Sentences with phrase «time as an education reform»

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Cuomo has had an at - times truculent relationship with teachers unions, especially when it comes to support for charter schools and other concerns of the education reform movement, such as stronger teacher evaluations.

In accepting this responsibility on behalf of his colleagues, Speaker Heastie has stepped forward at an incredibly important time for New York as a whole, and I look forward to working with him to enact an aggressive agenda that ensures economic opportunity for all, improves and reforms our education system, ensures justice in perception and in reality, and restores trust in our government.»

As the budget process moved into crunch time, the focus was less on mayoral control and more on education reforms the governor was seeking.

In my time as Chair of the Education Select Committee I witnessed several successful reforms such as the regulation of class sizes and admissions code reform.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

At the same time, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is seeking the passage of the education investment tax credit as well as measures designed to curtail rape and sexual assault on college campuses and juvenile justice reform.

So people have a hard time connecting compelling current concerns — such as widespread corruption, or non-competitive elections, or a need for major improvements in such fundamental policy areas as education — with the possibility for reform through state constitutional change.

As Skandera said of the education - reform superintendents of her time, «very rarely did we see them get beyond the fight to what matters most.»

As a long - time teacher educator specializing in reading instruction, I was intrigued by your comments regarding «evidence» and education reform (see «Evidence Matters,» Letter from the Editors, Spring 2001).

As I observed last year in Letters, three decades as an education roustabout have taught me at least one thing: The passion that so many bring to school reform fuels a confidence that the next big idea will be the one that works, and leaves reformers loath to spend much time asking why the last big idea (and the one before that) didn'As I observed last year in Letters, three decades as an education roustabout have taught me at least one thing: The passion that so many bring to school reform fuels a confidence that the next big idea will be the one that works, and leaves reformers loath to spend much time asking why the last big idea (and the one before that) didn'as an education roustabout have taught me at least one thing: The passion that so many bring to school reform fuels a confidence that the next big idea will be the one that works, and leaves reformers loath to spend much time asking why the last big idea (and the one before that) didn't.

During this time, Florida was engaged in other education reforms as well: instituting several school - voucher programs, increasing the number of charter schools in the state, and improving the system used to assign grades to schools based on the FCAT.

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During his time as schools chief, he took on the reform groups, the local school councils, the education schools, the state board of education, and the education research community.

By appealing to tutors» sense of service, providing a small but livable stipend, organizing low - cost housing for tutors, and above all, by giving tutors a chance to work in a high - performing school as a means for evaluating their interest in education reform and teaching careers, Match can compete alongside Teach For America for the best college graduates in the country and hire three to four tutors for what they pay a full - time teacher.

They're an earnest bunch and they offer an attractive, teacher - friendly, alternative vision to the data - obsessed ed reform triumphalism that has the firm upper hand in education at present, yet too often defines well - educated as «reads on grade level and graduates on time.»

People have been tinkering with education, whether preschool or college, for a very long time and as [Lecturer] Christina Collins» class taught me, many new ideas today actually have their roots in earlier education reforms.

As I've said before, higher education reform increasingly feels like a rerun of the past two decades of K - 12 reform — only on a 15 year time delay.

With the nomination of Betsy DeVos — the soon - to - be former chair of the American Federation for Children and a lifelong school - choice advocate — as the next secretary of education, many folks are now trying to understand for the very first time the role vouchers and private school choice play in the reform universe.

Bill Gates, the co-founder of the world's largest philanthropy, last week called on President - elect Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress to expand support for education and make the federal government «a dynamic agent of school reform,» even as the nation struggles through grim economic times.

He went on to regale listeners as to the range of routes now available to becoming a teacher, for teachers to teach how they saw best and at the same time enjoying an elevated status, all as a result of Conservative education reforms.

I have been working on education reform in Massachusetts for a long time, from my days as a teacher through my current position as Secretary of Eeducation reform in Massachusetts for a long time, from my days as a teacher through my current position as Secretary of EducationEducation.

As education policymakers consider lengthening the school year and face trade - offs and uncertainties, it is important to recognize that expanding instructional time offers both opportunities and hazards for another reform that is well established, the accountability movement.

«Seven decades after the 1944 Education Act, we believe that the time is overdue for reform as the old settlement no longer works as well as it needs to for the benefit of schools, religion and society.»

The implication is that most Americans, even those with school - age children, currently see education reform as time and money spent on other people's children.

Given the need to improve the quality of instruction and the lack of clarity and shared knowledge about what systems and activities improve teaching, this is the right time to take stock of what is known; what kinds of activities are currently underway; and what will be needed going forward as reforms roll through the education system.

In a recent New York Times op - ed, I argued that the case for Betsy DeVos's Secretary of Education appointment rests on a very weak track record — in particular, the evidence does not support her free market approach to school reform that relies, first and foremost, on school vouchers for private schools, as well as unregulated forms of charter schooling.

Yet education associations and teachers unions wasted no time in challenging the laws in court, as has been the case for school - choice reforms for the past 20 years.

With our focus on closing the achievement gap between blacks and whites, framing reform as the «civil rights issue of our time,» and the attention and praise we have heaped on inner - city charter schools — one of reform's few bona fide success stories — we have tacitly made education reform a race - based endeavor.

As of the spring of 2001, the Center for Education Reform estimated that 1,750 charter schools were educating about 520,000 students in 36 states and the District of Columbia, more than seven times the number of students in all the public and private voucher programs combined.

It's been a long time since a politician pronounced trust as an education reform policy.

