Sentences with phrase «also improves the public schools»

Not only does school choice give low - income children the same choices and opportunities that children from wealthy families have always had, it also improves the public schools, making them stronger and more effective,» Cruz said in the press release announcing the legislation.

Not exact matches

For example, the School Food Initiative set out to improve food on the plate at local public schools, and soon learned that such improvements also required us to influence cultural shifts within school districts as well as increasing food literacy throughout the commSchool Food Initiative set out to improve food on the plate at local public schools, and soon learned that such improvements also required us to influence cultural shifts within school districts as well as increasing food literacy throughout the commschool districts as well as increasing food literacy throughout the community.

, approved in eight states and D.C., may also improve turnout via «two transformative, yet simple, changes,» the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan public policy institution based at New York University Law School, has written.

Automatic voter registration, approved in eight states and D.C., may also improve turnout via «two transformative, yet simple, changes,» the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan public policy institution based at New York University Law School, has written.

But though 80 percent of the charters in her home state perform worse than traditional public schools, DeVos — a billionaire whose family has also opposed workers» rights, gay marriage and has contributed heavily to a variety of other right - wing causes — has led the way in resisting any attempts to regulate or improve Michigan charter performance.

It also seemed to point out that only a small fraction of the city's public school students attend charter schools, and said its main focus was on improving opportunities for all children.

She has also led numerous initiatives to promote an improved relationship between the city's public schools and their local communities.

Amanda also served as the Director for Participatory Budgeting for Council District 30, where she spearheaded the allocation of over one million dollars in capital funds, as voted on by thousands of local residents, to improve public schools, libraries, and parks in the district.

«As the price and accuracy of rapid diagnostic tests and other diagnostic instruments improve, I think we have a chance to really make a difference in clinical settings facing huge burdens of acute undifferentiated febrile infections that I believe are being misdiagnosed,» said Stoler, who also holds a position in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the UM Miller School of Medicine.

A mindfulness practitioner and a long - time champion of efforts to improve the health and well - being of American families and children, Congressman Ryan is also a public advocate for mindfulness - based programs in schools, the military, and the health - care system.

They will not only give us insights about how to organize charter schools but also how to manage and improve the traditional public schools.

The research presently available on the potential of vouchers to improve achievement in public schools is also less than conclusive.

It improves the academic performance of the low - income, mostly minority students who use scholarships to attend private schools, and also that of their peers who stay in the public schools.

Likewise, in «Finishing Touches,» Robert Maranto states, «The animating theory of school choice has always been that it will not only serve as an escape hatch from dysfunctional public schools but also will spark public schools to improve.

We also measured how teaching effectiveness improves with experience in New York City public schools.

Many of the schools in the low - performing category were also in either the always - D or sometimes - D categories, which were shown above to have made gains relative to all Florida public schools - probably due to the likelihood that they would receive an F if they did not improve.

IMPACT, the controversial teacher - evaluation system recently introduced in the District of Columbia Public Schools, appears to have caused hundreds of teachers in the district to improve their performance markedly while also encouraging some low - performing teachers to voluntarily leave the district's classrooms, according to a new study from the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

The ESSA would also establish a new program known as Presidential Academies for the Teaching of American History and Civics, which would provide professional development to improve the teaching of history and civics to between 50 and 300 teachers annually, selected from public and private elementary and secondary schools throughout the country.

Also onboard is Marshall Tuck, former president and chief operating officer of Green Dot Public Schools, which has built a chain of charter schools in the district while organizing a parents» «union» and constantly pushing district officials to take bolder steps to improve the performance of children from poor faSchools, which has built a chain of charter schools in the district while organizing a parents» «union» and constantly pushing district officials to take bolder steps to improve the performance of children from poor faschools in the district while organizing a parents» «union» and constantly pushing district officials to take bolder steps to improve the performance of children from poor families.

For the animating theory of school choice has always been that it will not only serve as an escape hatch from dysfunctional public schools but also will spark public schools to improve.

SREB also works directly with public schools and educatorsto improve classroom teaching and learning, career - technical education, online education, and school leadership.

Patte Barth, director of NSBA's Center for Public Education, recently wrote about the many successes in public education for American School Board Journal, and she also gave her suggestions for ways schools can imPublic Education, recently wrote about the many successes in public education for American School Board Journal, and she also gave her suggestions for ways schools can impublic education for American School Board Journal, and she also gave her suggestions for ways schools can improve.

Nor does the fact that vouchers have not only improved education for the kids who have taken advantage of them, but also help those kids who remain in nearby public schools.

Akshai is also the lead founder and board member of DeansList, an education software company that helps high - performing schools nationally use data to improve results, and he is a part - time instructor at the Arizona State University (ASU) Public Service Academy.

She also served in both the human capital and charter school offices at the Louisiana Department of Education and Recovery School District, where she created and implemented policies to improve the quality of public education across the school offices at the Louisiana Department of Education and Recovery School District, where she created and implemented policies to improve the quality of public education across the School District, where she created and implemented policies to improve the quality of public education across the state.

