Sentences with phrase «school equity since»

School equity since Gonski: how bad became worse.

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This can also become an equity issue since students from small, rural, or low - income schools tend to have less access to AP classes.

AC: Since kids eat lunch every day at school (whether it's packed for them at home or offered in a school cafeteria), I see it as a perfect opportunity to talk about the ways that their food is connected to their environment, their health, their community and issues of equity around the world.

She says her group has been working with Nixon on school funding equity issues since the early 2000's.

He broke into politics by co-founding the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which in 1993 sued Albany for billions of dollars it argued the state owed to city public schools — and eventually won, though Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration has since resisted delivering the funds.

Emphasizing opportunity for students and equity among schools, Richard Carranza on Tuesday addressed hundreds of New York City teachers in Manhattan, his first on - the - job remarks since starting as the city's new schools chancellor.

And every fall since 2001, the Education Trust, a national organization devoted to closing the achievement gap in our public schools, has issued «The Funding Gap» report, also ranking states by the equity of their K - 12 finance systems.

While we would not feel comfortable claiming, based on the analysis here, that student - based budgeting has been the cause of greater equity in Houston's school funding system, our findings do show that despite an initial increase in the coefficient of variation, Houston schools have over the longer term made modest improvements in equity since the strategy was put into place.

Much has changed since the fledgling Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), 14 New York City community school boards, and 23 individual parents and their children lodged the initial complaint charging the State of New York with denying «thousands of public school students in the City of New York their constitutional rights to equal educational opportunities.»

Since joining HGSE, Ryan has led a series of initiatives to institutionalize diversity, equity, and inclusion policies and practices, and recently launched «One and All,» a project to promote inclusive school communities for all kinds of students.

Equity in our school system has been the leading principle since the 1970s.

Since 2010, the civil rights office has issued detailed directives on eliminating racial disparities in school discipline; the allocation of school resources among racial groups; schools» responsibility for preventing bullying; the use of race - based assignments to achieve diversity; achieving gender equity in intercollegiate and interscholastic sports, and support for pregnant and parenting students.

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.

East Brunswick, NJ — Calling the issue of pay equity «the most revolutionary thing that's come about since labor organized,» a researcher with the New Jersey Education Association last week said the association will probably test the concept in a suit designed to set a precedent for the state's school districts.

It has been 20 years since I completed my doctoral research on educational equity in public schools.

Since 1995, the National Equity Project (formerly BayCES) has supported educators and other leaders in over 100 schools in dozens of districts.

The school funding system in Wisconsin has been trending away from equity at a faster rate since the 2007 Great Recession.

Topeka Public Schools has engaged in equity work since 2011, when elements of the Equity Institute were established including the district's Equity Coequity work since 2011, when elements of the Equity Institute were established including the district's Equity CoEquity Institute were established including the district's Equity CoEquity Council.

For instance, Sweden's catastrophic decline in educational performance on PISA since its introduction of for - profit free schools has taken it away from the high performance of other Nordic countries and towards England and the United States, with declining equity and stagnated student achievement.

When James Coleman, the great sociologist of education, analyzed the school characteristics that had the greatest impact on educational achievement and equity, he found that schools with greater academic intensity — a persistent, goal - directed focus on academics — produced not only greater learning, but also narrowed the achievement gap between ethnic groups.30 That such academically focused schools would raise general achievement is obvious since an intense focus on academics is self - evidently the most likely means to raise academic achievement.

In the years since the storm devastated our city, the transformation of public schooling in New Orleans has led to irrefutable improvements in both academic excellence and equity.

At Loyola High School near downtown, 40 families have come forward since the beginning of the school year seeking financial aid to help cover tuition costs, even as the school's endowment — heavily invested in equities — has taken a battering in the financial mSchool near downtown, 40 families have come forward since the beginning of the school year seeking financial aid to help cover tuition costs, even as the school's endowment — heavily invested in equities — has taken a battering in the financial mschool year seeking financial aid to help cover tuition costs, even as the school's endowment — heavily invested in equities — has taken a battering in the financial mschool's endowment — heavily invested in equities — has taken a battering in the financial market.

Since its inception in 2010, LAUTR has trained seven cohorts of equity - minded teachers who are now serving as teachers of record in high - need schools in Los Angeles.

Through my Roth IRA's (mutual funds) and the equity in my house, I have managed to build a net worth of $ 300,000 by 32, which I consider myself very fortunate since I am only a high - school grad and could have easily ended up with a dead - end job and a whole different story.

The female equity partner who hasn't seen her school - aged kids during daylight hours since they were born.

I also wonder about this statement: «the most intelligent and ambitious law students, who by sheer numbers will be equity - seeking groups like women, visible minorities, and LGBT students... «Since women are now a majority in Canadian law schools (I believe), I suppose you have the numbers here for them.