The past 15
years of education reform have been rife with what I call «if there were just» solutions that go something like this:
While 20
years of education reform has yielded some progress for America's students, it has failed to achieve the central goals of American public education: excellence and equity for all.
Putting The «I» In Ed Reform — A Reset Toward Innovation As we look back on the past 25
years of education reform, how far have we strayed from our goals?
Also, during the ten
years of education reform that followed Hurricane Katrina, academic scores in New Orleans have increased by 8 - 15 percentage points.
The growing muscle of non-union forces, the more pragmatic stances of progressive union leaders (whether sincerely felt or tactically adopted), and roughly 25
years of education reform that has gone against the traditional union vein leave Professor Moe sounding a bit like a tardy Paul Revere, sounding the cry that «the British are coming» when it is not redcoats in formation that he is hearing but the drumbeat around the wedding of Kate and William.
Despite
years of education reform efforts, many urban public schools are falling short, unable to raise student achievement.
The reality is that more was accomplished in the first nine
years of the education reform movement than in the past 16.
Daniel Weintraub's chronicle of the tortured path of education politics under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger («No Country for Strong Men,» features, Summer 2008) hints at the frustration surrounding the death of
the Year of Education Reform in California, but it fails to reach the obvious conclusion: if the «Governator» can not do it, nobody is likely to do it — now or in the future.
And now he had declared that 2008 would be his «
Year of Education Reform.»
Since Governor Malloy announced that 2012 was
the year of education reform and Achievement First and ConnCAN (both founded by Jonathan Sackler) are some of the most important advocates for reform, reporters could have taken note that Governor Malloy's speech was at an event honoring Sackler and decided whether to pursue or not pursue any possible connection between the event and Malloy's education reform plans.
2012 is
the year of Education Reform in Connecticut and that is good news for all students and parents.
Christie, a Republican who had dubbed 2011 as the «
Year of Education Reform,» and acting Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf have long called for a system whereby only the best teachers would be retained during job cuts.
Not exact matches
After 28
years working to get kids into college, Thacker left his job as a high school counselor in 2004 to write «College Unranked: Ending the College Admissions Frenzy» and found the
Education Conservancy, through which he is building a broad - based
reform coalition
of educators at both the supply (high school) and demand (college) sides
of the equation.
Moe, who has been writing about
education reform for more than two decades, argued last
year that «The teachers unions are the raw power behind the politics
of blocking [
education accountability
reform].
The
Reform Party was created by Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino's allies during the 2014 election
year as a ballot line aimed at capturing voters who disapproved
of the Common Core
educations standards.
Since becoming speaker 12 months ago, Heastie has had few public policy disagreements with Cuomo, save for the tug -
of - war over
education reform measures in last
year's budget.
I was director
of communications at the Department for
Education between 2011 and 2012, during two of the most gruelling years for educatio
Education between 2011 and 2012, during two
of the most gruelling
years for
educationeducation reform.
The 2013 - 14 Executive Budget and Management Plan builds on two
years of balanced, fiscally responsible budgeting and invests in economic development,
education reform, rebuilding after Superstorm Sandy, provides support to local governments and school districts, and includes no new taxes or fees.
Excerpt: «As a member
of the State Senate
Education Committee for the past 8 years and as a former teacher and coach, I have been a huge supporter of education reform that promotes student achievemen
Education Committee for the past 8
years and as a former teacher and coach, I have been a huge supporter
of education reform that promotes student achievemen
education reform that promotes student achievement.»
Rob Astorino's push to launch the
Reform Party — a re-naming
of a ballot line created last
year set up to oppose the Common Core
education standards — is part
of a larger struggle for the 2014 Republican gubernatorial nominee to gain some leverage over the state's Republican apparatus.
Mulgrew predicted that the new special
education reform, set to be rolled out in all schools in September, will be one
of the greatest challenges
of the next school
year.
· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special
education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two
years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs ·
Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition
of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.
An extra # 2bn in
education spending on Britain's most disadvantaged four - to six -
year - olds will be a key Liberal Democrat demand in the event
of a hung parliament, rather than their traditional call for electoral
reform, Nick Clegg says.
He pledged that one
of the most radical programmes
of any government for a «long, long time» would achieve more on political
reform, civil liberties and protecting pensioners than Labour did in 13
years, combined with «an impeccably Liberal approach» to the NHS,
education and welfare
reform.
«As the chair
of the Senate
Education Committee, Senator Oppenheimer should be leading efforts to
reform the state school aid formula so districts do not have to endure billions in cuts any given
year and can operate within the confines
of a local property tax cap,» said Cohen.
Budget Includes Landmark
Education Reforms New York's education system is set to implement some of its most dramatic and fundamental reforms in years through Governor Andrew Cuomo's Education Transforma
Education Reforms New York's education system is set to implement some of its most dramatic and fundamental reforms in years through Governor Andrew Cuomo's Education Transformati
Reforms New York's
education system is set to implement some of its most dramatic and fundamental reforms in years through Governor Andrew Cuomo's Education Transforma
education system is set to implement some
of its most dramatic and fundamental
reforms in years through Governor Andrew Cuomo's Education Transformati
reforms in
years through Governor Andrew Cuomo's
Education Transforma
Education Transformation Act.
