Sentences with phrase «school diversity act»

Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy and Ohio Congresswoman Marcia Fudge, both Democrats, introduced the Stronger Together School Diversity Act of 2016 last week.

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Rena Pacheco - Theard is CEO and co-founder of Prepify (www.prepify.me), a startup offering free, online college guidance and SAT / ACT prep for high school students to increase economic diversity.

Committed to international understanding, diversity, environmental stewardship, adventure, leadership, and service, Hackley prepares students to think and act with care and effectiveness both at school and in their broader communities.

School districts that embrace diversity and see it as an asset, he said, typically fare better than those that act threatened or fearful.

As Politico noted when the program was announced in 2013, the options available through Course Choice are impressive in their diversity:» [Students] might, for instance, take algebra from a math tutoring firm, ACT prep from Princeton Review, pipefitting from a construction trade association, French from an online public school... or all of the above.»

In another legislative victory for magnet schools, MSA worked with the National Coalition on School Diversity to also ensure that an outdated anti-busing provision from the 1970s did not prevent current MSAP grantees from using their funding for school transportation as authorized under the Every Student Succeeds Act (School Diversity to also ensure that an outdated anti-busing provision from the 1970s did not prevent current MSAP grantees from using their funding for school transportation as authorized under the Every Student Succeeds Act (school transportation as authorized under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

Addressing a crowded room of magnet school educators and supporters last week, Acting U.S. Secretary of Education John King explained his personal commitment to school diversity and the importance of reducing racial isolation in schools.

And the decades of research demonstrating the substantial benefits of school diversity have also proven insufficient to move most leaders to act.

Even the nation's new federal education law — the reauthorized ESEA or the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)-- includes language that prioritizes and could be leveraged to incentivize school diversity.

The bill would amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) and create a $ 120 million competitive grant program to support new and existing voluntary efforts that promote racial and socioeconomic diversity in schools.

In pursuit of advancing educational equity for all students under ESSA, acting U.S. Secretary of Education John King has recently called for supporting «innovative, voluntary locally - driven efforts to promote socioeconomic diversity in schools.»

Additionally, the Alliance provides a variety of support programs and acts as a resource to member schools on issues of diversity and multiculturalism.

A major study released today provides strong evidencethat ACT / SAT - optional schools increase campus diversity without harming classroom performance.

Then there are politics: a school in a majority - black city that acts and breathes values of diversity, integration and anti-racism, from its student body to its curriculum to its school community.

The Teacher Quality Partnership Grant Program, in Title II of the Higher Education Act, provides funding to institutions of higher education, high - need local education agencies, and schools for teacher preparation programs.38 California State University, for example, recently received a $ 8.1 million federal grant to attract more Latinx candidates; to provide students with more opportunities for hands - on training; and to create systems to track student - teacher progress in the classroom.39 The budget should prioritize funding under the Every Student Succeeds Act and the Higher Education Act, instead of cutting programs that attract teachers and improve diversity.

There are also going to easy questions, like, for example, whether a regulator acting under a public interest mandate should have an accurate name that the public understands or provide its imprimatur to — as one national newspaper has put it — a «gay - free» law school or, indeed, to take the highest profile example of late, require its members to act in ways that promote equality, diversity and inclusion.2 I don't say that these questions are easy because everyone will agree on them — clearly people have not and do not.

Creating a school environment that promotes connectedness and acceptance of diversity may really act to reduce some of the barriers to school attendance.