Sentences with phrase «powerful education reform»

«(Reuters)-- Chicago teachers... are taking on not just their combative mayor but a powerful education reform movement that is transforming public schools across the United States.»

Last year, those hearings proved uncomfortable for Senate Republicans too, when they seemed to find themselves unable to criticize specific aspects of de Blasio's education agenda, despite the assistance of powerful education reform advocacy groups in New York City.

Not exact matches

He also is one of the founders of FWD.us, a lobbying group of powerful silicon valley entrepreneurs focused on many political matters, such as immigration and education reform.

Besides showing what a private person Powell Jobs is, the story illustrates what makes her such a powerful advocate for education and immigration reforms.

Cuomo «has charted his own course on education policy between two powerful forces: labor unions and a movement claiming the mantle of reform,» write Jacob Gershman and Lisa Fleischer.

Mr. Cuomo has admitted his education reform agenda will be a tough sell amid pushback from the politically powerful unions, but provided an incentive: he promised to boost an education budget increase from a planned $ 377 million to $ 1.1 billion, but only if the reforms pass.

Murphy goes on to identify three trends that may help — or force — schools of education to change: First, today's political climate introduces powerful external pressure for schools to perform and leaders to reform, and schools of education are under pressure to produce principals and superintendents who can ensure results.

The result is that, as our nation has struggled to improve its public schools, the teacher unions have emerged as the fiercest, most powerful defenders of the status quo, and the single greatest obstacle to the reform of American education.

Nov. 15, 2 p.m. ET: Powerful Partnerships: Creating Community Coalitions for District Reform The Syracuse City School District and Say Yes to Education have launched an innovative partnership intended to link public, private, and nonprofit community groups in support of the 19,000 - student district.

ERN's mission is to orchestrate «a powerful chorus of voices within the education policy debate advancing a true agenda of reform [that includes]... every child having... a quality public education.»

Does all this sound familiar — a very powerful education establishment overseeing a system that is crumbling; lots of small reforms, around the edges?

At the Christensen Institute, the central theme of our research is disruptive innovation — a powerful theory of change that can overcome the faddish cycles of never - ending education reform.

Moe recognizes that public opinion on education represents a powerful resource that savvy advocates of policy reform can potentially tap to give political weight to their arguments.

Joe Williams, head of Democrats for Education Reform (DFER), says that «the general consensus from Merryl Tisch and Governor [David] Paterson on down the line was that Chuck Schumer is a powerful Senator — why does New York need to worry?

If the public, the political parties, and the most powerful interest groups are either apathetic about or hostile to education reform, how can the reformers prevail?

During her appointment, she set a high bar, and had a powerful track record: 95 percent of Richmond's lowest performing schools achieved full accreditation under Virginia's Standards of Learning reform legislation, and the district improved from 18 percent to 91.7 percent of all schools meeting this standard as measured by the State Department of Education.

Despite its lofty goals for every student and the support of some of the most powerful national players in education reform, the modern standards and accountability movement has hit a rough patch, if you haven't noticed.

Grogan believes that because the parent constituency of inner - city schools is not politically powerful, foundations serve as necessary advocates for education reform, pushing for improvements and using their influence and resources on behalf of these families.

Shanker sought to transform teacher unions into a powerful voice for education reform, proposing ideas that were unconventional for a union president.

Reading Robert Pondiscio's recent article («The Left's drive to push conservatives out of education reform») calls to mind Al Gore's «An Inconvenient Truth» and its powerful image of a polar bear drifting helplessly on a shrinking sheet of ice in a warming sea.

Supporting bold education reform, Microsoft's mission is simple: support bold education reform to help prepare students for today's highly competitive workforce, and support our U.S. educators with software and programs that fuel powerful learning and digital - age skills.

As our graduate pool grows, BTR is building a powerful movement for change within the BPS and the larger education reform community.

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.

Although some grassroots parents undoubtedly did support the bill, it was the product of powerful political figures, backed by the wealthy foundations that shape much of the country's debate over education reform.

Last night was Waterloo for the education status quo in Mississippi, a powerful statement that the voters of Mississippi support the bold education reforms of these last four years and do not want to go backwards.

POLITICS Chalkbeat: Walton memo recommends charter advocates do more to persuade Democrats Daily Signal: Latest NAEP Scores Show DeVos Was Right About Public Schools Sacramento Bee: Charter school backers spend millions to support Villaraigosa for governor Chalkbeat: Candidates backed by powerful coalition sweep Newark's historic school board election LA Times: The power game behind the search for a new L.A. schools leader Chalkbeat: CO Democrats overwhelmingly reject Democrats for Education Reform at state assembly

One of its goals was to get the powerful United Teachers of Los Angeles to adopt a sweeping education reform agenda.

