Sentences with phrase «system reform initiatives»

In addition, an aspect of various child welfare system reform initiatives is supporting the system's infrastructure to be able to implement fairly global policy changes (e.g. Family to Family program, Families for Kids program, public - private partnerships).

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Jody has over 25 years of experience in the water sector where she has been responsible for driving a range of initiatives including state water reforms under the National Water initiative, driving the momentum and integration of The Living Murray, delivery of environmental water with and on behalf of Basin states, development and implementation of a plan to avoid widespread acidification to the lower lakes of the Murray system during the Millennium drought and identification of the sustainable level of take to be embodied in the Murray - Darling Basin Plan.

Consistent with New York's Reforming the Energy Vision initiative, the New York Independent System Operator today announced new market rules that will enable certain on - site generation resources to participate in New York's wholesale electricity markets.

But putting his reform initiatives in the executive budget, the governor will achieve one thing that has eluded his predecessors — a real debate on campaign finance reforms, including the big reform: establishing a system of public financing.

The measure is part of voting reforms initiatives Cuomo says will improve the state's antiquated voting system.

The Reforming the Energy Vision is Cuomo's strategy designed to «to build a clean, resilient and affordable energy system for all New Yorkers» with statewide initiatives and regulatory reforms, according to the release.

During his fifth annual «State of the City» address at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn on Tuesday night, de Blasio unveiled a 10 - point «DemocracyNYC» plan that includes the creation of a Charter Review Commission that will reform the city's campaign finance system and a CDO who will lead a series of initiatives to get 1.5 million New Yorkers registered to vote by 2022.

There's also some items included that are part of ongoing initiatives, like the effort to reform Medicaid and the downsizing of the state's juvenile justice system.

«This comprehensive package - the most progressive set of reforms in the nation — will guarantee fairness for the accused by reshaping New York's antiquated bail system, ensuring access to a speedy trial, improving the disclosure of evidence in the discovery process, transforming asset forfeiture procedures and implementing new initiatives to help individuals transition from incarceration to their communities.»

According to Benjamin, a few years ago, his think tank was commissioned by the county to study its court systems as part of a state initiative on court reform.

He again called for reforms to the state justice and electoral systems and promised to push for $ 650 million to fund a life sciences initiative.

Amid all the political battlefronts in the effort to reform our multi-trillion-dollar health care system, some of the most potentially worthwhile initiatives have received little notice — and the notice they have received has threatened to undo them.

The initiative wissenschaftlichernachwuchs.de was founded in December 2000 when government plans for reform of the university system became imminent.

For students to benefit from these changes, however, state education leaders must avoid tinkering with new initiatives and instead seek courageous, whole - system reforms.

Counter-organization and outreach to groups that will benefit from reform (particularly parents of children doing least well in the conventional school system) can counter opponents» initiatives.

To us, this initiative means NBU and its active - learning programs no longer exist solely as an external force challenging the educational system: There is a demand for reform within the school system, and we believe it will grow.

Christopher J. Doherty, the director of a private organization that manages whole - school - reform programs in the Baltimore school system, has been named to head President Bush's Reading First initiative.

Drawing on data from two national pilot programs — Principals as Literacy Leaders (PALL) and Leading Aligned Numeracy Development (LAND)-- this book looks at effective strategies for implementing system improvement and presents approaches for capitalising on successes, and overcoming the shortcomings of initiative - based reforms.

But another group — nonprofit foundations — also exerts influence on the process and outcomes of reform efforts by supporting initiatives that lead to specific changes in the system.

To be sure, it's because dysfunctional schools and systems are implementing discipline reform poorly, just like they implement so many other initiatives poorly.

In recognition of the challenges faced by busy teachers - the constant swathe of initiatives and reforms and the complexity of schools and school systems - the value of collaboration is emphasised.

Yet, opponents of parent choice and other transformational education reform initiatives continue to place one obstacle after another in the path of parents seeking the power to choose the best educational environment for their children and / or to fundamentally change some of the systems that purport to educate their children.

Our recommendations were motivated largely by our review of publicly available data, which are incomplete and inadequate to support definitive conclusions about the effects of the reform initiative or the functioning of the school system.

Nina Salomon is a Project Manager in the Corrections and Reentry division at the CSG Justice Center, where she oversees the Improving Outcomes for Youth initiative, supporting states develop, adopt, and implement legislative reforms to improve outcomes for youth in the juvenile justice system.

Before joining Education Northwest, she served as a data coach with the San Francisco Unified School District, evaluated school and district reform initiatives, and consulted on organizational learning, systems change, and research - practitioner partnerships.

As a result of their «education reform» initiatives, well over $ 100 million in taxpayer funds will go to charter schools rather than the state's local public school system.

Over the past fifteen years, Wiggins worked on some of the most influential reform initiatives in the country, including Vermont's portfolio system and the Coalition of Essential Schools.

