Sentences with phrase «achieve school equity»

Lift One Lift All serves as a gathering point for grassroots organizations, parents, educators, businesses and advocacy partners working to achieve school equity.

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When we talk about school food we are touching on agriculture and economic development, public health and equity, community building and cooperation around achieving shared goals.

At the same time, a few cities — notably Boston, San Francisco, San Diego and Chicago — have managed to build in clear, measurable indicators for achieving social - equity goals, says Prof. Manaugh, who co-authored the study with professors Madhav Badami and Ahmed El - Geneidy of McGill's School of Urban Planning.

, Holding NCLB Accountable: Achieving Accountability, Equity, and School Reform.

Key players in Texas» school - finance debate have offered sharply different views on the need for new state spending to achieve court - ordered equity among rich and poor districts.

If «Equality of Educational Opportunity» was expected to mobilize the resources of the nation's schools in pursuit of racial equity, it undoubtedly failed to achieve its objective.

Klinsky scoured the city and the suburbs (all while working in private equity) for low - achieving areas that might welcome his new school and in which he might find space.

First, Turning Points 2000 presents a much more detailed picture of what's needed in middle grades schools to achieve excellence and equity, so educators should have a much clearer on - the - ground idea of what needs to occur.

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.

On the other hand, my experience also shows that in order to make use of the power of collaboration as a means of achieving both excellence and equity in schools, governments need to foster greater flexibility at the local level.

These programs address an urgent challenge or priority — from narrowing achievement gaps and postsecondary success to modeling courageous conversations and leading inclusive schools — and provide educators with important context and data, as well as concrete solutions for expanding opportunity and achieving excellence with equity.

Performance increases have not been achieved by ignoring equity; rather, New Orleans has become one of the most equitable urban school districts in the country.

Advocates in Colorado also helped achieve a major funding equity win last year by sticking to a main message: all public school students deserve equal access to public resources.

As outraged as I am, I wish I could write that what happened at Great Hearts Monte Vista School is an isolated incident — ... Continue reading The First Step towards Achieving Educational Equity for Black Students Must Be Hiring More Black Teachers

Coleman found that Catholic schools achieve more educational equity than public schools because they follow a rich and demanding curriculum; provide a structured, orderly environment; offer lots of explicit instruction, including drill and practice; and expect every child to reach minimal goals in each subject by the end of the year.

The heart of the equity DCL is its enumeration of the factors that schools and OCR investigators must take into account when determining whether equity has been achieved.

Nonetheless, greater equity in schooling has undoubtedly been achieved by federal involvement in education.

Additionally, the SBOE formally adopted a structure for upcoming policy, governance, and engagement committees to help achieve the goals of increasing equity and academic excellence in District public schools.

First of all, although Finland can show the United States what equal opportunity looks like, Americans can not achieve equity without first implementing fundamental changes in their school system.

To extend the metaphor in this picture, the educational equity orientation reframes the policy discussion and orients it around ensuring that schools help all students to achieve, even if that means distributing resources «unequally.»

In particular, ESEA reauthorization provides an opportunity for Congress to consider fresh ideas that would support states and districts in increasing school funding equity so that students in low - income communities receive the resources they need to achieve at high levels.

One of the keys of achieving educational equity is ensuring these gaps in resources are, at least in part, covered up by resources provided by schools.

While much work remains before Illinois will achieve funding equity and adequacy, the law sets every school district in the state on a path toward providing a quality education.

We promote practices that seek to achieve social justice and equity in public schools.

«Dr. José A. Cárdenas dedicated his life to improving educational opportunities for all children, leading decades - long efforts to achieve school finance equity,» said Dr. María «Cuca» Robledo Montecel, IDRA president.

At Confianza, we always start with students, promoting an equity - based mindset so that all educators see themselves as change agents to support all students, particularly culturally and linguistically diverse learners who may not be truly seen or honored at school so they can be part of the community and so they can achieve to their full potential.

Over 100,000 Los Angeles students are enrolled in independent charter schools; any effort to achieve educational equity through application and enrollment practices must include efforts to simplify and streamline charter school processes.

Oakland and Emeryville showed very strong gains in student achievement, especially in elementary schools, but there was still a long way to go to achieve equity and remove the predictability of student outcomes by race and class.

Only then, with schools that foster authentic human agency, can we say we have achieved our goal of intentional equity.

Equity has been understood to be both a key driver of school improvement and a major factor in ensuring that each child is able to achieve and succeed, yet our systems and societies still harbor inequities.

This year CCSA will continue to move full throttle to advocate for systems that achieves equity, transparency and accountability for all public school children in California.

Coleman contended that school funding had little bearing on educational achievement and, thus, efforts to achieve resource «equity» were wasteful.

