Sentences with phrase «school champion»

He talks about more rigorous standards and evaluations for teachers and students, even while the charter schools he champions function without any effective oversight.

When Lee was in the fourth grade, he was already beating New York high school champions in his specialty, the butterfly stroke.

New Jersey's new governor will consider changes to the state's charter school law, potentially slowing the expansion of controversial, yet in - demand schools championed by former Gov. Chris Christie.

Finding a better option for her grandchildren and advocating to make sure they and other charter children are treated fairly makes Joanne McElroy Moore a real charter school champion in our eyes!

You may recall when Governor Malloy traveled to New York City to speak at some group's annual meeting about economic development (although it was really a gala honoring charter school champion Jonathan Sackler).

In addition to pushing back against the flatness that Clement Greenberg insisted was absolutely integral to painting, Plimack Mangold also distinguished herself from the painterly realists, such as Fairfield Porter and Alex Katz, whose work the poet - critics associated with the New York School championed.

At our 2016 Leaders Summit, we honored school champions from America's Healthiest Schools who are leading the movement to make healthy schools the norm not the exception.

The nation's leading public school champion, Diane Ravitch, has already named Superintendent Thomas Scarice one of the country's pro-public education champions.

Hedge funders who have become charter school champions met with Cuomo at the Regency last month; they've also hired Bloomberg's former campaign manager, Bradley Tusk, and lobbyist Patricia Lynch.

The PAC is using a pollster and political consultant, Doug Schoen and Bradley Tusk, connected to former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, once the Senate Republicans» biggest individual donor and a charter school champion when he was in office.

He is a regional and state high school champion shotput and discus thrower and he also plays on his school's football team.

School Champions reported an average rating of 5 before involvement compared to 9 at the time of the independent review.

Trump loyalists celebrated what appeared to be DeVos successful effort to keep from derailing her own confirmation, while public education advocates strengthen their belief that DeVos» performance reiterated their worst fears about the pro-charter school champion.

Funding provided by the Foundation enables AFHK to: train parents and other stakeholders about school health topics; give parents and others the resources and tools they need to help schools create healthier environments; expand AFHK's network of parents who can work with one another and schools in the interest of student health; and strengthen collaborative healthy school efforts across the state to ensure that parents have a strong voice alongside other school champions.

Here in Connecticut, we've become used to daily coverage of the failures associated with the Jumoke / FUSE charter school company and the exploits of charter school champions such as «Dr.» Michael Sharpe, «Dr.» Terrence Carter, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education Steven Pryor, Capital Prep principal Steve Perry, corporate education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas and the others who are pushing the charter school gravy train.

The Huffington Post: Voucher Schools Championed By Betsy DeVos Can Teach Whatever They Want.

The NSN charity, headed by free schools champion Toby Young, offers two strands of advice to applicants hoping to get their free school off the ground.

The gameplay of Inazuma Eleven GO just feels right, and I've spent a huge amount of time playing both story - related and optional matches just to make my team of high school champions stronger and stronger.

According to the report, Bronin collected $ 2,000 from charter school champion Jonathan Sackler and his wife.

A five - time state high school champion, he has won back - to - back titles in two trips to the NCAA championships and is running on full throttle toward a third.

Four public charter school champions in the U.S. House of Representatives are seeking support for an increase in federal funds for the federal Charter Schools Program (CSP).

Its impressive «Schools That Work» series, in which Edutopia throws all of its multimedia resources into detailed coverage of an individual school, recently featured YES Prep, an urban charter - school network often mentioned in the same breath with KIPP, Achievement First, and other «no excuses» schools championed by advocates of test - driven education reform.

blog about Governor Malloy's recent trip to a New York City gala dinner honoring Achievement First founder and Charter School champion Jonathan Sackler sparked the ire of Malloy's chief advisor.

As the sport has grown to the 25,000 youth players nationwide, Sacramento rugby has joined the Bay Area to form an impressive hotbed of youth and high school champions.

The state high school champion, the band has performed at the Preakness, the Kentucky Derby and Jimmy Carter's inauguration.

Mayor Bloomberg, a longstanding charter school champion, teed off this morning on Harlem Sen. Bill Perkins, who hosted a controversial public hearing on the schools yesterday.

Faced with losing the ballot line to a challenger who tapped into resentment over his estate tax cuts, charter - school championing and failure to deliver campaign finance reform, Governor Andrew Cuomo won the party's designation only after promising to fight for Democratic control of the state Senate and deliver a progressive policy wish list.

State high school champion, all - Ivy League at Harvard, undrafted by the NBA and unwanted there: his story started long before he landed on Broadway.

Schools with the most long - term success have had the benefit of a school champion (or champions) holding onto the vision of what the school would look and feel like with mindfulness embedded in its culture.

The report adds cold, hard data to what has long been known among education reformers and the high - achieving charter schools they champion: Getting low - income «first - generation» kids into college is hard.

The children all created designs on the theme of «All Equal, All Different», an anti-bullying message which the school champions.

That makes Goodbee a real charter school champion.

The Harvest Network has deep ties to Minnesota's philanthropist community, with venture capitalist and charter school champion, Ben Whitney, acting as vice chair of the network's board of directors.

Fawn and Jim Spady have been this state's indefatigable charter school champions.

Either way, if Governor Malloy wants to nominate even more charter school champions to the State Board of Education, that is his prerogative, but to nominate one whose conflict of interest is so obvious and clear is an insult to the children, parents, teachers and taxpayers of Connecticut.

My post last Wednesday, about Governor Malloy's attendance at a Gala honoring Jonathan Sacker, the charter school champion and founder of Achievement First, ConnCAN and 50CAN generated quite a stir.

Louisiana Charter Schools in Action (LCSA) is excited to launch its new website to help make it easier for charter school champions to get involved in lobbying... Read More about Louisiana Charter Schools in Action Launches New Site

Louisiana Charter Schools in Action (LCSA) advocates for Louisiana's charter school community by increasing the number of charter school champions, educating stakeholders, and lobbying public officials to support high quality charter schools.

Korean - American Michelle Rhee — noted charter school champion and chancellor of Washington, D.C.'s predominantly black public schools — brashly posed on the cover of Time with a broom in front of a chalkboard and the forceful headline «How to Fix America's Schools.»

Duncan Kirkwood is our Western New York Advocacy Manager and a real charter school champion.

And the other winner — Christopher Cerf, the charter school champion, Chris Christie pal, and former city schools superintendent and state education commissioner whose snake oil consulting show continues to play — and pay — in Newark.

The school's POL teacher / school coordinator will send the names of the school champion and titles of his or her three poems to the Tennessee Arts Commission.