Special
education reform is notoriously difficult in New York City; Bloomberg's sweeping special
education reforms have been criticized by a number
of advocates in recent
years.
Education reforms were one
of the most contentious parts
of this
year's state budget.
New York, NY — As the school
year comes to a close, a shocking new report released today by leading
education reform organization StudentsFirstNY, The Graduation Facade: How New York City's Diploma Mills Mask College Readiness Crisis, exposes the problem
of Diploma Mills — schools where the graduation rates are above average, but the students are not prepared for college or a career after high school.
Also at 11 a.m., a new report from the National
Education Policy Center at the University
of Colorado, Boulder, will be released showing that community schools need at least five
years or more to create lasting school improvement and reduce barriers to achievement in a measurable way, Annenberg Institute for School
Reform, 233 Broadway, Suite 720, Manhattan.
It is a much deserved recognition
of its immense contribution to the fight for free and fair trade unions and to securing quality
education for children and young people in Bahrain «This award will help to maintain the pressure on the Bahraini authorities to end their completely unjustified detention
of Mahdi, who has spent the last four
years in prison on false charges for simply exercising his right to freedom
of assembly and demanding
reforms to Bahrain's educational system.»
Carol Burris, New York's 2013 High School Principal
of the
Year, has been talking to Zephyr Teachout about
education reform and her potential primary challenge to Cuomo.
This
year, Cuomo's office has said he will include several
education reform measures in his state budget proposal, due to be released Jan. 21, along with the State
of the State address.
The
education secretary said the government would consult on the
reforms this autumn, with a view to introducing the new examination system for 15 - and 16 -
year - olds by the end
of the parliament.
«I believe that an increase in pupil segregation on the basis
of academic selection would be at best a distraction from crucial
reforms to raise standards and narrow the attainment gap and at worse risk actively undermining six
years of progressive
education reform.»
Could it be that the Secretary
of State is not confident that his
education reforms will raise standards and is, therefore, is seeking to cover his tracks by removing anything that can provide a
year on
year comparator?
For the past
year, he has been the executive director
of StudentsFirstNY, an
education reform group.
Moskowitz, a 49 -
year - old former Upper East Side councilwoman, is the face
of the city's charter - school movement — and by extension a player in the national debate over
education reform.
His
education commissioner, Stefan Pryor, is unpopular with some rank - and - file teachers because
of his support for charter schools and for the way that
reforms were carried out in recent
years.
In a joint letter,
education reform groups thanked Governor Cuomo, Senate Leaders Skelos and Klein, and Assembly Speaker Silver for the substantial improvements you made to New York State's teacher evaluation law as part
of this
year's budget.
Mayor Bill de Blasio won a second term in a landslide on Tuesday, bringing four more
years of Democratic rule to New York City as Council members hope for more action on key issues such as police
reform, affordable housing and
education.
[11] Rather than limit investment in other needed services to pay for the circuit breaker, the state should generate additional revenues by fixing some
of the problems related to last
year's corporate tax
reform, eliminating or scaling back many
of the state's smorgasbord
of business tax credits, rejecting the proposed
Education Tax Credit, and limiting the increase in the estate tax exemption.
Peneston was one
of seven New York teachers
of the
year who signed an open letter to Cuomo saying his
education reform proposals would hurt rather than help public schools across the state.
Before that, he spent a
year as the executive director
of StudentsFirstNY, a pro-charter school and
education reform group.
Governor Andrew Cuomo included $ 25 million in this
year's budget for pre-K, which was as a top recommendation
of his
education reform commission in December.
Plattsburgh City School District Superintendent Jay LeBrun attributes the overall decrease to the link between student scores and teacher evaluations — a major sticking point last
year as educators battled with the state Department
of Education and the governor over
reforms that would have wedded the two.
Last
year, those hearings proved uncomfortable for Senate Republicans too, when they seemed to find themselves unable to criticize specific aspects
of de Blasio's
education agenda, despite the assistance
of powerful
education reform advocacy groups in New York City.
Traditionally, the Budget Division releases school runs following its budget presentation, but this
year the governor's administration indicated that his proposed $ 1.1 billion aid increase is linked to the success
of his
education reform proposals.
Beginning July 6, Elia will lead a state
education system that has overseen several
years of contested
reforms around teacher performance, learning standards and student testing.
But what is so absurd about these flights
of wishful thinking is that there is not a single word about the real lessons which Labour needs to learn — the need for radical banking
reform, the need for a massive revival
of British manufacturing (when this
year the UK deficit on traded goods is likely to exceed the entire UK budget deficit), the need to take back public control
of the NHS and
education system, the need for a jobs and growth strategy rather than a programme
of endless cuts, the need for an effective anti-poverty strategy and a huge reduction in inequality.