Sentences with phrase «pushed high school reform»

Nor can the Bush administration push high school reform without at the same time repairing other defects in NCLB.

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Sen. Gustavo Rivera, who has a high number of failing schools in his Bronx district, responds to Cuomo's recent highlighting of that fact in an effort to push his education reform agenda.

But the budget is also notable for what it did not include: a measure that would make it easier for the survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file lawsuits, voting reforms such as early voting and gun control legislation Democratic lawmakers had pushed in the wake of a high school shooting in Florida that left 17 people dead.

In tackling high school reform, the XQ team was pushing against some of the largest and most stubborn problems in American education.

The spread of whole - school reform models such as Success for All; the imposition of standards and high - stakes tests; the lowering of class sizes and slicing of schools into smaller, independent academies; the explosion of charter schools and push for school vouchers — all these reforms signal a vibrantly democratic school system.

For more than 80 years, advocates of high school reform have confronted college - entrance requirements that push them toward a continuing reliance on discipline - based courses, credits, and grades.

When conservatives said public schools lacked the high standards of private schools, Shanker agreed, and he pushed for reform.

Those data have driven the contemporary reform movement, lending it the moral authority to push for higher standards, parental choice, and charter schools.

Standards - based reform was fed by three factors: increased expectations for learning beyond high school, which led to a focus on college readiness for all; the availability of reliable and cheap measures of student proficiency in reading and math; and the push for teacher and school accountability.

Those accountability mechanisms helped kickstart another push to get all students through high school, a reform that has particularly paid off for low - income and minority students and for students with disabilities.

During that time, he helped push for innovative and high performing schools introduced healthy food for students and worked to reform the state's school finance system.

Perhaps one of most widely publicized examples of school boards acting courageously to push back on some of these regressive policies comes from Texas where 520 boards of education and their superintendents fought the implementation of 15 end - of - course high school standardized tests that were part of a state education reform package.

Communications Plan: The state is developing a communications plan to build and sustain public support for high school reform and to push for increased achievement in math and science.

The administration promised $ 1 billion in new spending on preschool; spurred states to adopt controversial K - 12 reforms such as performance - based teacher evaluations and the adoption of the Common Core State Standards through its Race to the Top grant program and waivers to the No Child Left Behind law; significantly expanded the federal School Improvement Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college free.

In an effort to win market share, the College Board, along with the standardized testing industry and the corporate education reform advocates are pushing states are mandate that high school juniors MUST take the SAT.

Instead, Sean is pushed out of San Francisco and sent spiraling through five high schools, till he finally lands at an unorthodox reform school cum «therapeutic community,» in Italy.

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. - Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School families are on their way to St. Petersburg to push again for tougher gun restrictions after they say state lawmakers did not do enough with the gun reform law passed late last week.