Not exact matches
He advocates a smaller government, health insurance
reform, the re-importation of pharmaceuticals
from overseas, the end of the
federal government's role in
education and gun rights.
Clinton urged Silver's Assembly to «absolutely» pass a Senate bill that would more than double the cap to 460
from 200 — and «not just because of the
federal funding» (the up to $ 700 million that New York could win in a competition for states that enact
education reforms).
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from UNESCO [October 12, 2017] AAAS Statement on White House Proclamation on Immigration and Visas [September 25, 2017] AAAS Statement
from CEO Rush Holt on ARPA - E Reauthorization Act [September 8, 2017] AAAS Speaks Out Against Trump Administration Halt of Young Immigrant Program [September 6, 2017] AAAS Statement on Trump Administration Disbanding National Climate Assessment Advisory Committee [August 22, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Issues Statement On Death of Former Rep. Vern Ehlers [August 17, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt and 15 Other Science Society Leaders Request Climate Science Meeting with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt [July 31, 2017] AAAS Encourages Congressional Appropriators to Invest in Research and Innovation [July 25, 2017] AAAS CEO Urges Secretary of State to Fill Post of Science and Technology Adviser [July 13, 2017] AAAS and ESA Urge Trump Administration to Protect Monuments [July 7, 2017] AAAS Statement on House Appropriations Bill for the Department of Energy [June 28, 2017] Scientific Organizations Statement on Science and Government [June 27, 2017] AAAS Statement on White House Executive Order on Cuba Relations [June 16, 2017] AAAS Statement on Paris Agreement on Climate Change [June 1, 2017] AAAS Statement
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«We need to get away
from all the paperwork required under No Child Left Behind [President George W. Bush's signature
reforms of elementary and secondary
education, which many Republicans now view as a failure and an intrusion of
federal authority into state - run
education systems].»
Democratic senator Mary Landrieu, a cosponsor of the «Three R's» bill, worked tirelessly, and against considerable opposition
from members of both political parties, to increase the targeting of
federal education dollars to low - income communities and schools in an effort to better support their school
reform efforts.
They need to distinguish their positions
from Obama's «centrist
education reforms» and «to win over a Republican base that resists a growing
federal role in
education.»
Findings
from the study of four districts that have undertaken systemic change were presented to the House Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational
Education Subcommittee last week during a hearing on the
federal role in systemic
reform.
Some have criticized Gov. Chris Gregoire's
education reform proposal for lacking boldness, but she said the bill moving through the Legislature has everything necessary to prepare the state to apply for millions of new dollars
from the
federal government.
Influential
education advocates have denounced the House and Senate proposals to
reform the testing and accountability requirements of No Child Left Behind as a «retreat»
from the expanded, post-NCLB
federal role.
Strong chapters on school desegregation, bilingual
education,
education for the disabled, and school finance all support Davies's argument that «in the 1970s,
reform often emanated
from... within the
federal bureaucracy,
from the lower
federal courts, and through the energetic efforts of congressional staffers, lobbyists, and public interest law firms.»
The conditions were ideal for this groundbreaking shift: a citywide consensus that the old system had failed; a once - in - a-lifetime opportunity to build a new system
from scratch; the availability of
federal school start - up funds; and the keen interest of
education entrepreneurs, foundations, and support organizations in seeing this bold
reform succeed.
Lamar Alexander, chairman of the Senate HELP committee, put forth a bill that leaves open the possibility of removing the
federal requirement that states test students annually in reading and math
from grades three through eight — a possibility that has thoroughly freaked out much of the
education -
reform community.
First, House
Education Committee chairman John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio and longtime proponent of education reform, expressed doubts about the federal government's role in leading the high - school refor
Education Committee chairman John Boehner, a Republican
from Ohio and longtime proponent of
education reform, expressed doubts about the federal government's role in leading the high - school refor
education reform, expressed doubts about the
federal government's role in leading the high - school
reform effort.
Had everything gone according to Hoyle, this massive infusion of
federal funds would have protected state and district
education budgets
from major cuts while advancing invaluable
reforms by supporting new, innovative, and promising programs.
