Sentences with phrase «school reform efforts since»

4) The preponderance of school reform efforts since Risk has concentrated on augmenting the system's resources, widening its services, and tightening its regulation of school practices.

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

, a new book by HGSE lecturer Katherine Boles (co-authored by Vivian Trn), contends that teaching in America has deteriorated for decades to reach a low point unmatched since the era of the one - room schoolhouse»» despite billions of dollars spent on school reform efforts and millions more spent to recruit bodies to teach in U.S. classsrooms.

«As a partner with the school district, BPE has raised almost $ 40 million in private funds for the district's ten - year reform effort since 1996.»

Since the Milliken ruling, there has been a vast effort to improve public education for students from kindergarten through high school with an extensive range of reforms.

Mr. Klein has since overseen a number of aggressive reform efforts, including a stringent evaluation effort for each of the system's 1,400 public schools and the introduction of value - added assessment of the city's...

'' 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.

In the 11 years since the state took over Philadelphia, the district has gone through an array of overhauls, including the hand - off of school operations to outfits such as Edison Schools, and even the hard work of reformers such as Paul Vallas (who began Chicago's successful school reform effort and has just finished up a successful stint overseeing the revamp of New Orleans» school system).

Since the 1960s, there have been continuing federal efforts to bring reform to scale in high - poverty elementary and secondary schools across the U.S..

Dr. Cárdenas was actively involved in the school finance reform efforts since the early days of the Rodríguez vs. San Antonio ISD litigation when he was superintendent of the Edgewood ISD.

Assessing What Really Matters in Schools: Creating Hope for the Future, by Ronald J. Newell and Mark J. Van Ryzin, asserts that» «since the 1960s, efforts to reform education — including various curricular changes, reading approaches, teacher preparation, money for the disadvantaged, and different instructional approaches — have failed to bring about true systemic change because the reforms fail to deal with a different definition of learning.»»

But since the 1960s, successful efforts by teachers» unions to pass state laws forcing districts to bargain with them, along with school funding lawsuits and property tax reforms such as California's Proposition 13, have led to states taking a more prominent role in all aspects of education.

Since change takes time, our ability to analyze the impact of the reform effort has thus far been limited by the small number of schools which have been in the project for at least 2 years.

Since the corporate education reform industry began ramping up their lobbying efforts as part of Governor Malloy's education reform initiative of 2012, the various charter school advocates and education reform groups have spent a record breaking $ 8.4 million on behalf of their pro-charter school, pro-Common Core, pro-Common Core testing, anti-teacher agenda.

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

Since the corporate education reform industry began ramping up their lobbying efforts as part of Governor Malloy's education reform initiative of 2012, the various charter school advocates and education reform groups have spent a record breaking $ 7.9 million on behalf of their pro-charter school, pro-common core, anti-teacher agenda.

School finance reforms are perhaps the largest national effort we have made to increase equality of educational opportunity since the school desegregation movSchool finance reforms are perhaps the largest national effort we have made to increase equality of educational opportunity since the school desegregation movschool desegregation movement.

Los Angeles Public Schools have been working since 2005 to reform discipline, showing that this issue requires sustained effort.