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He joined the Center in 2009, after leading high school reform efforts in the Highline Public Schools (Wash.) for nine years.

And I have been a veteran of school reform efforts in Texas, here in Los Angeles and elsewhere in California since then.

At the beginning of 2000, OCO researched and developed one of the only community - driven school reform efforts in the United States.

She is the author of numerous articles, books and blog posts (including on The Answer Sheet) about the botched school reform efforts in her state.

For those LEAs who have Renewal Schools and schools eligible for the Achievement School District, they will also be required to demonstrate how their approach to this alignment serves both the individual educator and the school reform efforts in a consistent and cohesive manner.

She has been chronicling botched school reform efforts in her state for years.

He joined the Center in 2009, after leading high school reform efforts in the Highline Public Schools for the previous nine years.

But as past school reform efforts in Los Angeles illustrate, the heavy lifting starts after decisions are made, not before.

'' Chicago has a long history of tinkering with failed schools,» said Tom Vander Ark, executive director for education at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has committed some $ 25 million since 2001 to school reform efforts in Chicago.

The message from Executive Director Scott Pearson and board Chairman John «Skip» McKoy was met with relief by advocates of neighborhood schools and disbelief from some who want to see more aggressive charter school growth in one of the most closely watched school reform efforts in the nation.

Pereira — and hundreds of thousands of teenagers like her throughout the country — are at the vortex of the most far - reaching high school reform effort in a half - century.

Not exact matches

We live in a time where high school students are leading our nation's efforts for gun reform.

Since the most severe problems are in inner - city schools, we should focus our efforts at reform there.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

The third chapter in the book, «The Homework Dilemma,» profiles Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School's efforts to reform its homework practices.

But my approach on this blog (and in my own school food reform efforts here in Houston) is to be more pragmatic.

Lunch Money is Adamick's effort to dispel «the myth that school food reform is cost prohibitive» by providing «effective money - saving and revenue - generating tools for use in any school kitchen or cafeteria... [including] examples, diagrams, charts, and worksheets that unlock the financial secrets to scratch - cooking in the school food environment and prove that a penny saved is much more than a penny earned.»

If Republicans, many of whom are allied with SNA in this effort, win control of the Senate this fall, we may well see decades of work on school food reform go up in smoke.

Poppendieck (whom I often refer to on this site as my «school lunch guru») was responding to my post «Lessons from a Bowl of Oatmeal» in which I posit that changing lunch menus is only half the battle — if we don't also educate students about new foods and encourage them to taste new items on their lunch tray, all of our best efforts at reform are doomed to fail.

But of course I recognize that many people who don't share my political views might still support the current school food reform efforts, and I agree that I didn't acknowledge that at all in this post.

But through my research and writing on the topic, and through my active participation in local school food reform efforts here in Houston, I've come to believe no proposed «solution» to the crisis will get us anywhere at all — unless kids themselves become invested in change.

Cuomo is backing an effort in his education reform push that would put a monitor in charge of a school deemed to be failing.

«As the chair of the Senate Education Committee, Senator Oppenheimer should be leading efforts to reform the state school aid formula so districts do not have to endure billions in cuts any given year and can operate within the confines of a local property tax cap,» said Cohen.

Full disclosure: Among the people backing Fordham law professor and former Howard Dean internet director Zephyr Teachout's effort to challenge sitting NY Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary, according to the filings by her and her running mate Tim Wu with the state board of elections: Union Square Ventures» Brad Burnham ($ 20,000), Tumblr founder David Karp ($ 20,000) WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ($ 5,000), Netflix VP Chris Libertelli ($ 5,000), Kickstarter's Fred Benenson ($ 5,000), campaign finance reform activist Arnold Hiatt ($ 2,500), Lawrence Lessig ($ 2,500), Reddit's Alexis Ohanian ($ 2,500), our own Andrew Rasiej ($ 1,500), Digg's Andrew McLaughlin ($ 1,000), Open Technology Institute's Sascha Meinrath ($ 1,000), Harvard Law School's Jonathan Zittrain ($ 1,000), Duke law prof Jedediah Purdy ($ 1,000), Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen ($ 1,000), EchoDitto founder and former Dean webmaster Nicco Mele ($ 600), net neutrality campaigner Marvin Ammori ($ 500), Blue State Digital's Joe Rospars ($ 500), Progressive Strategies» Mike Lux ($ 450), former Dean data - wiz Kenn Herman ($ 300), former Dean developer Josh Koenig ($ 250), Fight for the Future's Tiffiniy Cheng ($ 250), MIT's Ethan Zuckerman ($ 250), Brooklyn law prof Jonathan asking ($ 250), Public Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly ($ 100).

