Sentences with phrase «policy reform efforts»

You may be able to help with their policy reform efforts, their community outreach, or other aspects of their work — in a professional capacity or as a volunteer.

The results have provided an agenda for its subsequent capacity - building, research, and policy reform efforts.

Our policy reform efforts coupled with strategic litigation support led to a major systemic overhaul.

Second, TNTP does not view policy reform efforts as separate from the daily work of recruiting, training, and hiring high - quality teachers, but rather as an integral part of it.

Once that is done and a «new nexus of research» begins to form around how climate science and the climate change movement can increase racial and ethnic diversity, those fact - based findings can be used to guide public climate advocacy and policy reform efforts.

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Part spokesperson, part negotiator, Ivanka has led the White House's effort to promote the effort, using the small but important piece of tax reform as an opportunity to translate her campaign promises, which centered on helping women and working families, into policy.

But significant changes in policies since then — not least, lower primary surpluses and a weak reform effort that will weigh on growth and privatization — are leading to substantial new financing needs.

Martin Schulz, leader of the Social Democrats (SPD), has doubled down on social reform policies in a last - ditch effort to boost his election polls during a public television town hall - style exchange.

It is to be expected, therefore, that the history of land - reform efforts is one of political chicanery, violence, subversion and only halfhearted implementation of even those policies that have been established by government action.

Challenge Success has since worked with almost 800,000 students, faculty, administrators and parents throughout the United States and across the world on efforts like changing bell schedules, reforming homework policies, shifting to alternative assessments and encouraging project - based learning with the goal of creating «healthier and more productive pathways to success.»

She has spent more than 15 years leading education reform efforts as a social entrepreneur and education policy and philanthropy advisor.

In this regard, in 2018, efforts will be geared towards keeping the lights on at affordable rates to consumers, particularly industries and small businesses through reform and policy interventions over a two - year period.

His research focuses on the politics of drug policy reform in Latin America, specifically efforts to legalize cannabis.

And while he praised Bloomberg's efforts to improve public health, snuff out smoking, and pass immigration reform, he vowed to improve the way the city deals with small businesses, bolster affordable housing, and reform the controversial stop - and - frisk policy to improve community relations with police.

Mr. Seabrook, the union leader who has been a proud obstacle to plenty of the reform efforts aimed at Rikers Island by Mr. de Blasio over the last several years — he filed court documents to try to stop a new use of force policy and has held City Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates nearby.

Soto highlighted his efforts to help with hurricane relief in both Florida and Puerto Rico, and a whole host of progressive policies from supporting labor unions to supporting the gay community, from advocating to reinstate the assault weapons ban to sponsorship of a sexual harassment bill, and from opposing the Republican tax reform bill, to opposing President Donald Trump «s wall.

De Blasio supports President Obama's go - it - alone effort on immigration reform, calls current policy «absolutely ridiculous» and says the president has «every right» to go around Congress.

The nine - person board has a voice on policy matters, can nix or approve big contracts and budgets, and generally helps steer the direction of Hartford's long - running education reform efforts.

As for policy, Cox pointed to the Republican Party's support for education reform efforts that have put them at odds with politically influential teachers unions.

The frantic effort to save the policy comes as Ed Miliband delivered a speech saying David Cameron is «betraying the trust» of the public because of the reforms.

Overall, nine people serve on the volunteer panel that has a voice on school policy, district leadership and the direction of Hartford's education reform efforts.

For this reason, the EU has reformed the Common Fisheries Policy in an effort to eradicate the practice by obliging fishing vessels to land all of their catch.

Our objective is an unbiased, critical assessment of whether the agricultural reform is a worthwhile effort by describing the conflicts implied by the proposed changes in agricultural policy?

Information about efforts to reform federal fiscal policy, statements, letters, and other materials are in this section.

This shift also, however, provides an opportunity for those who wish to whitewash school failure and to stonewall efforts to overhaul education policy through school turnarounds and systemic reforms.

A consensus for change is developing, but as Bridget Terry Long points out in a new policy proposal commissioned by the Hamilton Project, reform efforts often sidestep substantial questions about how to improve academic preparation and — importantly — help students avoid remedial placement altogether...

