Sentences with phrase «for education policy reform»

The complex challenges facing 21st - century education require researchers who can collect and analyze information from multiple academic disciplines — economics, biology, psychology, the arts, history, and more — and translate those findings into transformative ideas for education policy reform and practice.

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Gérin - Lajoie was responsible for reforming Québec's education system and formulating Québec's first international - relations policy, two milestone achievements of this period that helped to define modern Québec.

Another group, Catholics For Independent Action, transferred $ 250,000 on April 6 to New Yorkers For A Balanced Albany, the political action committee arm of StudentsFirstNY, a grassroots organization that has pushed for education reform policies and charter school suppoFor Independent Action, transferred $ 250,000 on April 6 to New Yorkers For A Balanced Albany, the political action committee arm of StudentsFirstNY, a grassroots organization that has pushed for education reform policies and charter school suppoFor A Balanced Albany, the political action committee arm of StudentsFirstNY, a grassroots organization that has pushed for education reform policies and charter school suppofor education reform policies and charter school support.

Since becoming speaker 12 months ago, Heastie has had few public policy disagreements with Cuomo, save for the tug - of - war over education reform measures in last year's budget.

As a visionary for New York's economy, she has created a leading voice for business on economic growth, corporate governance, tax policy, labor, manufacturing, campaign finance reform, value creation, and education, among other issues.

John and Furnish in a statement credited Cuomo for having «championed a progressive agenda that has included significant policy and legislative progress on affordable housing, public education reform, and women's rights.»

He ticked off a list of school governance reforms the union is pushing for in Albany: don't allow the citywide Panel for Educational Policy to be controlled by one person; give Community Education Councils a real voice, especially concerning co-locations; and require that the schools chancellor be an educator.

He said achieving ethics reform and education policy changes remain the top priorities for him in the budget, and that he won't sign a budget without them.

With reports trickling out of Albany that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has reached a tentative deal with lawmakers over the state budget and education reforms, local educators are calling for an independent commission to help develop policy moving forward.

Clegg has released a video to get across his message that we can't trust the Tories on Europe, but the Conservatives are trustworthy enough for the two parties to work closely on broader economic strategy, social and welfare reforms, education policy, and crime.

Along the way, the East Harlem Council Member has shared her progressive vision for moving our community forward, and addressed vital issues for Northern Manhattan and the Bronx, including affordable housing, education, and reforming stop and risk policing policy.

James held a rally at City Hall on Sunday to call on the State to fully fund city schools in line with the Campaign for Fiscal Equity and to criticize Gov. Cuomo's education reform policies.

Also at 11 a.m., a new report from the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder, will be released showing that community schools need at least five years or more to create lasting school improvement and reduce barriers to achievement in a measurable way, Annenberg Institute for School Reform, 233 Broadway, Suite 720, Manhattan.

Commenting on this year's GCSE results, NUT Secretary, David Evans, said: «This has been a difficult year for education in Wales with huge upheaval due to policy reforms introduced by the Welsh Government which are still bedding in.

Democracy Matters is a campus - based organization that advocates for campaign finance reform as well as issues concerning the environment, civil rights, education, health care and foreign policy.

Governor Cuomo has appointed a commission to explore policy proposals for education reform in New York.

The Assembly's budget also does not include Cuomo's broad education policy reforms, with much of those measures linked to a $ 1.1 billion proposed spending increase for education.

As for policy, Cox pointed to the Republican Party's support for education reform efforts that have put them at odds with politically influential teachers unions.

King, the acting secretary of education, has a long history of supporting corporate - friendly education reforms, and has pushed for unpopular policies like more standardized testing and Common Core, which critics say are ineffective.

«Camp Philos will be an opportunity for elected officials, advocacy leaders, and philanthropists to come together to discuss policy and political ideas to reform education,» Boyle said.

His 80 - minute speech offered a litany of policy proposals, but the governor spent the largest chunk of time discussing his plans for education reforms.

At a time of dire fiscal shortages, and suggested cuts to education and healthcare, it is critical to reform the system which creates the perverse incentives for politicians to pass such inequitable tax policies.

In announcing the deal, Klein said that despite the IDC's achievements, «it is also clear that core Democratic policy initiatives that the IDC championed remain unfinished,» including «equal education for all New Yorkers» through the DREAM Act, protecting abortion rights, increasing workers wages and campaign finance reform.

So people have a hard time connecting compelling current concerns — such as widespread corruption, or non-competitive elections, or a need for major improvements in such fundamental policy areas as education — with the possibility for reform through state constitutional change.

In June 2006, Chairwoman Mikulski received the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative's (JOCI) report, «From Sea to Shining Sea: Priorities for Ocean Policy Reform,» which recommended robust funding for ocean research, education, observation and exploration.

Science for all: Historical perspectives on policy for science education reform.

