Sentences with phrase «public education reform during»

Having just completed a brutal round of jousting in the interest of public education reform during the Texas legislative session, I have a renewed appreciation for the obstacles we face in achieving meaningful systemic change in our education delivery system.

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Major issues during the 2016 legislative session included raising the minimum wage, funding public education, ethics reform, and proposals to allow Uber to expand to upstate New York.

During his stay in Singapore, Professor Reimers will give the prestigious annual CJ Koh Public Lecture and will participate in a series of seminars and dialogues with faculty at the NIE, meet with senior education policy makers and other stakeholders interested in education reform.

While the nation seemed transfixed by No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, and Common Core State Standards, «one of the most wide - ranging reforms in public education» during that time, according to a group of researchers from Duke and MIT, «was the reorganization of large comprehensive high schools into small schools» in New York City.

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CEA Director of Policy, Research, and Reform Donald Williams spoke to members of the legislature's Education Committee during a public hearing.

I hope some of your readers will take a look at my new book, «Addicted to Reform: A 12 - Step Program to Rescue Public Education,» because it's a thorough indictment of «school reform» as practiced during the Bush and Obama AdministraReform: A 12 - Step Program to Rescue Public Education,» because it's a thorough indictment of «school reform» as practiced during the Bush and Obama Administrareform» as practiced during the Bush and Obama Administrations.

Her comments came during a panel discussion on education reform here in Denver with Michael Bennet, superintendent of Denver's public schools, and other public education reform leaders.

Emphasizing the need for additional effective education entrepreneurs to join the work of reforming America's lowest performing public schools, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told reporters during a conference call this afternoon that states must be open to chartereducation entrepreneurs to join the work of reforming America's lowest performing public schools, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told reporters during a conference call this afternoon that states must be open to charterEducation Arne Duncan told reporters during a conference call this afternoon that states must be open to charter schools.

«Congressman Miller has been a pillar of support for children during his long career of public service and a vocal proponent of education reform,» said Wallace.

In the next breath, however, he confusingly characterizes progressive reform during that same time period as «radical» — the Common School movement, for example, in which education was first envisioned as the province of the entire public, regardless of money or social status.

As thought leaders debated the future of American public education during the Department of Education's «Education Drive America» 2012 Bus Tour this week, and with more news that the nation's students are falling behind, attention is once again turning to the next great hope in education reform: the Common Core State Seducation during the Department of Education's «Education Drive America» 2012 Bus Tour this week, and with more news that the nation's students are falling behind, attention is once again turning to the next great hope in education reform: the Common Core State SEducation's «Education Drive America» 2012 Bus Tour this week, and with more news that the nation's students are falling behind, attention is once again turning to the next great hope in education reform: the Common Core State SEducation Drive America» 2012 Bus Tour this week, and with more news that the nation's students are falling behind, attention is once again turning to the next great hope in education reform: the Common Core State Seducation reform: the Common Core State Standards.

It has existed during the past two presidencies with the privatization of public education through the taxpayer funding of charter schools, the dominance of the standardized testing industry, and education standards determined by the man with the most money, but that oligarchy was hidden under the misnomer of «education reform.»

In addition to being one of Malloy's largest sources of campaign cash during his 2014 re-election campaign, the owners and operators of Connecticut's charter schools, along with the corporate elite who support Malloy's «education reform» initiatives have dumped more than $ 9 million into the lobbying effort to support Malloy's agenda to undermine public education in Connecticut.

During the 2012 election cycle, we saw the corporate «education reform» lobby begin to play their hand when it comes to the notion of local control of public education.

Before an audience of teachers, students, faculty, and members of the community, Michele Cahill, a vice president at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, discussed possible paths for reforming American public education during the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Askwith Forum on Weducation during the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Askwith Forum on WEducation's Askwith Forum on Wednesday.

In her public testimony during Connecticut's 2012 education reform bill, Jennifer Alexander of ConnCAN testified that too few teachers were being dismissed for poor performance: «When you look at the distribution of ratings in those systems, you again see only about two percent of teachers, maybe five max, falling at that bottom rating category.»

During his tenure, he spearheaded significant educational reforms, pioneering a new model of multidisciplinary legal studies, enlarging the clinical education program, revamping to foster a public service ethos, and developing the international law program to support a growing emphasis on globalization in legal practice.

As evidenced during the recent public hearing held by the General Assembly's Education Committee, apologists for the Common Core and Governor Malloy's corporate education reform industry initiatives desperately defend the indefensible policies related to the Common Core, the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Test and the absurd teacher evaluatioEducation Committee, apologists for the Common Core and Governor Malloy's corporate education reform industry initiatives desperately defend the indefensible policies related to the Common Core, the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Test and the absurd teacher evaluatioeducation reform industry initiatives desperately defend the indefensible policies related to the Common Core, the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Test and the absurd teacher evaluation system.