If you believe that every child has the right to a quality education, then there is no more important work than providing the right leadership to dramatically
transform public education in this country.
Our mission is to help
transform public education so that all young adults receive the education they deserve to be prepared for college, leadership, and life.
To start, by innovation, I mean this: We do need to
transform public education as we still largely work on a century - old model — the factory model.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be working on projects that are aligned with NewSchools» charitable purpose
of transforming public education so that all children — especially those in underserved communities — have the opportunity to succeed.
NewSchools is committed to
transforming public education through powerful ideas and passionate entrepreneurs so that all children — especially those in underserved communities — have the opportunity to succeed.
The Massachusetts experiment
with transforming public education traces back to 1993, when state leaders decided to set high standards, establish a stringent accountability system aimed at ensuring that students from all backgrounds were making progress, and open its doors to charter schools.
Former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels and former Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson will headline Celebrating the Transformation of Education through Public Policy, a special evening hosted by The Mind Trust, to discuss their administrations» work and
experiences transforming public education.
While expanding parental options for children's education in Milwaukee, school choice has
transformed public education into a multi-sector delivery system for the good of everyone.
The charter movement has focused on a few localities, hoping to build exemplars of
completely transformed public education systems where districts have either gone out of business or completely embraced chartering.
With a strict agenda and a few deep - pocket benefactors, reformers are
rapidly transforming public education in Los Angeles, for better or — as many education academics would argue — for worse.
«Our belief is that Memphis is poised to be either the first or among the first major urban centers to fully and
deeply transform public education for all kids — in our case, without having had to suffer a hurricane to get there,» said Barbara Hyde, the president of the Hyde Family Foundations, a philanthropy in Memphis that funds some of the efforts.
In 2006, David Harris founded The Mind Trust, a nonprofit focused
on transforming public education with a mission to provide every Indianapolis student the opportunity to attend an excellent school.
«We congratulate all the charter schools that were named on the U.S. News & World Report List, along with their students, teachers and families, as they truly embody the spirit of the charter school movement, and the positive impact charter schools are having in
transforming public education across the nation.»
The charter
movement transformed public education, and heralded in an era in which parents and communities can create schools of choice for their children and have greater flexibility and richer learning environments in exchange for added accountability.
«Balancing autonomy with accountability allows authorizers to create space for innovation — we can expand the possibilities of what a school can be and in
turn transform public education.»
The result is the current system perpetuates the bureaucracy but, fails our students in many ways.Tackling these questions with bold policy and leadership could
truly transform public education and finally have it focus on the student as opposed to the bureaucracy.
Through its successes, Pre-K Now changed the national conversation about pre-k education, and in its final report, challenged the nation's policy makers to
transform public education by moving away from the current K - 12 system to pre-K-12.
Friendship Schools is also closely associated with the NewSchools Venture Fund, a corporate funded financial investment company that is «committed to
transforming public education through powerful ideas and passionate entrepreneurs.»
The report profiles political centrists and progressives — including labor and civil rights leaders — who were some of the earliest supporters
of transforming the public education system.
Secondly: Hess himself has earned a reputation for being racially myopic, especially in his dismissal of focusing on achievement gaps in
transforming public education as well as his statement that expanding school choice rewards the supposed irresponsibility of poor and minority families.
Indianapolis — Former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels and former Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson will headline Celebrating the Transformation of Education through Public Policy, a special evening hosted by The Mind Trust, to discuss their administrations» work and
experiences transforming public education.
«The idea of laying off all the teachers and privatizing as many public schools as possible seems to be part of the corporate reform agenda to
transform public education into a free market entrepreneurial activity,» Ravitch said.
«We are seeking talented, innovative entrepreneurs and educators who want to be on the cutting edge of
transforming public education in Indianapolis and across the nation.»
The purpose of the event was a call for action for clergy to take part in the national movement to
transform public education.
With leaders all across the country increasingly recognizing the power of charter schools to
transform public education, increased attention on Indianapolis by national funders, as well as an infusion of efforts from school reform groups such as Teach For America, New Leaders for New Schools, and CMOs and EMOs seeking to grow, could tip the scales in Indianapolis and begin to improve public education for all children in the city.
Now that I've read them again — in one long swoop, I might add — I feel such gratitude for all the passionate work that people are doing to
transform public education.
Author Bio: Jim Peyser is Managing Partner for City Funds at NewSchools Venture Fund, a non-profit grant - making firm that seeks to
transform public education by supporting innovative education entrepreneurs.
Governor Patrick and his education secretary Paul Reville should be praised for their efforts to
transform the public education system into one that works for and promotes high achievement for all students.
If we are going to truly become the great public school system we want to become, we need to
transform public education, and we need to transform it so that every child has access to a good public school.»
Prior to joining the Institute, Julia worked at NewSchools Venture Fund, a venture philanthropy organization that supports education entrepreneurs who are
transforming public education.
Prior to his appointment as Secretary, he served as the Managing Director at NewSchools Venture Fund, a non-profit grant - making firm that seeks to
transform public education in high - need urban communities by supporting innovative education entrepreneurs.