Sentences with phrase «recent education overhauls»

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The recent news affirms that public education in Chicago and other major cities needs to be fundamentally overhauled.

His most recent book, A Mission from God: A Memoir and Challenge for America, reflects on Meredith's personal life but also dares Americans to overhaul the public education system so that all people can overcome poverty.

Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas has proposed a broad education reform plan for a state that has struggled to improve student achievement in recent years, and that faces a court order to overhaul how it pays for schools.

Now Bill Gates, who in recent years has turned his attention and considerable fortune to improving American education, is investing $ 335 million through his foundation to overhaul the personnel departments of several big school systems.

The recent education legislation passed in Illinois is nothing short of historic: newly passed legislation overhauls the most regressive funding formula in the nation.

Obama and U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan have also made the Common Core Standards a key feature of the administration's long - awaited plan for overhauling the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the legislation whose most recent incarnation was No Child Left Behind.

He describes the nation's main education law as an «impediment to reform,» citing ESEA's outdated testing regimen, accountability measures, and teacher quality determinations, all of which fail to align with the widely adopted Common Core State Standards as well as recent state efforts to overhaul their teacher evaluation systems.

Since then, he oversaw the implementation of one of the nation's most ambitious education overhauls, ran in perhaps the state's most memorable down - ballot election in recent memory — and lost — moved to Florida to take command of that state's Department of Education, and ultimately lost that job amid a controversy over emails he sent during his time as state superintendent ineducation overhauls, ran in perhaps the state's most memorable down - ballot election in recent memory — and lost — moved to Florida to take command of that state's Department of Education, and ultimately lost that job amid a controversy over emails he sent during his time as state superintendent inEducation, and ultimately lost that job amid a controversy over emails he sent during his time as state superintendent in Indiana.

As pointed out in a recent expose in Business Week, school administrators and academic researchers are increasingly concerned that online schools fail children and overcharge taxpayers and that the model may have been embraced more broadly as a way to overhaul public schools at the expense of actual education.

The document reads both like a primer on Indiana's efforts to overhaul education in recent years, and like a game plan for big changes to the state's education policy that are still to come — including a more aggressive timeline for state intervention in failing schools.