Sentences with phrase «nonprofit education policy groups»
Students from disadvantaged communities are more likely to attend schools with substandard Internet connections, according to a November report from the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Leading Education by Advancing Digital (LEAD) Commission, nonprofit education policy groups.
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Mr. Hart has spent the past five years as a co-director of the California State University Institute for Education Reform, a nonprofit policy - research group in Sacramento.
The National Center on Education and the Economy, a private, nonprofit research and policy group in Rochester,...
«If you create a system that doesn't have maximum teacher input, it doesn't matter how technically sound it is,» said Dan Cruce, a former official in the Delaware Department of Education who now works for the nonprofit policy organization Hope Street Group.
Over the past six years of his career, while working in government and for education nonprofit groups like StudentsFirst and TNTP, he has specialized in breaking down complex education reform policy issues into easy - to - understand concepts.
A former political organizer - he worked for Walter Mondale's failed presidential campaign and the star - crossed movement to draft Mario Cuomo for a White House bid - he runs Project Appleseed, a nonprofit group that helps parents shed their timid, «teachers know best» attitudes and dive into the nitty - gritty of schools and education policy.
«Under this system, districts can escape notice or attention simply by shining in categories that are less than academic and whose outcomes they control,» said Chad Aldeman, an education policy expert whose Boston - based nonprofit group flagged this problem in a recent report on California's school accountability system.
California's public school system — whose per - pupil expenditures were already below the national average — is getting hit with some nasty cuts, thanks in large part to the state's $ 24 billion budget gap, says Brian Edwards, senior policy analyst at EdSource, a nonprofit education and research group in Mountain View, Calif..
Illinois» Fathers for New Futures (FNF) hosts the Power of Fathers Symposium, a statewide collaborative of nonprofits that seeks to strengthen and support low - income minority fathers in developing relationships with their children, families, and communities.77 Among its programs, FNF provides job readiness training, parent education, case management, child support information, and additional services to young fathers and men trying to reconnect with their families.78 FNF also hosts a working group of practitioners, and research and policy experts that supports outcomes for children of noncustodial, African - American fathers.79
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...