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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.

Not exact matches

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.

Its impressive «Schools That Work» series, in which Edutopia throws all of its multimedia resources into detailed coverage of an individual school, recently featured YES Prep, an urban charter - school network often mentioned in the same breath with KIPP, Achievement First, and other «no excuses» schools championed by advocates of test - driven education reform.

Despite recent victories giving students more opportunities in education, Robert Pondiscio, senior fellow with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, recently accused education reform advocates of «cowardice» — of having lost their will to fight.

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.

Well, education is overstuffed with advocates, consultants, and ed - school experts eager to graft their own agendas onto popular new reforms.

«This announcement affirms our decision to stick with real reform and not capitulate to the watered - down, failed status quo approach advocated by the [New Jersey Education Association],» he said in a statement.

As teachers, parents and public school advocates know, the corporate education reform industry has been putting out inaccurate and misleading statements, along with outright lies, to persuade the public that teacher tenure is bad.

The school choice reforms adopted by the legislature this year are already receiving national attention with the Washington Times saying, «Mississippi parents and school choice advocates hit a trifecta last week» after expansions to the charter school law and the Education Scholarship Account (ESA) program, and a renewal of the Dyslexia Scholarship Program occurred on the same day.

01/01/2011: LULAC Releases the Education Advocacy Toolkit, a guide to equip education advocates with the tools necessary to advocate for education reform at the local, state and / or federEducation Advocacy Toolkit, a guide to equip education advocates with the tools necessary to advocate for education reform at the local, state and / or federeducation advocates with the tools necessary to advocate for education reform at the local, state and / or federeducation reform at the local, state and / or federal level.

Advocates for Children of New York (AFC)'s Immigrant Students» Rights Project combines our distinctive leadership in the field of public education advocacy with our in - depth knowledge of the needs of immigrant students, students learning English, and their families to improve student achievement and advance meaningful reform.

For educators unfamiliar with it, the mission of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards is to advance the quality of teaching and learning by maintaining high and rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do; provide a national voluntary system certifying teachers who meet these standards; and to advocate for related education reforms that integrate National Board Certification in American education and to capitalize on the expertise of National Board Certified Teachers.

However there are several quotes from the research that has me as a father and concerned education advocate asking questions of whether this study is aligned with educators in both charter and traditional schools and reform proponents and parents working toward a better education system in our communities, cities, and ultimately nationwide.

In his 20 plus years with HCZ, Geoffrey Canada has become nationally recognized for his pioneering work helping children and families in Harlem and as a passionate advocate for education reform.

As education scholar Jay P. Greene, reform advocate Howard Fuller, and director Kelly Amis point out, there remains plenty of work to replace Model T Ford systems with cultures of genius fit for children.

Leslie Jacobs, the business executive and education advocate credited with leading reform efforts, calls the New Orleans schools pre-Katrina «academically, morally and financially bankrupt.»

Save for a few NAACP branches (including its affiliate in Connecticut, have stepped up in the discussions over Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform effort, and advocated on behalf of Bridgeport mother Tanya McDowell, who will serve five years for trying to provide her child with a high - quality school), the nation's oldest civil rights group offers nothing substantial on addressing issues such as ending Zip Code Education policies, expanding school choice, addressing childhood illiteracy, and revamping how teachers are recruited, trained, paid, and evaluated (especially when it comes to bringing more black men into the teaching profession).

With a smaller crowd than predicted, at just 3,000 people, teachers and anti-reform advocates rallied to protest everything from No Child Left Behind, to standardized tests, and everything in between somehow labeled as education reform.

Mayor Villaraigosa has been an outstanding force in the education reform efforts in Los Angeles, a great support for advocacy efforts with his support of the Public School Choice initiative, and an advocate for school facilities under Proposition 39.

This is the auditorium of Rockville Centre's South Side High School on Jan. 13, where approximately 120 students, teachers and education advocates witnessed the latest front in what has been an all - out war against Common Core, the education reform created by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers and financed with more than $ 4 billion of «Race to the Top» funds as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

However, it is par for the course that Pryor put Qadree into the State Department of Education's «Turnaround Office» where, along with Turnaround Director, Morgan Barth, inexperienced education reform advocates will be controlling the purse strings for Connecticut's 30 poorest school dEducation's «Turnaround Office» where, along with Turnaround Director, Morgan Barth, inexperienced education reform advocates will be controlling the purse strings for Connecticut's 30 poorest school deducation reform advocates will be controlling the purse strings for Connecticut's 30 poorest school districts.

The contest was cast as a clash over «education reform,» and the candidates, both Democrats, indeed presented strong contrasts, with Torlakson being supportive of public schools and classroom teachers and Tuck advocating the need to «disrupt» education with more charter schools and stricter, managerial oversight of educators and school performance.