Federal law and policy turned the education reform movement of the twenty - first century into a powerful force that no school or district dared to ignore.

Los Angeles Unified School Board Election Has Nation's Attention The race for three Los Angeles Unified school board seats has drawn more than $ 4 million in donations — as well as the attention of education leaders nationwide — as the district's powerful unions and the reform movement battle for control of public education.

In the shorthand of the traditional education lobby, TER was often tied to the powerful Texans for Lawsuit Reform, sharing common lobbyists.

NEW YORK CITY The fall issue of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform's Voices in Urban Education is chock - full of powerful essays reflecting on disparities in school discipline and highlighting efforts to reform discipline practices in cities like Denver, Nashville, Oakland and ChReform's Voices in Urban Education is chock - full of powerful essays reflecting on disparities in school discipline and highlighting efforts to reform discipline practices in cities like Denver, Nashville, Oakland and Chreform discipline practices in cities like Denver, Nashville, Oakland and Chicago.

«This committee will be able to make direct contributions to candidates, giving us a powerful new tool to push education reform in the Capitol,» read an e-mail to members.

Richard Berman, executive director of the Center for Union Facts, says yesterday's «Day of Action» is no more than the latest attempt by the powerful teachers union to pull the wool over the public's eyes: «Randi Weingarten doesn't care about reforming schools in the name of quality education; she cares about exploding government budgets in the name of filling her union's bank account.»

Across the United States and around the world, students are organizing themselves into energized, focused and powerful organizations in order to promote student voice in education reform in substantive and meaningful ways.

After all, students are just as adversely impacted by «education reform» as the teachers, and thus their parents and also community organizations who serve children and their parents could be vital allies in this fight against powerful and well funded opponents.

The center is a leadership academy for school administrators, which is funded by Eli Broad, a longtime Deasy supporter and powerful financier of California education reform efforts.

Fellow pro-public education blogger Mercedes Schneider is one of the most powerful and important voices in the anti-corporate education reform industry movement.

Leaders of a national education reform movement, including Joel I. Klein and Michelle Rhee, the former schools chancellors in New York and Washington have formed a statewide political group in New York with an eye toward being a counterweight to the powerful teachers» union in the 2013 mayoral election.

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.

It names and exposes the motives and methods of the powerful philanthropists, politicians, business moguls, and education entrepreneurs who are behind the reform movement.

I would also contend that giving schools greater flexibility and empowering our teachers to teach would be a more powerful strategy to make public education a success than many of the so - called education reforms.

First, it's hard to believe a huge outpouring to defeat Obama — arguably the most powerful force ever to push for «education reform» — is somehow a resounding call for more education reform.

Over the last quarter century, the teachers unions have clearly been the most powerful force in American education, and they have clearly been using their extraordinary power — in collective bargaining at the local level, in the political process at the state and national levels — to undermine major reform and to burden the schools (via seniority provisions, the protection of bad teachers, and all the rest) with ineffective forms of organization.

Last week she and a number of other leading authors and illustrators wrote a powerful letter to President Obama about the inappropriate use of standardized testing and the failings of the corporate education reform movement.

The letter is one of the most powerful statements to date about the failure of the corporate education reform industry agenda and the need to re-take control of our public schools and preserve local control, parental involvement and the values inherent in a true system of public education.

To achieve badly needed education reforms in California, state legislators and local school board members must stand up to the powerful teachers unions.

and Diane Ravitch features Madison Superintendent Tom Scarice's powerful letter on «education reform»)

SFER (Students for Education Reform) is a student - led movement that champions educational equity... SFER organizes students to be a powerful force for K - 12 education policy and political change, through campus chapters that work at the national, state, and local levels to organize and advocate for great teachers and quality school choices for all kidEducation Reform) is a student - led movement that champions educational equity... SFER organizes students to be a powerful force for K - 12 education policy and political change, through campus chapters that work at the national, state, and local levels to organize and advocate for great teachers and quality school choices for all kideducation policy and political change, through campus chapters that work at the national, state, and local levels to organize and advocate for great teachers and quality school choices for all kids.»

According to Achieve Hartford's own website, the education reform advocacy group is funded by some of the most powerful corporate education reform industry companies in the country including the Aetna, Prudential, Travelers, Bank of America, ING, The Phoenix and Metro - Hartford Alliance.

Or is it geared toward a different audience: the powerful funders of the education reform movement?