Sentences with phrase «school advocacy organization»

The CEO of New York's only statewide charter school advocacy organization today urged legislators to expand Governor Cuomo's budget proposal to provide facilities aid for public charter schools outside New...

Broad has also has given large amounts of money to Education Reform Now, a pro-charter school advocacy organization.

My name is Julie Woestehoff and I am the Executive Director of Parents United for Responsible Education, or PURE, a 26 year old parent - based public school advocacy organization.

It is the only statewide charter school advocacy organization in New York and Connecticut and is the only regional charter association in the country.

However, even though I work for a charter school advocacy organization, I do not consider myself pro-charter.

Despite the fact that «some school advocacy organizations, trade associations, food manufacturers, nutritionists, and other commenters suggested that NSMP [Nutrient Standard Menu Planning] be allowed as an option,» (and, by the way, is it any surprise that food manufacturers loved this approach?)

Some home - school advocacy organizations place the current totals at more than 2 million.

Petry is also a founder of Education Reform Now, one of the most active charter school advocacy organizations in the nation and one that has spent millions trying to undermine teachers and the teacher's union in New York City.

Not exact matches

That sparked the idea for Endeavor, the New York - based organization Rottenberg launched in 1997 with Peter Kellner, an investor who had witnessed the same lack of advocacy for entrepreneurs during a Harvard Business School trip to China.

Advocacy groups such as Code NL are pushing for coding to be added to the high school curriculum, while organizations like Ladies Learning Code and Lighthouse Labs are building an alternate tech talent pipeline.

Jackie has worked for governmental, academic, advocacy and commercial organizations in delivering ESG - related research and analytical data solutions and is a graduate of Rhodes University, Said Business School (University of Oxford), a Rhodes Scholar, and former Junior Research Fellow at the ESRC Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge.

Lady Gaga signed an open letter from the advocacy organization ONE to fight for the right of girls living in poverty to have access to schooling.

«PTA is the largest volunteer child advocacy association in the country, as well as the nation's original and premier parent involvement organization in schools.»

She has steered the organization to advocacy, pressing elected officials to protect and strengthen the federal food stamp program, known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP, the school breakfast program at Chicago Public Schools and other key social safety nets.

StudentsFirstNY is a grassroots education advocacy organization dedicated to improving public school options throughout New York State.

Most of New York City's charter schools have disciplinary codes that do not meet either state or federal requirements, according to a report by a children's advocacy organization that is to be released today.

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.

It has since been criticized by advocacy groups, mostly prominently the New York Civil Liberties Union, for what the organization has called unfair suspensions for minor infractions that had helped compound the so - called school - to - prison pipeline.

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 Opportunity Agenda.

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.

Partnership for Student Advocacy (PFSA): An advocacy organization that closely collaborates with schools and school communities, PFSA takes an inventory of local elected officials and reaches out through letters, phone calls, and personal visits to enlist the active support of key leaders on behalf of the schools itAdvocacy (PFSA): An advocacy organization that closely collaborates with schools and school communities, PFSA takes an inventory of local elected officials and reaches out through letters, phone calls, and personal visits to enlist the active support of key leaders on behalf of the schools itadvocacy organization that closely collaborates with schools and school communities, PFSA takes an inventory of local elected officials and reaches out through letters, phone calls, and personal visits to enlist the active support of key leaders on behalf of the schools it serves.

The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.

Chief among the Republicans» supporters is New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany, a super PAC run by the pro-charter advocacy organization StudentsFirstNY — the state branch of the national education reform organization founded by former Washington, D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee.

«School kids living in homeless shelters must contend with unimaginable levels of stress and hardship, and are at a tremendous disadvantage when trying to keep up with their housed peers in class,» said DAVE GIFFEN, Executive Director of the Coalition for the Homeless, the nation's oldest advocacy and direct service organization helping homeless men, women and children.

Possibly even more important for Weinberg, the organization has made space for teen advocacy, working with high school students from across the United States and Canada on projects to get youth involved in science.

Several groups, led by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), a nonprofit legal advocacy organization, filed suit in 1993 claiming that New York State was depriving New York City public school students of their constitutional rights to a «sound basic education,» a standard that had been prescribed in 1982 by the state's highest court (in New York, the Court of Appeals).

