Sentences with phrase «alliances with school»

Likewise, system leaders must make their own alliances with school board members and with parents and other community leaders because that enables them to build political capital.

We are also building alliances with school technician organisations.

Not exact matches

For years, Jain believed that the best way for a school to globalize was through alliances with local partners across the world instead of setting up additional campuses.

Instead, INSEAD has said it would take advantage of its alliance with the Wharton School.

Be it resolved that the Legislative Assembly urge the Government to introduce legislation, like Manitoba's and Ontario's, requiring all school boards to develop policies to support students who want to lead and establish gay - straight alliance activities and organizations, using any name that is consistent with the promotion of a positive school environment that is inclusive, welcoming, and respectful for all students regardless of sexuality, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

Since we no longer start the school day with a prayer or saying the pledge of alliance why should there be a Muslim holiday added to the school calendar??

The foundation's funding supports the alliance's work with 100 schools in North Carolina.

Shauvon Simmons - Wright, the alliance's N.C. relationship manager, who helps support students» efforts, said she first made contact with school districts to find out which schools had a need for resources based on the socio - economic status of students.

We look forward to working with the whole alliance and sector to champion the School Food Plan vision».

And de Blasio, unlike Bloomberg, will now have little power to slow the growth of certain charter networks and to expand others, creating complications for de Blasio's alliance with a coalition of independent charter schools and his rivalry with Success Academy C.E.O. Eva Moskowitz.

The poll cited seven different possible rationales for rejecting Cuomo: the Moreland Commission scandal, cuts in school aid, tax cuts, his alliance with a «shadowy» group called the Committee to Save New York, his donations from Republicans including the Koch Brothers and Ken Langone, his support for charter schools, and his «values,» which show he «caters to the wealthy and corporations.»

Frank Field - Infamous left - winger of the old - school variety, although serious concerns with imigration have seen him make cross-party alliances.

Glasman was moderately well known in Labour circles in the capital thanks to his ground - breaking work with London Citizens — an alliance of faith institutions, universities, schools and trade unions that he brought together to run community projects.

Bradley Tusk, a political consultant and former campaign manager for Michael Bloomberg, helped organize REBNY's past alliance with the charter school group known as StudentsFirst, which also wanted the GOP in control of the Senate.

Steven Cohen, an alliance member and superintendent of the Shoreham - Wading River School District, said he and the other alliance members agree with the governor that the state's current model doesn't provide an accurate account of teacher performance.

The human tragedy, of course, is who will pay the price for Cuomo's alliance with the Working Families Party & Co.: i.e., the children of actual working families, who have no avenues of escape from rotten public schools where they aren't learning.

Perhaps emboldened by his modest alliances with some charter leaders and schools, and the overwhelmingly positive reception to his universal pre-K program in general, de Blasio seems comfortable directly confronting Success over the pre-K fight.

Hundreds of Indians living in Ghana turned up for the Diwali day celebration organised by B5 Plus Limited in alliance with Delhi Public School (DPS) International Ghana.

They say they also hope to build alliances with parents around the state, who may not have a specific political ideology but are upset over school budget cuts and dissatisfaction over the implementation of the new Common Core standards.

They plow some of their profits into promotional industry groups that fund research studies, they make alliances with medical organizations to educate the public about milk, and they provide free materials to schools suggesting that milk is vital to good nutrition.

The Wyss Institute creates transformative technological breakthroughs by engaging in high risk research, and crosses disciplinary and institutional barriers, working as an alliance that includes Harvard's Schools of Medicine, Engineering, Arts & Sciences and Design, and in partnership with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital, Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston University, Tufts University, Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, University of Zurich and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

YOGA ALLIANCE REQUIRED DISCLAIMER: The Yoga Therapy components of our programs are based on our IAYT credentials, not derived from our status as a Registered Yoga School with the Yoga Alliance.

Look out for yoga schools in India that are registered with yoga alliance as they set their quality in accordance with Yoga Alliance while imparting authentic yoga wisdom to the students.

Being a premium - category yoga alliance approved yoga school; we are dedicated to providing our students with the best yoga education and some of the finest resources for ideal evolution into a yoga practitioner and teacher.

Our school is registered with the BCRPA as well as the Canadian and American Yoga Alliances, the leading governing bodies for yoga teacher training programs, yoga teachers and studios in North America.

And while LVMH does have long - standing relationships with top French schools like La Chambre Syndicale, these programs are not as significant as the alliance it has created with Central Saint Martins.

These self - marginalizing alliances leave a numerical majority of American parents, who like their traditional neighborhood public schools (and who've had it with high - stakes testing) or who don't identify as political progressives, regarding reform with either indifference or as a threat.

Newly formed teacher groups won the vast majority of school contracts after they formed an alliance with UTLA.

In terms of reach, we know the number of schools involved in teaching school alliances is growing but that this varies quite significantly between local authorities, especially between rural and urban areas, and also by phase, with more than twice as many secondary schools involved as primary schools.

They also frequently make fund - generating alliances with companies that put snacks with little nutritional value on school campuses.

