Sentences with phrase «with education reform organizations»

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Replacing a 1950's bureaucracy with a 2020 performance organization, we formed the new New York education reform Commission headed by Dick Parsons, they have done extraordinary work; they have called for a full day Pre-K, extending school days and for performance pay.

On Thursday, with the New York State Board of Regents hearing testimony regarding the newly approved teacher evaluation system, leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and public school parents offered recommendations and sent letters calling for a system that ensures all public school students have access to high - quality teachers.

«AISD officials had to struggle with the competing agendas of numerous outside partners such as Austin's business leaders, the «First Things First» program of the Institute for Research and Reform in Education, the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Learning's work in «Disciplined Literacy,» the Dana Center for Mathematics at the University of Texas, the Gates and Dell Foundations, and other organizations... As one upset veteran high school teacher put it: «We're getting this academy, and then... we're going to do this and that....

After leaving office, Bush created the Foundation for Excellence in Education to promote the kinds of reforms that he had backed in Florida, started an organization for reform - minded state education leaders called Chiefs for Change, and launched, with former West Virginia Governor Bob Wise, the initiative Digital Learning Now to promote the smart use of teEducation to promote the kinds of reforms that he had backed in Florida, started an organization for reform - minded state education leaders called Chiefs for Change, and launched, with former West Virginia Governor Bob Wise, the initiative Digital Learning Now to promote the smart use of teeducation leaders called Chiefs for Change, and launched, with former West Virginia Governor Bob Wise, the initiative Digital Learning Now to promote the smart use of technology.

Stand leveraged its resources and activities through a partnership with Advance Illinois, a statewide 501 (c)(3) K — 12 education - reform advocacy organization.

After much discussion, all the parties agreed that Education Reform Now (ERN) would be that lead organization, working with the New York Charter School Association, the New York City Charter School Center, and several charter management organizations.

It has a national board overseeing state affiliates, a strong donor base, both 501 (c)(3) and 501 (c)(4) structures, and a political action committee (PAC) called Democrats for Education Reform (DFER), with a separate board but shared staff with its related organizations.

Ben Austin, director of the Los Angeles based organization leading the parent trigger movement, notes that his group, Parent Revolution, is pro-charter but «unambiguously» opposed to vouchers, providing evidence, says Butcher, that «student - and parentcentric reforms» draw support from parents with diverse views on education reform.

It is a full - service, vertically integrated education - reform organization with the ability to choreograph a complex, multi-pronged enterprise.

During their third and final year, students are in a residency onsite with partner organizations pushing the boundary in education reform.

Over three years ago, WIDE World began discussions with organizations in Shanghai regarding China's education reform movement, Zarowin said.

We are a nonprofit school - reform organization that founded these schools in partnership with the New York City Department of Education.

«In my statement of purpose for my HGSE application,» she remembers, «I noted that I applied to HGSE because of the International Education Program's focus on policy and reform, and that I hoped to pursue a career with an organization such as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).»

As executive director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, at Brown University, Simmons pushes for what he calls smart education systems: a network of public and private schools tied to businesses, nonprofit organizations, and government entities to provide students with a holistic range of solutions for helping them succeed.

It is called the Mind Trust, and along with trying to find the next Michael Feinberg (a co-founder of KIPP) or the next Wendy Kopp (founder of Teach For America), Harris will be trying to draw the cream of education reform organizations to establish a presence in Indianapolis.

Klein is coauthor of «Blended Learning in Practice: Four District School Journeys,» a case study of the Oakland project written with Carrie McPherson Douglass, who's now with the Cities for Education Entrepreneurship Trust, an umbrella organization for urban reform groups nationwide.

He returned to higher education at Brown University as a professor and where he founded two instrumental organizations, both with missions close to Sizer: the Annenberg Institute for School Reform and the Coalition for Essential Schools.

National organizations such as EdChoice (formerly the Friedman Foundation, established in 1996) and the American Education Reform Foundation (founded in 1998) and Alliance for School Choice (founded in 2004), which later became affiliated with the American Federation for Children (founded in 2009), were the most prominent voices in state capitols, providing early leadership on choice - related policy and working to counter choice policy myths.

CEE - Trust, an initiative of the extraordinary The Mind Trust, convenes and collaborates with reform - minded, city - based education groups, like foundations and advocacy organizations.

Miner, who is mordantly attached to the status quo and quite enthusiastic about it, is associated with Rethinking Schools, an organization that believes real education reform will be led by the teachers unions.