These include direct - service providers (e.g., Building Excellent Schools, the Mind Trust, Charter School Partners), human - capital organizations (e.g., Relay, Sposato, the Ryan Fellowship), advocacy groups (e.g., charter associations, BAEO, 50CAN, Stand for Children), and foundations and intermediaries (e.g., the Walton Family Foundation, Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, Choose to Succeed, New Schools for New Orleans).

A 2006 national survey by the Center on Education Policy, an independent advocacy organization in Washington, DC, found that in the five years after enactment of NCLB, 44 percent of districts had increased instruction time in elementary school English language arts and math while decreasing time spent on other subjects.

Districts rich or poor and urban or rural, teachers and administrators, equipment suppliers, consultants, building contractors, pension funds — along with the advocacy organizations that everywhere push for more school spending — can detect such opportunities for gain and join forces, at least up to the point at which remedies are specified and the bigger pie begins to be sliced.

The vast majority of EP alumni work for other education organizations, including high - performing charter school networks and education nonprofits, state and federal agencies that allocate billions of dollars across the sector and impact millions of children, education policy and advocacy organizations, and ed tech companies.

Advocacy Groups Empower Parents to Act as Catalysts for School Reform A growing number of nonprofit organizations bypass PTAs to force change in public education

In this part of our study, we compared states based on the rating of their laws by CER, which is an advocacy organization for charter schools.

Others bring a wealth of experience from a variety of settings including schools, government agencies, foundations, community groups, and advocacy organizations.

«These students join us with a wealth of experience from a variety of settings; schools, government agencies, foundations, community groups, advocacy organizations, and higher education institutions.

They may buy consultants, statewide advocacy organizations, and a few new schools, but fail to build management capacity or deal with long - term structural issues that make or break reform.

The president and CEO of the advocacy organization Center for Teaching Quality lays out a roadmap for reforming our education system and improving the school environment for «teacherpreneurs.»

There are two major concerns: a proposed $ 20 billion federal school - voucher program and DeVos's longtime advocacy for more - rigorous academic standards, which has included support for organizations advancing Common Core State Standards.

HDP graduates are putting their Harvard degree and experience to work at all levels of the education sector — public and independent schools, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies — as well as pursuing careers in public health, social services, child advocacy, and social policy.

Seven years ago, Raise Your Hand Texas (RYHT), a nonprofit education advocacy organization, collaborated with the Harvard Graduate School of Education to help strengthen public education and Texas school leSchool of Education to help strengthen public education and Texas school leschool leaders.

Panelists will discuss a forthcoming report that examines the influence and approach of advocacy organizations in three states that recently enacted or considered school reform legislation: Louisiana, Tennessee, and North Carolina, as well as the implications of a new methodology designed to accurately measure the influence of individual advocacy groups.

He is a national advisor to NYC HOLD, an education advocacy organization that addresses mathematics education in schools throughout the United States.

John Schilling: AFC is the largest school choice advocacy organization in the country.

We didn't want the public school bureaucracy to smother this nascent (and seemingly threatening) movement, so we ultimately decided to create a private nonprofit organization, called the Center for Charter Excellence, that would become the hub for charter school support and advocacy.

The Arizona Community Foundation, along with other organizations and businesses, pooled their resources to create Expect More Arizona, an advocacy group designed to raise the public's expectations for its public schools.

IRE is a research, policy, and advocacy organization in Boston that conducts research on how school, family, and community partnerships effectively support children's learning.

Working in collaboration with a diverse group of educators, advocacy groups, community organizations, and policymakers, the project ultimately aims to grow the number of quality schools where all children can have equitable learning outcomes, feel like their culture is valued, learn to live together with appreciation of differences, and be engaged in understanding how to dismantle racism and systemic oppression.

The Lab's staff will also continue to lead the national advocacy agenda that NCTL launched in 2007 Additionally, grant will support the Lab's «By All Means» initiative by providing advice and support to the city teams, leveraging financial and technical assistance resources, conducting research on the effectiveness of local work, documenting local work and disseminating best practices, brokering national partnerships with organizations in the health, education, social service, and community schools» fields, and providing direct technical assistance in relevant areas of expertise.

The organization also serves the education community through research and advocacy on behalf of students, educators and schools.

Client segments served: foundations, early childhood providers, advocacy organizations, intermediary organizations, charter school authorizers

Whether you are leaving here to begin or return to teaching; to become a school leader or to start a school, to work in federal, state or local government; to be a counselor, to work in an advocacy organization; to work here in the U.S. or abroad, to work in higher ed, preK, or an ed tech start up; you will some day soon change the world.