Sentences with phrase «public education agenda»

They are spending their time — and our money — joining the Corporate Education Reform Industry's campaign to promote Malloy's ant - public education agenda!

Poll Shows How Democrats Can Win With a Public Education Agenda Truthout op - ed by Jeff Bryant, Campaign For America's Future

Emphasize social - emotional learning as a top priority in the state's public education agenda, highlighting the importance of social - emotional skills and competencies as essential to our students» academic, personal, and career success.

Legislative Skills — methods and strategies for working with local, state, and federal legislators to advance the public education agenda

In New Mexico, we moved a public education agenda with the Legislature over the objection of the governor, and in Missouri, we moved a working families agenda with the governor over the objection of the Legislature.

Protests against Gov. Andrew Cuomo's harmful public education agenda peaked in New York City on March 12, when parents, their children and educators joined hands to form a human chain around their buildings before or after classes as if to protect them from the governor's proposals.

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She has tiptoed into the public sphere, pushing her agenda in education as well as global conservation, nutrition and immigration policy.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Public contracts, such as the educational maintenance allowance (EMA) scheme for young people continuing with education, are also expected to be on the agenda.

For many people using public services, especially those who can't afford to pay for education, health or anything else privately, quality of service, not choice, is still the number one issue - and the prioritisation of «choice» obscures that agenda.

According to reports, NYIA's agenda is the enactment of the controversial Education Tax Credit which benefits private and parochial schools, potentially at the expense of public schools.

With Andrew Lansley having being sacked as health secretary in mid-term and Michael Gove just shunted out of education, sacking Duncan Smith would have reflected too badly on this government's public service reform agenda.

This time, he's facing a crowded field of Democratic challengers, and hoping to paint himself as the level - headed grown - up, with public and private sector experience and a play - it - safe agenda that stresses education, public safety and economic growth.

While acknowledging the Governor's high popularity ratings, they noted that majorities of the public are opposed to key elements of his agenda, including giving tax breaks to millionaires and cutting healthcare and education spending.

Fred LeBrun thinks Cuomo has an agenda in his battle with the state's public school teachers, but «it is not the betterment of public education in New York.»

John and Furnish in a statement credited Cuomo for having «championed a progressive agenda that has included significant policy and legislative progress on affordable housing, public education reform, and women's rights.»

Korn: «The governor is pursuing a billionaire's agenda to turn over public education to profiteers who are essentially his billionaire hedge fund donors from New York City.»

Cuomo borrowed heavily from the panel's recommendations for his education agendas last year and this year, outlining the group's «final action plan» in his State of the State address last week, although he had not yet released the report to the public.

The release, explaining the decision was reached unanimously by the group's two component boards of directors, stated, «The Boards» decision comes on the heels of securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority ---- protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations ---- in the form of new regulations announced in partnership with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo at the organization's Fall Dinner on October 22, 2015.»

Mulgrew said the work the union and its members did to help shape the state budget should help protect New York City public schools from Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her privatization agenda.

But Mr. Malatras has been particularly visible in pushing Mr. Cuomo's education reform agenda, authoring a long and public letter to the state's Board of Regents and liaising with various interests in Albany as all sides gear up for a post-budget fight over the specifics of teacher evaluations.

Hochul began the presentations with an overview of the Governor's 2015 Opportunity Agenda, detailing his economic, education, and public safety proposals for the year.

«That's what our 2015 Opportunity Agenda is all about — economic opportunity, education, public safety, government reform and fairness for all.»

Albany, New York — StudentsFirstNY, a statewide education reform advocacy organization, today was joined by public school parents and advocates in testifying before a New York State Joint Committee on Education in support of Governor Andrew Cuomo's Opportuniteducation reform advocacy organization, today was joined by public school parents and advocates in testifying before a New York State Joint Committee on Education in support of Governor Andrew Cuomo's OpportunitEducation in support of Governor Andrew Cuomo's Opportunity Agenda.

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.

Conservatives frame privatization as a civil rights issue, but Trump's extreme agenda is energizing racial justice and public education advocates.

At 6 p.m., the Education Panel for Educational Policy holds a public meeting, with the agenda including an update from NYC Education Chancellor Chancellor Carmen Farina, amendments to the chancellor's home instruction services regulation and approval of contracts, Prospect Heights High School, 883 Classon Ave., Brooklyn.

Prior to serving as Director of Public Policy & Education, Levi was the Pride Agenda's Legislative Counsel from 2000 to 2003 and Director of Public Policy and Governmental Affairs from 2004 to 2006.

