Sentences with phrase «access to better schools like»

The stubborn achievement gaps facing Black students can be mitigated with more — not less — access to better schools like Shoemaker.

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There are some specifics, but much is vague promise or things like the above, «Give every family access to a great school and good teachers».

Feed the Children's Pilot program provides better access to more meals and also educational resources like books and school supplies.

I do not have access to a treadmill or elliptical like I do at school so I have been doing HIIT and walking my dog at a good pace.

I'm not advocating the return of Becta; the quango had more than its fair share of issue, but we do need something that all schools can access and refer to, and I think it's best that schools decide what this might look like.

In a speech this evening at the National PTA Convention in Orlando, U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr. will call on parent and teachers to create diverse schools where students of all racial and socioeconomic backgrounds have access to good teachers and learning opportunities like he did.

We look forward to strengthening our entire charter law, with an eye on flexibility and a better system for funding schools, so that more children in Connecticut can have access to quality choices, like public charters, in their communities.

The fact that organizations like Stand for Children and Democrats for Education Reform prefer to stand with the teachers» unions rather than standing with the 3.5 million children in charter schools and private choice programs, and the millions more who desperately want access to better options, speaks volumes.

Other possible solutions for improving access to courses have been offered by rural school advocates, like Robert Mahaffey, executive director of the Rural School and Community Trust, who proposes expanding courses in rural schools that invest more in their staff, as well as offering teachers more pathways towards credentials and certifischool advocates, like Robert Mahaffey, executive director of the Rural School and Community Trust, who proposes expanding courses in rural schools that invest more in their staff, as well as offering teachers more pathways towards credentials and certifiSchool and Community Trust, who proposes expanding courses in rural schools that invest more in their staff, as well as offering teachers more pathways towards credentials and certification

«Public charter schools nationally have an opportunity to demonstrate what «coopetition» looks like at its best, and many of these charter school organizations are building on their successes to ensure that many more students have access to a quality public school education.»

And lastly, distance: like many of us, families yearn for access to a school that's good, safe and nearby.

According to district policy for closing under - enrolled schools, officials must evaluate «the adequacy of the instructional program in receiving schools,» as well as factors like the facility quality itself, access to the new campus and other factors.

Despite that isolation — and despite the fact that the school has just three teachers on site — the students at Qugcuun Memorial still have access to geometry and biology classes taught by highly qualified teachers, as well as up - to - date electives like digital photography.

The Student Fair Access to School Act of 2017 has the potential to cut out - of - school suspensions by about half, but the city should look to other districts like Chicago and Philadelphia as well as D.C. schools such as Kingsman Academy PCS and Ron Brown College Preparatory HS to anticipate unintended consequences of a top - down discipline rSchool Act of 2017 has the potential to cut out - of - school suspensions by about half, but the city should look to other districts like Chicago and Philadelphia as well as D.C. schools such as Kingsman Academy PCS and Ron Brown College Preparatory HS to anticipate unintended consequences of a top - down discipline rschool suspensions by about half, but the city should look to other districts like Chicago and Philadelphia as well as D.C. schools such as Kingsman Academy PCS and Ron Brown College Preparatory HS to anticipate unintended consequences of a top - down discipline reform.

Like Mount Pleasant, homes on the east side sell for $ 300,000 to $ 400,000 less than their west - side counterparts, but both areas have great access to good schools, tons of independent shops and restaurants and Queen Elizabeth Park.

In 2005, I surveyed efforts to shift from strictly economic measures of progress, like gross domestic product, to a broader basket of indicators of well - being — everything from access to schools and health care to the quality of the environment.

These toxic stress - induced changes in brain structure and function mediate, at least in part, the well - described relationship between adversity and altered life - course trajectories (see Fig 1).4, 6 A hyper - responsive or chronically activated stress response contributes to the inflammation and changes in immune function that are seen in those chronic, noncommunicable diseases often associated with childhood adversity, like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cirrhosis, type II diabetes, depression, and cardiovascular disease.4, 6 Impairments in critical SE, language, and cognitive skills contribute to the fractured social networks often associated with childhood adversity, like school failure, poverty, divorce, homelessness, violence, and limited access to healthcare.4, 19,58 — 60 Finally, behavioral allostasis, or the adoption of potentially maladaptive behaviors to deal or cope with chronic stress, begins to explain the association between childhood adversity and unhealthy lifestyles, like alcohol, tobacco, and substance abuse, promiscuity, gambling, and obesity.4, 6,61 Taken together, these 3 general classes of altered developmental outcomes (unhealthy lifestyles, fractured social networks, and changes in immune function) contribute to the development of noncommunicable diseases and encompass many of the morbidities associated epidemiologically with childhood adversity.4, 6

The Academy advocates to protect and expand federal anti-poverty and safety net programs, including those that provide health care (and access to health care through Medicaid and CHIP), early education (such as Head Start and Early Head Start), quality child care, affordable housing and home visiting, as well as critical nutrition assistance programs like WIC, SNAP, school meals, and summer feeding programs.