Sentences with phrase «reform of its public education»

Time for Americans to understand that value added analysis is not a reform of public education but a revolution that will allow us to significantly lessen the costs of public education while obtaining the greatest cost benefits from the dollars spent on education.

With passion and insight, she analyzes research and draws on interviews with educators, philanthropists, and business executives to question the current direction of reform of public education.

From coast to coast, others are praising our reforms of public education.

That dynamism has grown to become the primary engine of reform of our public education system, and our impact is only going to grow in the charter movement's third decade,» said Jed Wallace, President and CEO, CCSA.

It has been both amusing and instructive to watch the disintegrating nexus between the Democratic Party and one of its staunchest and most reliable constituencies, the teachers unions, over the reform of public education around the country.

There is no effort more worthy of bipartisan support than the reform of public education.

In 1998, Pete resigned as CEO of Denton Vacuum to allow him to devote most of his time to a major interest of his: reform of the public education system.

The Governor's nominees reflect a strong commitment to meaningful, bipartisan reform of public education in...

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Professor Poole is one of a six - member committee appointed to review collaboration between Australia's public universities and publicly funded research agencies, as part of the Federal Government's higher education reform package.

The conversation made an impression on Nicole, who is the president and founder of The Expectations Project, a national organization that mobilizes people of faith to support public education reform and close the academic achievement gap.

Mann's erstwhile Calvinism and his belief that education was to reform the world became civil religion as it emerged in the schools, most of all in Mann's insistence upon public schools for all people.

She has 3 children and is the founder of the Redefine Positive Project, an initiative that is working to reform HIV / AIDS education in public schools across the nation.

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How the principles of Public Waldorf Education can bring reform as public schools «slow down to go fast&rPublic Waldorf Education can bring reform as public schools «slow down to go fast&rpublic schools «slow down to go fast».

With all of the talk of education reform and what's needed to revitalize public schools, it's refreshing to read Paul Tough's new book, Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why.

Evidence is emerging that the combination of law reform and public education is more effective than either strategy alone in changing parental attitudes and behaviours.54

Silver has also taken issue with Cuomo's call for a new education reform commission, saying the Board of Regents — which the Legislature, not the governor, appoints — is already working to address myriad problems in the public school system.

«I will prioritize passing meaningful ethics reform, supporting our middle class families and small business owners, fighting tirelessly for better public education, and providing the residents of our district with the resources and services that they deserve.»

In Kenya, the key moments that built public trust in the system were the defeat of Kanu in 2002, provision of free primary education and the constitutional reform of 2010.

We need public education reforms, investments in public health, and creation of sustainable financing structures for both health and education.

«These candidates have a history of standing up for working people, immigrant rights, good public education, affordable housing, criminal justice, police reform and other issues that are important to our members and their families.

If not through conditionality of membership prospects, the EU should be involved at least in a number of politically - related and politically - neutral questions, from education reform to public control for tender procedures and anti-corruption measures with detailed benchmarks.

Since becoming speaker 12 months ago, Heastie has had few public policy disagreements with Cuomo, save for the tug - of - war over education reform measures in last year's budget.

Likewise, Cameron and Clegg could, in theory, reform the education system to the relative detriment of the public schools without accusations of class hatred, because they went to public schools themselves.

TVET reforms leading to the alignment of public TVET institutions under the Ministry of Education will continue in 2018.

He has accepted significant contributions from Ravenel Boykin Curry, a wealthy supporter of education reform and trustee of Girls Prep charter school, which made the news in 2010 when Joel Klein used emergency powers to displace the public school program for autistic children with which Girls Prep was co-located.

Mr Blair tried a different tack, insisting that the Labour government was committed to matching reform of education and other public services with investment - something he accused the Conservatives of being unwilling to do.

With Andrew Lansley having being sacked as health secretary in mid-term and Michael Gove just shunted out of education, sacking Duncan Smith would have reflected too badly on this government's public service reform agenda.

