Sentences with phrase «over the achievement first»

Her plan is to close two of the schools and hand one over the Achievement First Inc. and the other to Steve Perry's Capital Prep Magnet School.

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While Chief of the Tsawwassen First Nation for over thirteen years, her most notable achievement was when she negotiated and implemented British Columbia's first urban treaty which is now culminating in expansive community developFirst Nation for over thirteen years, her most notable achievement was when she negotiated and implemented British Columbia's first urban treaty which is now culminating in expansive community developfirst urban treaty which is now culminating in expansive community development.

In 2011, Mr. McGregor became the first recipient of the Lipper Award for Fund Excellence, presented to investment managers for achievements over their career.

They are the first awards of their kind to acknowledge the outstanding achievements of individuals and businesses in Australia's over $ 1.5 billion organic industry.

You must» nt forget when Alex Ferguson first took the helm at Man Utd he was dealing with players with lesser known credibility, but Moyes was taking over a bunch of superstars already moulded for greater achievements and success.

When he took over at Juventus he wasn't a popular choice, but the achievements of his first season took the club to yet new heights.

Whatever people may think of New Labour's achievements, faults and mistakes, there is an enormous difference between the timidity with which a government with a majority of 170 + proceeded in its first term, carefully implementing its incremental manifesto but always looking over its shoulder in search of the «daily mandate», and the astonishing bullishness of this Coalition despite the hung parliament.

Team Bloomberg offered a long list of first - term achievements, adding that Bloomberg took over right after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and had to rebuild Lower Manhattan, and oversee the building of the memorial and museum.

The Vice Chairman of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu Ampofu, has touted President John Mahama's achievements over the past four years, saying he comes next to Ghana's first President, Kwame Nkrumah in terms of infrastructural development.

Regaining mayoral control of schools was one Michael Bloomberg's greatest legislative achievements as mayor; it marked the first time City Hall gained discretion over education policy since the Lindsay administration, when those powers were decentralized and major decisions were made by an education board.

This year, the debate over the top choice — the first detection of gravitational waves — was brief: The achievement fulfilled a 100 - year - old prediction, opened up a potential new branch of astronomy, and was a stunning technological accomplishment.

His achievements are as diverse as presiding over the 2010 Cannes Film Festival's jury to launching one of the first comic - book movie franchises with his Batman films.

Australian results from the first of two major international education studies have indicated Years 4 and 8 student achievement in mathematics and science has flatlined over the past 20 years.

Australian results from the first of two major international education studies have been called a «cause for grave concern» after they indicated Years 4 and 8 student achievement in mathematics and science has flatlined over the past 20 years.

Schools operated by Achievement First, for example, have helped their students gain an additional 125 days of learning in math and 57 days in English over traditional public schools.

I first analyze changes over time in the FCAT test scores of students in their initial 3rd - grade year in order to discern the extent to which Florida's elementary - school students made true achievement gains during the period in question.

Playing in the first division in terms of student achievement carries over to what our workforce will look like in the future.

Over the first half of the year, a number of Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty, students, and alumni were recognized for their hard work and achievements with awards and fellowships.

The first - ever state - by - state assessment of student achievement finds that performance in mathematics varies widely among states and that student performance over all remains low.

The improvement approach would first identify a set of K - 12 districts that have realized the greatest gains in measured student achievement over a multi-year period.

The authors note that the schools given the opportunity to participate needed to «out - pace their counterparts in the control group» over the program's first two years in order to demonstrate that merit pay made a real difference for student achievement.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Over the past 18 months, Stefan Pryor, Malloy's Commissioner of Education, co-founder of Achievement First, Inc. (the large charter school Management Company) and corporate education reform aficionado, has moved out all the professional expertise from the State Department of Education's office that is responsible for what used to be called Priority School Districts but are now called Alliance Districts.

It would've been irresponsible for any city leader to oppose Achievement First's expansion over politics, just as it's irresponsible for the AFT to insinuate Achievement First abuses its lottery system when, in fact, it's the Hartford school system that manages the lottery.

Instead of trained professionals with Connecticut experience, Pryor has handed the operation over to a former Achievement First, Inc. administrator Morgan Barth who managed to spend a number of years illegally teaching at a Achievement First school despite his lack of proper state certification.

Achievement First, Inc. the large charter school company that was co-founded by Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, is continuing its campaign to get the Hartford Board of Education to close the Clark Elementary School and hand it over to the charter school operator.

First, American public school students have shown increased achievement over the long term, especially African Americans and Latinos.

