Sentences with phrase «nonprofit school advocacy»

Allensworth, whose research will be featured Tuesday, April 7, in a national webinar sponsored by California's Attendance Institute, a nonprofit school advocacy group based in Sacramento, offers up the educational experience of two fifth graders that might finish the year both with good attendance records, say 97 percent.

Not exact matches

The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.

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).

The vast majority of EP alumni work for other education organizations, including high - performing charter school networks and education nonprofits, state and federal agencies that allocate billions of dollars across the sector and impact millions of children, education policy and advocacy organizations, and ed tech companies.

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

HDP graduates are putting their Harvard degree and experience to work at all levels of the education sector — public and independent schools, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies — as well as pursuing careers in public health, social services, child advocacy, and social policy.

Seven years ago, Raise Your Hand Texas (RYHT), a nonprofit education advocacy organization, collaborated with the Harvard Graduate School of Education to help strengthen public education and Texas school leSchool of Education to help strengthen public education and Texas school leschool leaders.

We didn't want the public school bureaucracy to smother this nascent (and seemingly threatening) movement, so we ultimately decided to create a private nonprofit organization, called the Center for Charter Excellence, that would become the hub for charter school support and advocacy.

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.

Phillip Lovell, vice president of federal advocacy at the nonprofit Alliance for Excellent Education, which focuses on high school reform, says that there are simply not enough good charter school providers to take the place of all the low - performing, large urban high schools.

Low - income, African - American, and Hispanic students in the 50 largest districts in Texas are less likely to attend schools with experienced teachers than high - income and white students in those same districts, concludes a report by the Education Trust, a Washington - based nonprofit research and advocacy organization.

A vast array of nonprofit organizations came of age to support public school innovation: Teach For America, TNTP, dozens of high - performing charter school networks, new - school incubators, advocacy organizations, and much more.

For example, a report released recently (by the ACLU SoCal and Public Advocates, a nonprofit law firm and advocacy group) found that more than 20 percent of all California charter schools have enrollment policies that violate state and federal law.

Across the nation, 604 charter schools, or 12 percent, operate with unions, and more than half of them must do so under state laws, according to data compiled for the last school year by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a nonprofit advocacy organischools, or 12 percent, operate with unions, and more than half of them must do so under state laws, according to data compiled for the last school year by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a nonprofit advocacy organiSchools, a nonprofit advocacy organization.

The lack of progress in the younger grades trickles up: More than half of English learners now in California high schools are «long - term English learners,» meaning they have been in public schools for six years without learning English, according to a 2010 report by Californians Together, a nonprofit advocacy group.

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.

The Seattle Times published the following article in today's newspaper: Advocacy groups file initiative to put charter schools on November ballot — According to the text, the initiative sets out several guidelines, including a stipulation that any charter schools must be nonprofit and must not be religious.

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.

«The district came back and said, «We would like a second chance to turn this school around,»» said David Phelps, spokesman for Parent Revolution, the nonprofit advocacy group that bankrolled the 24th Street push and lobbies for parent trigger legislation nationwide.

Those challenges are why Lester's principal, Antonio Burt, a second - year principal trained by the national nonprofit advocacy group, New Leaders for New Schools, opened the doors to a visitor.

School administrators will have to explicitly address the racial biases and stereotyping that stifle black educators» professional growth, argue researchers Ashley Griffin and Hilary Tackie in a new report from The Education Trust, a national nonprofit advocacy organization.

The nonprofit New Teacher Project (TNTP), an alternative teacher - certification and advocacy group, surveyed more than 10,500 teachers in three large public school districts and one charter school network to assess whether teacher development programs organized by the districts have helped teachers improve.

Florida Coalition of School Board Members is a nonprofit 501c3 organization providing professional development and advocacy for School Board Members learn more http://FCSBM.org

As you are aware, the Cleveland Transformation Alliance is a nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to growing a portfolio of high - performing district and community schools in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.

Stand for Children: Stand for Children is a nonprofit, parent, teacher, and community - based advocacy organization that works to ensure all children graduate from high school prepared for, and with access to, a college education.

In its analysis of more than 15,000 high school transcripts from nine diverse school districts in California, 1 the Education Trust - West, a small nonprofit education policy and advocacy organization dedicated to closing opportunity and achievement gaps, found a pattern of schooling that should disturb us all.

Karega is a former Charter Schools Director with the Indianapolis Mayor's Office; founded and served as Director of the Indianapolis affiliate of Stand for Children, a national educational advocacy nonprofit; and was on the leadership team of Indiana University's Equity Project, housed at the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy.

Today, Kristin Ehrgood is the driving force behind Flamboyan Foundation's goals, which center on education advocacy and family engagement in Washington, D.C., and on fostering strong school leadership and building the island's philanthropic and nonprofit communities in Puerto Rico.

Local nonprofit research and advocacy organization Children at Risk announced its «Top 10 Schools in San Antonio» lists on Tuesday at the San Antonio Area Foundation.

About 275,000 students nationwide are enrolled full time in online schools, according to Susan Patrick, president of the International Association for K - 12 Online Learning, a nonprofit advocacy 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.