Sentences with phrase «needed for education reform»

As far as it's known, Garcetti, an Ivy Leaguer and Rhodes Scholar, has not asked the poor and working - class Latino and African American parents at 24th Street Elementary what they think is needed for education reform.

With the support of the George W. Bush Institute, we've been able to provide this information so that everyone can look up their own and other districts to see that the need for education reform is not confined to big cities.

Many of his posts focus on the need for education reform and activism for teachers and students.

Great authorizers believe in the need for education reform and are willing to do something about it.

On January 28, ASCD is hosting an exhibit for education leaders, the media, and members of Congress and their education staffs to explain the need for education reform that includes whole child strategies.

She openly acknowledged the need for education reform.

Not exact matches

What Lee does have is a tax plan that would increase the take - home pay of working parents who are at (or just under) the median income and education reforms that would make it easier for workers to get the skills and credentials they need to get higher paying jobs.

We don't need to specially reform education for people that invent a certifications and are then sad no one thinks they are qualified or educated.

In order for Spain to achieve such objectives it will need to first of all reform its secondary and tertiary education systems, which are struggling to produce the talent needed to feed an increasingly globalised export - driven private sector.

We need public education reforms, investments in public health, and creation of sustainable financing structures for both health and education.

«I am running because we need universal health care, we need to ensure a quality education for every child, and we need to create real campaign finance reform on the state level,» Brezler wrote in the email.

• Continuing to promote education reform - ensuring that high school graduates are fully prepared for college and careers, and making sure that workforce - training programs address real - world needs of New York employers.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

In place of Labour's hopeless acceptance of mediocrity in education, which has seen Britain tumble down the world league tables just when we need our children to be doing better than those in other countries, we will offer the hope of a decent education for every child, with immediate action to raise standards and radical reform to end the state monopoly over new school places.

He understands the area's diverse needs and has plans for job creation, education and tax reform.

The Governor's message was astutely deferential to Upstate's need for economic growth, meanwhile Cuomo also avoided triggering the tripwires of controversy on education and the environment (which provided Zephyr Teachout with opening to garner a third of the 2014 Democratic primary vote); Cuomo advanced strong measures around election law reform and on the criminal justice front vis a vis Bail reform, as well as the Dream Act and MWBE all of which registered positively with minority voters.

Also at 11 a.m., a new report from the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder, will be released showing that community schools need at least five years or more to create lasting school improvement and reduce barriers to achievement in a measurable way, Annenberg Institute for School Reform, 233 Broadway, Suite 720, Manhattan.

And Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said: «Instead of reforming education to give our young people the skills they need to compete for the jobs of the future, Nicola Sturgeon is deciding to drag Scotland back to the arguments of the past.»

Governor Andrew Cuomo included $ 25 million in this year's budget for universal full - day pre-K, targeted toward high - needs students in lower wealth districts, which follows a top recommendation his education reform commission made last December.

The governor proposes increasing education funding by $ 1.1 billion (only half of the $ 2.2 billion that nearly every education and student - focused organization in the state is demanding), but only if the legislature agrees to draconian education reforms that mistakenly blame teachers for poor student outcomes in underfunded, high need, low wealth districts.

[11] Rather than limit investment in other needed services to pay for the circuit breaker, the state should generate additional revenues by fixing some of the problems related to last year's corporate tax reform, eliminating or scaling back many of the state's smorgasbord of business tax credits, rejecting the proposed Education Tax Credit, and limiting the increase in the estate tax exemption.

«He understands the area's diverse needs and has plans for job creation, education and tax reform,» the Times wrote.

Joe Williams, executive director of Democrats for Education Reform, said «It shocks the conscience that we continue to look the other way while we permit our schools to pair our most ineffective teachers with the children most in need of great classroom instruction.

In addition to the need for ethics reform, Hawkins will discuss Cuomo's education agenda and attacks on teachers; energy; taxes and fiscal relief for local governments; and poverty.

But what is so absurd about these flights of wishful thinking is that there is not a single word about the real lessons which Labour needs to learn — the need for radical banking reform, the need for a massive revival of British manufacturing (when this year the UK deficit on traded goods is likely to exceed the entire UK budget deficit), the need to take back public control of the NHS and education system, the need for a jobs and growth strategy rather than a programme of endless cuts, the need for an effective anti-poverty strategy and a huge reduction in inequality.