At the same time, their silence gives tacit support to arguments by traditionalists that standardized testing should not be used in evaluating teachers or for systemic reform (even when, as seen this week from American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and others critical of the state education policy report card issued by Rhee's StudentsFirst, find it convenient to use test score data for their own purposes).

Deeply seasoned in animosity toward the education reform movement, Los Angeles Unified held its traditional ground as charter schools were built around its schools, demands for merit pay for teachers were answered by corporate philanthropists and metrics - based teacher evaluation processes were published in the Los Angeles Times.

In an Education Reform Now series, Charles Barone and Dana Laurens argue that as «the U.S. Department of Education (ED) undertakes its second round of state plan reviews under the «Every Student Succeeds Act» (ESSA), it's a good time to reflect on mistakes made in...

Prior to joining the Patrick Administration, Mr. Reville had chaired the Massachusetts State Board of Education, founded the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy, co-founded the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education (MBAE), chaired the Massachusetts Reform Review Commission, chaired the Massachusetts Commission on Time and Learning, and served as executive director of the Pew Forum on Standards - Based Reform, a national think tank which convened the U.S.'s leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to set the national standards agenda.

In Louisiana, Gov. Bobby Jindal has led numerous education choice reforms during his time as governor.

Flexibility from the No Child Left Behind Act gives states new opportunities to implement important education reforms such as evaluating teachers more meaningfully, expanding learning time for students, and setting higher standards for student learning in English and math.

Malloy's spokesman said, «The governor has long recognized the importance of Early Childhood Education, going back to his time as mayor of Stamford where he launched a universal pre-k program... He agrees that our education system needs major reform, which is why we released a set of core principles to legislators earlier this weeEducation, going back to his time as mayor of Stamford where he launched a universal pre-k program... He agrees that our education system needs major reform, which is why we released a set of core principles to legislators earlier this weeeducation system needs major reform, which is why we released a set of core principles to legislators earlier this week.»

In the next breath, however, he confusingly characterizes progressive reform during that same time period as «radical» — the Common School movement, for example, in which education was first envisioned as the province of the entire public, regardless of money or social status.

As Wendy Lecker writes in her latest commentary piece for the Stamford Advocates and Hearst Media Group newspapers, «The time has come to repeal Malloy's education reforms and develop proposals that will actually improve our schools.»

These are whiplash - inducing times for public schools in New York, as state education leaders keep hitting the brakes on the very reforms they had aggressively...

Others say that the declines can't be blamed on free schools — it's impossible to parse out the impact of choice compared to other reforms made at the same time, such as decentralizing the education system.

By Rosemary Carey, Michigan Education Association In just a short period of time, Romulus Middle School went from being one of the 108 Michigan schools labeled «Persistently Lowest Achieving Schools» to the center of national attention as an education Education Association In just a short period of time, Romulus Middle School went from being one of the 108 Michigan schools labeled «Persistently Lowest Achieving Schools» to the center of national attention as an education education reform...

And when Commissioner Pryor met with the superintendents from the 30 lowest performing districts, he explained that if those school districts wanted the $ 39 million that was included in this year's «education reform» bill, they would need to use the funds for a limited set of reforms, such as «extended learning time.»

Brown's Funding Plan Faces Vigorous Review — and Speed Bump The chair of the Assembly Education Committee turned Gov. Jerry Brown's comprehensive plan for education finance reform into bill form Thursday, ensuring that all aspects will get an extensive review, while raising the possibility that the plan may not pass in time to take effect July 1, as the governEducation Committee turned Gov. Jerry Brown's comprehensive plan for education finance reform into bill form Thursday, ensuring that all aspects will get an extensive review, while raising the possibility that the plan may not pass in time to take effect July 1, as the governeducation finance reform into bill form Thursday, ensuring that all aspects will get an extensive review, while raising the possibility that the plan may not pass in time to take effect July 1, as the governor wants.

Proposals for enormous changes in the school system have always been a feature during times of economic crisis, but you have to stop and catch your breath at times when some of the more «throw the baby out with the bathwater» schemes get a serious airing from our self - appointed «out of the box» thinkers on education «reform,» or, as one of our local school board candidates would prefer, «transformation.»

It's time to change the image of education reform as a mere takeover and start bringing NOLA schools back under elected, local control.

The focus on collaboration as a means for reform in public education comes at a critical time when teachers unions are facing attacks that threaten to destroy collective bargaining rights in several states.

Just as corporations have revamped the private white collar workforce, replacing full - time, salaried personnel with «temporary» workers — a system in which some managers are officially temps — such are the prospects for teachers in the brave new corporate world of education «reform.»

One reason D.C.'s education reforms attracted significant attention across the country was their timing: DCPS started using IMPACT to evaluate teachers during the 2009 — 2010 school year, just as the education reform organization The New Teacher Project (TNTP) released a report recommending that districts develop evaluation systems that rate teachers «based on their effectiveness in promoting student achievement.»

As a TeachPlus Teacher - In - Residence, she conducts research and policy analysis on federal policies related to education and reform — a role that allows her to connect back to her time as a Congressional staffer for Senator Paul Wellstone and Senator Tammy Baldwin when she represented the 2nd District of WisconsiAs a TeachPlus Teacher - In - Residence, she conducts research and policy analysis on federal policies related to education and reform — a role that allows her to connect back to her time as a Congressional staffer for Senator Paul Wellstone and Senator Tammy Baldwin when she represented the 2nd District of Wisconsias a Congressional staffer for Senator Paul Wellstone and Senator Tammy Baldwin when she represented the 2nd District of Wisconsin.