Sentences with phrase «local education reformers»

Boys» Latin founders David Hardy, a former deputy CEO of Community Academy Charter School, and local education reformer Janine Yass met when their sons were students at The Haverford School on the Main Line.

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«National education reformers target local school boards.»

The positive responses came not from the reformers but from the field, mostly from folks who work in leadership roles in state education agencies and local districts.

Bernard Lacour, a longtime school reformer who works with local school councils and consults with New Leaders on placement issues, believes that the obstacles thrown up by council dynamics and the predisposition for experience may be exacerbated by system politics, the advantages of incumbency, and fear among local councils that their candidates will be challenged by the board of education and their authority taken away from them.

My advice to my fellow education reformers is to play the long game, remaining mindful of both the sunlight and disinfectant power of student achievement data on the one hand, and of our own rhetoric on parental prerogative and local control on the other.

Peterson: Since John Dewey, school reformers have tried to customize education to the needs of each child, but each step towards customization has required a big step toward centralization (bigger schools, larger school districts, state certification for teachers, federal dollars and regulations, etc.) School systems are no longer embedded in the small politics of local communities and this has dramatically changed the way accountability works.

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So while it's tempting to frame the fight in New York as a perilous fight between Democratic education reformers and «the de Blasio wing» of the party, public charter schools are just too local to drive a national political conversation — let alone a serious civil war within the Democratic party.

Today, school reformers, state and local education officials, exemplary charter - school operators, and managers of philanthropic foundations make it very clear that they are primarily in the business of educating poor black and Hispanic children.

It's a compromise position of sorts, putting us between the «Army of the Potomac» (lefty reformers who have never glimpsed a problem that Uncle Sam can't solve) and the Local Controllers (Tea Party types who want zero federal role in education, thank you ma'am).

That person's job is to do education politics and policy — to work with members of Congress and governors, to understand how a bill becomes a law, to provide moral support to reformers as they fight it out in the states and at the local level.

«As public schools nationwide struggle for funding, complicated by the impact of poverty and politics, corporate reformers see opportunity to take away local controls of our community schools,» said Lyn Hoyt, president of Tennesseans Reclaiming Education Excellence (TREE).

There is a national trend toward corporate education reformers investing heavily in state and local campaigns — including city council and school board races.

That will include an advisory council of 29 education reformers (full list below) shouting about the principles they believe improve outcomes for pupils, including at events, and in national and local press.

The evil corporate education reformers target yet another local elementary school for closure and takeover through a bizarre scheme that would have allowed a public school principal to resign his position as a public servant, become president of his own private company and then take over control of both his old school and the new school.

Reformers must concretely connect the nation's education crisis to the other local issues that are of concern to voters.

The California Teachers Association local set up an entity called «Teachers for Local Control,» obviously a union - front group, whose goal is to dump the reformers based on the premise that they are «intent on destroying local control, devastating public education and usurping and overturning the wisdom of locally elected trustees.&rlocal set up an entity called «Teachers for Local Control,» obviously a union - front group, whose goal is to dump the reformers based on the premise that they are «intent on destroying local control, devastating public education and usurping and overturning the wisdom of locally elected trustees.&rLocal Control,» obviously a union - front group, whose goal is to dump the reformers based on the premise that they are «intent on destroying local control, devastating public education and usurping and overturning the wisdom of locally elected trustees.&rlocal control, devastating public education and usurping and overturning the wisdom of locally elected trustees.»

To counter the manpower advantage held by defenders of traditional public education such as the NEA and AFT, school reformers — especially Beltway - based players — need to be working the community centers, church pews, and the extensive local networks.

A primary solution, according to these education reformers is to remove public schools out of the control of local community school boards and hand them over to boards made up of corporate leaders or even hand them over to private management companies.

While, to be sure, there are legitimate concerns that some reformers seek, missionarylike, to impose an externally hatched education - reform agenda that dispossesses local communities, particularly people of color, that has never been the way we at DFER pursue our work.

Charter school opponents and unions point to what has happened here as proof that the reformers» goal is just to privatize education and strip families of their voice in local schools across the country.

Local business leaders would have donated about $ 60,000 for a third - party evaluation conducted by a team led by nationally - known, but controversial, education reformer Paul Vallas, who has been school superintendent in Chicago, Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Bridgeport, Conn..

Here piece traces the «education reformers» and their on - going effort to bringing Wall Street values to our local public schools.

Keep your eyes open and don't be surprised to find these corporate reformers playing their politics with your local boards of education.

As far as the corporate education reformers are concerned, the end justifies the means and if the cost of getting what you want requires destroying our nation's age - old commitment to local control of education, so be it.

Friedman argued that the nation needed to scrap its historic commitment to local public schools and replace these hallowed institutions with a system in which parents could use public funds to send their children to «private for - profit schools, private nonprofit schools, religious schools or even «government schools,»» a derogatory term corporate education reformers use to describe local public schools.

When locals stand up to politicians and education reformers, CEA comes down hard and pressures them to stop... claiming those involved are «friends of CEA».

All five recommendations are unanimously endorsed by the 27 politically diverse commission members, including scholars, teachers» union leaders, state and local education officials, and education reformers and advocates.

Of course, the reformers don't really care about the education of poor children — they see the lure of school choice and charter schools as the bait for parents frustrated by the systemic defunding of their local public schools, especially in urban centers, and who are desperate for any option that promises a better alternative.