Sentences with phrase «around equitable school»

There, she organized parents and families around equitable school funding and created partnerships with three elementary schools, two preschools, and two community organizations.

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«This review provides the opportunity to ensure that issues around the redeployment of the school workforce rather than redundancy, tight fiscal accountability rather than cheque book management, and the fair and equitable treatment of employees rather than subjective and punitive management are addressed.»

is AFFIRMING that a more democratic, equitable and collaborative system is possible where local schools supported by the entire community provide excellent education and the wrap around services needed to meet each child's right to reach his / her full human potential and their community's right for social and economic development,

Hawkins» opposition to Common Core and Race to the Top, as well as his platform to fully fund schools in an equitable manner has caught the attention of teachers and parents around the state who are distressed about the state of their schools due to high stakes testing, unworkable and narrow standards and a lack of funding.

Three days earlier, Mr. Cuomo's budget director, Robert Mujica, issued an 1,100 - word statement about «fair and equitable» school funding — an issue Ms. Nixon has advocated around for more than a decade.

Third, I want to use my research to inform policy around early childhood and early intervention programs so that schools become more equitable and accessible for students from their first years of education.

These are all signs that we can be successful in rallying around principles of equitable and excellent public schools.

Educators and low - income and working - class communities of color have made real progress as committed partners, organizing around a shared vision for improving our schools and communities and creating a more equitable society.

We hope that we can continue to partner with the district in innovative ways to turn around low - performing schools — whether it's an equitable Public School Choice process or other reform initiative — and to pursue our common goal of ensuring that every student in Los Angeles receives a high - quality public education.»

Laura shaped her career around the goal of opening an outstanding urban school and providing equitable, quality education for all students.

Our member organizations come together, united around the goal of better educating the almost 1.4 million English Learners by improving California's schools and promoting equitable educational policy.

This new program aims to strengthen the role of state charter schools in efforts to achieve policy and advocacy wins, particularly around equitable funding and charter school growth (especially in the approval and funding of new schools).

«While the bill still could be strengthened by providing greater transparency around equitable distribution of effective teachers, the legislation makes key advances in helping realize a future where every student has equal access to strong schools.

Around the state, our schools have not received adequate and equitable funding to meet our children's educational needs.