Sentences with phrase «needed systemic reform efforts»

The ability to assess the level of proficiency targets is important to shining light on which states are engaging in much - needed systemic reform efforts, and casting antiseptic sunlight on those that are failing them miserably.

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is RECOGNIZING that the mayoral control «reform» — like previous efforts to change the system's governance without clearly articulating the educational purpose of the reform or facing society's deep systemic problems of poverty and racism — still leaves the city with schools that fail to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of our students;

There's also the fact that dismay among progressive Democrats over the Obama Administration's efforts on other fronts, along with administration's botched No Child waiver gambit, has given traditionalists the opening they need to win over both Hillary and congressional Republicans increasingly uninterested in any kind of systemic reform.