«We intend to be fierce and unapologetic advocates for politicians that share our values, and we will fight tooth and nail to ensure education reform isn't happening to the Black community, but instead with the Black community.»

Designed for distribution at black churches around the state, «A Stone's Throw» relies exclusively on testimony of African American parents, students, educators and education - reform advocates, each with praise to sing about the wonders of charters schools or a lament about the lack of charters in Mississippi — even though the phrase «charter school» doesn't appear until a quarter through the film.

Grounded in our research and policy work, RI - CAN teams with our citizen advocates and key state officials to develop and enact concrete, meaningful education reforms through both legislative and administrative action.

If «proficient» and «highly proficient» are achievement labels that should be reserved for students likely to go to a four year college or university, then education reform advocates have never effectively made that case to the public, preferring instead to point to the results on state testing that have been designed with this specific result in mind and declaring themselves correct about how poor a job our nation's schools are doing.

It should come as no surprise to the education advocates in Utah that even when their Republican governor calls for an end to the Common Core, there will be some top Republican leaders, along with the business community and pro-corporate education reform groups, that would seek to undermine his position.

However, instead of providing Connecticut's teachers, parents and public school advocates with appropriate policies that would support and strengthen public education, Tom Foley has proposed an education plan that appears to be designed by the very same corporate education reform industry groupies that are behind Malloy's ill - conceived education initiatives.

With this year's gubernatorial election six months away, some might think Governor Malloy would back off his corporate education reform industry agenda in an effort to convince teachers, parents and public school advocates to reconsider their opposition to his candidacy.

Prior to working in the federal government she was the Director of Public Policy and Community Partnerships for Green Dot Public Schools where she was responsible for executing Green Dot's reform agenda by advocating at the local, state and federal level for education reform, supporting existing schools with compliance and oversight, the development of new schools and overseeing the implementation a community schools model at the new Locke Wellness Center.

Opposed by Governor Dannel Malloy, charter school advocates and the corporate education reform industry, the bill would have required the state to fix its flawed teacher evaluation law and reduce the state's obsession with Malloy's massive standardized testing scheme.

In an effort to win market share, the College Board, along with the standardized testing industry and the corporate education reform advocates are pushing states are mandate that high school juniors MUST take the SAT.

As a result, the same group of «education reform» advocates found themselves — once again — on an influential committee that was tasked with determining the future course of what student testing in our state would look like for years to come.

The nation's leading public education advocate, Diane Ravitch, along with a host of teachers, parents, academics and public education advocates have been heroic in their efforts to push back the Corporate Education Reform Industry and its truly un-American politicaeducation advocate, Diane Ravitch, along with a host of teachers, parents, academics and public education advocates have been heroic in their efforts to push back the Corporate Education Reform Industry and its truly un-American politicaeducation advocates have been heroic in their efforts to push back the Corporate Education Reform Industry and its truly un-American politicaEducation Reform Industry and its truly un-American political agenda.

The charter school front groups, ConnCAN and the Connecticut Council for Education Reform, with the help of the Connecticut School Finance Project, the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education (CABE) and the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPSS)-- the latter two groups which are funded through local school budgets and are supposed to be advocating for public schools — have proposed a set of principles for a new school funding formula for Connecticut that will undermine the state's public school districts and drain local municipal budgets.

This starts with building partnerships with leading experts, advocates, and educators like you who believe that equity reform must be enacted and integrated at all levels of the education system.

She has advocated for students with special needs and works to bring parents and community leaders together to fight for education reform.

With Election Day less than nine weeks away, Connecticut teachers, parents and public school advocates continue to wait for an indication as to whether any of the candidates for governor will truly stand up against the tide of the corporate education reform industry, including their absurd, unfair and expensive Common Core testing scheme.

by Jack Jennings Feb 10, 2017 academic standards, advocating, charter schools, children with disabilities, federal education policy, private schools / vouchers, Race to the Top, school choice, school reform, teachers

Shortly after he was elected with CEA's first endorsement in 2010, the governor of this state disrespected every teacher with his «tenure» comment, then promoted Common Core, supported the corporate education movement through charter schools, advocated for more and more standardized testing, hired an education commissioner who had absolutely no public school experience (in fact had ties to charter schools), chipped away at teacher security through negative tenure reform, and championed the complete elimination of the state contribution to the retired teacher's health insurance fund.

From appointing reform advocate Stefan Pryor as his education superintendent, to succinctly summing up the problems with tenure and other aspects of traditional teacher compensation... Malloy has made Connecticut one of Dropout Nation «s Five States to Watch on the school reform front.»

Injured workers and advocates work closely on law reform, education and public rallies with labour organizations and their worker representatives: including regional labour and district councils, Unifor, the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL), United Steelworks of Canada (USW), United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW), Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), Ontario Nurses Association (ONA).