Sentences with phrase «reform efforts in»

To that end, Harrison reminded the committee that tax reform efforts in the late 1980s were fraught with unintended consequences that delivered a broadside to the economy and only offered brief tax relief.

She also has used her clinical skills to consult as part of the state's child welfare reform efforts in 2010.

Putting the «user» at the centre makes sense and is completely aligned with system design and reform efforts in other contexts.

In the spirit of evidence - based policy - making, it's preferable not to ground reform efforts in assertions, suppositions, anecdotes, or «common sense facts» which have not been substantiated.

«Key among these challenges are the announced nuclear phase - out, reform efforts in electricity and natural gas markets, and overall climate changes policies.»

The strategy to fund the «whole school» rather than a specific program also represents a shift in education reform efforts in LA, so that all resources, and not just one program, within a school are aligned with the mission of student success.

«Just because teachers unions block reform efforts in state legislatures and local school boards, reform advocates don't have to sit idly by while children and our education infrastructure suffer.»

Critics of reform efforts in Chicago say many of the well - funded initiatives to fix CPS involve opening more privately run charter schools and closing down the district's traditional neighborhood schools.

This event discussed what a responsive system for all youth looks like based upon the current reform efforts in Massachusetts and New York City.

Notably, not all of the MELAF participants had been involved in the ELA reform efforts in their districts.

by Bill Phillips Education reform efforts in Buffalo are at the most precarious point in years.

He joined the Center in 2009, after leading high school reform efforts in the Highline Public Schools (Wash.) for nine years.

But critics have opined the widespread opposition and mixed results in similar reform efforts in states like Tennessee and Louisiana.

Education reform efforts in Buffalo are at the most precarious point in years.

Michelle Rhee Group Donates $ 250,000 to Candidates in LAUSD Races A group led by former District of Columbia schools chancellor Michelle Rhee donated $ 250,000 Wednesday to contests for seats on the Los Angeles Board of Education, adding further political fuel to a battle over the direction of reform efforts in the nation's second - largest school system...

And I have been a veteran of school reform efforts in Texas, here in Los Angeles and elsewhere in California since then.

At the beginning of 2000, OCO researched and developed one of the only community - driven school reform efforts in the United States.

Awards recipients become Fellows of the Golden Apple Academy of Educators who mentor Golden Apple Scholars, lead science instruction at our STEM Institute, and contribute to major education reform efforts in Illinois and nationally.

She is the author of numerous articles, books and blog posts (including on The Answer Sheet) about the botched school reform efforts in her state.

The DLLF seeks to address the questions and issues of educational inequity, by bringing together education leaders and providing them with learning and networking opportunities to help them lead reform efforts in their local systems and around the country.

It provides a summary of research and emerging practices in other states and districts designed to provide state lawmakers, legislative staff, State Board of Education members, Department of Education officials, and other key stakeholders information they need to ensure the effectiveness of their reform efforts in Pennsylvania.

Prof. Mary Brownell is feted twice for leading reform efforts in Special Education teacher preparation.

For those LEAs who have Renewal Schools and schools eligible for the Achievement School District, they will also be required to demonstrate how their approach to this alignment serves both the individual educator and the school reform efforts in a consistent and cohesive manner.

Decades of research and reform efforts in K - 12 and higher education have yielded one area of near - universal agreement: exceptional educational institutions have excellent leaders.

Mayor Villaraigosa has been an outstanding force in the education reform efforts in Los Angeles, a great support for advocacy efforts with his support of the Public School Choice initiative, and an advocate for school facilities under Proposition 39.

He drew them directly from the school - based decision - making model adopted by the state of Kentucky as a main component of their education reform efforts in the 1990s.

In July, due to major reform efforts in statehouses all over the country, the Wall Street Journal proclaimed 2011 The Year of School Choice.

Some activists complain that reform efforts in California are still blind to the differences that individual teachers make in the classroom.

Instead of throwing the seniority rules out entirely, California educators and advocates embraced what seemed like a gentler approach to salvage reform efforts in schools like Oak Ridge Elementary, in Sacramento.

She has been chronicling botched school reform efforts in her state for years.

Bobby Jindal's Push for Choice: While Dropout Nation has devoted plenty of space to reform efforts in other states, it hasn't taken as much notice as it should about what is happening in Louisiana outside of the Recovery School District effort in New Orleans, which has been the epicenter of the expansion of charter schools and school choice.

The paper then reviews major reform efforts in the areas of accountability, the middle school concept, and cooperative learning.

He joined the Center in 2009, after leading high school reform efforts in the Highline Public Schools for the previous nine years.

But as past school reform efforts in Los Angeles illustrate, the heavy lifting starts after decisions are made, not before.

Many of the reform efforts in the SDCS district were started by Superintendent Cohn's predecessor Alan Bersin, current California Secretary of Education.

She has lead school and district reform efforts in rural, urban, and suburban districts.

Reform efforts in this state are paying off in higher test scores and lowering the achievement gap between minority and white students.

'' Chicago has a long history of tinkering with failed schools,» said Tom Vander Ark, executive director for education at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has committed some $ 25 million since 2001 to school reform efforts in Chicago.

NCPW: You've painted a complex portrait of reform efforts in urban districts, especially those plagued for years with high poverty and low achievement.

Donors have given generously to education reform efforts in Indianapolis, and their contributions are making a tremendous impact on improving student results.

Teacher leaders - current or former classroom teachers working with other classroom teachers and other educators in the school or district - are present in many reform efforts in mathematics and science education.

Todd Hathaway, a teacher who sat on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Common Core Implementation Panel and who has been critical of reform efforts in the state, said King «wasn't the most accessible commissioner.»

tells a gripping, and mostly depressing, tale of the reform efforts in woebegone Newark,

The message from Executive Director Scott Pearson and board Chairman John «Skip» McKoy was met with relief by advocates of neighborhood schools and disbelief from some who want to see more aggressive charter school growth in one of the most closely watched school reform efforts in the nation.

In many ways professional development is the link between the design and implementation of education reforms and the ultimate success of reform efforts in schools.

I posed the question to Maggie Runyan - Shefa, who serves as co-CEO of New Schools for New Orleans, the organization leading reform efforts in the Recovery School District.

This report provides an overview of state teacher tenure reform in the United States as well as case studies of reform efforts in a sample of six states — Georgia, California, Florida, Wisconsin, New York, and Ohio — and the District of Columbia.

Studies on evaluation reform efforts in Cincinnati, Chicago, Denver, New York City, and Washington, D.C. have found that comprehensive evaluation systems can help identify teachers who need to improve their practice, nudge low - performing teachers out of the profession, and, ultimately, boost student achievement.

To some, the CFE case had become an irrelevancy, the original complaints swept aside by 12 years of massive education - reform efforts in New York and the nation.

The biggest response to date to his challenge arrived in the form of a $ 25 million gift from William R. Hewlett and the foundation he started, to be used for school - reform efforts in the San Francisco area.