Sentences with phrase «public education ventures»

Consider that courts, law societies, public education ventures, law schools, all possess useful information some of which is made available on websites; at the moment the utility of the information is limited by the imagination and will of the providers; but if it were available to be mixed and moulded and served up by others in creative ways, it might be far more useful.

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These factors include historical reliance on national banking institutions for investment guidance, a public company venture capital markets in Canada being down 75 % from its peak in 2011 causing risk capital investment fatigue and a need for education, success stories and media attention on equity crowdfunding.

My own research emphasis in harnessing technological tools for public service - in education, in medicine, and in servicing the basic needs of the poor - has led me to conceptualize strategies to facilitate cooperative (linking) ventures because communication technologies change so rapidly and the entrepreneurial opportunities are so vast.

In March, the Boards of Directors of the Alliance for Public Waldorf Education and the Association of Waldorf School of North America signed a letter renewing the mandate of the Joint Venture Committee, formed one year ago, to implement... more

He has revamped undergraduate education programs and added a new public outreach venture, a nonprofit science documentary company.

Managing and developing NanoMalaysia Centre and other approved Strategic Infrastructure and Facilities for the NND [National Nanotechnology Directorate Division] Pre-commercialisation and commercialisation of nanotechnology products Education and public awareness programmes Bringing in venture funds and international investments in nanotechnology Building capacity and R&D facilities Health, safety and environmental initiatives International linkages and networking

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

The groups he has supported reads like a Who's Who of the brand of education reform that favors online learning and charter schools over traditional schools: According to the publication Education Next, his money helped start the NewSchools Venture Fund, a major funder of charter schools and ed tech start - ups, and Aspire Public schools, a charter schooleducation reform that favors online learning and charter schools over traditional schools: According to the publication Education Next, his money helped start the NewSchools Venture Fund, a major funder of charter schools and ed tech start - ups, and Aspire Public schools, a charter schoolEducation Next, his money helped start the NewSchools Venture Fund, a major funder of charter schools and ed tech start - ups, and Aspire Public schools, a charter school network.

Founders of a public academy will tread the same terrain — without an existing network of support such as that provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Charter Schools Program, the NewSchools Venture Fund, or the Charter School Growth Fund.

Author Bio: Jim Peyser is Managing Partner for City Funds at NewSchools Venture Fund, a non-profit grant - making firm that seeks to transform public education by supporting innovative education entrepreneurs.

Hastings provided start - up funding for the Aspire Public Schools charter network and helped start and fund EdVoice, a lobbying group, and the NewSchools Venture Fund, which supports education entrepreneurs.

Donors Make Personal Links to New Students Beth Rabbitt, a former associate partner at a venture philanthropy firm who aspires to lead a public school system, had two choices for grad school: a top - ranked business school or the Ed School's new Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed.L.D.)

Beth Rabbitt, a former associate partner at a venture philanthropy firm who aspires to lead a public school system, had two choices for grad school: a top - ranked business school or the Ed School's new Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed.L.D.)

Prior to his appointment as Secretary, he served as the Managing Director at NewSchools Venture Fund, a non-profit grant - making firm that seeks to transform public education in high - need urban communities by supporting innovative education entrepreneurs.

Prior to joining the Institute, Julia worked at NewSchools Venture Fund, a venture philanthropy organization that supports education entrepreneurs who are transforming public eduVenture Fund, a venture philanthropy organization that supports education entrepreneurs who are transforming public eduventure philanthropy organization that supports education entrepreneurs who are transforming public education.

In a program being hailed as a model collaborative venture between the education and child - care sectors, the Milwaukee public schools have contracted with five private day - care centers to provide half - and full - day kindergarten for disadvantaged 4 - and 5 - year - olds.

Jonathan Schorr and Deborah McGriff are partners at NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit venture philanthropy firm that supports entrepreneurial innovation to improve public education for low - income chVenture Fund, a nonprofit venture philanthropy firm that supports entrepreneurial innovation to improve public education for low - income chventure philanthropy firm that supports entrepreneurial innovation to improve public education for low - income children.

