Sentences with phrase «school advocacy group based»

According to a reports from the CT Mirror and Hartford Courant, Families for Excellent Schools, Inc., a charter school advocacy group based in New York, has begun a Connecticut radio advertising campaign in support of the Malloy administration's decision to approve two new charter schools in Bridgeport.

, a charter school advocacy group based in New York, has begun a Connecticut radio advertising campaign in support of the Malloy administration's decision to approve two new charter schools in Bridgeport.

Allensworth, whose research will be featured Tuesday, April 7, in a national webinar sponsored by California's Attendance Institute, a nonprofit school advocacy group based in Sacramento, offers up the educational experience of two fifth graders that might finish the year both with good attendance records, say 97 percent.

Nancy Loome, executive director of the Parents» Campaign, a public - school advocacy group based in Jackson, told the Jackson Free Press in January that the schools can not be wholly blamed for inadequate care of special - needs students.

The founder of a grassroots public school advocacy group based in northern Wisconsin says Rep. Mary Czaja backs «draconian» budget cuts to public education at the behest of Republican party leadership.

Both Democrats for Education Reform and the Northeast Charter School Network are corporate - funded charter school advocacy groups based in New York City and both receive the bulk of their money from the billionaires and millionaires who are trying to privatize public education in the United States.

Not exact matches

Rumpler of the advocacy group and others have led campaigns to educate parents and school administrators about lead exposure risks, including the school - based initiative Get the Lead Out.

«It's an acquired taste,» said Nina Rees, C.E.O. of National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a Washington D.C. - based charter advocacy group.

A Connecticut - based advocacy group formed after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School held a rally Wednesday night in Newtown for the victims of the mass shooting in Las Vegas.

The state Legislature in 2007 approved an increase in need - based school funding in response, but reduced school aid again in subsequent years, undoing the progress, according to Alliance for Quality Education, an Albany advocacy group.

The report from the Washington - based advocacy group Pre-K Now, released this month and presented at a conference here, shows that states are increasingly seeking to support their pre-K programs through school funding formulas embedded in state law, which provide the most stable source of revenue and the greatest potential for growth.

The Council of the Great City Schools, a Washington - based advocacy group for 66 of the nation's largest urban school districts, presented Mr. Forgione with the award at a dinner on Oct. 23, during its annual conference in Houston.

The Mexican - American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, a Latino advocacy group, had sued on behalf of Lucresia Mayorga Santamaria, saying that two of the Dallas mother's children were discriminated against because they were assigned to English - as - a-second-language classes at Preston Hollow Elementary School based on their ethnicity, not their language...

Along with attendance, testing, GPA checks, and tracking their students post-high school, Build SF uses rubrics for student projects, develops peer assessments, and asks mentors to fill out formal exit surveys on students, based on skills developed by the Partnership for 21st Century Learning, an acclaimed advocacy group dedicated to infusing twenty - first - century skills into education through collaborative community efforts.

Miller is a senior researcher and consultant for the Alliance for Childhood, an advocacy group based in College Park, Maryland, that has already become known for pushing back against what it sees as the over-commercialization of childhood, unfair standardized testing, and unnecessary technology in schools.

The report, scheduled for release this week by Mass Insight Education and Research Institute, a Boston - based research and advocacy group, envisions a broad - based and highly cooperative system of rapid school improvement.

A new report by a Harlem - based parent advocacy group calls on New York City charter schools to reduce their long waiting lists by «backfilling,» or admitting new students whenever current ones leave.

«It took us 20 years to pass the first 20 private school — choice programs in America and in the 21st year we passed 7 new programs,» says Scott Jensen with the American Federation for Children (AFC), a school - choice advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. «So we went from passing, on average, one each year, to seven in one fell swoop.»

The South hit a demographic turning point over the past couple of years, becoming the first U.S. region in which both low - income and minority students constitute a majority of public school enrollment, an Atlanta - based advocacy group says.

The Synergy Conference convenes hundreds of out - of - school time providers, including faith - based organizations, community colleges, universities, child advocacy groups, community entities, and other stakeholders to share insight on research - based practices, effective programs, and public policies that impact students and their overall success in school and life.

Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Washington - based education advocacy group, said the family will face a tough choice among public, private and charter schools in a city where attempts at education reform have become symbolic of the issue nationwide.

One of Trump's biggest education promises — a proposed $ 20 billion block grant promoting charter and private schools — was developed with input from DeVos» D.C. - based advocacy group, the American Federation for Children.

This report from a Connecticut - based education advocacy group aims to Fix Our Broken School Funding System with a reverse Robin Hood take - from - the - poor approach nicely wrapped in a pious package of verbiage designed to hide its true effects.

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.

«He is leaving us with a legacy of classroom overcrowding, communities fighting over co-located schools, kindergarten waiting lists, unreliable school grades based on bad data, substandard credit recovery programs and our children starved of art, music and science — all replaced with test prep,» said Leonie Haimson, the head of Class Size Matters, an advocacy group and a critic of Mr. Klein's.

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

Tomorrow, the Sacramento - based school reform advocacy group Ed Voice will have a full - page ad (seen on the left, click to enlarge) in the LA Times calling on the state legislature and Governor Jerry Brown to oppose AB 5.