She previously worked as Senior Officer for the Academic Cooperation Association, where she was actively involved as an expert in higher education policy developments and reforms at national and European level (Bologna, ET2010); higher education internationalisation and international cooperation; mobility; student services and attractiveness of European higher education; trans - national education.

I was headed for law or policy school; I was headed to sit at the big tables and effect prison or education reform.

Baton Rouge, LA About Blog SMPL is an organization dedicated to statewide coalition building, sound policy research, education and advocacy for substantive marijuana law reform in Louisiana.

So it's understandable why government and foundation officials have started giving the higher education system the «reform treatment» that was once reserved for our K — 12 system; if it's blocking opportunities for young people — especially low - income young people, as Susan Dynarski argued last week — then removing those barriers should be a top priority for U.S. social and education policy.

This shift also, however, provides an opportunity for those who wish to whitewash school failure and to stonewall efforts to overhaul education policy through school turnarounds and systemic reforms.

Charles Barone is the director of policy at Democrats for Education Reform and Education Reform Now.

Derrell Bradford is the executive vice president of 50CAN: The 50 - State Campaign for Achievement Now, and the executive director of its New York branch, NYCAN, with more than fourteen years working in education reform policy and advocacy.

Education Next is a quarterly journal which bases its editorial policy on the premise that the education sector is ripe for major change anEducation Next is a quarterly journal which bases its editorial policy on the premise that the education sector is ripe for major change aneducation sector is ripe for major change and reform.

In a new policy pamphlet, former Education Secretary Charles Clarke will call for radical reforms to religion's place in state eEducation Secretary Charles Clarke will call for radical reforms to religion's place in state educationeducation.

90, talking during an EdCast about how so many people involved in education policy and reform are uniformly passionate and committed, which can be good, but it can also be problematic: You've got all of these people, he says, «screaming that they know what's going to work for kids.»

Bruno V. Manno is senior advisor for K — 12 education reform at the Walton Family Foundation and former U.S. assistant secretary of education for policy.

Ross Perot, the Texas billionaire and 1992 Presidential candidate, made his mark on education policy in 1984 by leading a state panel that recommended reforms, including a law that bars failing students from extracurricular activities for six weeks.

A former Teach For America corps member, Amis has spent most of her career in the education reform world, including a stint overseeing policy and research at the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation (one of the sponsors of Education Next and my eeducation reform world, including a stint overseeing policy and research at the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation (one of the sponsors of Education Next and my eEducation Next and my employer).

Hurrah for the Education Policy Council of Florida's House of Representatives for endorsing the bold teacher - reforms of pending bill HB 7189, now headed for the House floor tomorrow or Thursday.

But since its inception in 2005, Democrats for Education Reform, a political action committee based in New York City, has sought to use campaign donations to smooth the way for policies such as expanding charter schools and differential pay for teachers that are sometimes opposed by traditional Democratic constituencies.

Tennessee has a limited open - enrollment policy, and its charter school law is considered weak by the Center for Education Reform.

High stakes testing policies requiring students to pass standardized tests for promotion and graduation deepen educational inequity between whites and minorities and widen the educational gap between affluent and impoverished students, according to two studies of education reform in Texas.

Without systems redesigned to support them, new schools «either have to exist outside the system to survive, or they get derailed... because the current structures and policies are inappropriate or ineffective in sustaining the new designs,» said the Annenberg Institute for School Reform's Warren Simmons in Education Week.

In a new article for Education Next, David Osborne, director of the project on Reinventing America's Schools at the Progressive Policy Institute, finds Denver's pursuit of this strategy, which has increased school leader autonomy, has produced impressive gains in student achievement, leading to growing public support for the reforms.

These are precisely the kinds of far - reaching reforms that my colleagues and I called for four years ago when the Koret Task Force on K - 12 Education, based at Stanford's Hoover Institution, evaluated Florida's Jeb Bush - era policy changes.

About the Author Bruno V. Manno is senior advisor for K - 12 education reform at the Walton Family Foundation and former U.S. assistant secretary of education for policy.

Joan Baratz - Snowden, the vice president for education policy and reform, has become the deputy director of the educational - issues department at the American Federation of Teachers.

On the school choice front, Nevada has a limited open - enrollment policy, and a charter school law that is deemed weak by the Center for Education Reform, a rating that lowers the state's grade.

In staking out platforms in the coming months for what will likely be a feisty GOP primary, Republicans face two quandaries regarding education policy: They need to distinguish their positions from Obama's centrist education reforms, and they need to win over the Republican base, fueled by some Tea Party energy, that will push for the U.S. Department of Education to be dismantled aleducation policy: They need to distinguish their positions from Obama's centrist education reforms, and they need to win over the Republican base, fueled by some Tea Party energy, that will push for the U.S. Department of Education to be dismantled aleducation reforms, and they need to win over the Republican base, fueled by some Tea Party energy, that will push for the U.S. Department of Education to be dismantled alEducation to be dismantled altogether.