Just this year, the Office of Chinese Language Council International — or Hanban, an affiliate of China's Ministry of Education — committed millions of dollars to help launch several ventures with U.S. schools, including a program in North Carolina to offer Mandarin Chinese classes in 45 public schools...

The expert review panel includes: Dr. Margaret (Macke) Raymond (Chair), Stanford University; Dr. Chris Cobitz, Charlotte Mecklenburg School District; Sheila Evans - Tranumn, New York Department of Education; Dr. Pete Goldschmidt, California State University, Northridge; Raul Gonzalez, National Council of La Raza; Gary Huggins, Aspen Institute; Dr. Deborah Jewell Sherman, Richmond Public Schools; Dr. Tom Kane, Harvard University; Jim Lanich, California Business for Education Excellence; Dr. Maggie McLaughlin, University of Maryland; Peter McWalters, Rhode Island Commissioner of Education; Jim Peyser, New Schools Venture Fund; Dianne Pichè, Citizens Commission on Civil Rights; John Winn, former Florida Commissioner of Education; and Dr. Martin West, Brown University.

As an inaugural Pahara Institute NextGen Fellow, Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans National Scholar, and community volunteer, Esther brings deep passion to the NewSchools Venture Fund to transform the United States» public education system.

Prior to joining NewSchools Venture Fund, Esther was a founding team member, Program Manager and Acting Vice President at the Laura & John Arnold Foundation, where she led the Foundation's education team and directed over $ 130 million in grants to sustainable, scalable, and transformative initiatives in K - 12 Public Eeducation team and directed over $ 130 million in grants to sustainable, scalable, and transformative initiatives in K - 12 Public EducationEducation.

In 2007, David was among 25 education leaders selected for the Aspen Institute and NewSchools Venture Fund's inaugural Entrepreneurial Leaders for Public Educationeducation leaders selected for the Aspen Institute and NewSchools Venture Fund's inaugural Entrepreneurial Leaders for Public EducationEducation Program.

Cole - Gutiérrez joins on the NACSA Board Chair James Peyser, partner at NewSchools Venture Fund; Vice Chair Lisa Graham Keegan, founder and president of the Education Breakthrough Network; Treasurer Josephine Baker, past executive director of the D.C. Public Charter School Board; Secretary Alan Coverstone, executive director of Metro Nashville Public Schools; Steve Canavero, Ph.D., director of the Public Charter School Authority of Nevada; Frederick Hess, resident scholar and director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute; Karega Rausch, Equity Project coordinator at Indiana University; and Hanna Skandera, Secretary - Designate, New Mexico Secretary of Education.

NewSchools Venture Fund is a not - for - profit organization working to close the achievement gap by funding and supporting entrepreneurs who are creating innovative solutions to the problems in public education so that all children have the opportunity to succeed in college and beyond.

At the request of the DC Public Charter School Board and with support from NewSchools Venture Fund, AppleTree creates its AppleTree @ model, where AppleTree collaborates with with a turnaround or high - performing new partner, to operate AppleTree preschool allowing the host school to focus on kindergarten and above, while AppleTree provides a high quality preschool education.

It's because they are part and parcel of the business community's desire to remake public education in urban areas into for - profit ventures.

Perhaps if SFC replaced their Board Chair, Julie Mikuta, who is also partner at New Schools Venture Fund, which finances charter schools, with someone who has actually made meaningful improvements in public education, they could inch their way back to this work.

«First and foremost we are invested and engaged at this school because we want to ensure that all the students in that neighborhood have an excellent public education,» UCLA's Quartz said about the new venture at Mann.

The article «Oakland is California's Destroy Public Education Petri Dish» describes the Rogers Family Foundation and it relationship to GO Public Schools Oakland, Educate78 (previously New Schools Venture Fund) and the Oakland Public Education Fund.

Venture philanthropists use their private money to steer public education reform debates and create model programs.

