Many of these bright young teachers will stay in New Orleans, and TFA alums are providing key leadership to individual schools and to organizations
supporting public school reform in our city.
Not exact matches
Education
reform — loosely defined as
support for charter
school expansion and enhanced classroom standards and evaluations — had largely subsided as a major issue in 2016 for state lawmakers, but had bitterly divided the Capitol in 2015 as Gov. Andrew Cuomo sought to develop new standards for
public school teachers.
Hawkins» platform includes tax
reform that would create a city income tax, anti-poverty initiatives, state -
supported worker co-ops for poor and working - class people,
public ownership of utilities and desegregation of
schools and housing.
The Greens have called for Foundation Aid to be fully funded immediately, for the
school aid formula to be
reformed so it is more need - based, and for the state to
support school desegregation programs such as intra - and inter-district
public school choice, consolidation, and incentives (such as magnet
schools).
There have not been any angry
public walkouts from the negotiating room to this point, but there have been the usual grumbling about the stickiest issues, which this week include talks on «Raise the Age,» workers compensation
reform and
support for charter
schools.
Albany, New York — StudentsFirstNY, a statewide education
reform advocacy organization, today was joined by
public school parents and advocates in testifying before a New York State Joint Committee on Education in
support of Governor Andrew Cuomo's Opportunity Agenda.
... According to court documents, Christie's budget fails to meet the funding requirements set forth by the
School Funding Reform Act of 2008, a spending formula that guarantees financial support for all New Jersey public school dist
School Funding
Reform Act of 2008, a spending formula that guarantees financial
support for all New Jersey
public school dist
school districts.
«We're going to do everything we can to
support the governor in advancing a bold education
reform agenda that improves the quality of traditional
public schools and expands choice for families,» the group's executive director, Jenny Sedlis, said in an interview.
The governor's proposal also calls for federal
support to keep Brooklyn's ailing hospitals open, changing the controversial Common Core
school curriculum, ending standardized testing for grades K - 2, begin construction of four new casinos in the fall, allow
public funding of political campaigns and
reforming the state's ethics policy.
Nov. 15, 2 p.m. ET: Powerful Partnerships: Creating Community Coalitions for District
Reform The Syracuse City
School District and Say Yes to Education have launched an innovative partnership intended to link
public, private, and nonprofit community groups in
support of the 19,000 - student district.
Public supports Common Core, and when given national ranking of local
schools, Americans give those
schools lower grades and express greater
support for vouchers, charters, and teacher tenure
reform
Paul is joined by EdNext editor - in - chief Marty West to discuss findings from the new EdNext poll on
school reform, which measured
public support for the rights of Muslim students and of evangelical students to form afterschool religious clubs.
An annual poll by Education Next in 2017 showed that
public support for charter
schools has recently fallen, particularly among Democrats, and opposition has grown (see «The 2017 EdNext Poll on
School Reform,» features, Winter 2018).
In a new article for Education Next, David Osborne, director of the project on Reinventing America's
Schools at the Progressive Policy Institute, finds Denver's pursuit of this strategy, which has increased
school leader autonomy, has produced impressive gains in student achievement, leading to growing
public support for the
reforms.
The groups he has
supported reads like a Who's Who of the brand of education
reform that favors online learning and charter
schools over traditional
schools: According to the publication Education Next, his money helped start the NewSchools Venture Fund, a major funder of charter
schools and ed tech start - ups, and Aspire
Public schools, a charter
school network.
Strong chapters on
school desegregation, bilingual education, education for the disabled, and
school finance all
support Davies's argument that «in the 1970s,
reform often emanated from... within the federal bureaucracy, from the lower federal courts, and through the energetic efforts of congressional staffers, lobbyists, and
public interest law firms.»
Public support remains as high as ever for federally mandated testing, charter
schools, tax credits to
support private
school choice, merit pay for teachers, and teacher tenure
reform.
Alonso served as CEO of Baltimore City
Public Schools (City
Schools) for six years, where he led a
reform effort marked by a rebalancing of authority and responsibility among stakeholders, the building of a coalition in
support of City
Schools, leading edge labor contracts, and a focus on individual students and teaching and learning that yielded marked improvement in achievement and climate data across all levels, the first increases in enrollment in 40 years, and widespread political and ground root
support for what have been divisive
reform strategies in other districts.
Nine months ago we reported on
public support for these
reforms («What Americans Think about Their
Schools,» features, Fall 2007).
While the study suggests that
public support for
school reforms changes with added information about
school quality, in most instances, teacher opinion is unaffected.
Education leaders across the
reform spectrum should be appealing to this natural interest and building API
support for the
reforms necessary to improve
public schools.
The Stupski Family Foundation
supports public education by giving money to
school districts and organizations that are seeking to accomplish large - scale educational
reform.
Information Fuels
Support for
School Reform Facts about local district performance alter
public thinking By Michael B. Henderson, William G. Howell and Paul E. Peterson
But as pundits and practitioners thrust and parry over these issues, they may be overlooking the potential impact of CCSS on
public perceptions of
school quality and
public support for
school reforms.
This survey reveals a U.S.
public that continues to
support its
public schools, but also one that wants these
schools to become more effective and is willing to endorse a wide variety of
reforms it thinks will bring that about.
Separate and apart from NCLB, which focuses on the performance of
schools and districts, the
public strongly
supports reforms designed to hold individual students accountable for their performance on state tests.
