Sentences with phrase «generation school funder»

Dalia Hochman has served as a high school teacher, a co-founder of a small high school, a district administrator, a researcher, and a Next Generation school funder.

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and that's why the Republicans want to cut funding for public schools — so ghetto kids will never be able to leave the ghetto because they have no education — and they won't be able to get birth control either so they will proliferate and perpetuate their situation for generations — and this will never stop until America ends its dependence on fossil fools like Romney, McConnell, Cantor, Ryan, The Bohner, Limbaugh, etc..

The new Dr. Deirdre Loughlin Fund will link two of Deirdre's highest priorities: Broad Meadow Brook, where she has served for many, many years as chair of the advisory board; and Worcester Public Schools, where — as a teacher, and later, as a top administrator — she inspired generations of students to be curious and confident about science.

Democratic state Senate candidate Sara Niccoli in a radio interview Tuesday questioned the wisdom of funding school districts primarily through property tax revenue, saying the state is a generation behind in properly funding education.

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«The tools and resources schools will be able to attain with this funding will help equip the next generation of New Yorkers to lead this state into the future.»

Generation - E project» being funded by Human Resource Development Canada should help improve awareness at the high school level.

In high school, many of my generation were offered the latest educational tools, like physics and chemistry courses newly created — thanks to generous government funding — by the greatest physicists and chemists of the time.

NIAID funds training and career awards to develop and support the next generation of biomedical researchers — people just entering graduate school, finishing their doctorates, or coming in from other fields.

The new generation of low cost portable devices can be purchased by schools, part funded by parents and used by all children for when and where they want to learn i.e. at home, in the classroom, in the after school club and at the child - minders».

School principal Lisa Boorman said: «This funding means we can provide a school to inspire our future generations and one in which the community can be proud of.&School principal Lisa Boorman said: «This funding means we can provide a school to inspire our future generations and one in which the community can be proud of.&school to inspire our future generations and one in which the community can be proud of.»

Hernandez, who leads next generation learning investments at the Charter School Growth Fund, predicts that the best new apps will push the boundaries of early childhood development and learning science in at least four areas: executive function, creativity, number sense, and phonemic awareness.

In this new report, which was funded by the Joyce Foundation and released by Education Sector, the presidents of 30 local unions in six states speak candidly about their views on issues including reforming teacher pay, coping with the No Child Left Behind Act, new competition from charter schools, and the challenges of leading multiple generations of teachers who don't always see eye to eye.

Dr. Moss Lee served on the board of the Grace Lutheran School, was co-founder and lead applicant for Sisulu - Walker Children's Academy — Harlem Charter School (the first authorized charter school in the state of New York), and has previously served on the boards of the Dodge YMCA, Teachers College Center for Educational Outreach and Innovation Advisory Board, and the National Advisory Board of The Next Generation Venture Fund, a partnership between Johns Hopkins and Duke UniversSchool, was co-founder and lead applicant for Sisulu - Walker Children's Academy — Harlem Charter School (the first authorized charter school in the state of New York), and has previously served on the boards of the Dodge YMCA, Teachers College Center for Educational Outreach and Innovation Advisory Board, and the National Advisory Board of The Next Generation Venture Fund, a partnership between Johns Hopkins and Duke UniversSchool (the first authorized charter school in the state of New York), and has previously served on the boards of the Dodge YMCA, Teachers College Center for Educational Outreach and Innovation Advisory Board, and the National Advisory Board of The Next Generation Venture Fund, a partnership between Johns Hopkins and Duke Universschool in the state of New York), and has previously served on the boards of the Dodge YMCA, Teachers College Center for Educational Outreach and Innovation Advisory Board, and the National Advisory Board of The Next Generation Venture Fund, a partnership between Johns Hopkins and Duke Universities.

Author Bio: Alex Hernandez is a partner and leads the «next - generation» learning investments at the Charter School Growth Fund.

In 2010, in direct response to requests from governors and chief state school officers, the Department elected to use a portion of the Race to the Top funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to support the next generation of assessment because the market was not meeting their needs.

Alex Hernandez is a partner and leads the «next - generation» learning investments at the Charter School Growth Fund.

Increasingly school business managers are also responding to funding pressures by exploring new and innovative approaches to income generation.

Among these conditions are 1) education's privileged legal status in most state constitutions; 2) schooling's uniquely decentralized operation and diffuse revenue - generation structure; 3) local political dynamics and institutions that foster a favorable fiscal environment for public schools; 4) a multitiered structure for funding schools with complicated intergovernmental funding incentives and reliance on inelastic tax sources, such as property taxes at the local level.

The hope is that primary school PE will be improved, with facilities, resources, equipment and skilled teachers all more possible with the extra funding than it was without, with a knock - on effect to gradually be in place for future generations.

Marking three years since the review into school funding was released Haythorpe said that needs - based funding for schools is the most important issue in the education sector and the Gonski reforms are the best chance it has had in a generation of getting real change and equity.

Winner of a Gates - funded Next Generation Learning Challenges grant (and discussed in an NGLC blog), Cornerstone Charter Health High School is a Carpe Diem - like flex model featuring Apex curriculum.

