Sentences with phrase «of controversial education reform»

Despite this opposition, FLVS was only a minor irritation among a number of controversial education reform programs.

From the start, Florida political leaders spoke of steering clear of controversial education reforms.

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In a significant speech, he will outline Coalition plans to ensure teaching is based on «excellence», saying that controversial reforms are needed to «bring back the values of a good education».

Health Education England (HEE) was first mooted in April 2010 by Andrew Lansley, as part of the coalition's controversial health reforms.

His team is also expected to continue focusing heavily on test scores as a performance measure, one of the more controversial aspects of his education reforms.

He was a reforming, if controversial, education secretary between 2010 and 2014, and now holds the Ministry of Justice brief.

There will be other pressing issues to resolve besides, taxes; anti-corruption reform, and perhaps some changes to the controversial implementation of the new Common Core education standards.

This is especially relevant to the UK, where the education secretary Michael Gove has justified some of his controversial reforms by referring to the country's performance on the international educational stage.

Although a varied and massive array of programs comprise the Harlem Children's Zone, its charter schools have garnered perhaps the most attention, particularly in the context of controversial New York City school reforms and the larger conversation in the education world about high - stakes tests, charters, and No Child Left Behind.

Scores for the latest round of the Kentucky Education Reform Act's controversial assessment and accountability portion were released last week, and the results show gains in all content areas in elementary, middle, and high schools across the state.

School vouchers provide funds to parents to enable them to enroll their children in private schools and, as a result, are one of the most controversial education reforms in the United States (to see an interview with Patrick Wolf about his evaluation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program and about its likely future please click here).

It was in his days as governor of South Carolina, when he was trying to promote a controversial education reform plan.

Says Howell, «The evidence suggests that by strategically deploying funds to cash - strapped states and massively increasing the public profile of a controversial set of education policies, the president managed to stimulate reforms that had stalled in state legislatures.»

Minimum - competency exams were by far the more controversial of the two major first - wave education reforms.

The 50th anniversary of major student unrest was perhaps not the ideal moment to propose controversial higher education reforms.

On June 4, 1991, Minnesota Gov. Arne Carlson signed into law a bill that set in motion one of the most significant — and controversial — education reform movements in modern history.

This has been particularly helpful for evaluating the effectiveness of charter schools, a controversial education reform with a mixed record overall but one that shows remarkably large gains for disadvantaged students in urban areas.

The guidebook of the mass school closings movement is a 2009 «School Closure Guide» written by the controversial Broad Foundation, which boasts of training and placing non-educator superintendents and high - level school leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatization.

Doyle has indicated that he may call lawmakers into special session to deal with the most controversial education reform bill of all.

A controversial «parent trigger» bill backed by powerful GOP leaders and education reform icon Jeb Bush is headed to the Senate floor for a vote in the final week of the legislative session over the objections of the measure's critics over the way it is being handled.

The agreement at West Athens Elementary School marked either an historic moment when parents achieved reform months after suggesting they might invoke a controversial education law — or a misrepresented portrayal of a school improvement plan years in the making.

The bonuses mark Miami - Dade's foray into performance pay, a controversial policy that is part of the Obama Administration's education reform agenda.

I could go on to defend each of Malloy's proposals point - by - point, but I'll finish by addressing what might be the most controversial education reform proposal out there: linking teacher evaluations to standardized test results.

Center for Education Reform Senior Fellow and President Emeritus Jeanne Allen on a controversial new study of online charter schools.

The evaluation of teachers based on the contribution they make to the learning of their students, value - added, is an increasingly popular but controversial education reform policy.

The administration promised $ 1 billion in new spending on preschool; spurred states to adopt controversial K - 12 reforms such as performance - based teacher evaluations and the adoption of the Common Core State Standards through its Race to the Top grant program and waivers to the No Child Left Behind law; significantly expanded the federal School Improvement Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college free.

School accountability may be the most controversial and significant of all contemporary U.S. education reforms.

Many teachers today, including NEA members, have been angry at the Obama administration for education reform policies that they say have harmed public education, including its support for the expansion of charter schools and the controversial evaluation of teachers by student test scores.

In the course of reporting a story about Michelle Rhee, the controversial former District of Columbia chancellor seeking to take her brand of education reform to statehouses across the country, the Los Angeles Times asked her spokeswoman a simple question: Do Rhee's children attend public or private school?

As a school - choice advocate, she is well - positioned to put her stamp on the expansion of charter schools and other effective - but often controversial - education reforms.

The last time Puerto Rico passed major education reforms was in the 1990s, and some elements of the controversial bill have attracted support from union members.

And, at a recent education reform summit he convened earlier this month, as he began to get to the crux of his speech on how he plans to tackle the highly controversial teacher evaluation issue, the sound equipment cut out.

Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.

We've spent a lot of time and much ink over the past few years discussing the controversial «seven breakthrough solutions» to higher education reform, the UT Regent Wallace Hall investigations, the «invasion» of The University of Texas on the turf of the University of Houston, the competition among seven of our institutions to achieve national «Tier One» status, and related side shows, while ducking the real underlying issue.

The short answer to the question is that the Common Core State Standards are potentially the most revolutionary and controversial public school reform in the history of United States public education.

Although the corporate education reform entity, Relay School of Education, has recently been prohibited from working in California and Pennsylvania, Governor Dannel Malloy's political appointees on the State Board of Education are poised today to grant the controversial teacher training scheme, «full program approval» to operate in Coneducation reform entity, Relay School of Education, has recently been prohibited from working in California and Pennsylvania, Governor Dannel Malloy's political appointees on the State Board of Education are poised today to grant the controversial teacher training scheme, «full program approval» to operate in ConEducation, has recently been prohibited from working in California and Pennsylvania, Governor Dannel Malloy's political appointees on the State Board of Education are poised today to grant the controversial teacher training scheme, «full program approval» to operate in ConEducation are poised today to grant the controversial teacher training scheme, «full program approval» to operate in Connecticut.

Neighboring governor and fellow Democrat Andrew Cuomo of New York staked a huge portion of his agenda for 2015 on ramming through controversial education reforms, and his approval rating both overall and especially on education have tanked in a highly visible manner.

At Race to the Top, Obama's 2010 Education Grant Initiative, read a summary of Obama's controversial five reforms which are a model for his planned reform of NCLB.

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From teacher pay to charter funding to a bitterly controversial reform bill for North Carolina's low - performing schools, the state legislature covered a wide range of education issues this year.

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«I think it's a huge blow to the [Democrats for Education] brand,» says Green Dot Public Charter Schools founder Steve Barr in this new Huffington Post story about the controversial endorsement of Prop. 32 by Gloria Romero, former state legislator and current head of Democrats For Education Reform California.

The Senate has made it part of a massive education reform bill that includes several controversial provisions, including offering private school vouchers for students who report being bullied and decertifying teachers unions where membership drops below 50 percent.