Sentences with phrase «nonprofit education reform group»

In 2008, frustrated by years of education stagnation, the National Governors Association, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and Achieve, a nonpartisan, nonprofit education reform group began the process of developing the math and language arts standards that eventually became the Common Core State Standards.

The recent case, Doe v. Deasy, was filed in 2010 by several students in the district and sponsored by EdVoice, the nonprofit education reform group backed by billionaire Eli Broad, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and Richard Merkin, CEO of the Heritage Provider Network, among others.

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The event is sponsored by Education Reform Now, a group that has ties to Taveras: the New York - based 501 (c) 3 nonprofit is helping support the national Mayors for Educational Excellence Tour, which is meant to highlight new educational efforts in four specific U.S. cities.

Among today's advocates for young people are nonprofit insurgent groups that challenge the education establishment by organizing, educating, and mobilizing parents in a variety of roles and in different ways, empowering them to engage in K — 12 reform efforts.

Nov. 15, 2 p.m. ET: Powerful Partnerships: Creating Community Coalitions for District Reform The Syracuse City School District and Say Yes to Education have launched an innovative partnership intended to link public, private, and nonprofit community groups in support of the 19,000 - student district.

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

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 White House launches the New American Schools Development Corporation, a nonprofit, business - led group seeking to raise $ 150 million to $ 200 million in private money to finance research in support of President Bush's education - reform plan.

The poll of 445 likely voters sponsored by Education Reform Now, a nonprofit group that supports President Obama's agenda on education reform, was conducted in February before Mayor Thomas Menino announced he would not seek a siEducation Reform Now, a nonprofit group that supports President Obama's agenda on education reform, was conducted in February before Mayor Thomas Menino announced he would not seek a sixthReform Now, a nonprofit group that supports President Obama's agenda on education reform, was conducted in February before Mayor Thomas Menino announced he would not seek a sieducation reform, was conducted in February before Mayor Thomas Menino announced he would not seek a sixthreform, was conducted in February before Mayor Thomas Menino announced he would not seek a sixth term.

He is a founding member of the Students for Education Reform nonprofit group, and vice president of the La Cañada Unified School District Board of Education.

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 NEW YORK - BASED education reform nonprofit funneled nearly $ 2.5 million to a related group in Massachusetts, according to new disclosuresunearthed as part of a legal settlement.

In 2008, Canter joined Mississippi First, a nonprofit she heads as executive director, that has been leading the charge to introduce charter schools to the state (the group is also developing sex - education curricula for public schools) and to advocate for systemic public - school reform.

«Community Campaigns for Educational Justice (CCEJ) is a not - for - profit project of Students for Education Reform, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit group.

Several education reform groups are asking the House to add quality control measures to the charter bill that would affect all operators, both for - profit and nonprofit.

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.

On October 26, members of the San Francisco chapter of the NAACP, along with Innovate Public Schools, a nonprofit organized to promote reforms in public education to disadvantaged groups, held a press conference on the front steps of San Francisco City Hall promoting the latter group's new report on SFUSD's persistent and worsening achievement gap.

A New York - based education reform nonprofit funneled nearly $ 2.5 million to a related group in Massachusetts, according to new disclosures unearthed as part of a legal settlement.

Backed by a grant from NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit education reform philanthropy, the group has accumulated about 60 articles for its history platform on topics ranging from ancient China to the American Revolution.