A big part of Zuckerberg's mission was also to improve the traditional public schools.

«We wanted to provide for more important and quality feedback to teachers, and through our Professional Development and Evaluation Committee we heard that teachers also wanted improved feedback,» said Frank Purcaro, director of student learning and teaching at Wolcott Public Schools.

State support will also be needed because federal funds to support school turnarounds are drying up, leaving the Department of Public Instruction with just over a third of the staff they once had to help low - performing schools improve.

Instructional coordinators, also known as curriculum specialists, observe and evaluate teaching techniques, review student data, assess curriculum and make recommendations to improve instruction in private and public schools.

We also know, however, that when it comes to vouchers and polling, the public 1) rarely ranks vouchers near the top when asked to choose among a list of education reforms, and 2) strongly favors improving neighborhood public schools over the diversion of public resources to private schools.

With more than 3 million public school teachers in the United States, it is not possible to improve education simply by dismissing those who earn unsatisfactory ratings without also helping teachers improve their practice.

The Council largely endorsed the work of the Committee on Education that increased per student funding, invested in early childhood learning, and improved the resources of our public libraries, while also accelerating modernizations for many schools to provide a better learning environment.

The hope was that vouchers would not only benefit the students opting for private schools, but that the competition from private schools would also force the city's long - struggling public schools to improve.

A final element that should cause concern about cyber charter schools is that not only do massive cyber schools fail to provide effective services found in quality local public schools, but they also cripple efforts of local public schools to improve.

He also said he wants to see the creation of a state school board to oversee the Department of Public Instruction and would make efforts to improve students» academic skills without necessarily calling for increased school funding.

She pointed out that CPS has a poor track record of improving high schools citing its «zero percent success rate,» and also said the administrators downtown are out of touch with public safety and mobility issues that arise when high schools are closed.

With great charter schools proving how much all children can learn, public deliberation is also making progress on improving traditional schools.

These subsidies have not only improved education for the students who attend the schools of choice, but study after study has shown that kids who remain in public school also benefit when a voucher system is instituted and schools are forced to compete for students.

Also, the promise of improved academic outcomes didn't harken whites back to New Orleans public schools, particularly those with black principals.

He also ignores the reality that the education spending has continued to increase for the past five decades, and that much of the troubles with American public education has little do with money than with the fact that so much school funding is trapped by practices such as degree - and seniority - based pay scales for teachers that have no correlation with improving student achievement.

The report also proposes recommendations for investments, innovations and reforms to improve learning environments for children in all U.S. public schools.

Medley also said that she was concerned with «ensuring that charters that are performing poorly are either improved or eliminated» and «ensuring that when there are good lessons to be learned from charters, that we make sure to try to export those to the rest of the public school system.»

Although the movement to prevent the government from forcibly segregating African American students away from «white» public schools was about personal liberty and integration for integration's sake, it was also about improving outcomes for African American students.

The panelists — including Arkansas's Fort Smith Public Schools Superintendent Benny Goodman and the National Center for Learning Disabilities's Laura Kaloi — also advocated for using multiple assessment measures to judge school quality, adding more flexibility for improving low - performing schools, maintaining a focus on holding schools accountable for the performance of student subgroups, tracking student growth, and ensuring states set high staSchools Superintendent Benny Goodman and the National Center for Learning Disabilities's Laura Kaloi — also advocated for using multiple assessment measures to judge school quality, adding more flexibility for improving low - performing schools, maintaining a focus on holding schools accountable for the performance of student subgroups, tracking student growth, and ensuring states set high staschools, maintaining a focus on holding schools accountable for the performance of student subgroups, tracking student growth, and ensuring states set high staschools accountable for the performance of student subgroups, tracking student growth, and ensuring states set high standards.

Figlio and Hart, 2010, found that the scholarship tax credit program improves academic performance in public schools; and Figlio, 2011, found that students using the scholarships to attend independent schools are also benefiting academically.

The way has also been paved for the opening of additional high - quality public charter schools, improving options for students across the state.

«While these are essential steps toward improving K - 3 quality, they are also just that: first steps in a long line of work that can be done to ensure that the foundational years of public schooling set students on a path to becoming lifelong learners who experience academic and social success,» the report suggested.

IDRA's research also shows that vouchers do little if anything to improve local public schools and, for the most part, fail to deliver on promises to provide better quality academic outcomes for students enrolled in lower performing public schools.

Redirecting funding currently spent on corrections to the public education system would not only improve the educational experiences of students of color but could also positively impact their families, communities, and potentially life outcomes — ending, or at least disrupting, the vicious «school - to - prison pipeline.»

Legislation to protect Dreamers — including the 20,000 educators with DACA — that includes pathways to legal status or citizenship would not only increase the GDP, creating more revenue with which to improve public schools, but it would also mean that students and families across the country currently living in fear of deportation could focus on both their education and creating a better future for themselves and their communities.99