Sentences with phrase «ambitious plan for school»

The deficit is largely driven by costs related to the new teacher contract and Cash's ambitious plan for school improvement.

While I was unable to attend every district's session, I did get to meet with two energetic districts who had ambitious plans for their schools.

Time will tell if all the effort will have been worth it but it has certainly helped motivate us to make some ambitious plans for the school.

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Down the line, Bandy and other COF leaders have ambitious plans for the organization; theascaa.com touts the league as a place for smaller schools «to gain national experience and have many of the same opportunities as larger institutions.»

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government has hinted of plans to review the Petroleum Management Act to allow for the use of the Heritage Fund to finance its ambitious Free Senior High School (SHS) policy.

Success Academy Charter Schools in New York City has hired two executives to help steer its ambitious plans for growth: a former Ralph Lauren manager and a consultant who heads the parent association of the private Dalton School.

An ambitious plan put forward by the Rochester City School District hopes to transform the educational system for students in the area.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Milne has unveiled an ambitious plan to cut per - pupil public school spending in Vermont by a third, and use the savings to pay for the state's young people to attend a Vermont college.

For instance, if the ITLOS decision had gone against Ghana, the Ghanaian government's Free Senior High School policy, which took off early this month with an ambitious plan to educate some 400,000 qualified Junior High School leavers for free in its first year of implementation alone, would have suffocatFor instance, if the ITLOS decision had gone against Ghana, the Ghanaian government's Free Senior High School policy, which took off early this month with an ambitious plan to educate some 400,000 qualified Junior High School leavers for free in its first year of implementation alone, would have suffocatfor free in its first year of implementation alone, would have suffocated.

WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday challenged President Donald Trump to sign on to the Democrats» ambitious $ 1 trillion plan for rebuilding and improving roads, bridges, schools and other infrastructure over the next decade.

«These ambitious new plans will work with schools to make sure this happens, as well as reducing waiting times for the most severe cases.»

A sweeping and ambitious turnaround plan for schools in the newer neighborhoods around Denver International Airport led to a failed recall effort against the school board president this spring.

And the organization is not resting on its laurels: Uncommon is pursuing an ambitious plan to open eight more schools, for 6,000 additional students, over the next five years, not including several slated for Camden, New Jersey, where, in late January 2014, Uncommon became a finalist in a bid to open five schools and add a sixth region to its system.

EMPLOYING 100 extra professors, creating a birth to year 12 school and introducing three more regional campuses are a part of an ambitious new, five - year action plan for the state's biggest university.

Shortly after Chris Whittle, the media entrepreneur, announced his ambitious new plan to develop a nationwide chain of for - profit private schools, NBC's «Today» show called the National Education Association.

Republican members of Congress have laid out an ambitious plan to rebuild the troubled District of Columbia school system that calls for broad cooperation among federal officials, local government, and the private sector.

As a result of this legislation, over 350,000 education - related jobs were saved, state governments devised ambitious plans to compete for $ 4 billion in «Race to the Top» grants, and the federal government put forth solutions to the problems faced by the nation's weakest schools But the long - term impact of the stimulus money is much more unclear, according to a nationwide review led by the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media and the Education Writers Association.

The changes are part of an ambitious strategic plan for Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS), under the leadership of Superintendent Lewis Ferebee.

The Governor, a former teacher, earlier today introduced his ambitious education reform plan, which will expand school choice in the state via opportunity scholarships, expand the popular Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) Program, establish standards and enforcements for charter schools and peg student achievement to teacher evaluations — all without raising state taxes.

Philanthropist Eli Broad's ambitious plan to create 260 new charter schools over an eight year period in Los Angeles, enrolling at least 130,000 students, will have major ramifications for many of the city's 25,600 teachers.

Island Childress's appointment is part of UEI's ambitious plan to improve schooling nationwide by conducting rigorous applied research, training exemplary teachers, operating a high - achieving public school, and designing school improvement tools and training for thousands of schools and classrooms across the United States.

Instead, he had proposed an ambitious plan for free higher education, unveiled alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, one of the country's most outspoken opponents of charter schools.

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 goaFor 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 goafor setting student learning goals and developing an ambitious action plan to meet those goals.

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.

In face of the government's ambitious plans for «coasting schools», fleshed out in some more detail in today's Queens» Speech, regional school commissioners are focusing their efforts on persuading individual academy heads to rise to the challenge through forming a Multi-Academy or Umbrella Trust.

Eric Hall, in the midst of a rainy drive to rural Robeson County to pitch North Carolina's ambitious but controversial plan for a charter takeover of several low - performing schools, wants to set one thing straight.

Educational Leadership in an Age of Accountability explores these changes in Virginia, following its implementation of an ambitious accountability plan that called for standards of learning, statewide high - stakes tests, standards of accreditation, and annual school performance report cards.

A spokeswoman declined to make King available for an interview about his record and his plans for the department, but after an event at a D.C. school last week, he told reporters that his top priority is «moving forward with the ambitious agenda that Arne and the president have laid out,» from expanding preschool offerings to boosting the number of students who are getting into and through college.

CAS President Dr. Rosie Vojtek chats with the new executive director of the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPSS) about the state's budget impasse; CAPSS» ambitious plan for transforming CT's education system; the importance of high quality early learning programs; how technology has revolutionized education; and, the ideal relationship between the superintendent and the building principal.

For more than a decade New Jersey's schools have served as a national model for providing high - quality early childhood education programs to thousands of low - income children, including an ambitious plan approved by the Legislature two years ago to reach even more 3 - and 4 - year - olds by September 20For more than a decade New Jersey's schools have served as a national model for providing high - quality early childhood education programs to thousands of low - income children, including an ambitious plan approved by the Legislature two years ago to reach even more 3 - and 4 - year - olds by September 20for providing high - quality early childhood education programs to thousands of low - income children, including an ambitious plan approved by the Legislature two years ago to reach even more 3 - and 4 - year - olds by September 2013.

The publication also said Wisconsin — like many others — was told its plan lacked ambitious (goals), including for subgroup students and was told it needed more specific exit criteria for priority and focus schools

I would hope to see states get more ambitious as they go from plans to action, building high - quality pathways from high school into postsecondary education, standards and assessments aligned with the expectations of entry into college and the workforce, supports for struggling schools that go beyond general assistance, and strategies to help traditionally underperforming student populations close gaps to reach the promise of college and career readiness for all.

That ambitious plan is key to her broader aim of establishing Success as what the network describes as a «catalyst and national model for education reform efforts,» and a legitimate citywide competitor to the incumbent public school system.

The rise was backed by Boston Plan for Excellence, a local ed fund focused on 1) preparing and supporting diverse, highly effective teachers for Boston's schools, 2) cultivating ambitious instruction in every classroom with a coherent, data - driven approach to school improvement, and 3) creating break - the - mold new schools that ensure all students are prepared to succeed in college and career.

In the case of a child with a disability, school districts will develop and carry out an IEP, or individualized education plan, for the student that is appropriately ambitious in light of that child's circumstances.

Around this time last year, a number of ambitious lawmakers began planning for a future in which public school students in the US went wholly digital, much like initiatives in other parts of the world.

Nearly a decade ago Cooper Union had ambitious plans for a small parking lot between the school's main building and Lafayette Street.