clark Parents to meet late tomorrow afternoon at that Clark School, don tee - shirts and march to the Hartford Board of Education meeting to demand the Hartford Board of Education approve Friendship before the state withdraws the $ 1.5 million needed to help improve theieducation reform groups handed out flyers instructing Clark Parents to meet late tomorrow afternoon at that Clark School, don tee - shirts and march to the Hartford Board of Education meeting to demand the Hartford Board of Education approve Friendship before the state withdraws the $ 1.5 million needed to help improve theiEducation meeting to demand the Hartford Board of Education approve Friendship before the state withdraws the $ 1.5 million needed to help improve theiEducation approve Friendship before the state withdraws the $ 1.5 million needed to help improve their school.

Huge victory today for the education - reform camp, and charter groups ready to flip public schools into places of learning, not administrator - heavy cesspools of FAIL:

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.