Sentences with phrase «for sweeping education reform»

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The decrease is likely also driven by the changed political calculus for both unions and charter groups after most of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's sweeping education reform proposals failed during last year's legislative session.

In the early 1980s, spurred by disappointing national test results and reports such as «A Nation At Risk» — the seminal document published in 1983 that decried the mediocre state of public education in America and recommended sweeping change to fix the problem — other states mounted reforms using administrative reorganization or new curriculum as levers for change.

The Assembly Education Committee deferred for one week a vote on the 69 - page bill by Senator Gary K. Hart, a Democrat from Santa Barbara who offered a school - finance reform measure that is more sweeping than that enacted last year.

Reville played a primary role in the drafting and passage of the Achievement Gap Act of 2010 — the most sweeping education legislation since the landmark Education Reform Act of 1993 - which included the nation's first «smart cap» lift on charter schools and created the pathway for more than 44 Innovation Schools that are now up and running across teducation legislation since the landmark Education Reform Act of 1993 - which included the nation's first «smart cap» lift on charter schools and created the pathway for more than 44 Innovation Schools that are now up and running across tEducation Reform Act of 1993 - which included the nation's first «smart cap» lift on charter schools and created the pathway for more than 44 Innovation Schools that are now up and running across the state.

After A Nation At Risk and myriad other studies and reports called for sweeping K — 12 reforms, he tried again with a 1988 treatise called Education by Charter: Restructuring School Districts.

Here, after making clear why successful education entrepreneurship is so hard, we explain why those who clear the many hurdles are not likely — and ought not be expected — to crusade as well for sweeping policy reforms.

In an audio file obtained by The Nation, she and infamous anti-union consultant Richard Berman outlined a strategy in October 2010 for sweeping the nation with education reforms.

The graduation rate is included in calculations by the federal government to determine if a high school, district or the state clears the performance hurdle set under the No Child Left Behind law, the sweeping education reform that imposes increasingly severe penalties for coming up short.

State education report calls for sweeping reforms in teacher evaluation Daily News: The California Department of Education on Monday released a comprehensive new report calling for sweeping reforms in the way teachers are recruited, trained, mentored and eeducation report calls for sweeping reforms in teacher evaluation Daily News: The California Department of Education on Monday released a comprehensive new report calling for sweeping reforms in the way teachers are recruited, trained, mentored and eEducation on Monday released a comprehensive new report calling for sweeping reforms in the way teachers are recruited, trained, mentored and evaluated.

1987 — PEA issued «Governing NYC Schools,» a report calling for sweeping reforms in the role of the New York City Schools» Chancellor, Board of Education and Community School Boards.

POLITICS Chalkbeat: Walton memo recommends charter advocates do more to persuade Democrats Daily Signal: Latest NAEP Scores Show DeVos Was Right About Public Schools Sacramento Bee: Charter school backers spend millions to support Villaraigosa for governor Chalkbeat: Candidates backed by powerful coalition sweep Newark's historic school board election LA Times: The power game behind the search for a new L.A. schools leader Chalkbeat: CO Democrats overwhelmingly reject Democrats for Education Reform at state assembly

These «CORE» (for California Office to Reform Education) districts now have sweeping flexibility to implement their own accountability systems, separate from the state of California's, and the ability to largely police themselves with help from a new independent oversight panel.

It also puts the state out of touch with education reforms sweeping the nation, and could put our schools out of contention for new pots of federal money.

The Department of Education's Special Education Reform passed in 2012 had sweeping implications for how New York City schools serve students with special needs.

As an overhaul of No Child Left Behind (NCLB)-- the sweeping federal education law that sets most national school policy — continues to lag in Congress, Duncan is beginning to get answers about the viability of his plan to relieve states of the law's requirements in exchange for implementing some of his choice reforms.

Before you heed or put too much stock in the voice of the critic of the Common Core or any of the changes sweeping our country in regards to education reform, I challenge you to carefully listen for their solution.

In Idaho, they fought to get on the November ballot three referenda that, if passed, will annihilate Superintendent Tom Luna's sweeping reform efforts that could bring about a quality education for all students in the state.

In recent years, policymakers and reform advocates have viewed State Education Agencies (SEAs) as the lead organizations for implementing sweeping reforms and initiatives in K — 12 education — everything from Race to the Top grants and federal waivers to teacher - evaluation systems and onlineEducation Agencies (SEAs) as the lead organizations for implementing sweeping reforms and initiatives in K — 12 education — everything from Race to the Top grants and federal waivers to teacher - evaluation systems and onlineeducation — everything from Race to the Top grants and federal waivers to teacher - evaluation systems and online schools.

Mississippi is one step closer to passing sweeping education reforms that could, for the first time, bring state - funded pre-k to the state.