Sentences with phrase «expanded evaluation effort»

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Among other things, the proposal — which will have to be approved by Parliament — calls for increased consultation with Canada's indigenous groups, expanding reviews to include social, economic and climate impacts, and making greater efforts to explain the kinds of information regulators are using in evaluations.

Requiring that college students have higher grade point averages in order to become teachers, eliminating teacher tenure and linking a teacher's evaluation and their job status to statistical changes in Connecticut's standardized tests is not Education Reform — nor are the expanding efforts to «privatize» our Constitutionally mandated public education system.

Now that the NEA and AFT can count on Schwarzenegger's successor (and once - and - future governor) Jerry Brown and the state legislature to be at their proverbial beck - and - call (and the AFT now assured of a majority on L.A. Unified's board), Supt. John Deasy has had to roll back efforts to expand choice and has had to hope on lawsuits by reformers to give him the edge in revamping the district's woeful teacher evaluation system.

The state's governor, Bobby Jindal, is looking to further burnish the state's efforts on the teacher quality front this week with his proposal to eliminate near - lifetime employment for laggard teachers with unsatisfactory ratings on the state's new teacher evaluation system, while pushing further on expanding charters by allowing successful charter operators to expand without having to go through the current approval process, and allowing the state education department to authorize charters throughout the state (and thus, ending efforts by traditional districts to restrict school choice within their boundaries).

In expanding Race to the Top to include districts, the Obama administration has given reform - minded districts another tool for beating back opposition to more - stringent teacher evaluations and other efforts.

That is what corporate school reformers have attempted to do — with efforts to expand school choice, elevate the importance of education technology, and use test scores to drive policy as well as the evaluation of students, schools and teachers.

In addition, AB 802 expands the Energy Commission's energy data collection authority to improve the development and evaluation of policy and programs, and the state's energy infrastructure planning efforts.

Findings and lessons learned from this evaluation continue to inform the state's efforts to expand THV and will contribute to the larger implementation science knowledge base.

In her role as the director of the AHVN, she organizes statewide efforts to expand, coordinate, and develop the network of home visiting programs throughout the state and assists with grant compliance, quality assurance, and evaluation of programs.