Sentences with phrase «innovative education reform initiatives»

Working in partnership with public school districts, Alvarez - Ortiz successfully pioneered innovative education reform initiatives targeted at improving opportunities and outcomes for students, schools, and districts deemed at risk of failure.

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She created the AFT Innovation Fund, a groundbreaking initiative to support sustainable, innovative and collaborative education reform projects developed by members and their local unions.

Brad Mitchell is a senior director at Battelle for Kids, where he focuses on building and leveraging philanthropy to fund innovative education reform, especially around rural collaboratives that can serve as learning laboratories and pilot improvement initiatives.

«We are committed to achieving measurable impact in education policy, both by improving existing reform initiatives and by developing new, innovative solutions to our nation's most pressing education problems.

Through the Race to the Top initiative, for example, the Obama administration succeeded in incentivizing states: Even with relatively small pots of money — just $ 4 billion, or less than 2 percent of federal education spending — the administration encouraged states to prioritize innovative teacher and principal reforms and develop rigorous academic standards.22 Thirty - four states modified their policies in response to the federal initiative, even though only 19 states received federal funding to do so.23

We hope that we can continue to partner with the district in innovative ways to turn around low - performing schools — whether it's an equitable Public School Choice process or other reform initiative — and to pursue our common goal of ensuring that every student in Los Angeles receives a high - quality public education.»

These same spheres of influence have also had a significant role in legislative initiatives directed at the «reform» of public education, resulting in a number of innovative structural changes, the charter and contract school movements being prominent examples.

Gray described the initiative he is leading, CEE - Trust, a network of 18 city - based organizations that support education innovation and reform, and discussed the efforts of a CEE - Trust working group that is exploring innovative ways to rapidly expand the supply of high - quality charter schools in seven CEE - Trust cities.

The Education Reform Act is a complicated piece of legislation containing many innovative initiatives, including the creation of charter schools.

In his book As Good as It Gets (2010), education reformer Larry Cuban talks about the difficulty of sustaining even the most innovative reforms, let alone starting universal initiatives.