Sentences with phrase «ambitious goals of school»

How, he asks, did judges come to embrace highly ambitious goals of school integration, having initially believed that the Constitution forbade official discrimination but did not require actual mixing of the races?

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- The company has already reached 70 % (7,000 employees) of its 10,000 - employee commitment for hiring «opportunity youth» (unemployed young people who are not in school) as well as being 25 % of the way toward its even more ambitious 100,000 opportunity youth hiring goal, the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative, that Starbucks successfully goaded other corporate giants (Target, Walmart, etc.) to join in.

FRAC has set an ambitious, but achievable, goal of reaching 70 low - income students who qualify for free or reduced - price school breakfast for every 100 who eat school lunch.

A statewide high school graduation rate of 95 percent is a long - range goal under an ambitious draft plan presented to the state Board of Regents, several of whom voiced skepticism about the proposal.

While Zemsky is trying to bring as many projects to fruition as possible, SUNY Poly's new leader is moving to reshape the school and its ambitious economic development goals of years past.

ALBANY — A statewide high school graduation rate of 95 percent is a long - range goal under an ambitious draft plan presented Monday to the state Board of Regents.

Curtatone cited Shape Up Somerville as a successful city initiative that achieved an ambitious goal — reducing childhood obesity — by partnering with all aspects of the community, including schools, local restaurants, farmers» markets, and transportation.

With a collection table set up in the lobby of Gutman and a special donation page created online, the students set an ambitious goal for the Ed School community: $ 5,000 in one week.

In February 1989, in an unprecedented meeting of the nation's governors with President George H.W. Bush, an ambitious set of goals was set for America's schools.

Currently, the U.S. Department of Education has committed itself to ensuring that all students shall be college - or career - ready as they cross the stage on their high - school graduation day, another overly ambitious goal.

Case studies of exceptional schools indicate that school leaders influence learning primarily by galvanizing effort around ambitious goals and by establishing conditions that support teachers and that help students succeed (Togneri and Anderson, 2003).

In the middle of this small burst of reform came Anthony Amato, a hard - charging administrator from Hartford with ambitious goals and a track record of succeeding in urban schools.

«Until School - Related Gender - Based Violence is eliminated in and around schools across the world, many of the ambitious targets set by the global community through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to provide safe and supportive learning environments, to achieve gender equality and to end violence against women and girls, will not be realized,» said UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo - Ngcuka

But in 2011, reformers set ambitious goals for how many options could be afforded to parents, so even if participation is light, the range of choices that parents and children have in education should cause everyone to think twice about how public schools have been operating.

The superintendent of the Rochester, N.Y., schools is winning applause from teachers and community leaders for advancing an ambitious set of goals for the 35,000 - pupil district.

According to the ASD's own second - year report, three of the six schools in its initial (summer 2012) cohort are on track toward that ambitious goal.

After nearly a year of preparation, my team and I are ready to take on an ambitious goal in partnership with our city's educational leaders: adding 7,000 seats to Boston's high - performing schools by the year 2020...

For school leaders, a critical part of their role is setting ambitious goals for schools — including strong strategies for young learners.

We have set an ambitious goal: growing the number of spaces available in high - quality schools by 7,000 by 2020.

These states are setting ambitious goals and identifying concrete strategies — such as the development of grow - your - own programs, which provide high school students with site - based teaching experiences and paraprofessionals with routes into the profession — to diversify their teacher workforce.

The act also created ambitious physical education goals, requiring schools to provide 150 minutes per week of PE for grades K - 5 and 225 minutes per week for grades 6 - 8 by 2014.

Danielle Neves, the Executive Director of Teaching and Learning for TPS, shared, «Meeting our ambitious goals for students will require outstanding learning for our educators that is grounded in content and curricula, happening day - to - day and week - to - week in schools, and led by and for teachers.

For context, our school has been actively engaged in the process of looking at student data as the basis for setting student learning goals and developing an ambitious action plan to meet those goals.

The Committee has been an active participant with the Kentucky Department of Education and other stakeholders in creating a new accountability system for the state that sets ambitious goals for student learning, educates and empowers parents with information about schools, and provides state and local education leaders and policymakers with data to help make more informed decisions to improve opportunities for each student.

The state will support schools in meeting their ambitious goals through a statewide system of support, and allow teachers and school leaders a larger voice in determining the professional development offered by the state.