For the most part, how Americans evaluate the
public schools in their own communities does not strongly correlate with their
support for the
reform proposals included in this survey.
Yesterday, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) released the results of a poll conducted by a Democratic polling firm supposedly showing that American parents don't
support a plethora of education
reforms, including
school choice, and would rather increase funding for
public schools.
Meanwhile,
support for the most far - reaching federal effort to
reform public schools — the No Child Left Behind Act — has slipped.
It has hollowed out
public support for
school reform.
In both treatment conditions, the statements about
public and teacher
support were drawn from the 2013 Education Next / Harvard University Poll on
School Reform.
Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building
Support for Breakthrough
Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New
Schools — Mar 15, 2012
Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from
Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011
School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing
Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost
School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter
School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter
School Research from
Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010
Public Impact's latest on Education
Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing
Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing
Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.
Left - wing policy
supports neighborhood - based
public schools, opposes any methods to measure or differentiate the performance of teachers or
schools, and argues instead for alternatives to
school reform like increased anti-poverty spending or urging middle - class parents to enroll their children in high - poverty
schools.
In September 2008, Weingarten led the development of the AFT Innovation Fund, a groundbreaking initiative to
support sustainable, innovative and collaborative
reform projects developed by members and their local unions to strengthen our
public schools.
To
support my case, I presented three categories of evidence: (1) the fact that national
reform groups seem deeply concerned about Detroit; (2) the similarity in performance between the city's charter and traditional
public schools; and (3) the large negative effects of two statewide voucher programs on student outcomes.
«My determination is to
reform the
public school system,» said candidate Booker, who was opposed by the state's powerful teachers union, with 192,272 members, in part because of his
support of vouchers.
Indeed, the reality of the matter is that both of California's teachers» organizations
support Gavin Newsom because he has pledged to work with them rather than join the billionaire boys club behind corporate education
reform efforts and the unregulated spread of charter
schools that will continue to drain funding from other
public schools and, if left unchecked, ultimately undermine
public education itself.
His own conversion to the
school reform movement offers one more reason why defenders of traditional
public education such as the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers can no longer count on the Democratic Party for unquestioned
support.
As educators and trusted messengers in our communities, we must make sure the
public is informed and not fooled by presidential candidates who say they believe in a world - class education system but have a history of starving our
public schools of critical funding and
supporting flawed so - called
reforms that don't work.
The endorsed slate, which ran on a platform of
support for the corporate education
reform industry, went down to a stunning defeat against a challenge slate made up of local Democrats who
support local teachers, local
schools and local
public education.
The education
reform bill, passed last year by the state legislature with overwhelming
support and signed by Governor Dannel P. Malloy, grows high - performing
public school options, provides fairer funding for
public charter
school students, and creates a Commissioner's Network to turnaround our state's chronically failing
schools.
Every since the 1990s, Clinton has expressed
support for charter
schools, but in Saturday's remarks, she said something that is likely to irritate her supporters within the Democratic Party who are avid backers of charter
schools as a principal means of
reforming public education: that most charters don't accept those students who are the most difficult to educate, or, if they do, they «don't keep them.»
Families that Can and CCSA are working with a coalition of minority and civil rights groups to push education
reform in LAUSD, including
supporting the
Public School Choice initiative.
As I detail in my book Hoosier
School Heist, the so - called school reform movement in Indiana and elsewhere is led by billionaires who fund legislators to support bills to privatize public sc
School Heist, the so - called
school reform movement in Indiana and elsewhere is led by billionaires who fund legislators to support bills to privatize public sc
school reform movement in Indiana and elsewhere is led by billionaires who fund legislators to
support bills to privatize
public schools.
POLITICS Chalkbeat: Walton memo recommends charter advocates do more to persuade Democrats Daily Signal: Latest NAEP Scores Show DeVos Was Right About
Public Schools Sacramento Bee: Charter school backers spend millions to support Villaraigosa for governor Chalkbeat: Candidates backed by powerful coalition sweep Newark's historic school board election LA Times: The power game behind the search for a new L.A. schools leader Chalkbeat: CO Democrats overwhelmingly reject Democrats for Education Reform at state a
Schools Sacramento Bee: Charter
school backers spend millions to
support Villaraigosa for governor Chalkbeat: Candidates backed by powerful coalition sweep Newark's historic
school board election LA Times: The power game behind the search for a new L.A.
schools leader Chalkbeat: CO Democrats overwhelmingly reject Democrats for Education Reform at state a
schools leader Chalkbeat: CO Democrats overwhelmingly reject Democrats for Education
Reform at state assembly
DC
School Reform Now is educating, organizing and advocating to build
support for
public education strategies that prepare kids to become college and career ready.
Rothstein is a great choice for this one in that indeed he is an economist, but one of a few, really, who is deep into the research literature and who, accordingly, has a balanced set of research - based beliefs about value - added models (VAMs), their current uses in America's
public schools, and what they can and can not do (theoretically) to
support school reform.
DC
School Reform Now was founded in 2008 with a desire to
support new education
reforms in the changing climate of
public education in the District.
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WHEREAS, the billionaires funding Students First and Democrats for Education
Reform are
supporting candidates and local programs that would dismantle a free
public education for every student in California and replace it with company run charter
schools, non-credentialed teachers and unproven untested so - called «
reforms»;