Sentences with phrase «innovative reform plan»

You can have the most innovative reform plan around, but if you are not effective in communicating about that plan, it will fail.

The announcement of the Intensive Partnership grants culminated a yearlong competitive application process that brought together school district, school board, and local teacher union leadership to develop comprehensive and innovative reform plans.

Obama has also made an effort to devote more spending to education, with $ 80 billion given to K - 12 districts in the stimulus bill and his Race to the Top program offering states and addition $ 4.35 billion in federal funds if they can come up with innovative reform plans.

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In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

The topics include: a rationale for inclusive high schools, finding common ground between inclusive education and school reform, innovative scheduling, lesson planning, self - determination for all students, and helping students plan for the future.

«These finalists are setting the curve for the rest of the country with innovative plans to drive education reform in the classroom,» said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.