Sentences with phrase «education reform initiative when»

Despite being an out - of - state education reform operative, Guenther testified in favor of Malloy's education reform initiative when it was proposed in 2012.

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Such cuts also have counteracted and sometimes undermined important state education reform initiatives at a time when producing workers with high - level technical and analytical skills is increasingly important to the country's prosperity.

Some years ago, when AAAS launched an effort to reform science education, it said that true reform will take about as long as Halley's Comet's orbital period [of about 76 years]-- that's why they labeled their initiative Project 2061.

I became aware of this fact some years ago, when I started writing about education issues and found that every reform initiative I read about — standards, testing, whatever — referred me back to a seminal text entitled «A Nation at Risk.»

They also impede important state education reform initiatives at a time when producing workers with high - level technical and analytical skills is increasingly important to the country's prosperity.

Apparently Malloy and company are saying that they failed to hear the concerns and warnings articulated when Malloy's education reform initiative was announced.

«We expected a legal challenge when we drafted the measure,» said Lisa Macfarlane, state director for Democrats for Education Reform and one of the architects of the November 2012 charter initiative.

When a new reform initiative comes around, our instinct as teachers and education leaders is often to buy new tools to support the work.

And when it comes to the relationship between the Common Core, Common Core testing and the teacher evaluation systems, those who are responsible for speaking up for our children, our teachers and our schools simply say enough is enough and corporate education reform initiatives need to be dismissed and real action taken to reduce the barriers to academic success — poverty, language barriers, and unmet special education needs to name a few.

There is not a teacher in Connecticut who has forgotten that Malloy proposed ending teacher tenure and unilaterally repealing collective bargaining for teachers in «turnaround schools» when he put forward his Education Reform initiative.»