So people have a hard time connecting compelling current concerns — such as widespread corruption, or non-competitive elections, or a need for major improvements in such fundamental policy areas as education — with the possibility for reform through state constitutional change.

However after a meeting for Lib Dem MPs, the party's education spokesman David Laws announced there was still a need for «clarification» on key issues such as education, taxation and voting reform.

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

So, although speakers agreed that the need for new approaches to graduate education is pressing, effective reform to prepare students for existing nonacademic opportunities will take strong action by entities that are currently finding it hard to work together.

The need for mechanisms that will force reform is urgent, agreed Victoria McGovern, a senior program officer at the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, one of the graduate education study's sponsors.

Provider payment reform probably needs to be accompanied by training for providers and health education for patients.»

In recent years, certain scholars and even a few union leaders have argued the need for «reform unionism» and claimed that, with enough enlightened thinking, the unions can voluntarily dedicate themselves to education reforms that promote the greater good.

One thing American education reform definitely does not need is more pilot programs that are not held accountable for the results they generate.

Child marriage and early pregnancy continue to hinder girls» progress in education as does the need for teacher training in gender sensitive approaches and curriculum reform.

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Five years of studies on charter schools prove they are meeting the needs of traditionally underserved children and forcing regular public schools to change for the better, the Center for Education Reform concludes in a report released last week.

Rather than asking how reforms can encourage an array of options (public, private, or for - profit) to emerge that fit the needs of today's students, the free - public - college crowd wants to simply cram more people through the same old expensive, mediocre model of education.

When Skandera stepped down in June 2017 after seven years on the job, Martinez lauded her for being «relentlessly committed to helping us fight the status quo — like teachers unions and other entrenched special interests — to reform education and give our students, teachers, parents and schools more of what they need to succeed.»

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The subject was one of 73 that were identified as needing reforms, and a Department for Education (DfE) consultation document has confirmed that the IT qualification will not be redeveloped.

A spokesman for the Department for Education said: «We recognise the need to ensure that the exam system operates effectively, which is why we are considering long - term reforms to the exam board system.

The Rodriguez court acknowledged the need for state tax reform related to school funding and for «innovative thinking as to public education, its methods, and its funding.»

Suburbanites need education reform for the sake of their own children and not just for the poor kids in the big cities.

If education reform could be accomplished simply by identifying and closing bad schools while expanding good ones, everything could be fixed already without any need for school choice.

In a forum released today by Education Next, Nonie Lesaux of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Juan Rangel of a Chicago charter school organization, UNO, discuss whether these changing demographics call for substantial reforms in the current instructional practices designed to address Hispanic students» needs, or whether improving education practices across the board is the best way to meet the needs of HEducation Next, Nonie Lesaux of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Juan Rangel of a Chicago charter school organization, UNO, discuss whether these changing demographics call for substantial reforms in the current instructional practices designed to address Hispanic students» needs, or whether improving education practices across the board is the best way to meet the needs of HEducation and Juan Rangel of a Chicago charter school organization, UNO, discuss whether these changing demographics call for substantial reforms in the current instructional practices designed to address Hispanic students» needs, or whether improving education practices across the board is the best way to meet the needs of Heducation practices across the board is the best way to meet the needs of Hispanics.

Successive reauthorizations of ESEA have revealed the need for federal accountability to incentivize states and localities to enact K — 12 education reforms.

Panelists mentioned various important changes that needed to be made such as a juvenile justice system reform, access and support for early childhood education, comprehensive support services for parents that includes job training, a professional teaching structure, high schools that build pathways beyond just a four - year college degree, and educational supports for children living with undocumented immigrant parents.

In staking out platforms in the coming months for what will likely be a feisty GOP primary, Republicans face two quandaries regarding education policy: They need to distinguish their positions from Obama's centrist education reforms, and they need to win over the Republican base, fueled by some Tea Party energy, that will push for the U.S. Department of Education to be dismantled aleducation policy: They need to distinguish their positions from Obama's centrist education reforms, and they need to win over the Republican base, fueled by some Tea Party energy, that will push for the U.S. Department of Education to be dismantled aleducation reforms, and they need to win over the Republican base, fueled by some Tea Party energy, that will push for the U.S. Department of Education to be dismantled alEducation to be dismantled altogether.

They brought teachers and their unions to the table for discussions of education reform strategy and won their trust by listening hard to what the teachers had to say and then providing the needed support.

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