Contents are as follows: «Why Ability Grouping Must End: Achieving Excellence and Equity in American Education» (Jomills Henry Braddock II and Robert E. Slavin); «Understanding Ourselves: The Ancestry of Tracking» (Kathleen Cruikshank); «Conditions That Enhance the Reintegration of Schools» (Anne Wheelock); «Is It Possible To Live with Tracking and Ability Grouping?»

But France's system is a cautionary tale of how a country can offer an expansive private school choice system, but still fail to achieve equity.

Thomas, who leads a K - 5 school that is working toward closing the achievement gap, believes that a first step to ensuring equity is that school leaders know that their school district is committed to achieving it.

Achieving equity is not just an issue for schools with disadvantaged populations.

The Center for Public Education distinguishes between the two concepts by defining equality as treating all students the same, with equal access to resources, as compared to equity, which «is achieved when all students receive the resources they need so they graduate prepared for success after high school.»

With your leadership team, assess your school's approach to achieving equity.

June Rimmer, associate director at CEL, highlights the role of the principal in closing achievement gaps, describes the work of an equity - centered instructional leader in the improvement of instructional practice and explains how we can build the capacity and expertise of principals to equip them to be leaders of schools that ensure equity so that every student experiences excellence in their learning and achieves at high levels.

But issues at the statehouse haven't stopped Evansville educators from continuing to achieve student success through the Equity Schools program.

Leading for Equity: A Practical Framework for Board Discussion and Action Using a framework developed by the Arizona School Boards Association, participants will unpack five essential and interrelated areas through which school boards can lead for equity, consider key questions within each, and identify actions board members can take individually and as a leadership team to ensure personal or social circumstances such as gender, ethnic origin or family background of students in their district are not obstacles to achieving educational poteEquity: A Practical Framework for Board Discussion and Action Using a framework developed by the Arizona School Boards Association, participants will unpack five essential and interrelated areas through which school boards can lead for equity, consider key questions within each, and identify actions board members can take individually and as a leadership team to ensure personal or social circumstances such as gender, ethnic origin or family background of students in their district are not obstacles to achieving educational poteSchool Boards Association, participants will unpack five essential and interrelated areas through which school boards can lead for equity, consider key questions within each, and identify actions board members can take individually and as a leadership team to ensure personal or social circumstances such as gender, ethnic origin or family background of students in their district are not obstacles to achieving educational poteschool boards can lead for equity, consider key questions within each, and identify actions board members can take individually and as a leadership team to ensure personal or social circumstances such as gender, ethnic origin or family background of students in their district are not obstacles to achieving educational poteequity, consider key questions within each, and identify actions board members can take individually and as a leadership team to ensure personal or social circumstances such as gender, ethnic origin or family background of students in their district are not obstacles to achieving educational potential.

Achieving Educational Equity through Career and Technical Pathways Rashid Davis, Principal of New York City's P - Tech (Pathways in Career and Technical Education) High School, shares the details of his pioneering school model that provides a pathway for historically underserved students to complete high school, an associate's degree in applied computer science, and gain access to «new collar» jobs at IBM — all at no cost to students or their famSchool, shares the details of his pioneering school model that provides a pathway for historically underserved students to complete high school, an associate's degree in applied computer science, and gain access to «new collar» jobs at IBM — all at no cost to students or their famschool model that provides a pathway for historically underserved students to complete high school, an associate's degree in applied computer science, and gain access to «new collar» jobs at IBM — all at no cost to students or their famschool, an associate's degree in applied computer science, and gain access to «new collar» jobs at IBM — all at no cost to students or their families.

True funding equity will not be achieved until we have a clear, actualized funding formula that accounts for all students based on their learning needs in the school system that educates them, rather than the kind of school they attend or district they live in.

ConnCAN statement on Governor Malloy's school choice proposal Important steps toward fair funding, but more work remains to achieve true equity for all public school students FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — February 6, 2012 Contact: Jessica Bloom, ConnCAN Tel: [phone] x19 Email: [email protected]

The working draft of the framework defines teacher leadership as follows: «Teacher leaders transform their classrooms, schools, and profession, activating teacher growth and achieving equity and excellence for students.»

In school systems, a true measure of equity is how well students from diverse backgrounds achieve in school.

«Nevertheless, true funding equity will not be achieved until all students are accounted for based on their learning needs, rather than the kind of school they attend, in the state's school funding system.

«Equity is achieved when all students receive the resources they need so they graduate prepared for success after high school.»

After surveying 2,000 students and interviewing 65 school leaders across the state, students know that the key to achieving equity in California's public schools are the relationships between school staff and students.

Conference participants will spend the day: learning from experts about issues facing DC's public charter schools, sharing innovations and best practices that are driving student outcomes, inspiring each other to engage in advocacy that strengthens our movement, focusing on equity so together we can achieve the goal of quality public school choices for all DC families.