Sentences with phrase «nonpartisan research group»

To help fill this vacuum, CREDO (formerly known as the Center for Research on Education Outcomes), an independent nonpartisan research group at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, evaluated the performance of TFA teachers relative to both new teachers and all teachers in the Houston Independent School District.

The Child and Family Research Partnership (CFRP) is an independent, nonpartisan research group at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin, specializing in issues related to young children, teens, and their parents.

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan research group that focuses on reducing poverty, 20 million children in the United States (nearly 1 in 4) will have received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits — better known as food stamps — in 2016.

About one - third of tax filers currently itemize, according to the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan research group based in Washington.

«Lending money to your own campaign lets you create a war chest that might or might not scare off potential opponents without having to raise the money from donors,» said Michael Malbin, executive director of the Campaign Finance Institute, a nonpartisan research group in Washington.

Unemployment is largely to blame, according to the Fiscal Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research group.

I think anybody can see that 421a isn't a good deal for New York,» said Ron Deutsch of the Fiscal Policy Institute, an Albany - based nonpartisan research group.

Jerilyn Perrine, a former city housing commissioner who is now executive director of the nonpartisan research group Citizens Housing and Planning Council, said the expiration of the program would be «very troubling.»

- Margaret Raymond is the director of CREDO, a nonpartisan research group at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Calls for open enrollment across districts are usually the province of liberal groups, said Kevin Carey, director of education policy at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan research group.

«This is the beginning of the end of the No Child era,» said Jack Jennings, president of the Center on Education Policy, a nonpartisan research group.

The company this summer acquired rights from McGraw - Hill Education to administer the TerraNova test, which is popular with Wisconsin voucher schools, according to the Public Policy Forum, a Milwaukee - based nonpartisan research group.

A 1999 survey by Public Agenda, a nonpartisan research group, found that 68 percent of blacks favor vouchers.

A recent study by the Center on Reinventing Public Education at the University of Washington and Mathematica, a nonpartisan research group, identified Aspire as one of the nation's high - performing charter networks.

«To characterize 40 percent (of education spending) as bureaucracy and waste is a real threat to the system, because those are the necessary supports that allow the system to get better,» said David Plank, executive director for Policy Analysis for California Education, a nonpartisan research group based in Berkeley.

Just 47 % of those contributing to an IRA in 2011 saved the maximum amount possible, according to the nonpartisan research group.