Then in 2010, a year after Schwarzenegger and the Democrat - controlled state legislature took advantage of the leverage given to them by the federal Race to the Top initiative and passed a series reforms (including the nation's first Parent Trigger law and requiring the state's teacher database to be tied to its student data system in order to allow for the use of student data in evaluating teachers), the NEA and AFT spent big to back once - and - future governor Jerry Brown's return to the top office, and successfully back traditionalist Tom Torlakson as state schools superintendent (while defeating longstanding Gloria Romero, the former state senate honcho who worked with Schwarzenegger to pass the reforms).

«Choice» has become a popular mantra in education - reform circles, used primarily to describe initiatives to increase the number of charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately operated, and to increase funding for private schools through voucher systems.

At the community level in the United States, numerous municipalities are now pursuing so - called «collective impact» reform initiatives that apply a systems perspective to achieve better educational and life outcomes for children and youth.

Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.

The 2015 Legislature passed the Governor's education reform initiatives for Nevada's PreK - 12 education system.

How do you think the differences in success attribution (pp. 7 — 8) have influenced the growth and reform initiatives of each country's educational system?

And when it comes to the relationship between the Common Core, Common Core testing and the teacher evaluation systems, those who are responsible for speaking up for our children, our teachers and our schools simply say enough is enough and corporate education reform initiatives need to be dismissed and real action taken to reduce the barriers to academic success — poverty, language barriers, and unmet special education needs to name a few.

The other half of the funding would be devoted mostly to statewide initiatives, including professional development for teachers and administrators, the expansion of the longitudinal data system, vertical scale assessment data, developing models for supporting, supervising and evaluating teachers and principals, secondary school reform, and several other initiatives.

Too often, new initiatives in education target a single area of reform, an approach that actually hinders the implementation of system - wide, lasting change.

In recent years, policymakers and reform advocates have viewed State Education Agencies (SEAs) as the lead organizations for implementing sweeping reforms and initiatives in K — 12 education — everything from Race to the Top grants and federal waivers to teacher - evaluation systems and online schools.

The program, one of the urban reform initiatives funded through the Annenberg Challenge, included standards - driven curriculum and assessment, a performance accountability system, decentralization of decision - making, and professional development aimed at strengthening leadership and improving classroom practice.

As evidenced during the recent public hearing held by the General Assembly's Education Committee, apologists for the Common Core and Governor Malloy's corporate education reform industry initiatives desperately defend the indefensible policies related to the Common Core, the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Test and the absurd teacher evaluation system.

The Sustainability Rubric is a tool for SEAs to use in assessing the sustainability of any reform initiative (for example, implementing an educator effectiveness system).

According to news reports, the Connecticut State Senator who voted for Governor Malloy's corporate education reform initiative, including the unfair and inappropriate teacher evaluation system and the massive increase in the use of the discriminatory Common Core Standardized Testing Scheme has now «landed a job» working for the Connecticut Education Association.

Fool me repeatedly with A Nation at Risk, Goals 2000, No Child Left Behind, Standardized Assessment Systems on Steroids, 21st Century Schools, scientifically research based programming, evidence based programming, charter school options, privatization, and the Every Student Succeeds Act, and the shame becomes amorphous as we disengage from the belief that any government led «reform initiative» will produce meaningful results.

Some elements of the reform, including a family advocate system designed to bring families and schools closer together, were developed as the initiative moved forward.

Today, White, once called «Jindal's boy» by political insiders, is the governor's most celebrated public enemy, and a statewide education reform initiative years in the making may end up falling by the wayside, adding chaos and confusion to Louisiana's already beleaguered school system.

In Wednesday's press release announcing the new initiative, Navient said the ideas that come out of Navient Labs could help lawmakers come up with policy reforms that could improve the student loan system as it stands.

The new facility supports Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's clean energy initiatives by creating an energy efficient teaching lab that will prepare New Yorkers for careers in emerging clean energy sectors and his Reforming the Energy Vision strategy to build a cleaner, more resilient and affordable energy system.

In its Reforming the Energy Vision proceeding, the New York Public Service Commission has undertaken an ambitious initiative to improve the New York electricity system through better incorporation of distributed energy resources (DERs): distributed generation, distributed storage, energy efficiency, and demand response.

Solving these issues is left mainly for consideration by OCCTO's committee, which was set up in April 2015 as the first initiative to reform the power system, as well as OCCTO's Guidelines for Services for Electricity Transmission and Distribution, etc..

Other topics covered during the meeting included options to reform the European Emissions Trading System (ETS) to ensure strong signals are in place to incentivise energy investment and the need to foster multilateral technology cooperation through initiatives such as Mission Innovation.

We don't have an income tax and the initiative which would have swapped out the carbon tax for a drop in the sales tax, introducing an element of uncertainty that scared off many like me who support comprehensive reform of our state tax system, including an income tax on those most able to pay.