Sentences with phrase «local reform efforts»

This flexibility is intended to build on and support the significant State and local reform efforts already under way in critical areas such as transitioning to college - and career - ready standards and assessments; developing systems of differentiated recognition, accountability, and support; and evaluating and supporting teacher and principal effectiveness.

The Department of Education must recognize this — and focus on investing in promising local reform efforts.

Washington, D.C. (July 18, 2017)- Mississippi Superintendent of Education and Council of Chief State School Officers President - Elect Carey Wright today testified at the House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing on the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), «ESSA Implementation: Exploring State and Local Reform Efforts.»

But sometimes, outsiders, including state leaders and philanthropy, are the ones driving local reform efforts.

Not exact matches

While last week's budget vote cleared the way to begin the tax reform effort, 20 Republicans voted against it, citing issues with the elimination of state and local tax deductions and a massive expansion of the federal deficit.

This rising tide of cultural domination can be turned back in two ways: through the support of efforts in the third world to achieve local communication that reflects local needs; and through reform of the media in the first world — which we will consider in some detail in Chapter 11, «What We Can Do.»

But through my research and writing on the topic, and through my active participation in local school food reform efforts here in Houston, I've come to believe no proposed «solution» to the crisis will get us anywhere at all — unless kids themselves become invested in change.

He played an instrumental role in ensuring New York State qualified for, and won, $ 700 million in Federal Race to the Top dollars, a US Department of Education sponsored effort to spur innovation and reform in state and local district K - 12 education.

Rice has been arguing that she's a tough - on - crime progressive and insisting that her efforts to reform the legal system at the local level have not only been successful, but would translate into a statewide model if she is elected to the post AG Andrew Cuomo is vacating.

«As the chair of the Senate Education Committee, Senator Oppenheimer should be leading efforts to reform the state school aid formula so districts do not have to endure billions in cuts any given year and can operate within the confines of a local property tax cap,» said Cohen.

Only an imperial governor like Cuomo would label my efforts to fix the tax code as «treasonous,» as he did last week, reacting to my support for reform that would cut taxes for most New Yorkers while removing the state and local deduction.

The effects of forthcoming federal tax reform efforts — such as limitations on the deductibility for state and local taxes and the exemption for municipal bonds — could hit the state hard, the duo said, and have «significant implications» for the revenues of both New York City (the state's main economic engine) and the state.

Rep. John Katko said he voted «yes» on the House tax reform bill for two basic reasons: «The vast majority of my constituents will receive a tax cut under this plan, and this effort will allow local businesses to invest in Central New York and our workforce.»

The sentence handed down Tuesday to former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver drew quick reactions by two local lawmakers, both of whom called for a serious effort to reform ethics in Albany.

Woolwich — Senate President Steve Sweeney, Assemblyman John Burzichelli and Assemblyman Adam Taliaferro joined with local officials, educators and others today in a community forum to mark the increase in school funding for the Kingsway Regional School System as the result of the successful effort to include the school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE»

Bridgeton — Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assemblyman John Burzichelli joined with local officials, educators and others in a community forum to mark the increase in school funding for the Bridgeton School District as the result of the successful effort to include the school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE»

Republicans from New York are split on the tax reform bill over the efforts to cap or outright end deductibility of state and local taxes.

Many activists joined efforts to reform local government, public education, medicine, finance, insurance, industry, railroads, churches, and many other areas.

He has focused his efforts on saving taxpayer dollars through Government Reform — boosting Economic Development to create local and lasting Suffolk County jobs — improving Long Island's Water Quality to protect the region's water supply — and enhancing the Quality of Life of Suffolk residents by improving public safety and investing in County parks and roads.

«This isn't a philanthropic, state, or local approach,» said Michele Cahill, who consulted extensively with the XQ project and was previously involved with New York City high - school - reform efforts.

20 National Center on Increasing the Effectiveness of State and Local Education Reform Efforts - University of Pennsylvania

In the Wall Street Journal, Stephanie Banchero notes that, while significantly outspent by teachers unions, Democrats for Education Reform and Stand for Children have spent about $ 3.5 million on local campaigns in an effort to challenge the power of unions.

Further complicating the politics of reform, charter - receptive local civic and business groups often also support efforts to improve district - run schools — particularly neighborhood schools.