Indeed, the reality of the matter is that both of California's teachers» organizations support Gavin Newsom because he has pledged to work with them rather than join the billionaire boys club behind corporate education reform efforts and the unregulated spread of charter schools that will continue to drain funding from other public schools and, if left unchecked, ultimately undermine public education itself.

The fact that organizations like Stand for Children and Democrats for Education Reform prefer to stand with the teachers» unions rather than standing with the 3.5 million children in charter schools and private choice programs, and the millions more who desperately want access to better options, speaks volumes.

The Equity Coalition includes representatives from a diverse range of organizations with an interest in students with diverse learning needs, special education programs, charter schools and education reform.

(Crown Heights, Brooklyn) Parents of students from P.S. 289 George V. Brower School teamed with leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY to release a letter to Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña calling for the Department of Education to step in and facilitate change at the Crown Heights elementareducation reform organization StudentsFirstNY to release a letter to Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña calling for the Department of Education to step in and facilitate change at the Crown Heights elementarEducation to step in and facilitate change at the Crown Heights elementary school.

Considering Connecticut's biggest corporate executives are determined to see their policies adopted, no matter how wrong that are, it will be interesting to see if the new Executive Director of the Connecticut Council for Education Reform reverses herself and joins the call for charter schools or if she is able to sit down with her organization's members and explain why shifting scarce public resources from district schools to charter schools is not the solution for closing Connecticut's achievement gap.

The organization works with ALEC to write and promote education reform policies such as school grades, mandatory grad retention, high stakes testing, unmitigated charter growth, corporate tax scholarships, competency based education, personal learning accounts, virtual learning, tying student test scores to teacher evaluations, weakening teachers unions and attacking the constitutional authority of school boards.

MITUL engages in communication, education and advocacy, promoting a strong role for teacher unions in defining and leading public education reform — within teacher unions and with opinion leaders, policy - makers and advocacy organizations.

Prior to BAEO, Offiong served as an Analyst with Bellwether Education Partners, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the achievement of low - income students by cultivating, advising, and placing a robust community of innovative, effective change agents in public education reform and improving the policy climate for thEducation Partners, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the achievement of low - income students by cultivating, advising, and placing a robust community of innovative, effective change agents in public education reform and improving the policy climate for theducation reform and improving the policy climate for their work.

Hanson and Miller were joined in Washington by Superintendents John Deasy of Los Angeles Unified, Richard Carranza of San Francisco Unified, Christopher Steinhauser of Long Beach Unified and interim Superintendent Gary Yee of Oakland Unified, along with other administrators with the California Office to Reform Education, or CORE, the umbrella organization the districts have created.

Already at 28 members from coast to coast, CEE - Trust launched from Indianapolis - based education reform organization The Mind Trust in 2010, with support from Carnegie Corporation of New York and The Joyce Foundation.

Grant Callen is president of Empower Mississippi, an education reform organization that is committed to providing all Mississippi children with access to quality education options.

The goal is to attract high - quality education reform organizations here and to invite charter school operators with strong track records to open schools here.

According to the latest lobbying reports filed by the various corporate education reform lobbying groups with the Office of State Ethics, the corporate - funded advocacy organizations that support charter schools, the Common Core and the absurd Common Core testing scheme spent more than $ 1.9 million lobbying Malloy and the legislature in 2015.

I met with local education reform organizations, as well as interviewed teachers for profiles and coordinated a teacher focus group surrounding engagement and a video shoot for a video that will be featured on the website.

Grant Callen is president of Empower Mississippi, an education reform organization focused on providing all Mississippi children with access to a high - quality education.

With the regular Texas legislative session about one - third complete, the battle lines in public education are coming into sharper focus on the four major issues identified last year by our organization, the Texas Institute for Education Reforeducation are coming into sharper focus on the four major issues identified last year by our organization, the Texas Institute for Education ReforEducation Reform (TIER).

With the new support of the Ohio State University and the School Reform Initiative, the U.S. Department of Education's Teach to Lead Initiative now has the backing of 80 education organizations, includEducation's Teach to Lead Initiative now has the backing of 80 education organizations, includeducation organizations, including ASCD.

Hope Street Group is an independent non-profit organization that is working closely in partnership with the Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE), the Tennessee Educators Association (TEA), and the State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE).

The rally was coordinated by Families That Can, a statewide organization of charter school parents which is part of the California Charter Schools Association, in partnership with a wide range of community organizations, including the United Way, Families In Schools, Alliance for a Better Community, Communities for Teaching Excellence, EdVoice and Democrats for Education Reform.

