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Hope Street Group applauds the President’s focus on education and the proposed expansion of Race to the Top’s reforms to all 50 states through the renewal of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
Teacher evaluations should include objective measures of student achievement; drive additional support for teachers; and be used to make hiring, retention and tenure decisions. These are some of the recommendations in “Policy 2.0: Using Open Innovation to Reform Teacher Evaluation Systems,” a report released today that outlines new criteria for teacher evaluations in the K-12 education sector.
The bipartisan public policy organization Hope Street Group announced today it was joining the newly-formed Coalition for Student Achievement in its efforts to track and support education reforms called for in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The Coalition’s first action appears in the form of a letter sent today (.pdf) to Education Secretary Arne Duncan urging his department to provide "stronger, clearer direction to states and local education leaders about how to meet the assurances and demonstrate measurable outcomes."
Hope Street Group, a bipartisan coalition of business, civic and policy leaders, today released its "Health Care Agenda for an Opportunity Economy," a core set of reform principles developed by its Bipartisan Working Group. The group is tackling health care reform because of the significant role it plays in the economy, accounting for almost 25 percent of all economic opportunity drivers. The working group, which includes long-time reformers and new voices, today sent a letter to President Obama encouraging that this package of recommendations be part of reform proposals.
The bipartisan organization Hope Street Group today released an updated analysis (.pdf) of the reform proposals in the recovery package – many of which mirror the group’s 2008 policy recommendations, and which have the potential to help build an education system that can power a thriving economy.
The bipartisan policy organization Hope Street Group today released an analysis (.pdf) highlighting the importance of the education reform measures in the House and Senate versions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
The bipartisan policy organization Hope Street Group said today that it was encouraged to see long-term as well as short-term economic issues and reform measures addressed in the House and Senate versions of the stimulus proposal.
Hope Street Group’s innovative approach to coalition building around national education reform has earned the nonprofit a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Today the non-profit Hope Street Group, dedicated to promoting economic opportunity for all Americans, released its bi-partisan blueprint for public policy reform, an "American Dream Agenda for the Next President," which tackles four of our most pressing domestic policy issues: health care, education, savings, and the competitiveness of small businesses. These public policy recommendations are the result of the work of 40 business, civic, and political leaders from both sides of the aisle, who congregated April 13-14, 2008 at Hope Street Group's 2008 Opportunity Economics Colloquium.
In a newly published policy paper, "Restoring Principles to the Housing Market: A Three-Part Strategy for Sub-prime Mortgage Reform," Hope Street Group, a policy exchange of professionals, executives, entrepreneurs, and leaders focusing on economic opportunity and prosperity, recommends a plan to assist Americans who have already lost their homes, protect homeowners at risk of losing their homes to foreclosure, and prevent predatory lending practices without extensive federal bailouts or potentially eroding the returns of mortgage-backed securities.
In its most recent policy paper, "Investing in America's Future: Harvesting the Returns of Quality Preschool," Hope Street Group (HSG), a policy exchange made up of business, political, and civic leaders focusing on economic opportunity and prosperity, recommends establishing a federal fund to expand preschool access to the entire nation's 3- and 4-year-old children. Currently, 2.8 million 3- and 4-year-olds are in programs that do not adequately prepare them for kindergarten, and an additional 3.2 million do not have access to preschool at all.
The Hope Street Group, a non-partisan policy research organization founded and operated by young business leaders from the private sector, announced today that Omidyar Network has awarded a $1 million grant to provide general operations support over three years and a one-time support of technological capacity building projects.
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