Sentences with phrase «several education reform groups»

Several education reform groups are asking the House to add quality control measures to the charter bill that would affect all operators, both for - profit and nonprofit.

In 2013, she worked with several education reform groups to pass legislation enacting a new teacher evaluation system.

Several education reform groups weighed in on the presidents attempt to kill DCOSP with justifiable disappointment and anger.

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The Alliance for School Choice, a national education reform group, set up PACs in several states to elect state lawmakers.

The recent case, Doe v. Deasy, was filed in 2010 by several students in the district and sponsored by EdVoice, the nonprofit education reform group backed by billionaire Eli Broad, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and Richard Merkin, CEO of the Heritage Provider Network, among others.

She served on the Kentucky Board of Education for 8 years and participated in several national study groups related to school reform and college / career readiness.

StudentsFirstNY, an advocacy group that promotes charter schools and other education reforms, on whose board several of those donors sit, strongly endorsed the governor's campaign to make test scores matter more in evaluations, saying the existing system bore «zero resemblance» to how students themselves were performing across the state.

Lerner is a former communications manager for several reform - driven organizations, including the Fordham Institute and the advocacy group American Federation for Children, formerly chaired by Betsy DeVos, now the U.S. secretary of education.

Some of the state's lowest performing schools — including several in Pueblo City Schools (D60)-- are in worse shape today than before they received more than $ 60 million in federal grant money to improve achievement, a report from a Denver education reform advocacy group said.

In Lansing, several education - reform groups are trying to fix the bill by adding quality control standards.

He spotlights three organizations he claims are leading a movement to reform teachers unions and make them partners in an attempt to improve the quality of public education — NewTLA, a dissident faction in the United Teachers of Los Angeles, Educators for Excellence, a reform group in New York started by two young Teach For America graduates, and Teach Plus, an organization that has gained traction in several states, whose goal is to «engage early career teachers in rebuilding their profession to better meet the needs of students and the incoming generation of teachers.»