Sentences with phrase «with education reform»

With one month until the Victorian state election both parties have been hot on the campaign trail attempting to entice voters with education reforms.

The new merit pay language mirrors the evaluation policy: both seem to align the union with education reform efforts more than ever before, but come with major caveats.

It started with education reforms that pushed literacy skills down into the very early grades when boys are not as capable of receiving them or dealing with them as girls are.

Today, the notion of «closing achievement gaps» has become synonymous with education reform.

It also puts the state out of touch with education reforms sweeping the nation, and could put our schools out of contention for new pots of federal money.

With the help of behind - the - scenes accounts, Russakoff exposes a cast of characters who often become less likable as the pages turn and reveals much of what went wrong with education reforms in Newark, despite an infusion of cash from philanthropists.

This development leaves the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) along with education reform advocates without a candidate to support in the general election, according to the New York Daily News.

Yesterday, Education Post, in partnership with Education Reform Now, Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, hosted an #EduPostChat...

As in the last election, Tuck's supporters include a short list of state elected officials, school board members from across the state and a long list of teachers, superintendents, charter school advocates and individuals associated with education reform groups.

With every passing day, it is becoming increasingly apparent that «education reform» isn't about providing children with the quality education they need and deserve to live more fulfilling lives in the 21st Century, but a way for the individuals and companies associated with the education reform movement to get rich off taxpayers at the national, state and school district level.

Educators can begin this process by becoming more involved with the education reform movement instead of simply complying with policies implemented by «others» (i.e., non-education professionals, politicians, and corporate interests).

Claiming that he was «hand - picked» by Arne Duncan to be part of the corporate education reform industry, «Dr.» Terrence Carter has become a national example of what is wrong with the education reform movement.

Ansara is a Washington D.C. consultant who worked with the education reform group Stand for Children for many years.

Michigan Parents for Schools have a website and a more active Facebook page, but the entries from the past are good and the FB page brings parents and those concerned with education reform together.

Democratic State Sen. Mike Johnston, a former school principal who is deeply involved with education reform issues, sponsored Colorado's bill, which passed the House 36 - 29 and was approved several hours later by the Senate with a 27 - 8 vote.

Various experiments with education reform tend to confirm my fatalistic view.

One can't fault Mark Levine for dancing with the education reform crowd and also making nice to the UFT: the future of education is very much in flux and nobody knows how it will all play out.

My colleague Nicky Morgan is pressing ahead with education reforms designed to tackle the persistent underperformance of schools in disadvantaged areas.

(Pro-charter groups Families for Excellent Schools and StudentsFirstNY, along with education reform advocate Campbell Brown, sent out statements criticizing the plan.

WEST HARTFORD — In just a week's time, Elizabeth Natale has turned from a middle school English teacher quietly frustrated with education reform into a national voice for colleagues throughout the country.

In a major study we released this week together with Education Reform Now, How Strong Are U.S. Teacher Unions: A State - By - State Comparison, we dug deep, churning vast amounts of data to parse the differences in political strength across state - level unions in the fifty states plus the District of Columbia.

This year's NBIs dealt heavily with the education reform issues that the union crowd is clearly (and understandably) most threatened by.

Parent Revolution, a non-profit organization aligned with the education reform movement, has been the key architect in pulling the so - called Parent Trigger in California.

The U.S. Department of Labor will award 25 — 40 grants ranging from $ 2 to 7 million each to local education agencies, public or nonprofit local workforce entities, and nonprofits with education reform experience.

As an EPM master's student, you will not only have access to the extraordinary faculty and resources at HGSE, but you can take classes at all Harvard schools — including the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Business School — and participate in for - credit internships with education reform organizations across Cambridge and Boston.

My first encounter with education reform came in 1971, my second year in Alexandria.

He said he provided $ 20 million to help with education reform and 80 percent of it was «wasted.»»

In late August, Governor Schwarzenegger decided to call a Special Session of the legislature to deal with education reform.

Still, Cuomo's ethics push with the Senate Republicans comes as he still must convince Assembly Democrats to go along with his education reform proposals.

Liz Natale, a West Hartford teacher who wrote about her frustration and anger with education reforms.

The hearing also highlighted an irony of the mayoral control debate: Senate Republicans, who are typically more allied with education reform and charter advocates, are critical of de Blasio but philosophically supportive of the accountability mayoral control guarantees.

Two and a half years later, Republicans are still trying to figure out how to respond to Obama, a Democratic president with education reform bona fides.

He has a daunting task with education reform, just ask Michelle Rhee how that one goes.

In this edition of the Harvard EdCast, Jennings, founder and former CEO of the Center on Education Policy, reflects on the history of the federal government's involvement with education reform, and discusses its most notable changes to policy.

«The problem is,» explains Antonucci, «as with any education reform you come up with, when it's instituted there's a lot of pushback, and it is coming from people in the union, and so union leaders find themselves on the opposite side of a lot of their members» (see «Teachers Unions and the War Within,» features, Winter 2015).

In an audio file obtained by The Nation, she and infamous anti-union consultant Richard Berman outlined a strategy in October 2010 for sweeping the nation with education reforms.

Former NEA president Robert Chase once worried that «industrial - style, adversarial tactics» conflicted with education reform.

We are a team of communicators and pollsters from three separate companies who have worked with the education reform community often over the past decade.

Readers familiar with the education reform debate will not be surprised by the list of clearly harmful policies that the unions support and commonsense reforms that they work so hard to impede.

Pam, what is an update on what has happened with education reform in Virginia since we last talked?

In response to DeVos» Uber comment, Madison Gray, an intern with Education Reform Now, writes, «Without adequate regulations and safeguards in place to ensure that this system is producing valuable student outcomes, there's no protecting these students from providers who are not meeting their needs and or doing them harm.»

Dr. Michael Maher, assistant dean for professional education at NC State University, sees SB 337 as at odds with education reform bills that have been presented by both the House and Senate.

We can do this by creating or expanding current school choice programs, including public charter schools, education scholarship accounts, tax credit scholarships, course choice, and public school open enrollment, along with education reforms including appointed superintendents and school district consolidation.

«As the country continues to struggle with education reform, it seems obvious that education schools need to change, so that prospective teachers walk into their first classroom knowing how to teach.

Booker was a champion of charter - based education reform as Mayor of Newark and is seen as a Democrat who is friendly with the education reform crowd.