According to reports filed with the Federal Election Committee and the Connecticut State Elections Enforcement Commission, over the past few years, Dannel Malloy's fundraising operatives have collected more than $ 330,000 from the people who serve on the Achievement First, Inc..

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Clearly Superintendent Kishimoto doesn't subscribe to the same four «deeds» considering closing Clark and handing it over to Achievement First, Inc. is neither respectful nor responsible nor caring nor the right or safe thing to do for Hartford's public school children

The reformers initial proposal was to hand Hartford's Clark Elementary school over to Achievement First, Inc. the charter school management company co-founded by Commissioner Stefan Pryor.

According to The New York Times, the ten highest paid hedge fund operators with close ties to charter schools also includes David Tepper (number 1 at $ 3.5 billion in 2013), founder of founder of Appaloosa Management and New Jersey based «Better Education for Kids»; Steven A. Cohen (number 2 at $ 2.4 billion) of SAC Capital Advisors, which was forced to pay a $ 1.2 billion dollar penalty for insider trading, who has given over $ 10 million to the Achievement First charter school network; and Paul Tudor Jones II (tied for tenth at $ 600 million), founder of the Tudor Investment Corporation who has supported charter schools through his Robin Hood Foundation.

Take, for example, Deb Gustafson, who in 2001 took over as principal of Ware Elementary, the first school in Kansas to be put «on improvement» because of its low achievement.

The same Jonathan Sacker who set up ConnCAN's unknown sister organization called the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Advocacy Inc. which poured more than half a million dollars into legislative lobbying over the past few years helping to get Achievement First more money and a special law exempting charter schools from having to have all their teachers certified.

This coming year, the district is scheduled to pay Achievement First over $ 3.2 million.»

As Wait, What have readers learned over the last two years, Achievement First, Inc. the Charter School management company that runs more than two dozen schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island is notorious for «out - migrating» or «dumping» any students that don't fit their «exacting» standards.

I've just realized that the Turnaround Model the state is so anxious to effect on its «lowest performing schools» and of which Andrea Comer and Michael Sharpe are experts should actually be called the Turn Over Model — as in, Turn Over your public taxpayer dollars to a private «non-profit» charter company, such as FUSE or Achievement First.

Before the meeting, parents, teachers and public school advocates will hold a press conference about Kishimoto's plan to close Clark School and hand it over to Achievement First, Inc..

These people also are deeply connected to Achievement First, the charter school group that the new educational commissioner brought in immediately to take over some Hartford schools.

Not to be outdone, the charter school lobby group ConnCAN continued to lament the changes made to the Commissioner's Network which was Malloy's proposal to allow Stefan Pryor, his Commissioner of Education (and the lawyer who helped form and direct Achievement First for eight years) to take over up to 25 urban schools.

Many were concerned that Pryor, a key player behind Achievement First Inc., the large charter school management company that runs twenty schools in New York and Connecticut, would use his position to take over neighborhood schools and hand them over to his friends and colleagues in the Charter School industry.

«The continuing story is that only about 40 percent of our students are on track and there still remain huge achievement gaps,» state school board President Andrew Smarick was quoted by The Baltimore Sun, when the PARCC scores were first released over the summer.

Beyond giving two additional public schools over to the quasi public - private model, funding from this grant will enable HPS staff to attend Achievement First «s New Coach Training.

While many of our students arrive at their first day of school many years behind on academic achievement measures, over the course of their tenure at a school, students should close the gap between their own achievement profile and that of a college - ready student profile.

To review, Achievement First, the organization that Stefan Pryor helped create and served as a Director for until he quit last year to become Malloy's Commissioner of Education, is scheduled to grow from 20 school to 35 schools over the next few years at which point it claims that it will be larger than 95 % of all school districts in the country.

Last week Hartford Superintendent of Schools, Christina Kishimoto, announced plans that she wants to close Hartford's Clark School and hand the building over to Achievement First, Inc., the larger charter school management company that already has one school in Hartford but was promised another by Mayor Pedro Segarra and the majority on the Hartford Board of Education.

In fact, if Malloy's Commissioner's Network becomes law, companies like Achievement First and Kipp will be among the only entities that have deep enough pockets to take over existing schools half way through the fall semester.

Over the last few day's I've laid out the irrefutable evidence that the guiding hands that created and manage Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company, are the same hands that created and coordinate the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc (ConnCAN) and the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Advocacy, Inc (the entity that paid more than half a million dollars to lobby for Achievement First and ConnCAN's agenda).

The biggest boost in public - school achievement occurred the first year the scholarship program was introduced but gains persisted over time.