Sentences with phrase «school advocacy group studentsfirst»

The Sacramento - based school advocacy group StudentsFirst recently hired Fabian Nunez in an effort to beef up its advocacy efforts in California.

Republicans have been helped by $ 1.6 million in spending by New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany, which was founded by the national charter school advocacy group StudentsFirst.

Not exact matches

DFER «didn't create a broad movement among Democratic lawmakers around revamping how schools work,» said former Michigan lawmaker Tim Melton, who moved over to work for StudentsFirst, a school reform advocacy group that recently merged with 50CAN.

Using data from the Department of Education, the education advocacy group StudentsFirst wrote in a blog post that 32 percent of ATR teachers were in the pool due to a legal or disciplinary case; 25 percent had been in the pool for six years or more; and the percentage of teachers in the ATR who were found by evaluators to be «Ineffective» or «Unsatisfactory» was 12 times that for the overall teaching force for the 2014 - 15 school year.

The movement appears to have public support: 70 percent of likely voters said they'd support parent - trigger laws in a March national poll by StudentsFirst, a pro-school choice advocacy group run by Michelle Rhee, the controversial former chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public schools.

One group that praised the rejection by the feds is StudentsFirst, a Sacramento - based advocacy group created by former Washington, D.C., chancellor of schools Michelle Rhee, which favors the substantial use of test scores with teacher evaluations.

StudentsFirst, an education advocacy group headed by former Washington Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, released a education policies report Monday that gave 11 states, including California, failing grades.

The Coalition for School Reform's District 6 (East San Fernando Valley) runoff election coffers have been replenished thanks to big donations received from Los Angeles philanthropist Eli Broad and StudentsFirst, Michelle Rhee's education advocacy group, among others.

And the money kept coming — $ 300,000 from the California Charters Schools Assn.; $ 250,000 from StudentsFirst, the advocacy group headed by former District of Columbia Chancellor Michelle Rhee; and $ 250,000 from a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp..

(ConnCAN); Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Advocacy; StudentsFirst / GENEPSA (Michelle Rhee); Families for Excellent Schools Inc.; Families for Excellent Schools Advocacy Inc.; Connecticut Council for Education Reform Inc. (CCER); North East Charter Schools Network; Bronx Charter School of Excellence; Students for Education Reform; Educators 4 Excellence; Excel Bridgeport, Inc.; Achieve Hartford, Inc. and their newest front group, the Coalition for Every Child, are pumping more and more money into lobbying and advertising programs.

Upcoming races in Denver and Newark, N.J., may be the next target for national groups like Rhee's advocacy organization, StudentsFirst, and major donors like Bloomberg and his former school chancellor, Joel Klein, who has also contributed money to the Los Angeles race.