The annual Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management competition, which typically attracts teams of MBA students from
top business schools across the country, puts students to the task of restructuring an urban school district.
Not exact matches
Held annually at
top - tier graduate
schools across the U.S., the workshops aim to help players who are interested in owning, operating or building their own
businesses.
That's why I've asked some of America's
top educators, advocates, political and
business leaders here today, to mobilize our
schools to raise standards, demand accountability, and specifically, to strengthen math and science education and performance all
across America.
To take on this task, Governor Cuomo has brought together
top education and
business leaders from
across the country to help build an effective education system that puts students first and holds
schools accountable for the results they achieve and the dollars they spend.
They have already voted no to
across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the
top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter
schools (many funded by Republicans in the private
school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any
school in the state regardless of their home county.
A Phoenix
Business Journal analysis of statewide SAT scores placed five Great Hearts academies within the
top 15 public high
schools across Arizona.