«We can only achieve ambitious reform in education policy through sustained effort, commitment and collaboration — teachers and principals must be a part of this — and this forum showed dedication to achieving that,» Ms Rodgers said.

Today's advocates for better schools are insurgent groups that challenge the establishment by encouraging parents to engage actively in K - 12 reform efforts, demanding major changes in school choice and teacher policies, as well as school governance.

In 2013, when one could just start to glimpse that some reforms might be going south, I mused, «Reformers have greeted with a surprising lack of interest the seemingly self - evident fact that the fruits of policy innovation depend as much on how policies are carried out as on whether they're carried out... Earlier reform efforts failed when their champions got mired in changing «professional practice» while ignoring policy.

The authors are well aware of the limitation our complex political system places on any effort at change and reform, and in view of this complexity, they do not expect much: if some policy does more good than harm, that is good enough for them.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

Although much of country is familiar with the late Senator Edward «Ted» Kennedy's efforts in healthcare reform, he was also a leading force behind such education policies as Goals 2000, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), and the Direct Loan Program.

The report's authors, the Consortium on Productivity in the Schools — a three - year effort to find weak points in how school systems are organized — sidestepped one of the group's original goals: identifying points where school - reform policy is not translated into classroom practice.

With a new generation of reform - minded philanthropists targeting high - profile efforts that will influence educational politics and policy, the time is ripe for a project that targets methodological advances and improvements for cost modeling strategies.

The text - based chat followed the release last month of Quality Counts at 10: A Decade of Standards - Based Reform, the 10th annual Education Week report on state policy efforts for improving education (Jan. 5, 2006).

The seminar — promoted through a collaboration between HGSE and the Center for Public Policy and Educational Evaluation (Centro de Políticas Públicas e Avaliação da Educação, or CAEd) of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora in Brazil — focused on education reform, specifically U.S. efforts to develop 21st - century skills through teacher education, leadership development, and the definition of standards for teachers and school leaders.

The Communiqué calls on the international community to increase efforts to phase out perverse subsidies to fossil fuels by promoting policy transparency, ambitious reform and targeted support for the poorest.

The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).

Importantly, although accomplished after the entry of a court order, these deeper policy changes were not specifically ordered by the court, but instead represented creative reform efforts by the political branches.

Based on the reforms that occurred immediately prior to and during the Klein administration, it is clear that there has been a concerted effort to alter regulations, policies and practices to improve the overall quality of New York City teachers and especially ensure that students most in need of effective teachers are more likely to get them.

More recent trends in philanthropic investment rely more on a change - oriented and data - driven approach, with increased focus on disrupting traditional institutions and structures and research and advocacy efforts to create policy environments supportive of reform.

«Given the accessible and yet sophisticated way that Darling - Hammond analyzes past educational reform efforts and provides policy direction for the future, it is no surprise that many in the field of education had hoped that she would become the Secretary of Education under President Obama.»

We are inviting all our allies, former adversaries, and new partners to join hands in a commitment to a new equation for education — Innovation + Opportunity = Results, or Ed Reform I.O, dedicated to advancing the foundational concepts of innovation and opportunity in all future policy efforts.

Teacher evaluation policy has undergone a lot of upheaval, but the ESSA transition can provide an opportunity to consider teacher evaluation as part of a larger effort to attract, retain, and leverage teacher talent in a way that may have been overlooked in recent reforms.

In this policy proposal Nora Gordon suggests (1) reforms to ensure that the Title I formula gets enough resources to the neediest areas, and (2) improvements in federal guidance and fiscal compliance outreach efforts so that local districts understand the flexibility they have to spend effectively.

Few analyses have been conducted on past state efforts to overhaul teacher - tenure policies, concludes a report that recommends ways states, districts, and unions might approach the issue of tenure reform in the future.

In a recent speech, Hillary Clinton embraced the Obama administration's efforts to reform school discipline policies that rely heavily on suspension and expulsion, noting that these policies disproportionately affect black students.

Back in the 1990s, there was a sense that reforms failed when advocates got bogged down in efforts to change «professional practice» while ignoring the role of policy.

The state of Texas has been making a concerted effort to raise the quality of its public charter schools through sound policy reform, effective implementation, and resources to help practitioners zero in on improvement.