Sentences with phrase «taken by education reformers»

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In education, reformers taken with their own virtue aren't satisfied by such mundane steps.

Bernard Lacour, a longtime school reformer who works with local school councils and consults with New Leaders on placement issues, believes that the obstacles thrown up by council dynamics and the predisposition for experience may be exacerbated by system politics, the advantages of incumbency, and fear among local councils that their candidates will be challenged by the board of education and their authority taken away from them.

The path on which Gove and his predecessors placed English education resembles the path taken by U.S. education reformers.

Scheduled to take place tomorrow at New Britain's Institute of Technology and Business Development, Alliance District superintendents and district leadership will be regaled by a variety of consultants and corporate education reformers.

«As public schools nationwide struggle for funding, complicated by the impact of poverty and politics, corporate reformers see opportunity to take away local controls of our community schools,» said Lyn Hoyt, president of Tennesseans Reclaiming Education Excellence (TREE).

Parents need to start this revolution by opting out their children from state testing programs in order to take back public education from the corporate reformers who are destroying the education of our children.

The network and its leaders have developed a deep understanding of what it takes to catalyze education reform at the city level, as evidenced in the 2012 report Kick - Starting Reform — co-authored by CEE - Trust and Public Impact — which drew on profiles of three high - impact CEE - Trust members to identify lessons for reformers in other cities.

Somewhere between «Look Ma, No Hands» and the 2008 hit «Handlebars» by the rock band Flobots (lyrics: «I can ride my bike with no handlebars, No handlebars, No handlebars»), stands education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas who, as we predicted yesterday, announced today that there is absolutely no problem because he can be both superintendent of schools in Bridgeport ($ 229,000 a year plus benefits) and take on a $ 1 million dollar contract to «repair low - performing schools in his home state of Illinois» without breaking a sweat.

Taken together, the level of spending by the education reformers broke all Connecticut records for a referendum vote.

Undaunted by the will of the people, Finch then had Thompson take on the role of bullying the Bridgeport Board of Education into extending the contract of education reformer extraordinaire, Paul Vallas, who had arrived in Bridgeport after successfully undermining and the public school systems in Chicago, Philadelphia and NewEducation into extending the contract of education reformer extraordinaire, Paul Vallas, who had arrived in Bridgeport after successfully undermining and the public school systems in Chicago, Philadelphia and Neweducation reformer extraordinaire, Paul Vallas, who had arrived in Bridgeport after successfully undermining and the public school systems in Chicago, Philadelphia and New Orleans.