«The IB - Harvard learning alliance that we are launching provides our educators with a unique option to continue developing their IB teaching practice with one of the world's top universities,» said Andrew Macdonald, chief schools officer at the International Baccalaureate.

The researchers conducted interviews with 10 primary heads, some of which were in MATs, about system leadership in their local area and found that they believed schools should be placed in some kind of grouping such as a MAT, teaching school alliance or federation.

Among the 10 most rural states, only Arkansas has charter schools, thanks in part to this powerful alliance with rural districts (although Reimagine Prep will open the first Mississippi charter school, in Jackson, in the fall of 2015).

Continuing poor performance and general disarray in the system enabled Mayor Slay to form an alliance with the governor to take over the schools.

In the early 1990s, the superintendent, the school board, the chamber of commerce, and corporate leaders formed an alliance to implement several reform initiatives, including an active, project - based curriculum designed to connect school directly with real - life experiences.

From inside the echo chamber — universities, think tanks, foundations, professional associations, and business alliances — it's easy to believe that a consensus exists over what's wrong with high schools and what they ought to be.

Since our nonprofit served the Latino community, it was natural for us to form an alliance with the largest Latino elementary school in Wisconsin.

The need for students to eat more healthful foods and get more exercise is getting a lot of attention in schools these days, but some school leaders are going a step further, developing wellness policies and health alliances with their communities.

«In close alliance with but never subordinate to the Protestant churches, the common public school occupied a «sacred space» where its mission was beyond debate and where to question it was a kind of blasphemy.»

During the last administration, teachers» unions were forming low - key alliances with Congressional Republicans to fight Obama proposals that would have directed more funding to poor public schools.

«This research provides further evidence for the positive effect of school - based supports — comprehensive anti-bullying policies, Gay - Straight Alliances (GSAs), supportive educators and LGBT - inclusive curriculum — on LGBTQ students» experiences with harassment and discrimination and, ultimately, their educational outcomes,» said Dr. Joseph Kosciw, GLSEN's Chief Research & Strategy Officer.

Funded by: U.S. Department of Education - IES Amount: $ 1,000,000 Dates: 7/1/14 — 12/31/18 Summary: The Massachusetts Institute for College and Career Readiness (MICCR) will promote working alliances between researchers and policymakers in the use and interpretation of data and evidence to guide decision - making and improve student outcomes through meetings with MA Gateway City school and government leaders, as well as collaboration between researchers and teachers in the target communities.

Once at HGSE, Mundy - Shephard credits two courses — Associate Professor John Diamond's Race, Class, and Educational Inequality and Assistant Professor Natasha Warikoo's Cultural Explanations for Ethnic and Racial Inequality in Education — with prompting her to consider how the intersection of racial and sexual minority identity impacts school experiences and educational outcomes, particularly in the context of bullying, harassment, and microaggressions and participation in Gay Straight Alliances (GSAs).

They have announced the launch of a Small Schools Pilot, with the help of Annabel Karmel, The Local Authority Catering Association and an alliance of other public and private sector bodies, which will aim to develop a scalable a model that:

With the support of this public - private alliance, Brad will be leading an initiative to work with around 30 small schools in a rural area to develop a model of group purchasing and other innovative measures that will deliver tasty, nutritious food to children while also enabling the meals service to break eWith the support of this public - private alliance, Brad will be leading an initiative to work with around 30 small schools in a rural area to develop a model of group purchasing and other innovative measures that will deliver tasty, nutritious food to children while also enabling the meals service to break ewith around 30 small schools in a rural area to develop a model of group purchasing and other innovative measures that will deliver tasty, nutritious food to children while also enabling the meals service to break even.

FundEducationNow.org is determined to arm children, parents, teachers and concerned citizens with the power to speak out against the Florida Legislature's plan to defund public education, disrespect professional educators and cause deep and lasting harm to the state's 2.6 million school children.Thanks to thousands of volunteer hours and in - kind donations, FundEducationNow.org quickly grew into a statewide non-partisan alliance of dedicated advocates.

Read testimonies we submitted to the New York City Council Committee on Education in support of Gender Sexuality Alliances (GSAs)[PDF] and with recommendations for addressing bullying [PDF] in New York City schools.

The Title IV, Part A Coalition is an alliance of more than 75 national organizations that believe the SSAEG program has the potential to support school districts in their central mission of providing our students with the skills, resources, and support they need to succeed.

If an alliance district will submit to getting rid of veteran teachers (and replacing them with scab labor from TFA); getting rid of staff people, not just in the schools and central office, but in town offices as well; hand over their democratic rights to elect their officials and let a Strong Man / Woman Mayor appoint people to the Board of Ed (even non residents); remove all checks and balances in local government; and, let any reformer do whatever they want to children, who will be guinea pigs for reform, drill - and - kill, «no excuses» punishments of preschoolers and kindergarteners — THEN Malloy will release money for leaky roofs and essential remediation of toxins.

More importantly, the two unions have worked hard to build modestly successful alliances with other organizations in order to move their agenda (and to back - check those of the school reform movement).