New Yorkers For A Balanced Albany, a super PAC backed by supporters of education reform and charter school efforts, is spending more money in potentially pivotal races for the state Senate.

Sen. Gustavo Rivera, who has a high number of failing schools in his Bronx district, responds to Cuomo's recent highlighting of that fact in an effort to push his education reform agenda.

Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins on Thursday weighed in on the education funding discussions in the state budget, saying in a statement school aid should not be «held hostage» in the ongoing effort instill education reforms.

Woolwich — Senate President Steve Sweeney, Assemblyman John Burzichelli and Assemblyman Adam Taliaferro joined with local officials, educators and others today in a community forum to mark the increase in school funding for the Kingsway Regional School System as the result of the successful effort to include the school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE&school funding for the Kingsway Regional School System as the result of the successful effort to include the school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE&School System as the result of the successful effort to include the school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE&school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE»

Bridgeton — Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assemblyman John Burzichelli joined with local officials, educators and others in a community forum to mark the increase in school funding for the Bridgeton School District as the result of the successful effort to include the school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE&school funding for the Bridgeton School District as the result of the successful effort to include the school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE&School District as the result of the successful effort to include the school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE&school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE»

New Yorkers For A Balanced Albany is led by Angela Dickens, the general counsel for StudentsFirstNY, a group that has backed education reform and charter school efforts in New York.

The formation of New Yorkers for Great Public Schools is just the teachers unions» latest effort to derail meaningful reform in our sSchools is just the teachers unions» latest effort to derail meaningful reform in our schoolsschools.

«Dennis Walcott has been working his entire life to help New York City's school children, and I am confident that experience will help him build on the successful reform efforts of the past nine years and improve our classrooms for the generations to come,» Bloomberg said in a statement praising Steiner's decision.

In an interview today, Miner said she understands Cuomo's effort to reform schools and to weed out bad teachers, but she said money must be part of the discussion.

At the same time, the findings from the study, by the Geiger Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, show that health centers working in restrictive states are hampered in their outreach and enrollment efforts and are significantly less optimistic about the impact of health reform in their communities.

Newtown (Unrated) Political gridlock expose» chronicling a grieving Connecticut community's futile lobbying effort for gun reform legislation in the wake of the mass murder of 6 teachers and 20 students at an elementary school.

Following in the not - so - proud footprints of Comprehensive School Reform and NCLB school restructuring, it was only the latest in a long series of failed federal efforts to boost outcomes in struggling scSchool Reform and NCLB school restructuring, it was only the latest in a long series of failed federal efforts to boost outcomes in struggling scschool restructuring, it was only the latest in a long series of failed federal efforts to boost outcomes in struggling schools.

In response, a number of reform efforts are focusing on creating small schools or schools within schools where students are known and valued as individuals by other students as well as by teachers and staff.

In the absence of race - based constraints, some reform efforts that aim to improve school quality, such as charter schools, open enrollment, magnet schools, and vouchers, may intensify segregation by income, race, or achievement (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summerschools, open enrollment, magnet schools, and vouchers, may intensify segregation by income, race, or achievement (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summerschools, and vouchers, may intensify segregation by income, race, or achievement (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, SummerSchools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summer 2010).