«However, despite the fact that 99 percent of this federal funding would go to traditional public schools, union leadership has tried to kill this education reform legislation because it increases the cap on public charter schools, which don't necessarily have to be unionized.»

This is the conclusion of my paper, Free Universities, that the government's claim that «our student finance reforms will deliver savings to help address the large Budget deficit we were left» was disingenuous at best and that in fact the public spending crisis was used as an excuse to private higher education.

Robin's platform will focus on single payer health care, economic equality, police and criminal justice reform, housing for all, humane immigration reform, better public education, LGBTQ rights and ending the influence of money on politics.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

But Mr. Malatras has been particularly visible in pushing Mr. Cuomo's education reform agenda, authoring a long and public letter to the state's Board of Regents and liaising with various interests in Albany as all sides gear up for a post-budget fight over the specifics of teacher evaluations.

State Senator John Flanagan announced Thursday he will host a series of public hearings throughout the state to review the effectiveness of recent state education reforms.

ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

Anti-reformers have trotted out the hoariest bugbear in New York politics — the evil of Wall Street — and constructed a hilarious lie: that the education reform movement is actually camouflage for a hostile takeover of the city's public schools.

«Despite the progress outlined in this tentative deal there is clearly a lot of work ahead of us, including stronger criminal justice reforms; full funding for our state's public education system; ensuring affordable college for all New Yorkers, including DREAMers; additional support for Planned Parenthood; and ethics and voting reforms,» said Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

The investment tax credit, which is aimed at encouraging donations to public schools and non-profit scholarship programs for private schools, remains a heavy lift for Assembly Democrats, who already trying to calm the statewide teachers union for approving a variety of Cuomo's education reform proposals.

Loeb is a prominent backer of charter schools and the education reform movement, which the governor has embraced, much to the chagrin of public teachers unions and their allies in public education advocacy organizations.

However Cuomo's approval rating is relatively strong, at 57 %, and Greenberg says if the governor actually achieves ethics reform and some of his more popular education changes, the public is likely to back that.

Albany, New York — StudentsFirstNY, a statewide education reform advocacy organization, today was joined by public school parents and advocates in testifying before a New York State Joint Committee on Education in support of Governor Andrew Cuomo's Opportuniteducation reform advocacy organization, today was joined by public school parents and advocates in testifying before a New York State Joint Committee on Education in support of Governor Andrew Cuomo's OpportunitEducation in support of Governor Andrew Cuomo's Opportunity Agenda.

Unrest over the Common Core intensified this fall, when education commissioner John King canceled and subsequently rescheduled a series of public forums on the state's education reforms.

Parents and students across New York, including grassroots activists organized by education reform advocacy organization StudentsFirstNY and Derrell Bradford, executive director of NYCAN, view Governor Cuomo's reforms as critical to improving public school options.

Dozens of workshops covered a range of issues, including the impact of the State budget on counties, pension funding, renewable energy, local Medicaid costs, public safety, budgeting, pre-school special education reforms, shared services, and local leadership.

On Thursday, with the New York State Board of Regents hearing testimony regarding the newly approved teacher evaluation system, leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and public school parents offered recommendations and sent letters calling for a system that ensures all public school students have access to high - quality teachers.

A Harvard - educated proponent of reforming traditional models of education, Waronker is known for turning around dangerous and struggling public schools in New York City.

Cuomo has been a vigorous advocate of the education «reform» movement, a collection of hedge fund funded charlatans that are looking to siphon as much public money as possible from public education under the guise of «disrupting» education as we know it.

When he broached the income inequality discussion, he framed it not as a matter of the very rich versus the very poor, but the zeroed in on the need to reform public education in the state, casting the teachers unions (generally supported by Democrats) as the villains in this telling.

While ethics reform may be dominating much of the conversation in Albany, education advocates are hoping the public and lawmakers don't forget there's much work to be done regarding teacher evaluations.

Here, Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo has been a fierce advocate of what many call «corporate education reform»; the governor stoked statewide anger by starving public schools of funding while aggressively promoting charter schools.