Sentences with phrase «leading education reform organization»

Shalamar & Kashay Ward and Rossileny Linarez are all parent members of the leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY

By DeWayne Murreld, father of a high school junior and a Senior Parent Organizer for StudentsFirstNY, a leading education reform organization.

(New York, NY)-- More than 200 students and parents joined leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY on the steps of City Hall today to bring attention to a hidden tax that is costing New York City high school graduates an estimated $ 63 million annually.

Leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY issued a new report called Burying the Evidence that analyzes previously unreported findings from the 2015 - 2016 teacher evaluation ratings.

(Crown Heights, Brooklyn) Parents of students from P.S. 289 George V. Brower School teamed with leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY to release a letter to Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña calling for the Department of Education to step in and facilitate change at the Crown Heights elementary school.

A new analysis released by leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY finds that Mayor Bill de Blasio has done little to improve New York City public schools since he took control in January 2014.

On Thursday, with the New York State Board of Regents hearing testimony regarding the newly approved teacher evaluation system, leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and public school parents offered recommendations and sent letters calling for a system that ensures all public school students have access to high - quality teachers.

New York, NY — Leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY today announced the hiring of Michael Nitzky as Communications Director, effective May 1.

New York, NY — As the school year comes to a close, a shocking new report released today by leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY, The Graduation Facade: How New York City's Diploma Mills Mask College Readiness Crisis, exposes the problem of Diploma Mills — schools where the graduation rates are above average, but the students are not prepared for college or a career after high school.

Leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY issued a new report called Burying the Evidence that analyzes previously unreported findings from the 2015 - 2016 teacher evaluation ratings.

The Mind Trust announced today it has recruited one of the nation's leading education reform organizations, Stand for Children, to Indiana.

So last year, two of the state's leading education reform organizations, Texans for Education Reform (TER) and the Texas Institute for Education Reform (TIER), partnered to establish a new group: Texas Aspires, a bipartisan, non-profit organization of education, business and community leaders committed to advancing public policies that benefit all Texas students.

Michael J. Petrilli is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, one of the nation's leading education reform organizations.

Not exact matches

After much discussion, all the parties agreed that Education Reform Now (ERN) would be that lead organization, working with the New York Charter School Association, the New York City Charter School Center, and several charter management organizations.

Ben Austin, director of the Los Angeles based organization leading the parent trigger movement, notes that his group, Parent Revolution, is pro-charter but «unambiguously» opposed to vouchers, providing evidence, says Butcher, that «student - and parentcentric reforms» draw support from parents with diverse views on education reform.

While her primary focus — and the focus of many media reports about her — has been on vouchers, tax credits, and education savings accounts, organizations she has led or helped found have also advanced other reform initiatives, such as accountability for student learning and more - rigorous academic standards.

But his interest in education reform led him soon after to The Mind Trust, an organization, as Gray says, «dedicated to dramatically improving public education for underserved students by empowering education entrepreneurs to develop or expand transformative education initiatives.»

Led by Democratic Governor Phil Bredesen, the General Assembly, and the State Board of Education, business organizations, foundations, and Republican Senator Bill Frist's SCORE initiative, reform partisans have increasingly supported the use of TVAAS data in the assessment of school and teacher performance.

Miner, who is mordantly attached to the status quo and quite enthusiastic about it, is associated with Rethinking Schools, an organization that believes real education reform will be led by the teachers unions.

In the months leading up to and through his re-election campaign, corporate education reform proponents and the charter school industry poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into Malloy's various campaign entities and organizations.

MITUL engages in communication, education and advocacy, promoting a strong role for teacher unions in defining and leading public education reform — within teacher unions and with opinion leaders, policy - makers and advocacy organizations.

Increasingly community and parent organizations have organized to advocate for education reform, including Journey for Justice Alliance led by Jitu Brown.

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That question led to a list of 16 young men and women who are launching and leading organizations that will lead in the transformation of public education over the next decade, as well as people who are doing important research, legal, political, and policy work that will shape the future of education reform.

UI principal success in improving student learning has been recognized by such leading organizations as the Council of Great City Schools, the University Council on Education Leadership, and the Alliance to Reform Education Leadership.

The Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) is the only Black - led organization focused exclusively on representing the interests of low - income and working class Black families in the education reform and parental choice movement in the U.S.

With the new support of the Ohio State University and the School Reform Initiative, the U.S. Department of Education's Teach to Lead Initiative now has the backing of 80 education organizations, includEducation's Teach to Lead Initiative now has the backing of 80 education organizations, includeducation organizations, including ASCD.

She chaired the state Republican Party, chaired an investment firm, and led several education reform organizations.

California districts applied for their waiver under their umbrella organization, the California Office to Reform Education (CORE), which led the application process.

The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest), the country's leading assessment reform organization, today called on Maryland legislators to prohibit the State Board of Education from requiring students to pass a test or series of exams in order to receive a high school diploma.

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.

As part of NEA's work to counter flawed, regressive evaluation systems and implement the policy statement, NEA developed the toolkit on Association - led evaluation and accountability reforms — which contains model contract language, guiding principles, and real - world examples that can be used by education organizations to develop evaluation and accountability systems.

Like many of the leading Charter School and Corporate Education Reform Industry front groups, the organization uses a series of loopholes to keep from having to divulge its list of donors.

Kerri Briggs, Director of Education Reform at the George W. Bush Institute and Cynthia G. Brown, Vice President of Education Policy at the Center for American Progress, said of Change Agents: «Our two organizations applaud the release of this timely report that will help states to ensure that a high - caliber principal leads every school in the nation... This report and the accompanying companion guide build on New Leaders» experience in the field and give states tools and strategies to reframe policies to bolster the principal talent pipeline.»

As a leading organization in a coalition including the Washington State Charter Schools Association, the League of Education Voters, Democrats for Education Reform, and Washington Roundtable, as well as the affected public charter school families, we swung into action to fight for a fix that would keep the schools open.

In recent years, policymakers and reform advocates have viewed State Education Agencies (SEAs) as the lead organizations for implementing sweeping reforms and initiatives in K — 12 education — everything from Race to the Top grants and federal waivers to teacher - evaluation systems and onlineEducation Agencies (SEAs) as the lead organizations for implementing sweeping reforms and initiatives in K — 12 education — everything from Race to the Top grants and federal waivers to teacher - evaluation systems and onlineeducation — everything from Race to the Top grants and federal waivers to teacher - evaluation systems and online schools.

In 2009, when she realized the real game changer was corporate reform led by the triumvirate of Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and the Walton family, Deb organized a nonprofit, Great Schools for America, focusing on Edwatch, a database identifying anti-public education organizations.

He spotlights three organizations he claims are leading a movement to reform teachers unions and make them partners in an attempt to improve the quality of public education — NewTLA, a dissident faction in the United Teachers of Los Angeles, Educators for Excellence, a reform group in New York started by two young Teach For America graduates, and Teach Plus, an organization that has gained traction in several states, whose goal is to «engage early career teachers in rebuilding their profession to better meet the needs of students and the incoming generation of teachers.»