At the end of the day, the SEA is more likely to help improve student outcomes if, instead of serving as all - purpose regulator and provider, it functions as the sun at the center of a solar system of agile organizations with the capacity to meet the many challenges of education reform in the twenty - first century.

Our organization, the Texas Institute for Education Reform, and its coalition partners were also involved with support of a package of bills advancing competition, choice, consequences for failing schools, and deregulation.

SEDL staff worked with two statewide organizations, Arkansas Friends for Better Schools and the Oklahoma League of Women Voters, to organize and conduct study circles about education reform in 15 communities across both states.

Smith is the mother of a ninth grader at Medgar Evers Preparatory School and a senior organizer with StudentsFirstNY, an education reform organization.

Over the last quarter century, the teachers unions have clearly been the most powerful force in American education, and they have clearly been using their extraordinary power — in collective bargaining at the local level, in the political process at the state and national levels — to undermine major reform and to burden the schools (via seniority provisions, the protection of bad teachers, and all the rest) with ineffective forms of organization.

We certainly know that reality here, as Governor Malloy's education reform associates like Mayor Bill Finch, «Education Reformer Extraordinaire» Paul Vallas, and corporate business organizations like Excel Bridgeport and the Council for Education Reform, are spending over $ 100,000 to eliminate Bridgeport's democratically elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by teducation reform associates like Mayor Bill Finch, «Education Reformer Extraordinaire» Paul Vallas, and corporate business organizations like Excel Bridgeport and the Council for Education Reform, are spending over $ 100,000 to eliminate Bridgeport's democratically elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by the reform associates like Mayor Bill Finch, «Education Reformer Extraordinaire» Paul Vallas, and corporate business organizations like Excel Bridgeport and the Council for Education Reform, are spending over $ 100,000 to eliminate Bridgeport's democratically elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by tEducation Reformer Extraordinaire» Paul Vallas, and corporate business organizations like Excel Bridgeport and the Council for Education Reform, are spending over $ 100,000 to eliminate Bridgeport's democratically elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by tEducation Reform, are spending over $ 100,000 to eliminate Bridgeport's democratically elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by the Reform, are spending over $ 100,000 to eliminate Bridgeport's democratically elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by teducation and replace it with one appointed by the Mayor.

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.

In addition to «The Big Six,» other organizations that are presently lobbying Connecticut legislators in favor of the charter school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public funds.

Democrats for Education Reform is a national organization with chapters in 8 states (Colorado, Connecticut, D.C., Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Washington).

In an article entitled, Inside A Big Poker Tournament With Hedge Funders, Poker Pros, And Legendary NYC Athletes, Business Insider reported that the event raises «funds for Education Reform Now, an advocacy organization that's committed to making sure all kids can access high - quality public educatioEducation Reform Now, an advocacy organization that's committed to making sure all kids can access high - quality public educationeducation.»

In addition to collecting over $ 41,000 from the national education reform organizations, the Students For Education Reform (SFER) PAC in Colorado also received more than $ 17,000 via in - kind services from SFER itself, most of which was to pay for SFER staff assigned to the Colorado campaign, along with the payments for voter lists, rent and other costs related to their «independent» expenditure in support of Denver's pro-education reform caeducation reform organizations, the Students For Education Reform (SFER) PAC in Colorado also received more than $ 17,000 via in - kind services from SFER itself, most of which was to pay for SFER staff assigned to the Colorado campaign, along with the payments for voter lists, rent and other costs related to their «independent» expenditure in support of Denver's pro-education reform candireform organizations, the Students For Education Reform (SFER) PAC in Colorado also received more than $ 17,000 via in - kind services from SFER itself, most of which was to pay for SFER staff assigned to the Colorado campaign, along with the payments for voter lists, rent and other costs related to their «independent» expenditure in support of Denver's pro-education reform caEducation Reform (SFER) PAC in Colorado also received more than $ 17,000 via in - kind services from SFER itself, most of which was to pay for SFER staff assigned to the Colorado campaign, along with the payments for voter lists, rent and other costs related to their «independent» expenditure in support of Denver's pro-education reform candiReform (SFER) PAC in Colorado also received more than $ 17,000 via in - kind services from SFER itself, most of which was to pay for SFER staff assigned to the Colorado campaign, along with the payments for voter lists, rent and other costs related to their «independent» expenditure in support of Denver's pro-education reform caeducation reform candireform candidates.