Sentences with phrase «about equitable access»

The concept «public interest» is defined in the Bill as South Africa's commitment to land reform, and to reforms to bring about equitable access to all South Africa's natural resources in order to redress the results of past racial discriminatory laws or practices.

In addition to providing reasonable benchmarks for individual schools and districts using StudentTracker reports, we believe it also makes a significant contribution to discussions about equitable access to, and persistence in, postsecondary education amongst practitioners and policymakers at the school, district, state, and national levels.

Concerned about equitable access to technology at home?

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Although the government offered a generic commitment to «fair and equitable access,» internal e-mails reveal persistent concerns about the clinic: «there is not a clear distinction between insured and uninsured services.»

Natalie became a trustee of the UK Association for Milk Banking in 2014, and is passionate about ensuring equitable access of sick and premature babies to donor milk.

Whatever the inadequacies of the engagement efforts, shouldn't we focus our criticism first and foremost on those elected officials, union leaders, and activists who were pursuing a strategy of deception and vitriol — who woke up every day seeking to thwart positive change for kids, seeking to prevent the expansion of schools that were getting outsized success for children, seeking to undermine policies designed to increase equitable access to the district's better schools, seeking to gum up efforts to empower parents with choice, and seeking to thwart all efforts aimed at fostering an honest conversation about which educators were truly superlative and which were badly underserving children?

A unified enrollment system would streamline the school choice process for families, provide more equitable access to quality schools and increase the information available to families as they make choices about schools.

«We have an education stakeholder community that is uniquely engaged, informed, and excited about our ESSA plan, and we are moving forward on this important work: providing pathways for all students so they can access real opportunities after high school, improving schools that have consistently underperformed, and supporting a well - rounded, equitable education that can serve the whole child.»

While we understand the District has voiced concerns about how the ruling may create compliance challenges, our goal is to ensure that all public school students in Los Angeles, including those who attend charter schools, have equitable access to safe and adequate facilities.

As we work to ensure a high - quality teacher for every child and classroom, the time is ripe to think differently about providing equitable access to excellent educators for all students by ensuring workforce stability for the future.

Integration is about providing equitable access to resources for everyone.

Decision makers at both the local and state level who are concerned about access to math courses must meaningfully address this challenge if the goal of equitable access to advanced math courses is to be achieved.

To me, it's completely unrelated to the agenda from Brown, which was about getting equal access to educational opportunities for students — you know, initially through desegregation, but the heritage of Brown is also a large number of school finance reform lawsuits that have been trying to advocate for equitable resource distribution between districts and schools.

In these times, we must interrogate our own role as educators committed to high - quality instruction and equitable access to resources, and commit to unlearning the hidden messages that have been taught to us by society about race and power.

The persistent effects of conditions outside student control raise serious concerns about whether the education system is providing equitable access to meet the needs of high - achieving students of color.»

First and foremost, system leaders must come up with clear and coherent guidelines about who gets to make which decisions about local school improvement, how those decisions are to be made, what kinds of learning opportunities can be pursued, and how the district will ensure equitable access to and participation in the process.

Going to scale to provide equitable access to quality arts learning is a challenge even under ideal circumstances, but when faced with incomplete data about local access to arts learning, organizations can not make informed strategic decisions to address equity.

Parent activist Megan Wolf, who testified about the bill during the Oct. 3 hearing at the State House, said the filing of the new enrollment policy took many by surprise and occurs while the public remains largely in the dark on details such as how the proposed unified enrollment process would work — including its impact on school choice, equitable access and the BPS budget.