Although some education reforms like the development of the state - run Recovery School District (RSD) began before Hurricane Katrina, the storm fueled the development of new mandates and forced a redefininition of the school system in an effort to reopen schools as quickly as posSchool District (RSD) began before Hurricane Katrina, the storm fueled the development of new mandates and forced a redefininition of the school system in an effort to reopen schools as quickly as posschool system in an effort to reopen schools as quickly as possible.

Democratic senator Mary Landrieu, a cosponsor of the «Three R's» bill, worked tirelessly, and against considerable opposition from members of both political parties, to increase the targeting of federal education dollars to low - income communities and schools in an effort to better support their school reform efforts.

Yet the enduring value of YES Prep and charter school efforts like it may ultimately be measured in outcomes elsewhere: Will they effectively feed the reform efforts at struggling schools like Hogg and the Academy?

In Massachusetts, writes Georgia Alexakis in the Washington Monthly, the paradox of these reform efforts is, «The schools most likely to do poorly on the MCAS [the state test in Massachusetts] have also been most likely to embrace it, while those districts whose scores are already quite high are fighting hardest to get rid of it.&raquIn Massachusetts, writes Georgia Alexakis in the Washington Monthly, the paradox of these reform efforts is, «The schools most likely to do poorly on the MCAS [the state test in Massachusetts] have also been most likely to embrace it, while those districts whose scores are already quite high are fighting hardest to get rid of it.&raquin the Washington Monthly, the paradox of these reform efforts is, «The schools most likely to do poorly on the MCAS [the state test in Massachusetts] have also been most likely to embrace it, while those districts whose scores are already quite high are fighting hardest to get rid of it.&raquin Massachusetts] have also been most likely to embrace it, while those districts whose scores are already quite high are fighting hardest to get rid of it.»

In his final chapter, Putnam recommends a variety of well - known school - based reforms, such as moving poor children into better schools, compensatory financing for schools in poor neighborhoods to enable them to attract the best teachers and counselors, more school - based extracurricular activities and social services, and more effort to engage the whole community in the education procesIn his final chapter, Putnam recommends a variety of well - known school - based reforms, such as moving poor children into better schools, compensatory financing for schools in poor neighborhoods to enable them to attract the best teachers and counselors, more school - based extracurricular activities and social services, and more effort to engage the whole community in the education procesin poor neighborhoods to enable them to attract the best teachers and counselors, more school - based extracurricular activities and social services, and more effort to engage the whole community in the education procesin the education process.

Today's advocates for better schools are insurgent groups that challenge the establishment by encouraging parents to engage actively in K - 12 reform efforts, demanding major changes in school choice and teacher policies, as well as school governance.

Spurred by rapid globalization and a shift toward an increasingly information - driven economy, nations throughout the world are reforming their schools in an effort to educate greater numbers of students to a higher skill level.

Thom Markham, Ph.D., President of GlobalRedesigns, and Senior National Faculty member at the Buck Institute for Education, is a psychologist and educator who served as a Director with Active Learning, Inc., an innovative motivational and learning skills camp program for high school and college students, taught at an award - winning high school, where he led school reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, Califschool and college students, taught at an award - winning high school, where he led school reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, Califschool, where he led school reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, Califschool reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, CalifSchool of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, Califschool in Novato, California.

Part of the reason that the small - schools effort was so remarkable is that it bucked the reform instinct to start when kids are young; it was also notable because it was so long in coming.

Under the umbrella of Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) the group coordinated a major effort in 2010 to urge the New York State legislature to lift a charter school cap that had been a stumbling block in the state's first bid to win a federal Race to the Top (RttT) grant.

In the New York Times, Natasha Singer takes a skeptical look at the involvement of tech entrepreneurs in school reform effortIn the New York Times, Natasha Singer takes a skeptical look at the involvement of tech entrepreneurs in school reform effortin school reform efforts.

The Providence - based Big Picture Co., which so far has concentrated its school - reform efforts in Rhode Island, will direct its latest project from a new office in Cambridge, Mass..