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«Leaders Turn Around Schools — Transformational Equity Focus Makes College Readiness a Priority,» IDRA Newsletter (San Antonio, Texas: Intercultural Development Research Association).

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«While we have strong defenses to the claims, we elected to focus on continuing to make meaningful enhancements to our internal programs and processes that drive equity and a diverse and inclusive workforce which are values that we share and embrace,» the company said.

Post Oak Energy Capital is a Houston - based private equity firm primarily focused on making domestic investments in the upstream, midstream and oilfield services sectors of the energy industry.

Co-founder of Appstori.com, a crowdfunding platform, makes the following four predictions: (i) Vertical platforms will emerge to focus on select market segments; (ii) Crowdfunding platforms will evolve into «full - service» communities to better meet the needs of their members; (iii) Creativity and innovation through online crowdfunding will be supported not just by individuals but by organizations as well; and (iv) Benefits - based crowdfunding will complement equity - based platforms

Among those that could potentially make a bid are Wal - Mart, which has been focusing its deal making on bulking up its digital business, and JAB Holdings, a private equity player that has been shifting its focus to restaurants and food and beverage businesses.

Star Mountain is a specialized asset management firm focused exclusively on the U.S. lower middle - market by investing debt and equity directly into established operating companies, making strategic investments into fund managers and purchasing secondary fund positions.

Cherokee Funds made its first brownfield investment in 1990 and has since raised five private equity funds focused on brownfield remediation: $ 50 million in 1996, $ 250 million in 1999, $ 620 million in 2003, $ 200 million in 2005 and $ 1.24 billion in 2006.

Global equity markets broadly appear to be pricing in significant earnings growth, but we believe some regions such as Europe and Asian emerging markets were more attractively valued than their US counterparts as of late 2017, making it increasingly important for investors to focus on individual company fundamentals.

The investment was made through NBK Capital Equity Partners Fund II, the firm's private equity fund which focuses on acquiring minority and majority stakes in growing middle market companies in the MENA rEquity Partners Fund II, the firm's private equity fund which focuses on acquiring minority and majority stakes in growing middle market companies in the MENA requity fund which focuses on acquiring minority and majority stakes in growing middle market companies in the MENA region.

Consequently, you must always focus on conserving your initial equity as your key objective because without it you will no longer be able to trade binary options without making additional deposits.

About Brynwood Partners: Founded in 1984 and based in Greenwich, CT, Brynwood Partners is an operationally - focused private equity firm that makes control investments in North American - based lower middle market companies in the consumer sector.

About Brynwood Partners: Brynwood Partners, founded in 1984 and based in Greenwich, CT, is an operationally - focused private equity firm that makes control investments in North American - based lower middle market companies in the consumer sector.

«We're increasingly focusing on them as issues of equity and issues of voting rights — not just incompetence or mistakes that are made,» Mr. Kavanagh said.

Cuomo's campaign spokesperson, Abbey Fashouer, counters that he «has made education equity a central focus of his tenure, investing a record $ 27 billion with a focus on our neediest schools, while demanding accountability measures so that the door to opportunity is open for every child — regardless of income, zip code or ethnicity.

Finally, in selecting states with SFJs, the authors apparently made no attempt to distinguish between «equity» cases, which focus on equalizing funding, and «adequacy» cases, which have as their goal increased funding.

The OECD also stated that the focus of continuing reforms should be on «developing high - quality teaching profession, making leadership a key driver of education reform, ensuring equity in learning opportunities and student well - being, and moving towards a new assessment, evaluation and accountability that aligns with the new 21st - century curriculum».

Michael McAfee, president of PolicyLink, has led the effort to make President Obama's Promise Neighborhoods initiative a reality in communities across the U.S. Please join the Education Redesign Lab (ERL) and cities participating in ERL's By All Means initiative for McAfee's keynote speech on May 18, 2017 at 11:15 a.m.. His talk, entitled «Equity and Collective Impact in Systems Change,» will focus on the work of the Promise Neighborhood Institute to build stronger systems of educational support and opportunity for children.

Making the Most of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)-- Helping States Focus on School Equity, Quality and Climate

Attendees will focus on case studies from the new book Every Child, Every Classroom, Every Day: School Leaders Who Are Making Equity a Reality by HGSE Professor Deborah Jewell Sherman and Professor Emeritus Robert Peterkin.

It was made clear that Singapore is focusing on equity and ensuring that every child is able to achieve his or her own version of excellence.

Her work broadly focuses on urban school reform, data - informed leadership for equity, and how educators make sense of policy implementation.

Guided by criteria developed with the input of hundreds of students across the city, the youth panelists provided formal feedback to the Boston School Committee on each candidate, evaluating them on their willingness to allow students to be involved in the decision - making process, their focus on equity in Boston schools, and their willingness to embrace and implement restorative justice practices to limit harsh school discipline.

«There was a lot of progress around keeping equity an item of focus and there's been a lot of work to make sure the district is making gains in this area,» Sabella said.

Through clear expectations, quality authorizing, a focus on equity and access, and an accountability system that grows what works and improves or replaces what doesn't, we can ensure that once families make their choice, it's a good one that will put their children on the path to success in college and career.