Finding that «local policy prerogatives and dire financial conditions trumped
federal pleas for
reform and led to the spending of massive amounts of aid on preserving the status quo and protecting existing jobs and programs,» Smarick urges policymakers to heed the lessons learned
from that experience and to focus on reducing the gulf between
reforms promised and
reforms delivered when it comes to the Department of
Education's $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top fund.
Beyond the school environment,
federal and state government departments need advice
from education experts for designing
education policy and
reform.
Its defection leaves seven of eight districts seeking to extend a waiver
from the
federal accountability law through the California Office to
Reform Education, a nonprofit that they formed.
While
federal policy
from No Child Left Behind, to Race to the Top and the Every Student Succeeds Act defined multi-issue agendas that included elements of the accountability, choice, and equity agendas, within the advocacy sector, «
education reform» has never been a unifying framework.
Borrowing liberally
from Lieberman and Bayh's
reform package, Bush said that the 54
federal elementary and secondary
education programs should be consolidated into five categories reflecting
federal priorities: 1) educating disadvantaged students; 2) teacher quality; 3) English fluency; 4) school choice; and 5) school safety.
For at least six years, we at the Fordham Institute have talked about «
reform realism» in the context of
federal education policy — recommending that Washington's posture should be
reform - minded but also realistic about what can be accomplished
from the shores of the Potomac (and cognizant of how easy it is for good intentions to go awry).
And if the president wants to disentangle the
education reform movement
from today's vitriolic debates over the
federal role, he would be smart to sign it.
«They've gone
from the debate over NCLB in terms of the goals being unrealistic, to saying we're not going to require you to have goals at all,» said Charlie Barone, director of
federal policy for Democrats for
Education Reform.
According to the last set of
federal and state campaign finance reports, Governor Malloy, the champion of the corporate
education reform industry and the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers working in the poorest schools has received well over a quarter of a million dollars
from leaders and political action committees associated with the national
education reform and privatization effort.
As a result of a 6 - year curriculum
reform and dissemination grants
from the
Federal Department of
Education and 4 - year grants
from the National Endowment for the Arts, he and his colleagues have designed an institution - wide Music - in -
Education Concentration for students of all majors and created a Research Center at New England Conservatory.
The 2001 Elementary and Secondary
Education Act (ESEA), also known as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), gave further momentum to the CSR approach by changing it
from a demonstration project to a full - fledged
federal program called the Comprehensive School
Reform (CSR) Program.
As a result of their ill - conceived policies billions of dollars in public taxpayer funds at the
federal level and tens of millions of dollars here in Connecticut are being shifted away
from classroom instruction so that corporate
education reform companies can continue to make even more money.
From where this publication sits, the gambit, as much driven by the arrogant desire of President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary Arne Duncan to put their full stamp on
federal education policy as the lack of movement by Congress on its reauthorization, is absolutely counterproductive to
reform.
If you want to understand why a strong
federal role is needed in advancing systemic
reform of American public
education — and why arguments for a so - called «energized retrenchment» or backsliding in that role from some conservative reformers like Andy Smarick of Bellwether Education are unconvincing — consider what happened in 1946 after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Morgan v.
education — and why arguments for a so - called «energized retrenchment» or backsliding in that role
from some conservative reformers like Andy Smarick of Bellwether
Education are unconvincing — consider what happened in 1946 after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Morgan v.
Education are unconvincing — consider what happened in 1946 after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Morgan v. Virginia.
Gregoire said the
education reforms passed this year will go through with or without the money
from the
federal government.
The nine districts, known as California Office to
Reform Education (CORE), are still in the dark as to if and when they might be exempted
from some of the more stringent requirements of the
federal NCLB law that among other things requires all students to be proficient in English and math by 2014.
The eight districts that have formed the nonprofit organization California Office to
Reform Education, or CORE, are preparing their own application for a waiver
from the penalties of the No Child Left Behind law, undeterred by the
federal government's rejection last month of a waiver for California.
The California Office to
Reform Education, a group of nine California school districts, including LAUSD, met with
federal officials this week to make a last pitch for a No Child Left Behind waiver, which would exempt those districts
from meeting certain requirements.
Previous posts:
Reform Group Splits over
Federal Waiver for LAUSD; Feds Want More Details
from Waiver Application; District Waivers Worry State
Education Chiefs
To further the work of the PSCI, LAUSD joined with researchers
from the USC Rossier School of
Education, Unite - LA / Chamber of Commerce, the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, and several other partners to bid on a grant
from the
federal Investing in Innovation Fund (i3), part of the historic $ 5 billion investment in school
reform in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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.
