Sentences with phrase «other education reform initiatives»

In addition to implementing Jindal's other education reform initiatives, he says his department organized seminars, hosted webinars, wrote brochures and built a team of teachers who were charged with spreading the news: The Common Core was coming.

Tisch is driving the state's implementation of the tougher standards, despite that she has been critical of other education reform initiatives, particularly in New York City.

Not exact matches

While her primary focus — and the focus of many media reports about her — has been on vouchers, tax credits, and education savings accounts, organizations she has led or helped found have also advanced other reform initiatives, such as accountability for student learning and more - rigorous academic standards.

Gioia's other reform was to develop separate arts education initiatives based squarely on art historical content.

Mark Pudlow, spokesperson for the Florida Education Association, the teachers union that has fought pitched battles against many of Florida's recent initiatives, acknowledges the result of Florida Virtual School's approach: «[It] never developed the kind of mistrust that tends to be associated with other reform ideas.»

Yet, opponents of parent choice and other transformational education reform initiatives continue to place one obstacle after another in the path of parents seeking the power to choose the best educational environment for their children and / or to fundamentally change some of the systems that purport to educate their children.

Once a stalwart of education reform — she served as an assistant education secretary under President George H.W. Bush and was a firm supporter of No Child Left Behind — Ravitch has soured on the ideas of charter schools, vouchers and other choice initiatives.

In March of 2012, North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis and ten other state lawmakers flew to Florida on the dime of Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina (PEFNC), an organization known for endorsing conservative education reform initiatives, including school vouchers.

Massell's (2008) analysis of education policy activity in the early 1990s, for example, suggested that, for many states, K — 12 education standards represented «a central framework guiding state education policy and practice» (2), as compared to other states where policy initiatives did not stem from any significant internal standards - based reform impetus.

Five years ago I was invited to join a newly formed education reform initiative comprised of Mayor Finch, then Superintendent John Ramos, then Board of Ed chair Barbara Bellinger, other community leaders, heads of local social service organizations, and business leaders.

Other areas of focus included college affordability, the ConnectED (PDF) initiative, and comprehensive immigration reform's effect on education.

We hope that we can continue to partner with the district in innovative ways to turn around low - performing schools — whether it's an equitable Public School Choice process or other reform initiative — and to pursue our common goal of ensuring that every student in Los Angeles receives a high - quality public education.»

For more than two years many Connecticut teachers, public school advocates, parents of public school students and others have been warning about the dangers that will result from Governor Malloy's corporate education reform industry initiative.

After so many reforms and initiatives in other areas of education have failed to have much impact, the spotlight has turned to trying to make the teacher - student relationship a more powerful force for achievement.

Earlier versions would have paid for the jobs funding by adding to the deficit, or by trimming from money already promised for education - reform initiatives through Race to the Top and other competitive grants.

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Formed by Jennifer Alexander and Alex Johnston, the present and former CEOs of ConnCAN, A Better Connecticut spent an additional $ 700,000 on television and other advertising in support of Governor Malloy's Education Reform Initiatives.

The organization formed by Jennifer Alexander and Alex Johnston, the present and former CEOs of ConnCAN, A Better Connecticut has spent $ 2 million on television advertising and other paid public relations to support Malloy and his Education Reform Initiatives.

Readers will recall that A Better Connecticut, ConnCAN and other corporate education industry organizations have spent a record $ 6 million and counting lobbying in support of Malloy's education reform initiative to date, including more than $ 2 million in television advertisements thanking Malloy for his «leadership.»

She has worked on a number of other studies, including a longitudinal study of the effectiveness of inclusive STEM high schools funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Evaluation of Writing Project Professional Development for the National Writing Project, the National Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund Program for the U.S. Department of Education, evaluations of several school reform initiatives in Chicago, and the Bridging the Divide study that examined the transition from high school to college for the U.S. Department of Education.

Great State Leaders: A Competency Framework for Growing Talent in a State Education Agency [PDF, 1 MB] Reforms of the scope and scale of those being undertaken by States today require the development of strong leaders at all levels of organizations to manage the change required by these and other initiatives.

HALCO and other specialized clinics like it focus «both on front - line work, such as direct legal services for people, in addition to public legal education, law reform and community development initiatives,» Peck said.