Sentences with phrase «most of my reform efforts»

I spent the next seven years pressing for reform from the outside — most of my reform efforts were aimed at getting a curriculum, stopping the disproportionate disciplining of African - American students, and the over-identification of special ed students (almost a quarter of the student body).

«The real key is this is different than most of the reform efforts that I've actually been involved with and seen,» said Siart, who is also chairman of ExED, a nonprofit that provides business and support services to charter schools.

Not exact matches

The promised reforms, which include stripping Kalanick of some of his power when he returns and hiring an independent board chairman to rein him in, represent the company's most dramatic effort yet to move past the sexual harassment allegations and other scandals that have plagued Uber.

I also endorse the most immediately doable reform effort of all, which is for adults to themselves form and promote book - groups dedicated to the study of such texts.

The same is true of many media reform efforts: by attempting to get people excited about liberal bias in the news, or nudity or profanity in a particular program, or the ideological bent of a certain series, or whether a network is «Christian,» concerned leaders have diverted the attention of viewers from the most important problem, the basic point, namely, that the whole process - of - television is providing us with a worldview which not only determines what we think, but also how we think and who we are.

The eleventh - hour attempt by Republicans in the U.S. Senate to repeal the Affordable Care Act once seemed like the longest of long shots, but now appears to have a chance — albeit slim — at passage, even though it has been deemed the most «radical» of all the Obamacare reform efforts the GOP has debated thus far.

For the most part, however, what the first minister served up as part of a long - trailed effort to «refresh» her administration after more than ten years in office sounded familiar: educational reform («most radical change»), more cash to boost economic growth («raising our ambition») and the creation of a Scottish National Investment Bank.

Once the state's political leaders got past the congratulatory «atta - boys» and backslapping on their most recent effort to reform Albany, the public was left to dig through the details of the legislative agreement.

These proposals, along with ethics and campaign finance reform legislation passed by the Assembly, demonstrate the strong commitment of the Assembly majority to making positive change in Albany, and I thank Assembly Members Pretlow, Kavanagh and the other members of the Workgroup for the many hours they put into this most important effort.»

As opposition to employer sanctions waned and growers» lobbying efforts for extensive temporary worker programs intensified, agricultural worker programs began to outrank employer sanctions component as the most controversial element of reform.

The governor's unusual effort — potentially granting mass clemency on a level rarely seen — comes as efforts to reform the state's juvenile justice laws have met resistance in the Legislature; most states have raised the age of criminal responsibility after reviewing studies that showed people are often not psychologically mature until early adulthood.

Amid all the political battlefronts in the effort to reform our multi-trillion-dollar health care system, some of the most potentially worthwhile initiatives have received little notice — and the notice they have received has threatened to undo them.

Krane said the most encouraging example of reform efforts is that of Iran, the first country in the world to replace major subsidies with a universal cash transfer program for households.

The $ 5.2 million cost of Lynch's federally funded project, which included extensive use of classroom observers, may push it beyond the reach of most efforts to monitor school reform.

But in her spare time, Packnett also manages to be both a writer and activist and is one of the Black Lives Matter movement's most well - known faces, thanks to her work coordinating the Ferguson protests and cofounding the police reform effort Campaign Zero.

In Massachusetts, writes Georgia Alexakis in the Washington Monthly, the paradox of these reform efforts is, «The schools most likely to do poorly on the MCAS [the state test in Massachusetts] have also been most likely to embrace it, while those districts whose scores are already quite high are fighting hardest to get rid of it.»

But it is safe to say that my approach can not be essayed by traditional liberal efforts to reform dimensions of capitalist society that most impact teaching and learning.

That letter — and other efforts to reduce exclusionary discipline, such as suspensions, in favor of reforms like restorative justice — sparked a backlash from critics who accused the department of government overreach and of prompting chaos and disorder that could most harm students of color.

She's worked for some of the most influential ed - reform organizations, and she's currently leading a major effort in one of America's most prominent ed - reform cities.

The unraveling of Common Core makes this flop the most obviously ill - conceived and doomed - to - fail reform effort since the Annenberg Foundation threw $ 500 million away in the 1990s.

To date, most ed - reform efforts have been aimed at mere structural change — expanding the reach of school choice and charter schools, improving teacher quality, or insisting on test - driven accountability.

Indeed, one of the most contentious education reforms of the last decade was the effort, spearheaded in the federal Race to the Top initiative, to create accountability around teachers» performance.

Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.

Now comes the most important part in the process: how much of this feedback will be used to reform family engagement efforts, and most importantly training, professional development and university coursework in the area of engaging families?

