Sentences with phrase «reform organization headed»

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Replacing a 1950's bureaucracy with a 2020 performance organization, we formed the new New York education reform Commission headed by Dick Parsons, they have done extraordinary work; they have called for a full day Pre-K, extending school days and for performance pay.

Of further note, the conference was joined by Sam Smith of the Progressive Review in Washington, DC; by Mike Feinstein of the California Green Party, who had just helped organize a very successful «Green Parties of the West» conference; by representatives of the Reform Party; by Rob Daniels» «Campaign for a New Tomorrow»; and by the Center for Voting and Democracy, a national organization headed by Rob Richie dedicated to promoting Instant Run - off Voting, Ranked Choice Voting, proportional representation, and electoral reforms supported by many Greens through the Center's FairVote organizing work.

It's almost beyond imagining, however, why the BRT wants Uncle Sam to stay in charge of education, considering that that worthy organization is headed by former Michigan governor John Engler, who knows the ed - reform scene well and has shown what states, left to their own devices, are capable of.

Christopher J. Doherty, the director of a private organization that manages whole - school - reform programs in the Baltimore school system, has been named to head President Bush's Reading First initiative.

The legislation was introduced in California by then - State Senator Gloria Romero, who now heads the California branch of the pro-privatization organization, Democrats for Education Reform.

Five years ago I was invited to join a newly formed education reform initiative comprised of Mayor Finch, then Superintendent John Ramos, then Board of Ed chair Barbara Bellinger, other community leaders, heads of local social service organizations, and business leaders.

Though not himself a DFER board member, Broad is a major funder of Education Reform Now, DFER's nonprofit sister organization, also headed by Joe Williams.

Nick Gales, who heads Australia's delegation at meetings of the IWC's Scientific Committee, said the organization was already changing, with or without reform.