In Massachusetts, a years - long battle over eliminating a cap on expanding public charter schools will become even more heated thanks to incoming Gov. Charlie Baker, who has signaled that he will support reformers on this issue through his appointment of former New Schools Venture Fund boss - turned - federal education official Jim Peyser as the state's new superintendent.

Friendship Schools is also closely associated with the NewSchools Venture Fund, a corporate funded financial investment company that is «committed to transforming public education through powerful ideas and passionate entrepreneurs.»

Board includes Gregory Prince (President, Educational Services Associates), Carol Thompson Cole (President & CEO, Venture Philanthropy Partners), Deborah McGriff (Partner, NewSchools Venture Fund), Chris Whittle (an education entrepreneur who founded the ill - fated Edison Schools and now serves as the chief executive officer of Avenues: The World School, «a planned international system of independent pre-K-12 schools) and Kevin P. Chavous (CEO of the Chavous Group, an education reform consulting and public relations group).

About The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation is a national venture philanthropy established by entrepreneur and philanthropist Eli Broad to advance entrepreneurship for the public good in education, science and the arts.

The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation is a national venture philanthropy established by philanthropist Eli Broad to advance entrepreneurship for the public good in education, science and the arts.

«The Rise of Venture Philanthropy and the Ongoing Neoliberal Assault on Public Education: The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.»

All four witnesses are pro-privatization: Dr. Tony Bennett, Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction, a strong supporter of charter schools and «virtual charter school» expansion; Lisa Graham Keegan of Education Breakthrough Network, a supporter of vouchers, high stakes testing and charter schools; Andrew Coulson of the CATO Institute, yet another supporter of charter expansion and vouchers; and Ted Mitchell, CEO of the New Schools Venture Fund, which funds charter school expansion.

NewSchools is a national nonprofit venture philanthropy that supports teams of educators, and education entrepreneurs, who are reimagining public education.Their Diverse Leaders investment strategy works to close the racial and ethnic demographic gap between education leadership and students by investing in entrepreneurs who are advancing Black and Latino leaders in education.

Based in Los Angeles, California, and named for renowned business leader Eli Broad, The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation is a national venture philanthropy established by entrepreneur and philanthropist Eli Broad to advance entrepreneurship for the public good in education, science, and the arts.

The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation is a national venture philanthropy established by entrepreneur and philanthropist Eli Broad to advance entrepreneurship for the public good in education, science and the arts.

Proponents of vouchers, tuition tax credits, non-public charter schools and other methods propose to improve education by diverting public resources to support private ventures.

The Fordham Institute estimated that the CCSS cost $ 12.1 billion from 2012 to 2015.27 The conservative Pioneer Institute and American Principles Project estimate a mid-range cost of $ 15.8 billion over seven years for the CCSS, with $ 1.2 billion spent on assessments, $ 5.3 billion on professional development, and $ 6.9 billion for tech infrastructure and support.28 According to the New York Times, in part due to the CCSS, venture capital investment in public education has increased 80 percent since 2005, to a total of $ 632 million in 2012, a figure that has no doubt increased since.29 Bill Gates and Microsoft have cashed in on this lucrative market: in February 2014, Microsoft announced it was partnering with Pearson to install Pearson's Common Core materials onto Microsoft's Surface tablet.30

In fact, a number of organizations join Children Now in calling for the further development and adoption of a Weighted Student Formula concept in 2013, including the ACLU, California School Boards Association, Californians for Justice, Campaign for Quality Education, The Education Trust — West, EdVoice, MALDEF, New Schools Venture Fund, Parent Leadership Action Network, Public Advocates, Silicon Valley Leadership Group, United Ways of California, Youth Together, and many others.

That, plus the public education initiatives and legislative amendments to the litigation system that I have described elsewhere, are all that is needed, not selling our ownership to a Russian oil company, a Swiss bank, a German insurance company, a Dutch brewery, an American venture house, an Australian megafirm, or my wife.

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