Sentences with phrase «funding reform agenda»

«Dan Donovan has proposed a pension fund reform agenda, which calls for common sense measures to increase the integrity of the pension fund, prevent fraud and increase transparency.»

Not exact matches

The wider austerity agenda should not stand in the way of reforming the way the Welsh government receives funding from London, a key commission is expected to argue.

StudentsFirstNY held a rally in support of Governor Andrew Cuomo's education reform agenda Wednesday evening as the well - organized, well - funded pro-charter sector attempts to respond to criticisms of the governor from teachers unions.

At the top of the WFP's immediate agenda, look for fat raises (and an end to all talk of pension reform) for rank - and - file city employees (DC Council 37 and others); for Albany to finesse a moratorium on hospital economies (SEIU 1199) and de Blasio's signature millionaire - tax - funded baby - sitting, that is, «early childhood education» scheme (UFT Local 2).

Cuomo on Wednesday is also expected to outline an aggressive education reform agenda that will include a push for more charter schools and additional funding for them, tougher teacher evaluation standards, and money for teacher incentives.

As Ferreras - Copeland noted, the de Blasio administration has consistently increased funding «over multiple financial plans for the DOC's contract with McKinsey Group to accelerate and sustain the department's anti-violence reform agenda.»

Only when progressives hold the gavel can we actually deliver on the progressive agenda working families demand: fair funding for public schools and universities, stronger rent laws, real criminal justice reform and so much more.»

Sunday retail alcohol sales, workforce development, fighting opioids, reforming civil forfeiture laws and increasing funding for schools are all part of the the Indiana Senate Republican legislative agenda for 2018.

Grimm has hammered GOP Congressman Dan Donovan for veering away from President Trump's agenda on issues including funding for «sanctuary cities» and health care reform.

The Academy and Free School agenda, national funding reform, national curriculum and assessment changes including the introduction of the phonics check, distribution of Pupil Premium, significant changes to the Early Years Foundation Stage and the introduction of two Ofsted frameworks in one year all need to be considered alongside these SEND legislative changes.

«While much public discussion has been solely focussed on funding, we've been getting on with the job of delivering a quality reform agenda in teaching education.»

With the agenda established, key statutes passed by the state legislature and Executive, and the funding secured, and most importantly the Board of Regents putting the crucial regulations in place, the key elements of the reform plans are now present.

In the end, the teacher professionalism agenda has functioned like a black hole, sucking in much of the available energy, attention, and funds and leaving little for other reforms - not just other teacher - related reforms (such as those urged by the Excellence Commission), but also a very different list of changes (technology, choice programs, preschool, new curricula) that might prove more effective and economical as strategies for boosting pupil achievement.

The fact is that, for whatever reason, better reading preparation as a critical reform tool is not tops on most peoples» minds, conference agendas, policy fights, or funded grants, and its absence speaks volumes.

Also high the agenda, are issues surrounding curriculum reform, teachers» pay, special educational needs and school funding.

For those interested in the finer points of education policy, I'd also recommend: Alyson Klein on helping long - term English - language learners, Chad Aldeman on the difficulty of «raising the bar» for teacher preparation entry, Mike Petrilli's Education Next piece on a schools agenda for working - class families, Kathleen Porter Magee on a great - news story for Catholic schools, Nat Malkus on the Title I funding fight, and Paul Peterson on the «Bush - Obama» approach to reform.

Tucker and his colleagues challenge us to ask why the U.S. is pursuing a reform agenda that differs markedly from what other advanced countries have found essential for creating good schools — high quality teachers, fair funding, and coherence in the system of education.

Doesn't faze the rich communities any, but for the rest of us, it's killing the middle class and still not generating enough funding for teachers and schools to keep pace with rising standards, a reform agenda gone awry, unfunded state and federal mandates, and ever increasing student poverty.

By continually uplifting the education reform agendas of adults and couching them in «student voice» and «student engagement», many people literally maintain or develop funding for their schools, or their versions of school reform.

A spokesman for Cerf said the department was seeking all the help it could get in what is a busy agenda that spans school turnarounds, charter schools, teacher tenure and evaluation reform, and new funding systems for schools.

The Corporate Education Reform Industry, with the help of elected officials likes of Dannel Malloy, Andrew Cuomo, Jeb Bush and others, have used the problems facing public schools in poorer communities to institute an agenda of more standardized testing, inappropriate teacher evaluation programs and the privatization of public education through the creation of privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools.

Malloy claims that his «initiative» is providing Connecticut's 30 most struggling school districts with another $ 132 million in state aid, but the truth is that this year's increase is only about $ 45 million and that in order to get those funds, school districts were required to accept a series of new mandates and programs aimed at further implementing Malloy's corporate education reform agenda and diverting scarce public dollars to private companies.

The University of Arkansas «Education Reform» department, funded by the Walton family which owns Wal - Mart, continues the tradition that many of its professors established before they became an academic department at a major state university: publishing «preliminary» studies showing that the right wing agenda is true.

«Tucker and his colleagues challenge us to ask why the U.S. is pursuing a reform agenda that differs markedly from what other advanced countries have found essential for creating good schools — hig quality teachers, fair funding, and coherence in the system of education.

The fact that the work was being funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation also offered some possibility that the grand dame of old - school civil rights groups would offer a school reform agenda that would actually meet the educational and civil rights challenges facing Black America today.

TRENTON — A new political action group started by two New Jersey hedge - fund financiers aims to put money — a lot of money — behind an education reform agenda shared by Gov. Chris Christie and reviled by the state's largest teachers union.

