Sentences with phrase «school agenda offered»

Frustrated by the lack of provision in the area for pupils with special needs, especially those on the autistic spectrum, the school decided that the Free School agenda offered a source of hope to local families whose needs not being met.

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Nord may not offer a panacea, but he has an educational agenda more specific than usually comes from those who bemoan the lack of religion in the public schools.

See what your school offers to help you help your child, such as an agenda planner or some other homework reminder system, and / or a Web site with helpful links.

At a speech outlining his K - 12 education agenda last month, de Blasio offered some rare words of praise for the sector, saying he believes collaboration between district and charter schools is «essential.»

Critically acclaimed foreign affairs series offering a look beyond the news agenda Warwick School.

But last week, the Arizona senator sought to offer voters a more complete picture of his views on schools, outlining an agenda of higher pay for «master teachers,» school vouchers, and fewer «strings» attached to federal dollars designated for K - 12 education.

Still and all, it was the first such federal report on Betsy DeVos's watch and it surely won't help advance the private - school choice agenda that's important to her and that Trump offered up during his campaign.

One of the team's stated goals — part of the Mayor and Chancellor's larger Equity and Excellence for All agenda — is for every student to have an individual college and career plan as well as resources to support the plan on the path to high school graduation and beyond.4 The team offers a series of resources and tools that help support student CCR pathways.

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute was one of the leading voices offering these ideas in a mutually reinforcing framework, recognizing that innovative schools needed the yardstick for quality that standards create, and accountability systems alone don't build the pressure that the school choice agenda promised.

Our white paper, Resourcing the Performance Agenda in Schools and Multi-Academy Trusts, offers recommendations and practical guidance for schools, academies and MATs, to better understand their workforces, to motivate and retain existing staff, and to adopt new thinking and innovative approaches to attract the very best teSchools and Multi-Academy Trusts, offers recommendations and practical guidance for schools, academies and MATs, to better understand their workforces, to motivate and retain existing staff, and to adopt new thinking and innovative approaches to attract the very best teschools, academies and MATs, to better understand their workforces, to motivate and retain existing staff, and to adopt new thinking and innovative approaches to attract the very best teachers.

We admit to having an agenda, though: we want all schools to be great, and we want to see more variety and clarity about what individual schools offer to children and families.

Criticizing Congress for months of inaction in updating No Child Left Behind, President Obama on Friday offered to lift the law's most onerous provisions, including its 2014 deadline for bringing all students to proficiency in reading and math, for states that promise to follow his administration's own school improvement agenda.

«On every issue, they offered counters to his «reform» agenda of privatization, charter schools, longer school day, and test - based teacher evaluation....

Although Greuel still has two months to win the run - off, she will have to do a better job of articulating her school reform agenda as well as offer more - concrete solutions for addressing L.A.'s fiscal issues (including a pension deficit that has increased by 25 percent a year for the past decade).

Then in June, at a Los Angeles school board meeting at which the parent trigger was on the agenda, board member Steve Zimmer offered a resolution calling for a change in the state law that would bring «more transparency to the signature - gathering process.»

A spokeswoman declined to make King available for an interview about his record and his plans for the department, but after an event at a D.C. school last week, he told reporters that his top priority is «moving forward with the ambitious agenda that Arne and the president have laid out,» from expanding preschool offerings to boosting the number of students who are getting into and through college.

Even as the party itself is divided over embracing Common Core standards, has a retrograde on education in the form of House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (who wants to eviscerate the strong accountability measures contained in the No Child Left Behind Act), and had a primary race for the presidential nod that had seen aspirants backtrack (of offer little information) on their respective school reform agendas, Republicans were able to paper over these issues thanks to strong calls by former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Texas teacher Sean Duffy, and onetime Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for expanding school choice, advancing Parent Power, and overhauling how teachers are recruited, trained, managed, and compensated.

The fact that the work was being funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation also offered some possibility that the grand dame of old - school civil rights groups would offer a school reform agenda that would actually meet the educational and civil rights challenges facing Black America today.

CCSA offers public policy and grassroots advocacy in the State Legislature every year, developing public policy positions and legislative agendas for the benefit of the charter school movement, and tracking major legislation, including Senate and Assembly bills and the state budget.

«We offer our service with no agenda other than to support the school board in identifying and hiring the most highly qualified candidate possible and continuing the progress we have seen in recent years,» council chairman Ed Burr wrote in a letter to the school board.

While its network is limited to public art centers and museums, e-flux offers similar platforms to commercial galleries through its art - agenda subsidiary, and to art schools and art academies through art & education, which e-flux jointly administers together with Artforum International.

The Agenda looks at how Mohawk College's City School is transforming the post-secondary education structure by offering free classes.