• Explore this new paper on school climate, from Educators4Excellence, which focuses on school climate as part of the movement toward educational equity and makes specific recommendations around ways to leverage LCFF to improve school climate.

So I'm gonna close with just saying that, again, at the Alliance because of our focus on secondary schools and on equity, this study is really important to our thinking about how do we take our new national federal policy and how do we make recommendations and support the work that's happening in the field?

Dr. McAfee has led the effort to make the Promise Neighborhoods initiative a reality in communities across the U.S.. His talk, entitled «Equity and Collective Impact in Systems Change,» focuses on the work of the Promise Neighborhood Institute to build stronger systems of educational support and opportunity for children.

The theme of this meeting was focused on equity and showcased the many ways BCPS is making strides toward providing access and opportunity for all students.

These principles include articulating your purpose and commitment to equity, emphasizing the importance of pausing and reflecting before you make decisions on the basis of the data, being careful when using data to differentiate instruction, focusing on student engagement, and using your professional judgment.

The Oakland - based work has formed a structure that comprises the core design of this prospectus: a fellowship of 28 teachers from 16 schools or organizations working together to build individual maker - centered learning practices and think through new ideas as a learning community; a leadership team made up of educators able to offer personalized professional development according to the needs of participants; a grants program designed to provide schools and organizations with the tools and materials needed to reach their goals; thoughtful partnerships with key organizations in the field; and a primary focus on equity in the work.

Functions The teacher leader: a) Facilitates the collection, analysis, and use of classroom - and school - based data to identify opportunities to improve curriculum, instruction, assessment, school organization, and school culture; b) Engages in reflective dialog with colleagues based on observation of instruction, student work, and assessment data and helps make connections to research - based effective practices; c) Supports colleagues» individual and collective reflection and professional growth by serving in roles such as mentor, coach, and content facilitator; d) Serves as a team leader to harness the skills, expertise, and knowledge of colleagues to address curricular expectations and student learning needs; e) Uses knowledge of existing and emerging technologies to guide colleagues in helping students skillfully and appropriately navigate the universe of knowledge available on the Internet, use social media to promote collaborative learning, and connect with people and resources around the globe; and f) Promotes instructional strategies that address issues of diversity and equity in the classroom and ensures that individual student learning needs remain the central focus of instruction.

Sure they could dabble at using their capital to invest in other equities, but they don't, because they just want to focus on making shoes.

Given the very low payouts on most bonds, and the relatively higher MERs charged by most bond mutual funds (compared to bond ETFs), she felt it made more sense to focus on those mutual funds that at least had a good shot at beating the indexes and justifying their slightly higher MERs: that is, stock or equity mutual funds.

But when you're focusing on the equity side of a portfolio, I think a good case can be made that large blue - chip companies help mitigate risk.

David Taylor, portfolio manager of the IA Clarington Focused Canadian Equity Class, which outperformed its peers in Morningstar's Canadian Focused Equity and Canadian Equity categories with a return of 35.5 per cent, made a gutsy call in the first couple months of 2016.

If income is your objective, it makes more sense, to me at least, to focus on the dividend potential that your equity portfolio is capable of achieving.

They simply focus on equity - the appraised the value of a home minus all the debts in it when making lending decisions as real estate is their main business.

I agree that youngsters should focus on equities for the most part, but to not buy fixed - income investments for short - term goals and as a guaranteed return when markets drop and low positions make liquidity a bit tight is irresponsible.

Four international equity - focused ETFs also made the cut: the Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF (VEA), with inflows of $ 11 billion; the iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (IEMG), with inflows of $ 7.4 billion; the Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (VWO), with inflows of $ 6.8 billion; and the iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (IEFA), with inflows of $ 6.2 billion.

The focus of the previous board & management team on leveraging up the balance sheet, and making private equity investments, were risky & ultimately unsuccessful strategies for EIIB.

She left her position, after working to create a state plan for Washington that made equity and racial disparity gaps the focus of all delivery services, to create PopUpJustice.

In tech terms it's not huge, but what's interesting is that it's the first social investment fund that will make equity investments focused on seed stage technology startups.

«While we have strong defenses to the claims, we elected to focus on continuing to make meaningful enhancements to our internal programs and processes that drive equity and a diverse and inclusive workforce which are values that we share and embrace,» Qualcomm said, adding that it can't comment further since the deal requires court approval.

Ariño and Ring [28] explored how the perceptions of fairness types shaped the partners» decision - making logics and they found out that informational justice and interactional justice could make the partner focus more on relationship quality and then influenced partners» evaluations of efficiency and equity of the proposed alliance, which in turn was helpful to let partners make the decision to form alliance.

Focus on making cash right now, and the equity will come.

One of the primary focuses of The Staubach Co., Dallas, has been the sale - leaseback deal which has remained buoyant even after the capital crunch - although the company did have to make some serious adjustments, says Brett Landis, a senior vice president of the company and a partner in Wolverine Equities, Staubach's acquisition arm.

As a buyout target, BJ's has several things that might make it attractive to private equity players, including a focus on value and an established brand name.