Sentences with phrase «helped education reform groups»

FES broke a state lobbying record last year, and helped education reform groups outspend the city and state teachers» unions.

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A group supportive of charter schools and education reform that backed Republicans in key state Senate races spent $ 4.2 million on advertising, mail and GOTV to help give the GOP conference full control of the chamber.

The event is sponsored by Education Reform Now, a group that has ties to Taveras: the New York - based 501 (c) 3 nonprofit is helping support the national Mayors for Educational Excellence Tour, which is meant to highlight new educational efforts in four specific U.S. cities.

His positions on education recently earned him the backing of the New York Post, but the extent to which school reform groups are helping him out is unclear.

A major supporter of charter schools, Loeb has given heavily to outside groups that back education reform, including $ 1 million in July to a pro-charter group that's spending to help state Senate Republicans.

Turning Points 2000: A Blueprint For Middle Grades Education Reform A new report by the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans advises that groups need to work together to help Hispanic students close the achievement gap with students of other ethnic groups.

Kahan told Fisher about New Visions for Public Schools, an education - reform group that helps fund small, theme - based schools in New York City.

The groups he has supported reads like a Who's Who of the brand of education reform that favors online learning and charter schools over traditional schools: According to the publication Education Next, his money helped start the NewSchools Venture Fund, a major funder of charter schools and ed tech start - ups, and Aspire Public schools, a charter schooleducation reform that favors online learning and charter schools over traditional schools: According to the publication Education Next, his money helped start the NewSchools Venture Fund, a major funder of charter schools and ed tech start - ups, and Aspire Public schools, a charter schoolEducation Next, his money helped start the NewSchools Venture Fund, a major funder of charter schools and ed tech start - ups, and Aspire Public schools, a charter school network.

The main goal of the group is to support the new national education policy in Pakistan by helping increase the capacity of the federal and provincial governments to implement reforms.

They were helped by a lobbying blitzkrieg led by Joe Williams and former Bloomberg campaign manager Bradley Tusk, who put together, with ample funds from Wall Street, Education Reform Now (ERN), a group with a single purpose: to bring the state legislature into the RttT reformReform Now (ERN), a group with a single purpose: to bring the state legislature into the RttT reformreform fold.

The leaders of more than 30 national subject - matter groups agree to form a coalition to help put curriculum issues at the forefront of education reform.

Around that time, says Professor Graham, the federal government began a series of landmark reforms that helped equalize public education for groups that had not had a «fair shake in the educational system.»

The Annenberg Institute for School Reform (AISR) has developed a popular education activity to help community groups increase understanding about sustainable community schools as a strategy to achieve the schools all our children deserve.

By Judy Lin More than 50 civil rights and education reform groups are using Jerry Brown to remind Jerry Brown of his pledge to help black and Latino students following an interview with CALmatters in which he suggested that disparities will persist despite government intervention.

The competition is designed to help school districts and groups of districts implement bold local reforms focused on personalizing education for each student.

ConnCAN is the charter school advocacy group that helped make the lobbying campaign in support of Malloy's education reform bill the most expensive in state history.

Randi Weingarten of the AFT responded to the suit by taking potshots at the education reform group that helped file the claims.

More than 50 civil rights and education reform groups are using Jerry Brown to remind Jerry Brown of his pledge to help black and Latino students following an interview with CALmatters in which he suggested that disparities will persist despite government intervention.

Julio Fuentes, president and CEO of the Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options, a national education reform group, said the FEA challenged the tax - credit scholarship program but not other Florida voucher programs because the scholarships help predominantly low - income stuReform and Educational Options, a national education reform group, said the FEA challenged the tax - credit scholarship program but not other Florida voucher programs because the scholarships help predominantly low - income stureform group, said the FEA challenged the tax - credit scholarship program but not other Florida voucher programs because the scholarships help predominantly low - income students.

You have more school reform groups in place today who could help state departments of education and school boards.

MASSP joined other education groups in voicing support for elements of the package (in particular, those that add more practical skills and experiences to the teacher preparation process, and help ensure that college faculty are more connected to the needs of the field) and appreciation for the legislature's willingness to tackle teacher preparation reform.

CEC also supports and deepens the work of unions, administration and boards of education through the regional Teachers Union Reform Network (TURN) groups, helping build regional communities of practice and strengthen labor - management collaborative partnerships.

pdf) of the reform proposals in the recovery package — many of which mirror the group's 2008 policy recommendations, and which have the potential to help build an education system that can power a thriving economy.

TRENTON, N.J. (WTW)-- New Jersey teachers believe the current teacher evaluation system is subjective and does not help them do their jobs better, a study commissioned by two education reform groups concluded following an unprecedented series of focus groups with nearly 300 teachers.

Herbert Hilgado, who has worked closely with the Los Angeles - based education reform group Parent Revolution, which has led the effort to organize parents and help them use California's Parent Trigger law to take over McKinley Elementary School, writes in his complaint:

Parents at 24th Street Elementary School, with the help of Los Angeles - based education reform group Parent Revolution, will deliver the required signature petition to L.A. Unified officials in downtown on Thursday morning to start the process of taking over the school, according to Parent Revolution officials.

Beyond the fact that «help districts workshop their applications» is a bizarre concept, what the hell is a registered corporate education reform lobbying group doing instructing school districts on how to work with the State Department of Eeducation reform lobbying group doing instructing school districts on how to work with the State Department of EducationEducation?

This document was developed by the National Forum on Assessment to help guide assessment reform and has been signed by over 80 education and civil rights groups (see Appendix F).

Aligning a high - quality PreK experience with its overall education reform goals has helped MCPS achieve significant results: almost 90 percent of Kindergarteners enter first grade with essential early literacy skills; nearly 88 percent of third graders read proficiently; achievement gaps between different racial and ethnic groups across all grade levels have declined by double digits; 90 percent of seniors graduate from high school and about 77 percent of them enroll in college.

The charter school front groups, ConnCAN and the Connecticut Council for Education Reform, with the help of the Connecticut School Finance Project, the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education (CABE) and the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPSS)-- the latter two groups which are funded through local school budgets and are supposed to be advocating for public schools — have proposed a set of principles for a new school funding formula for Connecticut that will undermine the state's public school districts and drain local municipal budgets.

The gory details will continue to leak out in the coming days, but the strategy reached its zenith today when these education reform groups handed out flyers instructing Clark Parents to meet late tomorrow afternoon at that Clark School, don tee - shirts and march to the Hartford Board of Education meeting to demand the Hartford Board of Education approve Friendship before the state withdraws the $ 1.5 million needed to help improve theieducation reform groups handed out flyers instructing Clark Parents to meet late tomorrow afternoon at that Clark School, don tee - shirts and march to the Hartford Board of Education meeting to demand the Hartford Board of Education approve Friendship before the state withdraws the $ 1.5 million needed to help improve theiEducation meeting to demand the Hartford Board of Education approve Friendship before the state withdraws the $ 1.5 million needed to help improve theiEducation approve Friendship before the state withdraws the $ 1.5 million needed to help improve their school.

«A Better Connecticut PAC,» which was set up by ConnCAN, the charter school advocacy group that helped fund the record - breaking lobbying campaign behind Malloy's education reform legislation.