This is because the
federal government ultimately amplifies
education policy decisions made at the state level, especially by those
reform - minded governors and legislators (along with reformers) who also seek help
from the
federal level to beat back opposition to their efforts by entrenched traditionalist interests.
Independent charters are not included in the California Office of
Reform Education (CORE)'s statistics, because CORE's system was developed as part of a waiver its districts received
from the
federal government relieving them of some of the mandates of the No Child Left Behind law.
He said the national policy moment that resulted in teacher evaluation laws and regulations stems
from both the financial crisis and Race to the Top, a
federal competition for grant money in exchange for the pursuit of specific
education reforms.
An updated review of the latest
federal and state campaign finance reports reveal that Governor Malloy has collected in excess of $ 70,000 in campaign contributions
from individuals associated with the corporate
education reform industry.
LILA is a great opportunity to learn about major
education reforms from national leaders, network with fellow educators, and share your expertise with
federal lawmakers on Capitol Hill so that what gets decided in Washington helps, not hinders, educators.
This year the money
from the corporate
education reform industry has been funneled through the
federal and state accounts of the Democratic State Central Committee.
As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a
federal role in
education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local
education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate
education; a way for business interests to exploit public
education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards
reform distracts
from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.
Rather than applying for and accepting a waiver
from some of the more onerous provisions of the
federal No Child Left Behind Act in exchange for adopting a series of
education reforms as 33 other states have done, Texas submitted a notice of intent to apply for a waiver via a different mechanism on the last day of the most recent application period, Sept. 13, 2012.
Reason for hope: In the 21st - century, administrations
from both parties expanded the
federal role in
education, encouraging
reform and experimentation to an unprecedented degree.
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 online
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 online
education — everything
from Race to the Top grants and
federal waivers to teacher - evaluation systems and online schools.
Obama's rollback comes in the form of a waiver package: States that seek relief
from NCLB's provisions — including the 100 percent proficiency requirement in reading and math by 2014, increasingly harsh sanctions against schools deemed as «failing» or the strictly dictated use of
federal education money — will have to adapt certain administration - mandated
reforms.
The Department of Public Instruction released a draft application to the U.S.
Education Department for a waiver
from the 10 - year - old
federal No Child Left Behind Act, which State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers said «has shackled schools by being overly prescriptive and prohibiting creative
reforms.»
And, recently, «
reform» has become the abbreviation for models of change outlined in
federal regulations
from the U.S. Department of
Education.
Specifically, the inspector general warned that certain provisions in the Promoting Real Opportunity, Success and Prosperity through
Education Reform (PROSPER) Act may repeal regulations that hold colleges accountable for how they manage
federal aid.In the report, the inspector general's criticisms focused on the bill's proposal to end the 90/10 rule, which currently caps for - profit schools» revenue
from federal aid at...
As part of the
federal welfare
reform of 1996, Congress recognized the need to promote responsible fatherhood as a way to support child wellbeing.2 During the 106th Congress (1999 - 2000), Congress provided funding to the National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI), a non-profit organization that works with government agencies, the military, corrections departments, and community organizations to create fatherhood programs.3 Concurrently, Congress also provided funding to evaluate the Institute for Responsible Fatherhood and Family Revitalization's fatherhood program, signaling the
federal government's commitment to researching and assessing the impact of responsible fatherhood programs.4 Although Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama included funding for responsible fatherhood programs in each of their budgets, it was not until the 109th Congress of 2005 - 2006 that the Healthy Marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood (HMPRF) grants program was created and funded under the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 beginning in FY2006 and continuing through FY2010.5 The program was subsequently reauthorized under the Claims Resolution Act of 2010.6 The HMPRF programs support healthy marriage, responsible parenting, and economic stability activities, and are funded through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration of Children and Families» (ACF) Office of Family Assistance (OFA).7 The HMPRF programs have continued to receive funds through FY2016.8 Healthy Marriage and Relationship
Education grantees, the New Pathways for Fathers and Families grantees, and Responsible Fatherhood Opportunities for Reentry and Mobility (
ReFORM) grantees are currently funded
from FY2015 through FY2020.9