In some places, harbormasters were borne of natural disaster, as with New Schools for New Orleans; elsewhere, it was a response to a generation of declining results, as with Schools That Can Milwaukee; or sheer volition, as with San Antonio's Choose to Succeed; or the sound execution of a strategy, as with the DC Fund of NewSchools in collaboration with the CityBridge Foundation.

But the government has ditched this promise - and instead says it will provide funds for local authorities to create a new generation of «voluntary - aided» faith schools.

In partnership with NewSchools Venture Fund, we work with a diverse group of district, charter, and private school operators on a 10 - month journey — The Collaborative — to accelerate their trajectories towards next generation school models.

Finally, «Next Generation» accountability systems should adhere to the following five essentials: «(a) state, district, and school leaders must create a system - wide culture grounded in «learning to improve;» (b) learning to improve using [the aforementioned informational systems also] necessitates the [overall] development of [students»] strong pedagogical data - literacy skills; (c) resources in addition to funding — including time, access to expertise, and collaborative opportunities — should be prioritized for sustaining these ongoing improvement efforts; (d) there must be a coherent structure of state - level support for learning to improve, including the development of a strong Longitudinal Data System (LDS) infrastructure; and (e) educator labor market policy in some states may need adjustment to support the above elements» (p. x).

At Next Generation Learning Challenges, we invest in transformative change, funding schools across the country to embrace innovation and develop completely new school models to better meet the needs of their learners.

Breakthrough Schools Chicago is a regional initiative of the national Next Generation Learning Challenges program, and it is funded by EDUCAUSE, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Chicago Public Education Fund, The Joyce Foundation, and Northern Trust

Few Californians realize how much debt they've imposed on future generations with their votes for bond measures meant to fund the construction of new and modernized school facilities.

In the last generation, there has been no three - year period without reform of curriculum, testing, exams or school funding.

As well as the commitment on funding, the Conservative manifesto reiterates plans to create a new generation of grammar schools.

Modeled on the successful Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) national grants, Breakthrough Schools: D.C. is supported by NGLC funders (the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Broad Foundation, and the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation in Texas) and by a growing group of other local and national investors.

Through its Transition to Teaching programs, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, IDRA partnered with universities and more than 20 K - 12 public schools across Texas to prepare a new generation of skilled, effective teachers to lead and innovate in schools that need them most.

«Here is another report that confirms what ATL has been saying all along - that schools are facing the worst funding crisis in a generation!

Ryan Green, managing director of Pebble, which specialises in income generation for schools, said his business had increased significantly in the past three years with multi-academy trusts looking to expand, and the proposed national funding formula expected to prompt more schools to reassess their finances.

This funding promise sets a clear political direction of travel - making a priority of more free schools and paving the way for a new generation of grammar schools.

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6, 2014 — Educators in at least four major cities across the United States will compete to win funds to redesign or build new schools that personalize instruction for their students through a $ 2.4 million grant to the Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC), The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation announced today.

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Breakthrough Schools is one of six regional funds of the national Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) initiative.

Ultimately, Breakthrough Schools: DC — modeled on a national competition funded by Next Generation Learning Challenges — could reach as many as 20 DC sSchools: DC — modeled on a national competition funded by Next Generation Learning Challenges — could reach as many as 20 DC schoolsschools.

All of these schools received significant funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Next Generation Learning Challenges.

Here in Oakland, there is a rich array of pathways for working to design a school: design teams are working through the district's Call for Quality Schools, creating school plans to quality for Measure N Linked Learning funding, and leveraging the Next Generation Learning Challenge.

In a written statement to parliament, Greening said the first stage of the consultation on plans to address concerns about the fairness of school funding had shown a «strong sense» that the policy represents a «once in a generation opportunity for an historic change», and said the government «must get it right».

To help meet this challenge, Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) today awarded $ 6.6 million in funding to 38 grant recipients working to personalize learning through whole - school models for students spanning grades 6 - 12.

But the government has ditched this promise — and instead says it will provide funds for local authorities to create a new generation of «voluntary - aided» faith schools.

Venture is 1 of 20 winners of the national Next Generation Learning Challenges Wave IIIa competition to identify breakthrough school models, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

And generations of Democrats, from President John F. Kennedy (who unsuccessfully pushed to use funding from the National Defense Education Act to Catholic and Jewish schools through loans), to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, have supported vouchers.

The Blue Buffalo Foundation, in partnership with the Empower Scholarship Fund and its affiliated Ross University of Veterinary Medicine Scholarship, has awarded a second round of scholarships to Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine (Ross Vet) students as a way to help the next generation of veterinarians.

A gift to the SMFA at Tufts Fund provides crucial support for daily operations, while also ensuring that the school will thrive for future generations of art students.

WHAT: Climate Day of Action: DC Youth Rally for a Carbon Price WHERE: Front steps of the John A. Wilson Building (1350 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC) WHEN: Friday, April 13, 12:30 pm SPEAKERS: — Three D.C. middle school students — Payal Shah, Moms Clean Air Force — Riley Place, Generation E PAC — Kymone Freeman, founder of We Act Radio - Camila Thorndike, CCAN Action Fund