Sentences with phrase «local education systems»

The Common Core standards, initially a program of the National Governors Association, have become a touchstone for conservative opponents who say the standards have become a tool for federal intervention in local education systems, after eleven states asked the Department of Education for permission to use federal grants to implement the standards.

Since then, the Center has worked in Texas and other states to support standards - driven improvement of local education systems.

Policy choices on other questions are decisively important in determining how choice and competition affect local education systems.

For a case history of how floor targets and mindless Academisation can wreck local education systems and blight young lives see this article.

Local Education Authorities answerable to local voters are the right bodies to manage local education systems as set out by the 1945 Education Act, the wisdom of which becomes ever more evident as successive Academy scandals and DfE failures to regulate them accumulate.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy should match the Department for Education's # 72 million for the opportunity areas to ensure there is a collaborative effort across local education systems and labour markets

Show Me Democracy tells the story of seven St. Louis college students who are battling injustice, raising awareness about police brutality and fighting for real reform in their community and within the local education system.

Having serves as the first President of the Professional Footballers Association, he went onto become Mayor of Fleetwood in later life, combing the role with that of a teacher in the local education system.

The liberal Democrat insisted to the State Senate, which Republicans control through a narrow majority, on the importance of keeping the local education system routed through Gracie Mansion.

Mr. de Rosas is very active in the community and has taken special interest in developing and improving our local education system and is active in many other organizations.

Local education systems, particularly the largest urban districts, are infamously Byzantine, change - averse organizations.

While working for a nongovernmental agency performing needs assessment on the local education system in Palestine, Korenblum noticed that there seemed to be an issue with young people accessing job posting information.

One can fairly view No Child Left Behind and the Race to the Top initiative as the latest and most forceful efforts to make the old structure work better — by creating in Washington incentives meant to prod state and local education systems to change specific practices and to deliver better and more uniform results.

With this presentation, NIEER Senior Fellow Jim Squires discussed the implications of a birth - third grade framework to support and advance fully inclusive services across state and local education systems.

Reaching them is critical if Kinder Institute and HERC are to have broad impacts on the local education system and the resulting workforce.

If you have children, what is the local education system like?