For these groups to remain relevant, they must adapt the school reform agenda, as the United Negro College Fund has done under Michael Lomax (who sits on the board of the Education Equality Project); the 100 Black Men is another example;, it cofounded the Eagle Academy Foundation, which operates two boys - only charters in New York City.

Mr. Pryor's tenure has been steeped in controversy, due in part to his commitment to the corporate education reform agenda, his leadership style and his relationship with charter schools, most directly with Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company that has been the largest single financial beneficiary of state funds to charter schools over the past four years.

is the corporate funded education reform group that is has been at the forefront of the effort to expand the number of charter schools in Hartford, while implementing other aspects of the education reform agenda in the Capital city.

Instead, the new «mandate» is part of the broader corporate education reform agenda that is successfully diverting scarce public funds away from teacher - student instruction to private companies.

Rather than spending their time and lobbying funds cheering on Governor Malloy and his corporate education reform industry agenda, perhaps the publicly funded Connecticut Association of Boards of Education (CABE) and the publicly funded Connecticut Association of School Superintendents (CAPSS) should stop taking positions that directly undermine their own members — Connecticut's local school boards and superintendents — and start talking about legal and legislative action to force the State of Connecticut to fund this unfunded mandate or postpone the testing debacle until proper funding is provided.

Since Malloy introduced his «Education Reform» agenda, the charter school industry and the corporate funded «education reform» advocacy groups have hired dozens of lobbyists and spent nearly $ 7 million, or more, to «persuade» Connecticut officials to adopt policies that are diametrically opposed to what is in the best interests of Connecticut students, parents, teachers and public school sReform» agenda, the charter school industry and the corporate funded «education reform» advocacy groups have hired dozens of lobbyists and spent nearly $ 7 million, or more, to «persuade» Connecticut officials to adopt policies that are diametrically opposed to what is in the best interests of Connecticut students, parents, teachers and public school sreform» advocacy groups have hired dozens of lobbyists and spent nearly $ 7 million, or more, to «persuade» Connecticut officials to adopt policies that are diametrically opposed to what is in the best interests of Connecticut students, parents, teachers and public school system.

For parents, teachers and public school advocates who were looking to see if Malloy was going to soften his pro-corporate education reform industry agenda, there was no sign that the governor intended to hold Connecticut's charter schools accountable for their use of public funds nor was there a suggestion that the Malloy administration was going to fix their unfair «Teacher Evaluation» program by decoupling the inappropriate Common Core Test scores from the evaluation process for Connecticut's public school teachers.

If you bank with Webster Bank, Bank of America or any of the other corporations that are pushing Governor Dannel Malloy's corporate education reform industry agenda, the next time you go to the bank, speak with your insurance company or communicate with one of CCER's funders, ask them why they are using the money that they take from us to undermine our public schools and label our children as failures.

In addition to «The Big Six,» other organizations that are presently lobbying Connecticut legislators in favor of the charter school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public funds.

The Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER) purports to be a non-partisan, 501 (c)(3)(non-profit) organization, but their agenda is extremely political and their funds are being used to undermine Connecticut's public schools and unfairly label Connecticut's public school students and teachers.

DFER is also an important source of campaign funds for candidates loyal to the education reform agenda.

The Corporate Education Reform Industry has spent a record - breaking $ 6,767,957 plus in support of Governor Malloy's «education reform» agenda ------ An Agenda that includes forcing the Common Core and the Common Core testing scheme on Connecticut's public schools while cutting taxpayer support for public education and increasing public funding for privately owned and operated charter scReform Industry has spent a record - breaking $ 6,767,957 plus in support of Governor Malloy's «education reform» agenda ------ An Agenda that includes forcing the Common Core and the Common Core testing scheme on Connecticut's public schools while cutting taxpayer support for public education and increasing public funding for privately owned and operated charter screform» agenda ------ An Agenda that includes forcing the Common Core and the Common Core testing scheme on Connecticut's public schools while cutting taxpayer support for public education and increasing public funding for privately owned and operated charter scagenda ------ An Agenda that includes forcing the Common Core and the Common Core testing scheme on Connecticut's public schools while cutting taxpayer support for public education and increasing public funding for privately owned and operated charter scAgenda that includes forcing the Common Core and the Common Core testing scheme on Connecticut's public schools while cutting taxpayer support for public education and increasing public funding for privately owned and operated charter schools.

Although the three organizations are funded primarily from local taxpayer funds and are supposed to be advocating for local public schools, all three have spent the last three years lobbying for Governor Malloy's restrictive, centralized and top - down Corporate Education Reform Industry agenda... An agenda that undermines local control of education, seeks to limit the rights of parents, denigrates teachers and turns Connecticut's public schools into little more than Common Core testing factories.

Recently, Carmen L. Lopez, a retired Superior Court judge, raised a series of concerns about Excel Bridgeport, a corporate funded education advocacy group that has been actively pushing an «education reform» agenda.

With respect to the last comment, it is extremely dangerous to equate so - called social justice law (really just activist lawyers with ideological agendas and patron funding) with justice system reform or access to justice.

Crucially the question of reform of the way political parties are funded, has been pushed off the reform agenda with little probability of returning.

In a statement, the Doctors Reform Society says almost all of the health measures in the Budget are «partial restorations of funding which has previously been slashed» and that it is «designed simply to move health off the political agenda as much as possible».

Based on a broad survey of Head Start stakeholders, the NHSA Policy Agenda lays out priorities for legislation, regulatory reform, and program funding for the 115th Congress.