Sentences with phrase «major education reform group»

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Druckenmiller has been a major supporter of charter schools and education reform groups.

A major supporter of charter schools, Loeb has given heavily to outside groups that back education reform, including $ 1 million in July to a pro-charter group that's spending to help state Senate Republicans.

The groups he has supported reads like a Who's Who of the brand of education reform that favors online learning and charter schools over traditional schools: According to the publication Education Next, his money helped start the NewSchools Venture Fund, a major funder of charter schools and ed tech start - ups, and Aspire Public schools, a charter schooleducation reform that favors online learning and charter schools over traditional schools: According to the publication Education Next, his money helped start the NewSchools Venture Fund, a major funder of charter schools and ed tech start - ups, and Aspire Public schools, a charter schoolEducation Next, his money helped start the NewSchools Venture Fund, a major funder of charter schools and ed tech start - ups, and Aspire Public schools, a charter school network.

Under the umbrella of Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) the group coordinated a major effort in 2010 to urge the New York State legislature to lift a charter school cap that had been a stumbling block in the state's first bid to win a federal Race to the Top (RttT) grant.

As a result, it has been difficult for observers to determine which factor or group of factors was most responsible for these gains: a revised and strengthened licensing system; revised or new licensure tests; the use of first - rate standards in most classrooms, in annual state student tests, and in the professional development programs all teachers took for license renewal; and / or the major changes in K - 12 governance and finance introduced by the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993.

Although Students For Education Reform has yet to file their IRS forms for this past tax year, in their first three years of business the group collected at least $ 6 million from corporate education reform groups, including a major start up grant form Democrats For Education Reform, an anti-union, anti-teacher, pro-charter group that have run attack ads against the Chicago Teachers Union and other groups speaking out for the rights of teachers and Education Reform has yet to file their IRS forms for this past tax year, in their first three years of business the group collected at least $ 6 million from corporate education reform groups, including a major start up grant form Democrats For Education Reform, an anti-union, anti-teacher, pro-charter group that have run attack ads against the Chicago Teachers Union and other groups speaking out for the rights of teachers and stuReform has yet to file their IRS forms for this past tax year, in their first three years of business the group collected at least $ 6 million from corporate education reform groups, including a major start up grant form Democrats For Education Reform, an anti-union, anti-teacher, pro-charter group that have run attack ads against the Chicago Teachers Union and other groups speaking out for the rights of teachers and education reform groups, including a major start up grant form Democrats For Education Reform, an anti-union, anti-teacher, pro-charter group that have run attack ads against the Chicago Teachers Union and other groups speaking out for the rights of teachers and stureform groups, including a major start up grant form Democrats For Education Reform, an anti-union, anti-teacher, pro-charter group that have run attack ads against the Chicago Teachers Union and other groups speaking out for the rights of teachers and Education Reform, an anti-union, anti-teacher, pro-charter group that have run attack ads against the Chicago Teachers Union and other groups speaking out for the rights of teachers and stuReform, an anti-union, anti-teacher, pro-charter group that have run attack ads against the Chicago Teachers Union and other groups speaking out for the rights of teachers and students.

Representatives of each of the four major partners met with our group to discuss their role in Boston's education reform and to share insights from their work.

Sackler also formed ConnCAN, ConnAD and 50CAN, all major corporate education reform advocacy groups.

Prior to the Malloy administration even announcing that they would be releasing the 2015 SBAC results today, the state's two major corporate funded education reform lobby groups, ConnCAN and the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER), invited reporters to join a «media call» in which the groups would discuss the SBACeducation reform lobby groups, ConnCAN and the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER), invited reporters to join a «media call» in which the groups would discuss the SBAC rereform lobby groups, ConnCAN and the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER), invited reporters to join a «media call» in which the groups would discuss the SBACEducation Reform (CCER), invited reporters to join a «media call» in which the groups would discuss the SBAC reReform (CCER), invited reporters to join a «media call» in which the groups would discuss the SBAC results.

With chapters in Connecticut, New York, California, Minnesota, New Jersey and Chicago, E4E has collected and spent approximately $ 20 million over the past three years, money it received from the Gates Foundation, the Walton Foundation (Walmart) and other major anti-teacher education reform groups.

Families for Excellent Schools (FES) is a major New York City based, corporate funded, charter school and education reform advocacy group.

Among the «teacher advocacy group's» major funders is Education Reform Now, another corporate funded advocacy group that spends its money promoting charter schools and an end to tenure and «seniority - based layoff.»

In 2012, he called for major changes to teacher tenure in Connecticut, earning praise from ConnCAN, an education reform group promoting charter schools.

The pro-charter and hedge fund backed group «Democrats» for Education Reform (DFER) immediately released a response saying, it was «highly disappointing and seemed to reinforce fears about how her endorsements from both major teachers unions would affect her K - 12 platform.»

A new Chicago group called CReATE (Chicagoland Researchers and Advocates for Transformative Education) issued a major report on Friday, January 24, 2011, called Chicago School Reform: Myths, Realities, and New Visions.

Sackler, a Greenwich resident whose company, Purdue Pharma, makes OxyContin, is Connecticut's leading pro-charter school advocate, having founded and funded Connecticut's major Corporate Education Reform Industry advocacy groups including ConnCAN, ConnAD and A Better Connecticut.