Nsf officials characterized the project as «perhaps the most far - reaching science - education reform effort in the U.S. since the Sputnik era of the 1950's.»

Making high - quality books and professional development available to schools — including but not limited to Core Knowledge Language Arts — could transform America's elementary schools, and without the controversy that follows most of today's reform efforts.

She would undo most if not all of the «structural» reforms that have been put in place in recent years — mayoral control, performance - based pay, charter laws and other choice schemes, reliance on entrepreneurship and market incentives, federal efforts to incentivize and prod the system to change in constructive directions, testing - and results - based accountability and more.

Pereira — and hundreds of thousands of teenagers like her throughout the country — are at the vortex of the most far - reaching high school reform effort in a half - century.

This most radical of choice based schools — where students and teachers never meet in physical classrooms and state funding flows on a performance - based, demand - driven model — has largely avoided the political and legal tangles that have stymied other reform efforts.

The second main section of the chapter reports a case study of an exemplary district's efforts to make the most of large - scale reform initiated in the state of Illinois.

Based on the reforms that occurred immediately prior to and during the Klein administration, it is clear that there has been a concerted effort to alter regulations, policies and practices to improve the overall quality of New York City teachers and especially ensure that students most in need of effective teachers are more likely to get them.

The message from Executive Director Scott Pearson and board Chairman John «Skip» McKoy was met with relief by advocates of neighborhood schools and disbelief from some who want to see more aggressive charter school growth in one of the most closely watched school reform efforts in the nation.

Todd Hathaway, a teacher who sat on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Common Core Implementation Panel and who has been critical of reform efforts in the state, said King «wasn't the most accessible commissioner.»

Like many of the most encouraging public - school reforms, these efforts have been organic and highly decentralized.

At the same time, Rotherham fails to remember that for all the preening of Beltway reformers, the most - successful school reform efforts have been — and continue to be — done by folks who didn't know much about education until stumbled into reform.

Yet not to confront the challenges of structure and governance in public education in our time is to accept the glum fact that the most earnest of our other «reform» efforts can not gain enough traction to make a big dent in America's educational deficit, to produce a decent supply of quality alternatives to the traditional monopoly, or to defeat the adult interests that typically rule and benefit from that monopoly.

In the bubble of optimism that came with the dawn of former schools chief Al Davis» tenure, all seven of the city's universities and colleges joined with the Orleans Parish School Board to work with some of the district's most academically troubled public schools by training teachers and nurturing reform efforts.

As more charter schools open and as more Californians become aware of the great new options that charter schools are creating for communities across the state, we see a growing recognition that the charter school movement is becoming one of the most important reform efforts to have happened in many years,» said Jed Wallace, president and CEO, California Charter Schools Association (CCSA).

It's important to think hard about states, which have constitutional authority over K - 12 and provide most of the money, but historically have done little to drive reform efforts.

If not for No Child, the most - successful of the Obama administration's reform effort so far — Race to the Top and I3 — wouldn't have had a chance of succeeding, largely because there would have been no pressure in the form of the proficiency and accountability provisions that No Child brought to bear.

In a study by Coggins et al. (2003) coaches (i.e., teacher leaders) reported that they were most effective supporting their schools» reform efforts when facilitating teams of teachers in meetings that were focused on instruction (such as analysis of student achievement data and discussions of research).

For one, his proclamations that families aren't equipped to manage schools fails to consider the reality that some of the most - successful school reform efforts have been — and continue to be — done by folks who didn't know much about education until stumbled into reform.

Thanks to the unwillingness of most suburban district leaders to embrace the underlying tenets of the No Child Left Behind Act — and their efforts to perpetuate the myth that traditional districts in the «burbs are doing just fine — they have ignored the innovations (including in the area of revamping teacher compensation) embraced by more reform - minded districts in big cities.

Many of the most prominent and influential education reform efforts would be hurt by proposed AmeriCorps cuts.

Most quality school reform efforts focus primarily on the end result of improving K12 student performance.

We are more than 10 years into a massive reform effort revolving around high stakes attached to standardized tests, and there is no significant growth in actual learning — even in terms of the test scores most valued by proponents.

The Center for Advanced Research and Technology (CART) is the most comprehensive, state - of - the - art education reform effort at the secondary level to date.

«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.

The American Association of School Administrators recently released a survey of superintendents that showed that while most believe there is a role for competitive grants, most also worry about over-investment in those grants at the expense of more stable dollars that districts can depend upon to sustain reform efforts.

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.