To: Buffalo Board of Education (BOE) and Donald Ogilvie, Superintendent of the Buffalo Public Schools From: Carl P. Paladino Date: March 23, 2015 Cc: Everybody else Re: Agenda for the March 25, 2015 meeting of the Board of Education (BOE) 1.)

In a news release Thursday, the group said the People's March for Education Justice will focus on the similarities between the Trump - DeVos agenda on public education and Governor AndrewEducation Justice will focus on the similarities between the Trump - DeVos agenda on public education and Governor Andreweducation and Governor Andrew Cuomo's.

Cuomo spent his first term attacking public sector unions, undermining funding for public hospitals and pursuing an education deform agenda that funded charter schools, pushed high - stakes testing and undermined public schools.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Education issues are on the agenda in Albany as state Assembly lawmakers hold another in a series of public hearings on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget proposals.

They have offices in six cities across the state, and now regularly advocate for an agenda that includes ending the school - to - prison pipeline, increasing funding for community schools and pre-kindergarten programs, and railing against the expansion of privately - run charter school networks, what Easton calls the «privatization» of public education.

Few activists were mollified by ESPA's statement that a new directive from Governor Andrew Cuomo — interpreting existing state human rights law's sex discrimination and disability discrimination protections to cover transgender New Yorkers — amounted to «securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority, protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations.»

Hawkins had harsh criticisms for Cuomo's education agenda for shortchanging funding for public education, pushing high - stakes testing linked to the Common Core Standards to evaluate schools and teachers, undermining teachers» professional autonomy, and favoring private charter schools over public schools.

Why: Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones will their progressive agenda agenda for full funding public schools; Common Core; how teaching to test results is corrupting our education system and the dangers of privatizing for profit our educational system

«The Boards» decision comes on the heels of securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority ---- protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations ---- in the form of new regulations announced in partnership with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo,» ESPA's release stated.

His guests will include two Michigan residents who will talk about the damage to their state's public schools caused by the DeVos privatization agenda — Detroit parent activist Wytrice Harris and outgoing president of the Michigan State Board of Education John Austin.»

For years, the Republican «Long Island Nine» in the State Senate stayed out of the way when Cuomo looked to pass liberal social policies like gay marriage and gun control, and supported his fiscally conservative agenda on taxes, education, public sector unions and regulation.

Green Party gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins said today that Republic Rob Astorino's plan to run on a Stop Common Core ballot line is a «bait - and - switch diversion designed to channel legitimate concerns over Common Core behind the Republican agenda of underfunding and privatizing public education.»

He laid out the major new investments from the preliminary budget — including $ 115 million for the $ 15 minimum wage for city employees and contracted workers, investments in public safety, funding education initiatives under the mayor's Equity and Excellence agenda, investments in transportation and social services, along with a few Council priorities.

«We're going to do everything we can to support the governor in advancing a bold education reform agenda that improves the quality of traditional public schools and expands choice for families,» the group's executive director, Jenny Sedlis, said in an interview.

Many parents and other critics argue that the closings were part of a larger agenda to privatize public education, break unions, and gentrify African American neighborhoods, Lipman and her co-authors wrote.

The Revisionaries showcases how public education has become the latest battleground in a new wave of cultural, religious and ideological clashes, with local Texas education board members advancing agendas of Creationism and other religious issues in public schools.

A leaked strategy memo from the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC) details its legislative agenda for local education.Not surprisingly, MMAC's agenda supports privatization of public education and the erosion of the Milwa...

A leaked strategy memo from the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC) details its legislative agenda for local education.Not surprisingly, MMAC's agenda supports privatization of public education and the erosion of the Milwa... more

«The Governor's Education Action Agenda has been very well received and does call for a major overhaul of our public education system,» says Massachusetts Secretary of Education and HGSE Senior Lecturer PaulEducation Action Agenda has been very well received and does call for a major overhaul of our public education system,» says Massachusetts Secretary of Education and HGSE Senior Lecturer Pauleducation system,» says Massachusetts Secretary of Education and HGSE Senior Lecturer PaulEducation and HGSE Senior Lecturer Paul Reville.

They enroll their young children in early education and care settings and kindergarten classrooms and think favorably about the U.S. public education system (see «Reform Agenda Gains Strength,» features, Winter 2013).

Looking to create a «customer driven» research agenda, the Education Department's research branch has launched a series of public meetings with educators, parents, and policymakers around the country.

After the 2000 election, George W. Bush dubbed himself America's «educator in chief,» and until terrorism hijacked the national agenda, he was staking his presidency on a school - reform package known as the No Child Left Behind Act, a bill that — as every teacher knows — dominates the course of public education in America today.