As the new accountability model is implemented, following approval of Kentucky's plan by the U.S. Department of Education, we must all come together to provide the support necessary for our schools to meet these ambitious and necessary goals.

With DPS's ambitious goals to ensure that 80 percent of the district's third - graders are reading at or above grade level and 80 percent of its students attend a green or blue school by 2020, the district will be setting the bar higher next year.

According to the Harvard Graduate School of Education Pathways to Prosperity Project, «Teens who have good high school work experiences are more likely to be inspired to stay in school, graduate, and adopt ambitious goals.&School of Education Pathways to Prosperity Project, «Teens who have good high school work experiences are more likely to be inspired to stay in school, graduate, and adopt ambitious goals.&school work experiences are more likely to be inspired to stay in school, graduate, and adopt ambitious goals.&school, graduate, and adopt ambitious goals.»

At SCOPE, her research focused on the school conditions and learning opportunities that support teachers in engaging in ambitious instruction, including opportunities for teachers to use curriculum, assessments, and inquiry - based practices to meet the goals of standards - based accountability policies.

The federal government has an ambitious goal of connecting 99 percent of America's students to high - speed broadband and wireless in their schools by 2018; at the state level, more than $ 2 billion has been allocated to support technology infrastructure improvement in schools (US Department of Education 2013; California Department of Education 2013, 2014, 2015).2 In spite of these investments, a large number of schools need significant infrastructure upgrades (Gao 2015).

Responding to responsible criticism of the current law, this proposal outlines ambitious but achievable state - level goals for raising achievement and closing gaps, while calling for greater state flexibility to devise systems that will prompt schools and districts to move toward these goals.

As a result of years of advocating for a focus on third grade reading proficiency, the city of Oakland, Oakland Unified School District, and community partners have aligned and are committed to our shared ambitious goal of improving third grade reading proficiency to 85 % by the year 2020.

As they progress through the academy and choose their subjects they will receive the support and guidance of the school staff who encourage pupils to challenge themselves and achieve even more ambitious goals.

In addition to requiring that states use a standard, accurate calculation of the high school graduation rate, the regulations required states set ambitious goals to improve graduation rates and required school districts to intervene in high schools where students from low - income families, students of color, and other traditionally underserved students had consistently low graduation rates.

In spring 2015, soon after she was appointed principal, Christy Connolly began staffing the school with the recognition that the work of turning around the school would require a faculty committed to ambitious goals.

As part of the process, those states are re-envisioning and redesigning their education systems by establishing ambitious student achievement goals; improving the quality of their assessments; and crafting school accountability and improvement systems that support all schools, especially those with the greatest needs.

Founded in 2007 and supported by Relay Graduate School of Education, the Relay Teaching Residency is a two - year program that provides residents with a structured, gradual on - ramp into the profession, along with a master's degree.77 During their residency, students work with master resident advisors and transition into lead teaching roles during their second year.78 Residents set ambitious learning goals for their students; the program reported that 94 percent of graduate students attending Relay's New York school met or exceeded the learning goals for students in 2School of Education, the Relay Teaching Residency is a two - year program that provides residents with a structured, gradual on - ramp into the profession, along with a master's degree.77 During their residency, students work with master resident advisors and transition into lead teaching roles during their second year.78 Residents set ambitious learning goals for their students; the program reported that 94 percent of graduate students attending Relay's New York school met or exceeded the learning goals for students in 2school met or exceeded the learning goals for students in 2014.79

The Courant's observations are usually well thought out and on - track, but in their first piece entitled, «Agenda 2015: Ambitious Goals For The State,» they mistakenly bought into the rhetoric espoused by Governor Malloy, the corporate education reform industry and the spin coming out of Connecticut's charter schools and their lobbyists.

The state's Highline School District, a highly diverse district in the Seattle metropolitan area, has set the ambitious goal of having all students graduate bilingual and biliterate by 2026.

«The VIP awards program provides an incentive for schools and school divisions to set ambitious goals for raising student achievement and meeting the needs of diverse learners,» said Board of Education President Eleanor B. Saslaw.

Last June, I reported on the plan by BYU Law School to launch LawX, a legal design lab in which second - and third - year law students would take on the ambitious goal of solving one access - to - justice challenge in a semester.