Sentences with phrase «influential education reform group»

StudentsFirstNY, another influential education reform group that has advocated both for charters and for Common Core standards, increased its spending on lobbying nearly tenfold in 2015, to $ 2.4 million, the lobbying reports show.

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One benefit of pursuing education reform through the judiciary is that the power of special interest groups — namely, the teachers» unions — is drastically diminished in courtrooms, where political lobbying and campaign contributions are far less influential.

For one, there remains a core group of influential reformers — including former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, congressmen on both sides of the aisle, and reform - minded governors, who know that AYP has done more to focus the nation on dealing with the widespread problems within American public education than any other policy decision in the past fiveEducation Margaret Spellings, congressmen on both sides of the aisle, and reform - minded governors, who know that AYP has done more to focus the nation on dealing with the widespread problems within American public education than any other policy decision in the past fiveeducation than any other policy decision in the past five decades.

In 2009, an education reform group known as The New Teacher Project (TNTP) issued an influential report finding widespread «institutional indifference to variations in teacher performance.»

As a result, the same group of «education reform» advocates found themselves — once again — on an influential committee that was tasked with determining the future course of what student testing in our state would look like for years to come.