Sentences with phrase «state education policymaking»

NASBE conducts annual study groups to provide professional development to members of state boards of education, set organizational direction and priorities, and inform the state education policymaking process on key issues.

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A private, non-profit organization founded in 1958, NASBE works to strengthen state leadership in educational policymaking, promote excellence in the education of all students, advocate equality of access to educational opportunity, and assure continued citizen support for public education.

ALBANY — The state Legislature appointed three new members to the Board of Regents on Tuesday, increasing the diversity of the policymaking board, and suggesting tensions around education policy may have eased around the Capitol.

Tisch, who heads the state's powerful education policymaking panel, said recently she'd like to see the charter sector grow.

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Tisch and her colleagues on the 17 - member education policymaking board have argued that Governor Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers set an unrealistic timeline for putting the new evaluation system in place.

These constraints stem from state government's role in education policymaking, limits on available resources, and tensions within progressivism itself.

students who intend to pursue managerial leadership of districts, state education departments, or policymaking agencies will be able to think more boldly and systematically about their work in a way that fosters new approaches, thoughtful initiatives, and gives them the ability to engage and manage entrepreneurs in their work.

Two states are pulling out of a leading national education group in the most visible sign yet of the political tensions rippling through many policymaking organizations since the 1994 elections.

What should we make of the fact that, under our last Republican president we saw a great deal of federal intervention in education policy and now, under a Democratic administration, we have a law that returns much of education policymaking to the states?

As governors and state legislators gear up for a new year of budget action and policymaking, the federal Race to the Top competition is helping to drive a flurry of measures nationwide aimed, at least in part, at making states stronger candidates for a slice of the $ 4 billion in education grants.

With one notable exception (spurring long overdue changes in some state laws), the implementation of this mammoth statute has confirmed several humbling, hoary lessons of federal policymaking, including the limited ability of Uncle Sam to drive education reform.

Their analysis of 13 federal, state, and local improvement efforts in rural schools suggests that a longstanding «urban bias» in education policymaking has resulted in programs that do not take the variety and special characteristics of rural communities into account — and thus are less effective than they could be.

States are increasingly at the center of education policymaking in the United States.

A nonprofit organization founded in 1958, NASBE works to strengthen state leadership in educational policymaking, promote excellence in the education of all students, advocate equality of access to educational opportunity and ensure continued citizen support for public education.

With the focus of education policymaking increasingly on local control, mayors and state policymakers play a significant role in improving our Nation's schools.

In matters of K — 12 education policy, state boards of education have traditionally been the focal point for policymaking, but recent decades have more often found governors and legislators driving reforms that state boards and state superintendents would not likely have undertaken on their own — and sometimes superseding those boards and superintendents in direct control.

He highlights, first, that President - elect Trump repeatedly spoke against Common Core during the campaign, that his selection for Secretary of Education suggests a decentralized approach to K - 12 policymaking, that many states have recently shown a desire to rethink testing, and that the GOP controls more and more state governments.

As more education policymaking devolves to states, principals are empowered with crafting learning atmospheres that meet the needs of all students.

Our Deputy Director Ben Boer joined Mike Petrilli and Alyssa Schwenk on the «Education Gadfly Show» for a «master class in state policymaking» this week.

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The fact the federal government should hold states accountable for the subsidies they are given under No Child — part of the whatever government is doing it should do well that is an oft - forgotten tenet of modern conservatism — also forces it to take a more - prominent role in education policymaking.

While a surge of new policymaking by the U.S. Department of Education and by state officials has buffeted schools and frustrated some teacher leaders, this turbulence has yielded a pressing need for teachers to help figure out how all these changes will actually work.

Each state needs to consolidate in its state department of education the policymaking and implementation authority that now resides in a welter of state - level commissions, agencies, and other independent bodies.

In the book Conant called for a kind of counterbalance — a mechanism for improving and strengthening education policy and policymaking at the state level.

Education policymaking — and 90 percent of funding — is still handled at the state and local levels.

As students head back to school, the Obama administration is using executive power in an unprecedented move to circumvent a congressional standstill on No Child Left Behind, arguing that the federal education law thwarts states» distinct policymaking abilities.

Nevertheless, the GoI heralds this approach as participatory democracy in action, which reminds me of similar attempts at democratizing national, state, and local level education policymaking in the United States.

The issue will highlight the likely education priorities of an Obama or Romney administration; examine how changes in the makeup of Congress could affect education policymaking on Capitol Hill; and touch on state election results.