Sentences with phrase «quality reform got»

Efforts to force teacher quality reform got a boost last year when the Los Angeles Times revealed the performance of the district's 11,500 elementary school teachers — by name — during its powerful, controversial and much - needed series on the low quality of the district's instruction.

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«The district that I will represent might be getting bigger, but I'm still going to be the same Jim Tedisco — as independent and outspoken as ever in speaking up and telling it like it is when it comes to reforming Albany and improving the quality of life for New Yorkers.»

Taxpayers in New York will get the two things they need most — lower taxes and the continuation of essential and high quality municipal services — only if Albany finally demonstrates the will to reform state mandates, giving local officials the tools and flexibility to implement real and sustainable property tax relief.

A Labour government will drive forward the economic and industrial policy that Ed Miliband, Ed Balls and Chuka Umunna have been developing to create more high quality jobs in every region of the country by reforming our banking sector, modernising our infrastructure, and working with businesses to get the long - term investment we need in growing SMEs and the high productivity, growth industries of the future.

«While much public discussion has been solely focussed on funding, we've been getting on with the job of delivering a quality reform agenda in teaching education.»

Race to the Top asked states to create their own unique blueprints for education reform — and then, by publicly posting everyone's plans and the judges» scores, got the nation involved in a conversation about what high - quality education systems look like.

«It is hard to get these people hired,» says John Ayers, executive director of Leadership for Quality Education, a Chicago education reform group that has worked with New Leaders and supports its efforts.

I believe if we can get past the politics of education reform then there truly is a formula to enhance teacher quality and student achievement within all educational settings.

In order to achieve this, the Commission suggests the government should mandate all schools in the ten lowest performing local authorities to take part in area - wide programmes, as well as reform the training and distribution of teachers across the country and create new incentives — including better starting pay — to get more of the highest - quality teachers into the schools that need them most.

Based on the reforms that occurred immediately prior to and during the Klein administration, it is clear that there has been a concerted effort to alter regulations, policies and practices to improve the overall quality of New York City teachers and especially ensure that students most in need of effective teachers are more likely to get them.

These reforms are basically hypotheses — if you do x on teacher quality, you might get y in terms of student learning — but the focus certainly wasn't on results per se.

Winners had to show they were reforming their education systems to fix the worst schools, get quality teachers in each classroom, have high standards and measure students and schools against those standards and impose data systems to be able to measure what works and what doesn't.

Well - meaning participants in the debate on school reform (and I believe that to be the vast majority) want better school quality and greater equity, and we need to start talking about the specific vehicles that will get us there rather than the misleading crap that stops the conversation and pits potential allies against each other, leading to unproductive bickering and stagnation.

But the reforms promoted by the ambitious SDGs are only likely to be successful if we as a community collectively get serious about improving teaching quality and support those who are on the ground working in tough conditions trying to make this happen.

The idea of society providing a quality, comprehensive education for all children is inspiring and attainable, but the old model for delivering that education — a monolithic government entity led by politicians with a captive audience of students forced into grossly unequal schools — has got to go, one of the nation's pioneers in public school reform told a Tulane audience on Thursday.

Whatever the case, Harkin and his colleagues don't seem like they are going to ask any hard questions about the efficacy of the process by which the Obama administration is granting the waivers, the consequences of the gambit on the systemic reforms needed to help all children get high - quality education, or whether the waiver gambit is legal in the first place.

With every passing day, it is becoming increasingly apparent that «education reform» isn't about providing children with the quality education they need and deserve to live more fulfilling lives in the 21st Century, but a way for the individuals and companies associated with the education reform movement to get rich off taxpayers at the national, state and school district level.

He believes strongly in the transformative power of education and is ready to get to work on education reform in Rochester through coalition building and engaging families to demand and secure high quality educational choices for their children.

In Idaho, they fought to get on the November ballot three referenda that, if passed, will annihilate Superintendent Tom Luna's sweeping reform efforts that could bring about a quality education for all students in the state.

This language of racing to address a «social emergency» is common rhetoric in education reform, since children do not get a second chance to receive a quality education.

National black and Hispanic education reform advocacy groups, as well as Florida - based coalitions of minority clergy, have argued that the scholarships provide opportunities for high - quality education to predominantly minority children who wouldn't get it otherwise.

Scholarship tax credit programs give families greater access to high - quality private schools by providing incentives for businesses and individuals to get involved in education reform.