After the report appeared, stimulating a variety of reform efforts, public evaluations of their local schools climbed steadily to an all - time high of 51 % in 2000, just prior to the national debate over the passage of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, which held schools accountable for low performance.

The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).

Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) had traditionally been a target for reform efforts thanks to a history of low - performing schools, a seemingly insurmountable achievement gap between student groups, and a relatively high proportion of state funding relative to local aid.

Also, representatives from two influential local foundations that had long been involved in Cleveland's school reform efforts shared their expertise, created opportunities for the mayor and others to learn from other cities, and helped frame the legislative debate.

The success or failure of the turnaround has national as well as local implications, since U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has made the strategy a centerpiece of federal reform efforts.

In this policy proposal Nora Gordon suggests (1) reforms to ensure that the Title I formula gets enough resources to the neediest areas, and (2) improvements in federal guidance and fiscal compliance outreach efforts so that local districts understand the flexibility they have to spend effectively.

As I became more militant in my reform efforts, the local paper once editorialized so brutally that a friend remarked, «I've seen them say nicer things about murderers.»)

The impact of state policies and actions on local implementation efforts: A study of whole school reform in New Jersey.

In this section we address our second question about the state «s leadership role in efforts to improve teaching and learning: How do clusters of policies — systemic efforts at shaping education reform — get embedded in state agencies and transmitted to create a local impact?

Further efforts should be made to reform the program, but slashing this needed funding from state and local budgets is not the answer.

How do clusters of policies — systemic efforts at shaping educational reform — get embedded in state agencies and transmitted to create a local impact?

And, ultimately, the mishandling of the suit and the effort by the local has also bolstered support for Mayor Bloomberg's school reform efforts, essentially assuring that his successor as Big Apple Mayor will stay the course.

Now that Congress is back from their summer break, fresh with input from their local constituents, they are continuing their effort to shape fundamental health care reform.

«The most critical piece of the effort to reform public schools is local input and having local communities be a part of that effort,» Mr. Turner said.

These moves to undermine reform efforts have created an unholy alliance between the far right that wants no state or federal intrusion into local school districts and the extreme left who mindlessly support teacher unions rather than support great teachers.

This is why movement conservatives not engaged in education discussions are naturally be more - supportive of measures such as the expansion of school choice (because they conform to their views that markets and private actions by families should be the deciding forces in education) than of other reform efforts that seem to involve what they may perceive more - robust federal or state government roles, or involve what they consider to be an abrogation of roles they think should be in the hands of families or local governments.

The most dramatic change wrought by this effort to radically reform the education system was to place decision - making control in the hands of local schools.

So no one should be surprised that the AFT's Big Apple local, the United Federation of Teachers, has allegedly been caught engaging in such activity as part of its effort against moves by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his school reform allies to expand school choice and transform the Empire State's public education systems.

«Only though a clearly defined and appropriate federal role, a willingness to explore a revised charge of the U.S. Department of Education, and placing primary responsibility for education in the hands of locally elected school boards who clearly have the greatest confidence of the public, will school reform efforts thrive at local levels.»

As reform - minded governors of both parties could use the federal presence (both in the form of Race or the No Child Left Behind Act) to sustain their efforts, so can counterparts in school districts in their face - offs with NEA and AFT locals.

The letter outlines how policies Secretary Duncan helped initiate, like Race to the Top, have hurt local communities and excluded them from participating in efforts to reform their schools.

To broadly share and communicate the results of our TURN regions and the state and local efforts to work collaboratively to develop and implement significant education reform policies and programs that impact student learning.

Given the influence of state legislation on local reforms and on national efforts, these battlegrounds will loom larger in school reform discussions.

Yet as I've noted previously, SPLC has embraced an anti-charter strategy in recent years, particularly in New Orleans, where the local SPLC office launched an aggressive effort to undermine and discredit the city's charter - driven reforms.

For local educators, the assessment consortia's work adds to a running list of education reform efforts that spans more than a decade, but has accelerated in the past few years.

With the promise of local accountability and coordinated efforts to improve, the district is one of nine in a consortium called the California Office to Reform Education — which includes Oakland, Sacramento and San Francisco — seeking a waiver from the U.S. Department of Education.

Support local education reform efforts that are consistent with statewide education reform efforts.