Sentences with phrase «nonprofit education advocacy group»

The Network for Public Education, a nonprofit education advocacy group co-founded by historian Diane Ravitch, is calling for a national «opt out» of high - stakes standardized testing.

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Several groups, led by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), a nonprofit legal advocacy organization, filed suit in 1993 claiming that New York State was depriving New York City public school students of their constitutional rights to a «sound basic education,» a standard that had been prescribed in 1982 by the state's highest court (in New York, the Court of Appeals).

Advocacy Groups Empower Parents to Act as Catalysts for School Reform A growing number of nonprofit organizations bypass PTAs to force change in public education

Beginning later this year, several elementary and secondary schools in Chicago, Moscow, and Amsterdam will take part in «Project Metropolis,» a collaborative effort funded by International Movement Towards Education, a nonprofit advocacy group.

Education Superhighway, a nonprofit advocacy group backed by tech entrepreneurs, estimates that 72 percent of America's schools lack sufficient Internet infrastructure for digital learning.

«What happened was you had a whole bunch of folks who wanted standards but not standardization,» said Arnold Fege, president of Public Advocacy for Kids, a nonprofit public education advocacAdvocacy for Kids, a nonprofit public education advocacyadvocacy group.

People for the American Way, a national civil - liberties advocacy group founded by the television producer Norman Lear, began working to have the procedures changed last year after it was denied the opportunity to testify in favor of textbooks criticized by Mel and Norma Gabler of Education Research Analysts, a nonprofit organization...

A coalition of education - advocacy groups behind the effort is seeking a maximum of 40 public charter schools over five years, operated by qualified nonprofits and overseen by a local school board or a special state commission.

By Joshua P. Starr I recently attended a meeting with about 40 people involved in K - 12 public education at multiple levels: academics, state and district leaders, heads of nonprofit and advocacy groups, -LSB-...]

It was written by former award - winning high school principal Carol Burris, who is now executive director of the nonprofit Network for Public Education advocacy group.

But the bill also hands the union a victory on two contentious issues, which is why Los Angeles Unified Superintendent John Deasy joined nonprofit advocacy groups EdVoice, Education Trust - West, Children Now, and StudentsFirst in opposing AB 5.

John B. King, the former U.S. education Secretary and incoming president of the Education Trust, a nonprofit advocacy group, has expressed a range of concerns about DeVos and her commitment to public education, but said he's also keeping an oeducation Secretary and incoming president of the Education Trust, a nonprofit advocacy group, has expressed a range of concerns about DeVos and her commitment to public education, but said he's also keeping an oEducation Trust, a nonprofit advocacy group, has expressed a range of concerns about DeVos and her commitment to public education, but said he's also keeping an oeducation, but said he's also keeping an open mind.

The issue is bigger than L.A. Unified, said Arun Ramanathan, executive director of Education Trust - West, a nonprofit advocacy group not involved in the pending litigation.

DFER is actually the more well known PAC arm of Education Reform Now, Inc. (ERN), a 501 (c)(3) charitable nonprofit, and Education Reform Now Advocacy, Inc. (ERNA), a 501 (c)(4) social welfare group.

Those ratings, by the nonprofit advocacy group National Council on Teacher Quality, which has been a vocal critic of teacher preparation programs, were based heavily on education school curriculum and selectivity.

Founded in 2004, ARME is a nonprofit advocacy group created to eliminate the suffering of all animals through rescue, public education and outreach.

We are a nonprofit animal rescue, education and advocacy group.

The Consumer Federation of America is a national organization of more than 250 nonprofit consumer groups that was founded in 1968 to advance the consumer interest through research, advocacy, and education.

Veteran housing and urban policy writer Andre F. Shashaty is also president of the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, a San Francisco — based nonprofit education and advocacy group focused on the social, economic and environmental...