ConnCAN, known to us as the charter school advocacy group formed by Achievement First Inc., the charter school management company, that was set up by Stefan Pryor and friends, beat out every other «education reform» group in the country, do to their ability to consistently misrepresent the facts on the most constant basis.

The Education Law Center, the Newark - based advocacy group, this month released an analysis of district data that indicated during their first year the «renaissance schools» — including KIPP - Cooper - Norcross had enrolled a smaller share of students with special needs than public schools in the district.

Our campaign includes more than 50 education advocacy organizations plus teachers and school administrators, representatives of charter schools and traditional public schools, urban and rural interests, business and organized labor, faith - based groups and community groups.

David Sciarra, executive director of the Education Law Center, a Newark - based school advocacy group, noted that many traditional urban public schools are older and in worse condition, and have to wait for the state Schools Development Authority to take any action on facischools are older and in worse condition, and have to wait for the state Schools Development Authority to take any action on faciSchools Development Authority to take any action on facilities.

Edgerley has also donated millions in support of the privatization of public education, including hundreds of thousands of dollars to New Profit, Inc. and Strategic Grant Partners, a Massachusetts based foundation that has been funding the expansion of charter schools and charter school advocacy groups in that state.

Although they noted the massive expenditure by the lead education reform group, Families for Excellent Schools, which is based in New York, they didn't total all of the funds being spent by the corporate funded education reform advocacy group.

According to Bronin's campaign finance reports, charter school proponents, including those associated with the disgraced FUSE / Jumoke Charter School charter chain and others who are connected with the New York - based charter school advocacy front group called Families for Excellent Schools have provided Bronin with campaign contribuschool proponents, including those associated with the disgraced FUSE / Jumoke Charter School charter chain and others who are connected with the New York - based charter school advocacy front group called Families for Excellent Schools have provided Bronin with campaign contribuSchool charter chain and others who are connected with the New York - based charter school advocacy front group called Families for Excellent Schools have provided Bronin with campaign contribuschool advocacy front group called Families for Excellent Schools have provided Bronin with campaign contributions.

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Families for Excellent Schools (FES) is a major New York City based, corporate funded, charter school and education reform advocacy group.

Among the «teacher advocacy group's» major funders is Education Reform Now, another corporate funded advocacy group that spends its money promoting charter schools and an end to tenure and «seniority - based layoff.»

Shavar Jeffries, the mouthpiece for a corporate funded, New York based, charter school advocacy group that calls itself «Democrats for Education Reform (DFER)» uses the space to urge Connecticut legislators to DEFEAT a bill that, if passed, would require Governor Dannel Malloy and his administration to develop an honest and effective teacher evaluation system rather than continue with Malloy's present program that is dependent on the results of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme.

Today, PURE joined with the Washington, D. C. - based legal advocacy group Advancement Project and Voices of Youth in Chicago Education (VOYCE) in a press conference and march to protest the Noble Charter School Network's predatory student discipline policy.

«It's an acquired taste,» said Nina Rees, C.E.O. of National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a Washington D.C. - based charter advocacy group.

Although they are calling themselves by a different name, the group is actually the same controversial New York based charter school lobby group known as «Families for Excellent Schools» http://www.familiesforexcellentschools.org/ except when they call themselves «Families for Excellent Schools Advocacy.»

New Profit, Inc. also «invests» in a variety of other corporate education reform industry companies and front groups including Educators 4 Excellence, a New York based anti-union advocacy group that recently opened offices in Connecticut; the Kipp Charter School Chain, a company that runs well over 100 charter schools around the nation; the «Achievement Network» and «Turnaround for Children,» two other corporate education reform organizations.

The Albany - based public education advocacy group issued a statement saying the lawsuit «will only divert more money away from public schools, at the expense of our children.»

From 2012 - 2016, Oliveira served on the Executive Committee of the Council for the Great City Schools, a national urban education policy and advocacy group based in Washington, DC.

Bill Lucia, president of Sacramento - based advocacy group EdVoice, suggests various options might be considered that «include elements of a seniority system but with exceptions made for excellent teachers or permanent teachers willing to serve in hard - to - staff schools.»

More than 1.4 million U.S. students now attend 4,600 charter schools in 40 states and Washington, D.C., according to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a Washington - based advocacyschools in 40 states and Washington, D.C., according to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a Washington - based advocacySchools, a Washington - based advocacy group.

That philosophy of quiet and order as a foundation for learning is a trademark of educators at Veterans Memorial and the other eight charter schools run by the Chicago - based United Neighborhood Organization, or UNO, a Latino advocacy group with a history of community organizing.

It was just two weeks earlier that ConnCAN, the charter school advocacy group, conducted a public opinion survey designed to show broad - based public support for Malloy and Malloy's education reform initiatives.

Those ratings, by the nonprofit advocacy group National Council on Teacher Quality, which has been a vocal critic of teacher preparation programs, were based heavily on education school curriculum and selectivity.

This week, Media Matters for America, a media watchdog group based in Washington D.C., released a report — a guide essentially — outlining the numerous connections in the «echo chamber» of advocacy front groups, think tanks, and media outlets that see schools and students as «an untapped market.»