New York, NY — As final negotiations wrap up on the state budget, public school parent activists and students today rallied outside Tweed Courthouse to urge legislators to
pass the meaningful education reforms outlined in Governor Cuomo's education Opportunity Agenda.
Not exact matches
«I will prioritize
passing meaningful ethics reform, supporting our middle class families and small business owners, fighting tirelessly for better public
education, and providing the residents of our district with the resources and services that they deserve.»
Five years have
passed since the final winners in the $ 4 billion contest were announced, so there has been enough time to assess whether the program encouraged
meaningful education reform or promised a lot but changed little.
The time is right for NJ lawmakers to
pass meaningful and beneficial
education reform.
A study by Kirabo Jackson published in the Fall 2008 issue of Ed Next found that a program that paid students and teachers for
passing scores on Advanced Placement tests produced
meaningful increases in participation in the AP program and improvements in other critical
education outcomes.
A proposed provision that declares that nothing in future
education policy would prevent the passage of Parent Trigger laws or other Parent Power efforts would be
meaningful if it also proposed a competitive grant program to encourage states to enact such laws; as is, there is nothing in federal law that restricts states from
passing Parent Trigger laws or keeps families from using them.
February 19, 2013 (New York, NY)-- Educators 4 Excellence (E4E), the teacher led
education organization, launched a 30 - second television ad buy today calling on Albany to immediately
pass and implement a real and
meaningful teacher evaluation and support system.
In order to not let this opportunity
pass us by,
education and community leaders will need to continue working together to establish a new way of getting things done that is grounded in authentic and
meaningful dialogue and transparent decision making that is focused on maximizing every resource available to ensure the success of kids.
Over the past two years, according to a report out Tuesday from the National Council on Teacher Quality, 33 states have
passed meaningful new oversight laws or regulations to elevate teacher
education in ways that are much harder for universities to game or ignore.
Especially with a cadre of new governors and legislators taking office, along with issues that intersect with
education such as criminal justice reform on the agenda, reformers should use the time now to
pass meaningful legislation that will help all of our children.
Though time is running out, our lawmakers still have the opportunity to
pass meaningful choice for the parents of students with special needs — children who are most in need options — by establishing
Education Savings Accounts.
Amid local efforts to improve
education outcomes in districts with fewer resources, superintendents expressed worries last year that lawmakers would not
pass meaningful school finance reform without a ruling from the Texas Supreme Court ordering them to do so.
Where else can someone who is working at unskilled things like serving tables, washing dishes, driving a delivery truck, working at an auto assembly plant or other factory, telemarketing at some boring office or who is otherwise working at any minimum wage job due to a lack of
education and / or
meaningful real - life experience etc., get to go to real estate classes (hoping that a few months thereafter to be guiding uneducated consumers through the most expensive and most important financial transactions of their lives in trade for big fat commissions) often with a minimalist
education (maybe just scraped by at that after multiple attempts to
pass grade ten or eleven) and expect to instantly be labelled a professional operative upon
passing the real estate courses» exams via penning memorized responses to forewarned - about - exam - questions by instructors who need to display a suitable
passing percentage of students to keep their part - time teaching jobs?